D&D 5E Ray Winninger mentions third project!

WotC's Ray Winninger has confirmed that another D&D release, by James Wyatt, will be released in between Witchlight (September) and Strixhaven (November). Strixhaven was Amanda Hamon's project, while Witchlight is Chris Perkins'. That assumes he's not referring to the Feywild accessory kit in September.

A lot of people are asking Qs about the [D&D] releases for the rest of this year.

Yes, WILD BEYOND THE WITCHLIGHT is the [Chris Perkins] story product I referenced in our dev blog. STRIXHAVEN is [Amanda Hamon's] project. We have not yet announced [James Wyatt's] project, which releases between WITCHLIGHT and STRIXHAVEN.

Why did we announce STRIXHAVEN so early? Pretty simple--there was no way to release the STRIX-related Unearthed Arcana without letting the cat out of the bag.

You'll learn a lot more about all of these products at D&D Live on G4, July 16 and 17. And yes, there is still a little surprise or two ahead.

D&D 5E - Two New D&D Books Revealed: Feywild & Strixhaven Mage School

Amazon has revealed the next two D&D hardcovers! The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is a feywild adventure due in September, and Curriculum of Chaos is a Magic: the Gathering setting of Strixhaven, which looks like a Harry Potter-esque mage school, set for November...

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[darjr]

WotC has been trying so very hard to get Darksun to happen, in my view, by trying psionics over and over.

Has anything they’ve been doing any kind of equivalent for trying to make planescape happen? Anything like psionics that they need to get right before they can do it?

 

[Sithlord]

That's probably more of a 5e design style decision though than specific issues with those archetypes - Martials don't get to do cool things and I doubt they're going to change that any time soon.

The samurai I think was acceptable. But I think the best way to do ninja is a different archetype for several different classes. But these things will
Never happen.

 

[overgeeked]

WotC has been trying so very hard to get Darksun to happen, in my view, by trying psionics over and over.

It's definitely a prerequisite for Dark Sun that psionics are done in a fun an engaging way, but I'm not sure we can conclude that because they've worked a lot on psionics that they must also really want Dark Sun to happen. I'm a fan of the setting and hope it's true. But they don't have to be connected. Lots of people like psionics but don't like the Dark Sun setting.

 

[overgeeked]

The samurai I think was acceptable. But I think the best way to do ninja is a different archetype for several different classes. But these things will
Never happen.

You mean like the Strixhaven subclasses that can be taken by any of a few separate classes? Like that?

 

[Azzy]

Yes but those were yawn.

So were the originals, though. Except maybe the ninja—being able to walk through walls was effin' cool.

 

[Azzy]

The samurai I think was acceptable. But I think the best way to do ninja is a different archetype for several different classes. But these things will
Never happen.

We almost have that. The Assassin for Rogues and Way of Shadow for Monks. Stretching it, but the Shadow Sorcerer has a bit of the ol' shinobi to it. Still, I think a Ranger and maybe Wizard archetype would be good, though.

 

[Parmandur]

WotC has been trying so very hard to get Darksun to happen, in my view, by trying psionics over and over.

Has anything they’ve been doing any kind of equivalent for trying to make planescape happen? Anything like psionics that they need to get right before they can do it?

Nothing in Planescape that's so mechanically distinct, it's more about flavor. And Planescape flavor elements and hooks have been sprinkled liberally across the product line since the Core books: Midrons being all over the place, for example. After about 8 years of 5E building up the Planes, a Setting that let's a player be a rogue Modron would be logical.

 

[darjr]

Nothing in Planescape that's so mechanically distinct, it's more about flavor. And Planescape flavor elements and hooks have been sprinkled liberally across the product line since the Cire books.

Actually that may be it. Not a mechanical thing they need to get right but laying the groundwork.

thanks!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

WotC has been trying so very hard to get Darksun to happen, in my view, by trying psionics over and over.

I agree, it's something they want to do, but are finding it hard to get right.

Has anything they’ve been doing any kind of equivalent for trying to make planescape happen? Anything like psionics that they need to get right before they can do it?

They don't need too, Planescape is pretty much core rules. Even Spelljammer can use the ship rules from GoS with a few mods.

They could easily do it as an adventure (like they are doing for the Feywild), rather than a setting book.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Nothing in Planescape that's so mechanically distinct, it's more about flavor. And Planescape flavor elements and hooks have been sprinkled liberally across the product line since the Core books: Midrons being all over the place, for example. After about 8 years of 5E building up the Planes, a Setting that let's a player be a rogue Modron would be logical.

Yeah, when I saw an art piece of a Guildmaster within Sigil in Tasha's, that was near-confirmation for me that Planescape was happening.

I've read a bunch of debate on this thread about Dragonlance and whether they'll pursue it... I dunno, I think both sides seem too certain of their opinion. It seems like a pretty good setting to make a book for, more-so than Greyhawk/Mystara at least. But it might not be as attractive as Dark Sun, or even Spelljammer.

Planescape seems like the obvious one to me. I think they could easily make a few subclasses themed around guilds, and probably craft a few races too (bariaurs for example, or maybe some really weird ones like rogue modrons). That plus the obvious lore stuff, and not really problematic material, seems like an easy homerun.

I'll add, highly doubt a "Big Forgotten Realms Setting book" is coming. They've already published the SCAG, and WotC seems to want to explore new niches and material with setting books... another FR setting book wouldn't do that.