D&D 5E (2014) The October D&D Book is Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons

As revealed by Nerd Immersion by deciphering computer code from D&D Beyond!

Spoiler

Fizban the Fabulous is, of course, the accident-prone, befuddled alter-ego of Dragonlance’s god of good dragons, Paladine, the platinum dragon (Dragonlance’s version of Bahamut).

Which makes my guess earlier this year spot on!

UPDATE -- the book now has a description!

D&D 5E - Fizban's Treasury: The Dragon Book Now Has A Description... And A Feat

Courtesy of Amazon, we now have a description for Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, the October D&D hardcover. The book introduces gem dragons, dragon-themed player options, and plenty of draconic lore! This joins September's The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, and November's Strixhaven: Curriculum of...

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D&D 5E - My guess for the other D&D book this year... Draconomicon!

We know the fifth major product this year will be James Wyatt‘s as-yet unannounced project, and we know it will be coming out this year between Witchlight and Strixhaven. Wyatt co-wrote the Draconomicon for 3E. There have been two recent dragon-themed Unearthed Arcanas — dragon-themed...

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Fizban the Fabulous by Vera Gentinetta

 

[embee]

Dragons don't do anything together. Dragons don't like other dragons. So If you see a group of dragons, it's a bad time to be alive.

/favoredenemy

And, if you see five dragon heads but only one dragon body, you have nothing to worry about.

This is because you are looking at Tiamat and are already in the Nine Hells.

It's not a bad time to be alive because YOU ARE DEAD.

 

[darjr]

It's a crystal dragon. Here's the 2e art:

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Of course, gemstone dragons could be more Far Realmsian now.

It is two tails!!!
I wasn’t just waggin a yarn!

 

[embee]

Exactly. You hint about them, pull them out once in 15 years. They aren't used enough to warrant their own book. Like a book of undead could be useful throughout an entire campaign, an entire edition of the game. Dragons are used maybe 1-2 times in a campaign. It's a waste of a publication slot for me.

Depends on the campaign.

My party just finished a campaign by killing a dragon. And now they're going to be fighting tons of dragons.

Which is fine because, somehow, they all managed to make dragon-adjacent characters.

Ultimately, we're all a happy crew. Because dragons.

 

[darjr]

is this better resolution?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

/picard

THERE ARE TWO TAILS!

 

[Parmandur]

I dunno... there were a lot of monsters from Ravenloft they left out in Van Richten's. I'm thinking they're going to include the dragon types they think are the most unique, iconic, or just have cool abilities, and ignore more derivative ones. I actually don't really think they're going to do catastrophic dragons for example, because they are kind of like really powerful elementals (which Mordenkainen's kind of covered).

They may very well not include some of the multitude of dragons printed in the past nearly 50 years...but they could include more than you might think at first. Looking at the contents of prior Dragon books and monster book inclusions, there are a lot of options, and a lot fo them might make it in. It is a big ol' multiverse.

New Dragon templates are one major possibility, like the Shadow Dragon and Dracoliche from the MM. The Cataclysm Dragons could even be Elemental templates to add to a Dragon.

 

[Reynard]

I totally disagree with the idea that you can only use dragons once or twice in a campaign. One of the most beloved campaigns in D&D's history made extensive, great use of dragons and related creatures (no, not Dragonlance).

But it is also true that 5E dragons are boring from a mechanical design standpoint. Hopefully this book solves that problem.

 

[Demetrios1453]

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is this better resolution?

Definitely. You can see the tips of both forks now.

 

[the Jester]

Probably too much to hope for a return of the catastrophic dragons from 4E, huh?

I'd settle for linnorms.

I have converted the catastrophics for my game, but I think I need to give them a real update with more 4e design principles in mind.

 

[pukunui]

Yep, OK. Two tails (or one forked tail).

I’m still weirded out about the copper dragon-style wings on the red dragon.