D&D 5E 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

 

[sevenbastard]

I think straight-up reboot may cause some backlash amongst the diehard Dragonlance fans, some of whom may see it as invalidating the shelves of books they have. So then the question is whether the potential new fans could make up for the percentage of old fans who abandon it. Without a flux capacitor I can't really predict how many would dump and how many would be new.

Shows and movies rebootall the time. How many Spidermans have we seen?

 

[Maxperson]

As long as they include the most important dragons from D&D's past . . . rainbow dragons!!!

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I had that book! I loved the Choose Your Own Adventures books when I was younger.

 

[Maxperson]

That ship already sailed, and the strict identity of Dragonborn with Draconians is already established in the PHB.

The strict Dragonborn have no tails is also established in the PHB.

 

[Yaarel]

Fizbans Treasury of Dragons.

So, the Draconomicon then. Called it!

 

[Azzy]

Other potential dragons include making the rest of the planar dragons as templates, a la the shadow dragon, and ferrous dragons, lungs, and linnorms.

While I hope against hope that the lung dragons make it in, I seriously doubt that they will. If they did, I wonder if the Chinese sensitivity readers
would want them to use Pinyin instead of Wade-Giles for the romanization (like Tiānlóng instead of T’ien Lung),

 

[Older Beholder]

That would be an awesome pact
A great wyrm patron

But instead we're getting another ranger pet option and a draconic monk

Subclasses 5 from Oct 2020 has two dragon-based subclasses.

Thanks, I must have missed those. I tend to skip a lot of UA's.
Sounds like there could be some sub-class options then.

I'll be interested to see how they fill a whole book with Dragon related material.

 

[Azzy]

So, the Draconomicon then. Called it!

Everybody and their mother called it.

 

[Maxperson]

Gnolls have also been playable in previous editions but are now strictly off-limits in 5e. I can see them saying no to playable draconians as well due to their origins (despite the sidebar in the PHB).

Weren’t dragonborn originally a “made” race as well? In 3e, they were humanoids who underwent a ritual created by Bahamut to transform, right? Hence the “born” in their name. I actually kind of prefer that to the true-breeding version we got starting in 4e. You could represent it through a lineage like the ones in VGR easily enough, too. (Same with the psionic Elan race.)

They still are a made race. This is from the PHB, "Shaped by draconic gods or the dragons themselves, dragonborn originally hatched from dragon eggs as a unique race, combining the best attributes of dragons and humanoids."

That's a much nicer way of saying that some sort of ritual changed the dragon eggs and created Dracon....er, Dragonborn.

 

[Maxperson]

100% agreed. It was always beyond stupid. It was just a slap-dash rule put in place so that characters could be transferred from an existing Greyhawk or other campaign and their gold pieces could be hand-waived with a grin as not being worth anything on Krynn. That's it. That's literally the only reason it was a rule for the setting in Dec of 1984 /Jan of 1985.

There was no attempt to really work out how BAD an idea that iron as a store of value was and how plainly DUMB an idea that was. Even among DragonLance fans, the idea of steel pieces is admitted to be a dumb temporary rule that got out of hand. Some regard it as nevertheless something that is "inherent" to the Krynn setting - mainly because it was mentioned in a few of the novels and so it got treated as "canon". The few mentions of old "worthless golds treasuries" that appeared in the early modules were removed completely in the 3.5 versions of those modules, too.

Ignore the unreasonably nostalgic. Consign steel pieces to the dustbin of history. A concern that was a temporary one aimed at gamers in January of 1985 - and the role that g.p. played in 1st Ed Exp Points system should have no hold on us now.

I'd think with a name like Steel_Wind, you'd be a bit more understanding.

 

[Yaarel]

Everybody and their mother called it.

Heh. Ok, but I was one of the earlier ones who called.

The second that I saw the gem dragon, I suspected it could only be the Draconomicon or the Council of Wyrms. Obviously leaning toward Draconomicon.

Heh. Broken Gem Dragonborn, here we come!