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

 

[Parmandur]

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

Right, so theybare making them more like Draconians now.

 

[overgeeked]

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.

In the MM each type of dragon takes up three pages. I'm hopeful it will be more like Mordenkainen's and have deep lore dives on various dragons up front, the PC options in the middle, then a slew of dragon-related monsters at the end. I really hope they start drawing more from 4E for monster design. Big bags of hit points that barely do anything interesting in fights is getting old.

 

[Maxperson]

Right, so theybare making them more like Draconians now.

My point is that if they're making that change, they could easily make a few more and give us real Draconians.

 

[Parmandur]

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),

Particularly with Bahamut looking to assume some of that benevolent East Asian Dragon archetype, I do wonder if separate "Oriental" Dragons make a lot of sense?

 

[Parmandur]

But are Draco

My point is that if they're making that change, they could easily make a few more and give us real Draconians.

But are Draconians Copyrighted...?

 

[Demetrios1453]

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),

Jiangshi appear in the Ravenloft book, and it has, as far as I am aware, not caused any outcry. Heck, we got a whole Chinese-influenced Dark Domain in that book! I'm sure there wouldn't be any real issue with Chinese dragons, as long as the stay true to the original stories (and I haven't heard anyone say there are potential issues with them). And I'd be perfectly fine with updated Pinyin spellings, as Wide-Giles is really poorly suited for transliteration of standard Chinese...

 

[Reynard]

^This.

Trying to justify the "gods of good" dropping an asteroid on a planet because of what a few people may have done in their arrogance was awful. Your world view has to deeply-rooted in... well... yeah. THAT.

How about NOT THAT?

At the risk of both being pedantic and bringing up a potentially sensitive topic, you know that DL was largely a Mormon parable and that Christianity (from which Mormonism stems) includes many, many stories of a good God obliterating whole populations for their sins, right?

One of the reasons I don't think a DL reboot would work is that it is too deeply rooted in the symbols of the faith of its creators.

 

[Maxperson]

But are Draco

But are Draconians Copyrighted...?

If they are, the copyright is owned by WotC. It would have belonged to TSR when they bought D&D. They even use the name Draconian in the PHB for Dragonborn.

Edit: and looking at it, they've already used the whole dark ritual corruption to make them. "In the Dragonlance setting, the followers of the evil goddess Takhisis learned a dark ritual that let them corrupt the eggs of metallic dragons, producing evil dragonborn called draconians."

 

[Remathilis]

I propose that a group of dragons be called a Treasury.

I'm pretty sure that they're called a Rage of Dragons.

 

[Parmandur]

If they are, the copyright is owned by WotC. It would have belonged to TSR when they bought D&D. They even use the name Draconian in the PHB for Dragonborn.

Edit: and looking at it, they've already used the whole dark ritual corruption to make them. "In the Dragonlance setting, the followers of the evil goddess Takhisis learned a dark ritual that let them corrupt the eggs of metallic dragons, producing evil dragonborn called draconians."

Right,y point is that WotC made a copyrightable term for Dragon people so they could use it: "Draconian" likely cannot be copyrighted.