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

 

[Maxperson]

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.

I think it's probably diverged enough. I mean, Mormonism doesn't have 21 gods, dragons, magic, elves, etc.

 

[Yaarel]

On the Fizbans book cover, what is the significance of the D&D Beyond logo?

It seems like WotC is shifting toward integrating physical and digital publishing simultaneously?

 

[Parmandur]

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.

So, Volo's Guide takes 7-13 pages per monster type for each featured kind. I think a similtreatment at least for the ten major traditional Dragons would be warranted, with example lairs (even mini-Dungeons) being an interesting possibility. Maybe deep dive Lore for.other Dragons, such as Gem Dragons, but certain at least Dragonborn. A few pages for Subclasses, Races, Feats and Spells. A Bestiary similar in size to Volo's would be easy to fill.

 

[Maxperson]

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

Sure it can. A copyright is context based. So Draconian as dragonmen is copyrightable, where you or I could still use the term to mean harsh or severe(He took draconian measures to keep his enemies down). They probably created Dragonborn to put distance between a generic race and Dragonlance.

 

[Parmandur]

On the Fizbans book cover, what is the significance of the D&D Beyond logo?

It seems like WotC is shifting toward integrating physical and digital publishing simultaneously?

The image was datamined from D&D Beyond servers before Curse was alerted to the security breach. So

 

[Parmandur]

Sure it can. A copyright is context based. So Draconian as dragonmen is copyrightable, where you or I could still use the term to mean harsh or severe(He took draconian measures to keep his enemies down). They probably created Dragonborn to put distance between a generic race and Dragonlance.

But for the 4E Draconomicon (which I wager we will see a lot of material from, like Steel Dragons or Brown Dragons), they used Dragonborn for Draconians, specifically.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

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

I always thought Flight of Dragons was the name for a group, like the early 80's Rankin/Bass animated movie.

 

[Maxperson]

But for the 4E Draconomicon (which I wager we will see a lot of material from, like Steel Dragons or Brown Dragons), they used Dragonborn for Draconians, specifically.

You got me for why they did that. I largely skipped that edition. I'm just saying that Draconian is almost surely copyrighted and WotC owns it. What they'll do here is anyone's guess. As a company they flip flop around on things a lot, so....

 

[overgeeked]

On the Fizbans book cover, what is the significance of the D&D Beyond logo?

It seems like WotC is shifting toward integrating physical and digital publishing simultaneously?

All the D&D Beyond covers have their logo. The cover was spotted on, then disappeared from, then was mined from the D&D Beyond website.

 

[Maxperson]

I always thought Flight of Dragons was the name for a group, like the early 80's Rankin/Bass animated movie.

That's Imagine Dragons.