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

 

[Demetrios1453]

And speaking of stat blocks, do you think we'll see Bahamut fully stated out? Maybe an updated Tiamat with mythic actions (which would be really intriguing)? Beyond that, I assume we'll have a nice section on the draconic pantheon beyond the big two...

 

[pukunui]

I’m wondering how much will be verbatim copied from previous Draconomicons.

The combined Tyranny of Dragons book recycled some of the art from the 3e Draconomicon in the back.

 

[Dire Bare]

Tiefling aren't half-devil, they have devil ancestry somewhere up the line.

Cambions are actual half-fiends, one parent mortal, the other parent fiend. A lot more powerful.

Sorry for the pedantry, tieflings/cambions are one of my pet peeves.

Yup, totally different.

Those 1/2 devil-people are completely different concepts than those 1/16 devil-people.

 

[Dire Bare]

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?

Simultaneous digital and physical book releases began when D&D Beyond first debuted. Nothing new here.

 

[Stormonu]

Nonsense. That's like calling a gathering of birds a Nest. Also there's too much overlap with the other type of horde. There would be immense confusion between a dragon's hoard and a hoard of dragons and a horde of dragons.

A treasury of dragons might be acceptable, but it's a little on the nose and a tad belittling. As a counter-proposal, I would suggest that treasury be applied to a clutch of pseudodragons, while the appellation for a gathering of true wyrms is a calamity of dragons.

I was joking, making a play on Horde. However, scienctist do refer to a group of mating birds as a Nesting.

 

[Dire Bare]

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.

Well . . . with the many problematic issues with existing Dragonlance lore, will we ever see the original setting revived without a reboot? Maybe, but I'm doubtful.

So, the choice becomes, 1) don't bring back Dragonlance as a game setting at all, or 2) bring it back, but reimagined.

Besides the percentage of fans who will refuse any changes to their beloved setting (Dragonlance or otherwise), while often rather loud, rarely make a majority of the fan base.

If they could rope in Weis & Hickman on a reboot/reimagining, that could even go a long way to mollifying the DL super-fans. That's not likely, but I'd love to see a reimagined Chronicles trilogy that includes the "Lost Chronicles" and other missing bits to the story, plus a redo on kender, gnomes, draconians, goblins, the good-neutral-evil cosmology . . . .

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Yup, totally different.

Those 1/2 devil-people are completely different concepts than those 1/16 devil-people.

Let's try to not get too deep into that whole "drop of blood" theory crap. I don't like that any of the half-races are done that way in D&D. That is another big racism reference that needs to be deleted from the rules and fluff.

 

[LordEntrails]

Hmmh... Sounds familiar... I have heard some people pay with paper too...

For 400 paper pieces I can buy a suit of paper mail, that requires 1200 paper pieces to make. Then all I have to do is cut up that paper mail into those 1200 paper pieces and I can now buy 3 suits of paper mail. Or for 12 pieces of paper I can buy a paper sword that takes 80 paper pieces to make...

Of course it's not just this one thing, there are far too many things that seem to be done in DL just to be different and have no logical, or even magical, reasoning behind them.

Sure, you can just ignore these things (and I have just as recently as last year), but their is no good reason a setting has to have these types of things. IMO, poor design. There is plenty I like in DL, the stupid stuff though is not some of it.

 

[LordEntrails]

If they could rope in Weis & Hickman on a reboot/reimagining,

Given the lawsuit over the new DL books being written by them, don't we know that they are/will be involved already? Maybe not more than with fiction, but that will go a long way for the super-fans.

 

[JEB]

They did a straight-up reboot and more for Ravenloft and everyone seemed to love it (and I was repeatedly shouted down on these boards for not being a fan)

Most DnD players are new and wouldn't have heard of Dragonlance. They won't know things have changed. And the old fans giving a backlash will just be a small minority that is easily dismissed and ignored, because they're no longer the target audience of DnD or the people WizCo is marketing books towards

At its peak, Dragonlance had much more of a footprint than Ravenloft ever did, not only among D&D players but also in the fantasy fandom generally. (The books were New York Times bestsellers back in the day.) While long-running Ravenloft fans might indeed be a "small minority" that can be safely ignored, I suspect there are more long-running Dragonlance fans, plus a larger number of casual "I read those books as a kid!" fans who'd have nostalgic interest in a revived setting. A sweeping Dragonlance reboot is therefore likely to not only annoy at least some of the former group, but also turn off parts of the latter group (when they go looking for all the familiar touchstones and can't find them).

Is that a risk Wizards is willing to take? Maybe. It probably depends on their perception (accurate or not) of how Ravenloft was received. If "sweeping reboot with some references sprinkled in" seemed to be a win, they'll happily reboot Dragonlance (and Planescape and Dark Sun and so on) and aim squarely at their new fans, confident that older fans are indeed irrelevant or can at least be pacified with Easter eggs. If they think the 2014-2020 approach worked better (limited retcons and broad compatibility with older lore), then they'll do something truer to the older material. Guess we'll see.