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

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Every single conversation online about Dark Sun eventually descends into a conversation about the portrayal of slavery and forced breeding
Why would WizCo want to bring that up and make that the focus of every single news article discussing their forthcoming product? That's begging for negative press

Only because you keep bringing it up... I feel like most gamers are mature enough to deal with the issues of Dark Sun in a respectful way, and if not players can just leave that toxic table.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Every single conversation online about Dark Sun eventually descends into a conversation about the portrayal of slavery and forced breeding

I clearly have missed some bananas threads here and at RPG.net, then.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

Eberron would disagree with pulp,

But there are no Nazis

and Thay (a constant enemy in 5E books) are essentially wizard-Nazis. And their country is run on slavery.

In what 5e book do they mention Thay slaves?
(Didn't they do away with those in 4th Ed?)

And there's a HUGE difference between one nation out of thirty that is on he far end of the world using slaves and every single city-state and civilized nation using slaves and most PCs potentially being slaves, former slaves, escaped slaves, or the children of slaves

 

[Charlaquin]

Every single conversation online about Dark Sun eventually descends into a conversation about the portrayal of slavery and forced breeding
Why would WizCo want to bring that up and make that the focus of every single news article discussing their forthcoming product? That's begging for negative press

The only conversations about Dark Sun I’ve ever seen do so are ones where someone insists (contrary to all evidence) that the mere existence of slavery in the setting makes it “too problematic to be revisited” as you are doing here. Nobody actually thinks Dark Sun’s depiction of slavery is problematic, it’s all just unwarranted hand-wringing about “modern sensibilities” hypothetically ruining their precious grimdark setting.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

Only because you keep bringing it up... I feel like most gamers are mature enough to deal with the issues of Dark Sun in a respectful way, and if not players can just leave that toxic table.

Yes, it is just me and my army of fifty sockpuppets across the internet, twitter, reddit

 

[CasvalRemDeikun]

What happened to him.

Paladine (Fizban's true, godly form) turned himself and Takhisis into mortals (he had to do it to keep the balance, hers was as punishment). Paladine is now a mortal elf named Valthonis. Takhisis was turned human and promptly killed. Paladine's identity as Fizban has permanently ceased to be. He even has started to forget some of his godly knowledge.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

In what 5e book do they mention Thay slaves?
(Didn't they do away with those in 4th Ed?)

What edition won't matter. The people that want to cause trouble will dig back as far as they have to for the bad stuff.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Paladine (Fizban's true, godly form) turned himself and Takhisis into mortals (he had to do it to keep the balance, hers was as punishment). Paladine is now a mortal elf named Valthonis. Takhisis was turned human and promptly killed. Paladine's identity as Fizban has permanently ceased to be. He even has started to forget some of his godly knowledge.

Well clearly they will end up undoing that.

 

[Parmandur]

But there are no Nazis

In what 5e book do they mention Thay slaves?
(Didn't they do away with those in 4th Ed?)

And there's a HUGE difference between one nation out of thirty that is on he far end of the world using slaves and every single city-state and civilized nation using slaves and most PCs potentially being slaves, former slaves, escaped slaves, or the children of slaves

There are, like, 13 flavors of Nazi in Eberron.

I don't doubt that 5E Dark Sun will be different from 2E or even 4E in presentation, but it is not an insurmountable problem.

 

[pukunui]

So, here's some high-octane looking ahead speculation;

• 2018: Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes is released
• 2019: Mordenkainen shoes up as an NPC in Avernus

Technically Mordenkainen showed up in Curse of Strahd first.

EDIT: Ninja'd! Sorry.