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]

Ugh, didn't the Yuan-Ti god start off as a Greyhawk god? This is like the demihuman gods getting hijacked all over again.

It's like the Forgotten Realms have some sort of magical STD that anything they touch permanently becomes associated with it. (I blame Elminster.)

Virtually all FR non-human gods started as Greyhawk gods. Back then they were considered "generic", so they were considered the default for any world that didn't specify otherwise.

The entirety of the 2e Monster Mythology book was just these generic non-human gods.

 

[Shardstone]

It's a win-win situation for those who complain like this. Either the controversial subject is indeed removed at which point they get to say "I told you so!", or (as usually happens since said issues can usually be worked with if handled properly) the subject stays as is, at which point they will assume that their collective complaining are solely responsible for the subject being retained, and will loudly proclaim so..

"I told you so" as in "I told you that it was racist and I was right" ? Why is that a bad scenario?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I gotta say, I'm still disappointed they didn't make it clear that there are other drow cultures in the Underdark. Nothing about the crazies in Menzoberranzan suggests they'd be able to successfully conquer anyone, let alone all other drow. (Contrast with the Empire of the Ghouls by Kobold Press, which makes one wonder why the rest of the world hasn't fallen yet.) Nothing would have to be retconned by saying that these drow are crazy Lolth fanatics, but all those drow have different cultures.

Honestly, if I were a big Forgotten Realms fan, I'd find an Underdark drow monoculture boring. And telling players "hey, you can play a good drow so long as they're nothing like the drow you wanted to play" doesn't seem like a solution to anything.

Underdark Drow culture only seems mono cultural because they only bother with Menzo, there very, very different Drow Cities, like a city ruled by Drow wizards and others.

 

[Parmandur]

Ugh, didn't the Yuan-Ti god start off as a Greyhawk god? This is like the demihuman gods getting hijacked all over again.

It's like the Forgotten Realms have some sort of magical STD that anything they touch permanently becomes associated with it. (I blame Elminster.)

The weird part is that the Yuan-Ti described in Volo's Guide don't match Forgotten Realm's Lore, at all: Yuan-Ti are one of the few areas where the Forgotten Realms doesn't match the Monster Manual default, but Volo's ignores that and expands on the Monster Manual version.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

The Drow Motto has been found!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Virtually all FR non-human gods started as Greyhawk gods. Back then they were considered "generic", so they were considered the default for any world that didn't specify otherwise.

The entirety of the 2e Monster Mythology book was just these generic non-human gods.

Some exceptions to that rule, FR had a bunch of obscure Elven Gods of its own thanks to Dragon Magazine, that were ignored, except for Zandilar, until MToF which made them main stream for example, which did the same for the 3.5e Complete Race's settingless Elven Gods.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

"The internet" needs to learn their gnashing of teeth isn't actually always legitimate demands upon other people or companies. Sometimes people are just being entitled.

Is your comment really "people upset about slavery in their escapism are being entitled"?

 

[Reynard]

Is your comment really "people upset about slavery in their escapism are being entitled"?

No, it's that people who are upset about a thing-- anything-- on the internet vastly overestimate the power of their concern and, more importantly, how universal that concern is. As it relates the the specific concern regarding slavery, I think an import element that might be getting forgotten in their worry is THE SLAVERS ARE THE BAD GUYS.

Imagine for a moment people being upset because the villains in an Indiana Jones RPG were Nazis. Would you think that was a reasonable concern and one that should be met with capitulation by the publisher?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Underdark Drow culture only seems mono cultural because they only bother with Menzo, there very, very different Drow Cities, like a city ruled by Drow wizards and others.

There is so much weird-ass stuff you can do with Underdark drow, without going to the "yes, but these drow live in the jungle/arctic" thing WotC are doing. I want to see a drow culture centered on the Elder Elemental God. I want to see a drow culture devoted to Graz'zt. I want to see stalactite wizard towers. I want to see drow states based on Italian city states. I want to see drow mariners sailing on the Sunless Sea -- maybe even to a stately pleasuredome.

The obsession with Menzoberranzan makes me embarrassed for all involved, since all of them are capable of so much more than just that.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Some exceptions to that rule, FR had a bunch of obscure Elven Gods of its own thanks to Dragon Magazine, that were ignored, except for Zandilar, until MToF which made them main stream for example, which did the same for the 3.5e Complete Race's settingless Elven Gods.

While some of those Races gods are terrible (what's up, weird brick god of the cities?), the ones in Races of Stone were really good. I was disappointed to not see at least the best of them brought forward.