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

 

[darjr]

And it broke 4000! Also the book has a name on Amazon

 

[dave2008]

It made it into the RPG canon for sure. The 3.5E Dragonlance Campaign Setting (published by Wizards of the Coast) explicitly takes place after Paladine and Takhisis are mortal.

OK, I skipped 3e so I was unaware. Of course it looks like 5e is retconning that based on the new book description.

 

[Hexmage-EN]

Very curious about this "First World" business.

 

[Parmandur]

Or all three feats got combined into one with choices.

Anyways the book details 20 Dragon Types, but do they mean specific species of Dragons as type or families of connected Dragons species?

Like do they mean Gold, Silver, Bronze, Brass, Copper, Red, Blue, Green, Black, White or Chromatic, Metallic, Gem, Planar, Cataosphic, etc...?

With a number as large as 20, that has to mean as specific as Red Dragon, Gold Dragon, etc.

 

[Parmandur]

Catastrophic? Lung? Ferrous? Planar? Linnorm?

The more I think of all the different kinds of dragons in D&D's history, the more the number 20 seems too low!

Tried! It is the middle nature of the number which I find curious. More thanks for the 3 major True Dragon typology, but not as many as there could be, either.

 

[Parmandur]

Pondering past Editions a bit, 4E added ten extra Metalloc and Chromatic types, which would be 25 with Gem Dragons. 2E had 23 in the Monstrous Manual, the core 15 plus the brown dragon, cloud dragon, deep dragon, mercury dragon, mist dragon, shadow dragon, steel dragon, and yellow dragon. So, there are a few candidates...

 

[Steel_Wind]

OK, I skipped 3e so I was unaware. Of course it looks like 5e is retconning that based on the new book description.

It's not really a "retcon". It's a timing / era of the setting thing.

DragonLance had over 190 novels. For the most part, the farther removed in time they are from the main era of the War of the Lance in classic DragonLance, the less popular they are.

Any reboot of DragonLance is going to focus on the era of the War of the Lance as its "canon" and ignore everything else that might come much earlier or later. That's not a retcon - it's simply a clear (indeed, overwhelming) fan and market preference.

I might add that even in 3.5 for DL published by Margaret Weiss' company, there were two eras the books were written for: the Age of Mortals (the later god altering stuff) and the War of the Lance era. You don't have to strain your imagination to guess which sold better.

 

[Parmandur]

It's not really a "retcon". It's a timing / era of the setting thing.

DragonLance had over 190 novels. For the most part, the farther removed in time they are from the main era of the War of the Lance in classic DragonLance, the less popular they are.

Any reboot of DragonLance is going to focus on the era of the War of the Lance as its "canon" and ignore everything else that might come much earlier or later. That's not a retcon - it's simply a clear (indeed, overwhelming) fan and market preference.

I might add that even in 3.5 for DL published by Margaret Weiss' company, there were two eras the books were written for: the Age of Mortals (the later god altering stuff) and the War of the Lance era. You don't have to strain your imagination to guess which sold better.

Technically a bit of a reboot.

 

[dave2008]

It's not really a "retcon". It's a timing / era of the setting thing.

DragonLance had over 190 novels. For the most part, the farther removed in time they are from the main era of the War of the Lance in classic DragonLance, the less popular they are.

Any reboot of DragonLance is going to focus on the era of the War of the Lance as its "canon" and ignore everything else that might come much earlier or later. That's not a retcon - it's simply a clear (indeed, overwhelming) fan and market preference.

I might add that even in 3.5 for DL published by Margaret Weiss' company, there were two eras the books were written for: the Age of Mortals (the later god altering stuff) and the War of the Lance era. You don't have to strain your imagination to guess which sold better.

Sure, that is one way to look at it.

 

[Parmandur]

Here we goooooooo