D&D 5E Wild Beyond the Witchlight Features Warduke & More!

While we've had the back cover text for some time, Amazon has revealed more information about the Wild Beyond the Witchlight! The adventure includes Warduke, a figure dating back to the 1980s, and indicates that all encounters can be resolved without combat. The book also includes two new races (it's interesting they're using the term 'race' here, as they've been using 'lineage' recently) - a...

While we've had the back cover text for some time, Amazon has revealed more information about the Wild Beyond the Witchlight! The adventure includes Warduke, a figure dating back to the 1980s, and indicates that all encounters can be resolved without combat. The book also includes two new races (it's interesting they're using the term 'race' here, as they've been using 'lineage' recently) - a fairy, or a rabbit.


A wickedly whimsical adventure for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.

Once every eight years, the fantastic Witchlight Carnival touches down on your world, bringing joy to one settlement after the next. Its owners, Mister Witch and Mister Light, know how to put on a good show. But there’s more to this magical extravaganza than meets the eye!

The carnival is a gateway to a fantastic Feywild domain unlike anything found on the Material Plane. Time has not been kind to this realm, however, and dark days lie ahead unless someone can thwart the dastardly schemes of the Hourglass Coven.

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight takes adventurers from the Witchlight Carnival to Prismeer, a Feywild domain of delight, and is designed for characters of levels 1–8. This book comes with a poster map that shows the carnival on one side and Prismeer on the other.

• Explore the Plane of Faerie in the first official D&D adventure set primarily in the Feywild
• Easily drop The Witchlight Carnival into any campaign—for passage into the Feywild or just a night of carnival games and wild entertainment
• Introduces two races—play as a fairy or as a harengon, a race of humanoid rabbits
• Adds two backgrounds—the Feylost who grew up in the Feywild, and a Witchlight Hand who works at the carnival
• All encounters can be resolved without resorting to combat, rewarding clever ideas and creative roleplay
• Classic 1980s Dungeons & Dragons characters return, including Warduke, Strongheart, and Kelek



Who's Warduke, I hear you ask? He dates back to the 1980s as a D&D action figure. In 1984's Quest for the Heartstone adventure, he was an 8th level human fighter, but by 2003's Dungeon Magazine he has become an 18th level fighter! WotC has a full article about him here.

Strongheart was Warduke's paladin friend, who later became his enemy as Warduke turned to the dark side.

Kelek is an evil wizard who also appeared in Quest for the Heartstone. In a novel, Warduke had him hire an assassin to kill Strongheart. He also appeared in episode of the D&D cartoon.

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Whizbang Dustyboots

Gnometown Hero
Oh, my word, I just had a thought:

Oneclassic pulp fantasy trope that D&D has not really.ecplored much? Folks from the Muggle.world beimgnsucked into a world.of fantasy. What if, beyond just references to the old cartoon, this book supports playing folks from our.world?
It sounds like the two backgrounds are a mortal who's been lost in the Feywild and a former member of the carnival. So not this time.

That said, the Adventures in Oz books do have a background for heroes from Earth, for those who want it. And their Oz is explicitly a discussion of a faerie realm, so it'd be a good set to pick up in the spring to supplement this.

I'm also glad I snagged Cawood's Monsters of Feyland finally, as its tone seems to match Witchlight's well.
 

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Whizbang Dustyboots

Gnometown Hero
I...kind of loke how garish the dice are?
This is probably WotC's only bite at the apple of Feywild dice. I would have rather they'd gone that direction than "circus dice."

Example one, example two, example three. (Note that the third one is from Japan, and shipping is brutal to the US.)

Even if they didn't want to go with traditional "fairy" elements, this seems like a set that cries out for sparkly dice of some sort, or inclusions.

I'll still get the box for my daughter, who will want to have the carnival map on hand and the cards will be handy in play. I just wish the dice had more staying power.
 





Weiley31

Legend
Even if they didn't want to go with traditional "fairy" elements, this seems like a set that cries out for sparkly dice of some sort, or inclusions.
I agree. Although, the close up pics of the dice on the Amazon page seem to show that the dice are "shiny/sparkly" but yeah, the dice should've had a better color choice than orange.

The box looks VERY nice though. Especially the back.
 




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