D&D 5E Roundup: Check Out These Previews from D&D Celebration

WotC's online D&D streaming event is taking place all weekend, and throughout the process they have released a few previews upcoming books.

From Fizban's Treasury of Dragons:

• Metallic Dragonborn
• Drakewyrm Ranger
• Moonstone Dragons

D&D 5E - Fizban's Treasury Dragons Ranked By Challenge Rating

WotC has been sending out previews of Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, due out next month, to folks on Twitter. Amongst those are art pieces and other items. By Challenge Rating the dragons in the book are: Ancient crystal (19) Ancient topaz (20) Ancient emerald (21) Ancient moonstone (21)...

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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: An In-Depth Review

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight isn't just Wizards of the Coast's latest Dungeons & Dragons adventure. It's the first official, full-length adventure from WotC set in the Feywild. While often mentioned, the counterpart to the Shadowfell has gotten much less attention through the editions...

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From Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos:

 

[Waller]

I guess my take away from this is wait and see the book before you state that it is something you won't like, or it's anime+harry potter... You might be surprised by it.

I mean, marketing is put out there specifically to be hungrily devoured by impatient fans, and they can only go on what they've been shown. Waiting to be surprised by it kinda defeats the point of the marketing.

 

[Bolares]

I mean, marketing is put out there specifically to be hungrily devoured by impatient fans, and they can only go on what they've been shown. Waiting to be surprised by it kinda defeats the point of the marketing.

But what in the marketing makes it Harry potter? In this case specifically people are not looking at what WotC is showing them. They just see magic school and scream HARRY POTTER. That happened the same exact way in the MTG set, but afeter the set came out, most of those complains died out...

 

[Aldarc]

I mean, marketing is put out there specifically to be hungrily devoured by impatient fans, and they can only go on what they've been shown. Waiting to be surprised by it kinda defeats the point of the marketing.

It's not like there is no concrete info out there for the setting and its lore. Strixhaven was released for MtG earlier this year.

 

[Vael]

Comparisons to Harry Potter are inevitable, because of how much it's impacted pop culture. Every Space Opera is compared to Star Wars, every TTRPG to DnD, every genre show with a hint of politics to GoT, and every magical school to Harry Potter. That's to be expected.

Ultimately, what will sell this book for me isn't the setting, it'll be the tools and other materials. I got Theros, not really expecting or planning to run a Theros campaign, but for the piety system, other player materials and monsters.

 

[Bolares]

Comparisons to Harry Potter are inevitable, because of how much it's impacted pop culture. Every Space Opera is compared to Star Wars, every TTRPG to DnD, every genre show with a hint of politics to GoT, and every magical school to Harry Potter. That's to be expected.

Well sure. But to me aying "This book is not for me, I don't like Harry Potter" makes as much sense as "I'm not going to watch Guardians of the Galaxy, I don't want to watch a Star Wars movie"

 

[ART!]

Until now, I had almost no interest in Strixhaven, but these previews suddenly have me very interested. I'm starting to see ideas and rules here that I could work into a game regardless of the setting.

 

[Bird Of Play]

If this is the only point you are engaging from my post, I take it then that the rest of my criticisms of your post are valid then and this is your last grasp for some sort of internet victory point?

I just didn't want to get into a long argument, precisely because I don't care about internet points.

But I won't be silent when someone claims the old editions of D&D weren't very different from the new ones. THEY WERE VERY DIFFERENT.

 

[Campbell]

The idea that Harry Potter is new fangled to me is somewhat strange. I'm 37. The first book came out when I was in middle school. Not saying it has to be your bag, but it's not really all that new. I mean the actors that played the kids are all in their 30s.

 

[Aldarc]

I just didn't want to get into a long argument, precisely because I don't care about internet points.

But I won't be silent when someone claims the old editions of D&D weren't very different from the new ones. THEY WERE VERY DIFFERENT.

You're only about 30 years too late to be arguing about it now.

 

[Scribe]

The idea that Harry Potter is new fangled to me is somewhat strange. I'm 37. The first book came out when I was in middle school. Not saying it has to be your bag, but it's not really all that new. I mean the actors that played the kids are all in their 30s.

I'd go look when I was released, but my soon to be graduating son pointed out the date of release on a record I was listening to the other day, and a piece of me died...