D&D 5E New stuff?

[Guest 7034872]

As to a combined Planescape + Spelljammer book, I could make do with it. But if WotC go for a planejammer solution I will burst into a severe Iwillneverbuyawizardsbookagain grog rage ;-)

With you on that for sure. I want both, but I want both independently. My unsubstantiated hunch is that for now Spelljammer is more likely.

 

[Marandahir]

With you on that for sure. I want both, but I want both independently. My unsubstantiated hunch is that for now Spelljammer is more likely.

Far more likely, given the contents of the October 2021 Unearthed Arcana "Travellers of the Multiverse."

 

[This Effin’ GM]

1. March - Critical Role: Call of the Neverdeep
2. May - Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
3. July - Starter Set: Dragons of Stormwreck Isle, set in The Known World of Mystara
4. Sep - Adventure Module, perhaps set in Cormyr? We haven't been to Cormyr yet in 5e FR.
5. Oct - Spelljammer Campaign Setting or WILDCARD
6. Nov - Remaster of an old book with Hydro64 cover. Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica or Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide?
7. Dec - Spelljammer Campaign Setting or WILDCARD

If this is true, the first half of this year is gonna be boring in terms of their products.

Ok except for call of the netherdeep, which I am buying primarily because I get excited to see newer settings get adventure support

 

[Marandahir]

If this is true, the first half of this year is gonna be boring in terms of their products.

Ok except for call of the netherdeep, which I am buying primarily because I get excited to see newer settings get adventure support

Just saying, the front half usually is slow and the back half heavy.

We're getting TWO books in the front-half. That's what we got in 2020 and 2021. I'm not expecting a third book before August/September, and that one will likely be the Adventure Path. MAYBE a July Campaign Setting if we're lucky, but that's still Q3 and almost certainly is Spelljammer if so. But this is a meatier Starter Set than Stranger Things, Essentials Kit, and D&D vs R&M. It could well be their early Q3 product, leaving Spelljammer to Q4.

In any case, the next UA will almost certainly reflect a Q4 product or else a 2023 or 2024 product. It's way too close to release for a Q2 product to be going through UA right now, we know that last fall's UA is reflective of the next big product and thus likely takes release priority for Q3 ahead of something unannounced yet still needs external playtesting, and Adventure Paths, since we went to one a year, have always been the August/September release (with an optional November follow-up book covering a related story with higher level gameplay). So the Adventure Module is the August/September release almost certainly. They want a FULL year of AL covering Feywild adventures, so they're not going to move onto the next AL Season before Fall 2022, nor will they delay it later into the year. Player's Options books usually come out with a campaign guide at any point, in May, or in November/December. MP:MotM is the May book, so don't expect a new Player-options book other than a campaign guide before Nov/Dec. And of course, if we get a campaign book earlier in the year, it's almost certainly Spelljammer.

All this informs why it's been 5 months since the last UA.

 

[Jer]

With you on that for sure. I want both, but I want both independently. My unsubstantiated hunch is that for now Spelljammer is more likely.

My unsubstantiated hunch is that it's going to be Planar Travel in general, integrating alternate prime travel into general planar travel.

I'd hope there's some discussion of space travel in it for those who want to do that, but I don't think it's going to be the focus.

 

[Parmandur]

That does lead to an interesting question though... what would be more preferable for people? A book that is ONLY Spelljammer with no Planescape (or a Planscape book with no Spelljammer) versus a book that combines Spelljamming with Sigil and the plane-hopping of Planescape into an amalgam of the two settings?

Is getting only one of the two settings for 5E preferable to getting both settings together but no longer "pure" per se?

Falae dichotomy, we'll get both separately.

 

[Parmandur]

Don't expect the next product announcement (likely Spelljammer) until May, when Mordenkainen Presents comes out OFFICIALLY.

Some good thoughts, but this is a flaw in your analysis IMO: MotM has been out for a couple months officially, and was originally slotted for Holiday 2021. They moved on from marketing it already, and I don't see the lone release qs taking a "slot." Indeee, WotC ha e released books on the same day in the past. I expect we'll see something soon.

 

[Burnside]

Spelljammer will more easily lend itself to 5E than Planescape will. I also think we may get Spelljammer in the form of an adventure book as opposed to a setting book (like we got the Feywild in the form of Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Chult by way of Tomb of Annihilation, Waterdeep by way of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, Icewind Dale by way of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, and Baldur's Gate and Avernus by way of Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus).

So I think we will get Spelljammer "on its own" before we get Planescape.

I don't think Dragon of Stormwreck Isle will be set in Mystara. When Winniger talked about revisiting classic settings, he said it would be in a print format we haven't seen before, not "a print format we haven't seen before for those settings." We've had plenty of boxed sets.

I think we're getting an adventure compilation book this year that will either be an anthology of older edition adventures a la Tales from the Yawning Portal/Ghosts of Saltmarsh or new adventures a la Candlekeep Mysteries. Largely depending on how well Candlekeep Mysteries sold, since updating old stuff is a lighter lift than making new stuff.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Falae dichotomy, we'll get both separately.

But what if you don't? Which of the two would you prefer then?

Or if you'd prefer not to think about the possibility of not getting both a full Spelljammer and a full Planescape book... then you don't need to answer. But it doesn't mean the question is invalid.

 

[Parmandur]

But what if you don't? Which of the two would you prefer then?

Or if you'd prefer not to think about the possibility of not getting both a full Spelljammer and a full Planescape book... then you don't need to answer. But it doesn't mean the question is invalid.

Spelljammer alone, since Sigil is no more related to Spelljammer than it is to the Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk.

Still, we will get both separately.