D&D 5E New stuff?

[HaroldTheHobbit]

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.

I salute your effort to anti-jinx the certainty that we WILL get both fleshed out Spelljammer and faithful Planescape in separate books! Don't believe the heathen planejammers!!1!

 

[Rabulias]

Instead of a new M:tG setting this year, we might get a remaster of Ravnica given that it and SCAG are the only campaign setting books left without alt-covers. Or SCAG might in fact be the remastered product!

I would love to see more Hydro74 covers. And it's more than just Ravnica and SCAG -- I think Princes of the Apocalypse and Out of the Abyss do not have alternate covers. Perhaps they will combine them and edit them some like they did with Tyranny of Dragons back in 2019?

Edit: Ah I see you specify campaign settings books without alternate covers. Failed my reading comprehension check.

 

[Micah Sweet]

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?

I would prefer both in separate books, but Planescape if I have to choose. WotC will mess up any setting book, but I'd like to see the setting opened up on the DM's Guild.

 

[Marandahir]

I would love to see more Hydro74 covers. And it's more than just Ravnica and SCAG -- I think Princes of the Apocalypse and Out of the Abyss do not have alternate covers. Perhaps they will combine them and edit them some like they did with Tyranny of Dragons back in 2019?

Edit: Ah I see you specify campaign settings books without alternate covers. Failed my reading comprehension check.

They could do those adventures too. I feel like campaign settings are more important to re-release first, but they could do any of the above. Curse of Strahd was re-released as a box set instead of a Hydro74 book, too, so they could do weird and different things.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I can launch my bet about one of the future "new-brand" settings.

I am not kidding. In January 1st of 2024, Tolkien's work will become public domain. Even if Disney wanted, they could produce their own cartoon.

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Conan the Barbarian will be public domain in 2028 but you are free to create your own version of Hyrborea, only without those characters. Now it sounds very far, but when you are getting old you notice the time passes quicly.

* Planescape can be delayed because if after Baldur's Gate the next videogame will be a Planescape II maybe the plot could affect too much the lore of the setting.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I can launch my bet about one of the future "new-brand" settings.

I am not kidding. In January 1st of 2024, Tolkien's work will become public domain. Even if Disney wanted, they could produce their own cartoon.

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Conan the Barbarian will be public domain in 2028 but you are free to create your own version of Hyrborea, only without those characters. Now it sounds very far, but when you are getting old you notice the time passes quicly.

* Planescape can be delayed because if after Baldur's Gate the next videogame will be a Planescape II maybe the plot could affect too much the lore of the setting.

Planescape has one major problem they kinda nuked it with its last adventure and the factions were rather beloved many need a rewrite.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

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.

I'm 100% sure that they are not going to make a distinction between crystal spheres and planes like Theros and Eberron. They may not include Sigil, but I'm certain spelljammer ships will travel between planes in 5e.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Dragon Magazine in the 3.5 age said the Lady of Pain said the faction war wasn't allowed in Sigil any more, and maybe now it is neutral zone, but this could continue in the (forgotten) Gatetowns.

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The spelljammer ships are very expensive for 1st level PCs, but astral ships could be a "cheaper" option for beginners, or at least they don't get old for the long travels.

The living beings from the elemental water plane would need oxygen and light to live, and a reason to explain how it keep the water pressure.

 

[Jer]

I'm 100% sure that they are not going to make a distinction between crystal spheres and planes like Theros and Eberron. They may not include Sigil, but I'm certain spelljammer ships will travel between planes in 5e.

Yes I agree. I strongly suspect that what we'll be getting is a multiverse book that is neither Planescape nor Spelljammer but contains elements of both. Not just traveling to other worlds within a single cosmology (Planescape/Spelljammer model), but jumping between worlds that each have their own cosmologies (call it a meta-cosmology if you want). It's a more open design space than the Planescape/Spelljammer model going forward as they bring in new settings (and is more compatible with the way MtG views the planes, so if they want to intermingle the properties, it makes sense even if a lot of older fans will dislike it).

I would hope for the Spelljammer fans they put in a chapter on "fantasy space" and open it up on DM's Guild, and likewise for the Planescape fans there's a chapter on the Great Wheel and Sigil and an opening up on DM's Guild. But honestly that's about the limit of what I'm expecting.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I wouldn't want to say exactly how they will do it, but when Spelljammer released is was it's own cosmology. Separate from the Great Wheel, separate from Krynn, etc. If you played Spelljammer, those cosmologies where wrong. It's pretty clear that now WotC want a unifying cosmology. It's so they can sell multiple setting books for the same player characters.