D&D 5E What D&D Product Can Be Seen In The Crystals?

WotC has posted an image of a pile of crystals through which distorted glimpses of what looks like a product can be seen. In the comments below, folks have been flipping, enhancing, and generally squinting at the image behind the crystals, and while it's hard to make out, guesses include 'Journey Through the Radiant Ocean' (although I personally think that first letter looks more like an X or K than a J). 'Citadel' is also a popular guess for that last word--'Journey(s) to/from the Radiant Citadel'? Take a look and see what you think (or check the comments for flipped and enhanced versions).

In Spelljammer lore, the phlogiston--the space between the crystal spheres in which the prime material worlds can be found--is also known as the 'Rainbow Ocean'. And crystal seem on-brand for crystals spheres.

Below the text, the image appears to be of some kind of marketplace. Above it, WotC wrote "Through the depths of the Ethereal Plane is a beacon of possibility and adventure... "

There was apparently a press event today, pending some kind of product announcement on Tuesday.

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[Yaarel]

On the Subreddit DNDLeaks, there is a berified leaker who has proven to the moderators that he has early access to the books.

He says this is a non-Setting Candlekeep style compilation of smaller Adventures, while we will see Spelljammer and Dragonlance later this year.

"non-setting"

Heh, so it is the Forgotten Realms setting, cosmology, and assumptions, again.

: )

 

[vecna00]

Is it common to have a press conference with an embargo for 4 days?

More common in the video game space. Video Game companies like to throw around embargoes like it's going out of style.

 

[darjr]

Elminster with the Eye of Vecna in the Mud Sorcerer's Tomb?

Vecna? So Arkhan? Paladin of Takisis?

Dragonlance!

 

[vecna00]

This isn't a revisit, that's not coming till 2024 and it's a setting book, adventures don't count as a visit, like Curse of Strahd didn't count (hence why VRGtR wasn't called a revisit).

A few things: First, is it coming in 2024? I'm not finding the date for that.

Second, the exact wording in the tweet can be interpreted as having enough wiggle room to not actually be a campaign setting book, but instead something else. Like an adventure path.


"...as well as a return to a setting we've already covered." It's not outside of the realm of possibility that the "revisit" could very well just be an AP set in a campaign we've already covered. I wouldn't be surprised that's what happens, and I will keep my expectations in check just in case!

 

[vecna00]

"non-setting"

Heh, so it is the Forgotten Realms setting, cosmology, and assumptions, again.

: )

Considering the Forgotten Realms is part of the D&D Multiverse Cosmology, along with every other published setting (past through foreseeable future), yes.

Mind you, that doesn't mean your version of said campaign will be, just the official printed version.

 

[Parmandur]

A few things: First, is it coming in 2024? I'm not finding the date for that.

Second, the exact wording in the tweet can be interpreted as having enough wiggle room to not actually be a campaign setting book, but instead something else. Like an adventure path.


"...as well as a return to a setting we've already covered." It's not outside of the realm of possibility that the "revisit" could very well just be an AP set in a campaign we've already covered. I wouldn't be surprised that's what happens, and I will keep my expectations in check just in case!

He later specified that the return is a 2024 product, to go with the new Core.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

"non-setting"

Heh, so it is the Forgotten Realms setting, cosmology, and assumptions, again.

: )

Not necessarily... Ghosts of Saltmarsh also falls into that "Adventure Compilation" category, and that book is entirely set in Greyhawk, even if it isn't a proper "setting book". Similarly, most of the adventures in Tales from the Yawning Portal are not set in the Forgotten Realms, by my understanding.

If this book is going "planar", as the tagline about "the depths of the Ethereal Plane" would suggest, I would imagine it'll probably stick to the 5e-incarnation of the Great Wheel, but it may not touch on the Forgotten Realms at all.

 

[vecna00]

He later specified that the return is a 2024 product, to go with the new Core.

Missed that piece of info!

Edit: Are you able to point me in the direction of that info? if not, I'm not too worried. Needle in the haystack and all.

 

[Parmandur]

Missed that piece of info!

Edit: Are you able to point me in the direction of that info? if not, I'm not too worried. Needle in the haystack and all.

Sure, no problem:

 

[Parmandur]

Due to the timing, odds are either Forgotten Realsms or Greyhawk (which has been in 5E) to stand as part of the 50th Anniversary celebration along with revised core books