D&D 5E The Next D&D Book is JOURNEYS THROUGH THE RADIANT CITADEL

We peered, poked, squinted, flipped, and enhanced the teaser image that WotC put out last week, and it turns out we got it right -- the next book is, indeed, Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel. Wraparound cover art by Evyn Fong Through the mists of the Ethereal Plane shines the Radiant Citadel. Travelers from across the multiverse flock to this mysterious bastion to share their...

We peered, poked, squinted, flipped, and enhanced the teaser image that WotC put out last week, and it turns out we got it right -- the next book is, indeed, Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel.

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Wraparound cover art by Evyn Fong

Through the mists of the Ethereal Plane shines the Radiant Citadel. Travelers from across the multiverse flock to this mysterious bastion to share their traditions, stories, and calls for heroes. A crossroads of wonders and adventures, the Radiant Citadel is the first step on the path to legend. Where will your journeys take you?

Journeys through the Radiant Citadel is a collection of thirteen short, stand-alone D&D adventures featuring challenges for character levels 1–14. Each adventure has ties to the Radiant Citadel, a magical city with connections to lands rich with excitement and danger, and each can be run by itself or as part of an ongoing campaign. Explore this rich and varied collection of adventures in magical lands.
  • Thirteen new stand-alone adventures spanning levels 1 to 14, each with its own set of maps
  • Introduces the Radiant Citadel, a new location on the Ethereal Plane that connects adventurers to richly detailed and distinct corners of the D&D multiverse
  • Each adventure can be set in any existing D&D campaign setting or on worlds of your own design
  • Introduces eleven new D&D monsters
  • There’s a story for every adventuring party, from whimsical and light to dark and foreboding and everything in between


Slated for June 21st (update - I just got a press release which says it's June 21st "in North American stores"; I'm not sure what that means for the rest of us!), it's a 224-page adventure anthology featuring a floating city called the Radiant Citadel. The book is written entirely by people of colour, including Ajit George, who was the first person of Indian heritage to write Indian-inspired material for D&D (in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft). Around 50 POC writers were involved in total in various ways.

The Radiant Citadel is on the ethereal plane and is carved from the giant fossil of an unknown monster. A massive gemstone called the Royal Diamond sits at the core, surrounded by a bunch of smaller Concord Jewels, which are gateways to the Citadel's founding civilizations. DMs can link any world to the citadel by placing a Concord Jewel there.

The Citadel, unlike many D&D locations, is more of a sanctuary than a place of danger. The book's alternate cover features a Dawn Incarnate, a creature which is the embodiment of stories and cultures.


The adventures are as follows:
  • Salted Legacy
  • Written In Blood
  • The Fiend of Hollow Mine
  • Wages of Vice
  • Sins of Our Elders
  • Gold for Fools and Princes
  • Trail of Destruction
  • In the Mists of Manivarsha
  • Between Tangled Roots
  • Shadow of the Sun
  • The Nightsea’s Succor
  • Buried Dynasty
  • Orchids of the Invisible Mountain
UPDATE -- the press release contains a list of some of the contributors: "Justice Ramin Arman, Dominique Dickey, Ajit A. George, Basheer Ghouse, Alastor Guzman, D. Fox Harrell, T.K. Johnson, Felice Tzehuei Kuan, Surena Marie, Mimi Mondal, Mario Ortegón, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Pam Punzalan, Erin Roberts, Terry H. Romero, Stephanie Yoon, and many more."

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Regular cover by Even Fong

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Alternate Cover by Sija Hong
 

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It's super annoying, isn't? "California" gets treated like a curse in the Hinterlands...sometimes as a Californian my relatives back East will cause me to roll the eyes into the back of my head.
I may have left when I was 16 but California is still the land that spawned and raised me. It’s really weird to watch outsider opinions on California, especially folks who don’t seem to understand that Northern and Southern California are very much separate beasts culturally and politically. Having lived in both it’s strange to see everyone treat the whole state as if it’s either vapid LA or techbro Bay Area. Nobody outside the state seems to know the state exists at all north of Sacramento.
 



Micah Sweet

Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Can people PLEASE learn what a Mary Sue actually means rather than just throwing it around Willy-Nilly to mean “female character that I don’t like?”

Unless you’re making the argument that the Lady is Zeb Cook’s self-insert, in which case… 🤷‍♂️
Harry Potter was a Mary Sue. Didn't like him much either.
 

Ath-kethin

Elder Thing
Hey, Gen-Xer in my mid 40s here and I’m all for more hopeful and light material vs the constant doom and gloom.

Like, have we looked at the state of the world lately? Anyone? We could all use a lot more hope in our lives these days, even if it is just at our dragon game tables. Also even the darkest grimdark worlds need the occasional moment of levity if only to help contrast how dark the depths are.
Same.

I'm 100% fine with prioritizing Weird over Grim. Not to mention it's a lot easier to shift cheerful material to nightmare fuel than the reverse. Setting up a more pleasant environment can accommodate both sides, whereas setting up a miserable environment is just going to ostracize people who don't want/need the gloom.
 

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