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 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.

D&D 5E - Here's Radiant Citadel's press release

Dropped in my inbox a short while ago, if you want the official announcement. It's the same info as in the news article on the front page. Dungeons & Dragons Invites You to Explore the Radiant Citadel Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel is a new collection of short adventures set in wondrous...

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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."

Regular cover by Even Fong

Alternate Cover by Sija Hong​

 

[pukunui]

This looks like a knucklehead trout from Icewind Dale to me:

For reference, here is the illustration of a knucklehead trout from Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frost Maiden:

 

[Scribe]

If we are going this route though, Mr. Cosby's conviction was overturned by the legal system. Do I agree with it, I absolutely do not, but legally the man has been cleared.

lol can we just not with this? The failures of a system dont excuse anything, they just remove any further legal penalty.

 

[LordEntrails]

Yeah, honestly I think I just want it all, the Planescape material, sold in some special edition, untouched, no warnings, modifications, updates, nothing.

Here's your special edition. And the disclaimer is only on the website, not on the products themselves. Dungeon Masters Guild - Planescape -

 

[Scribe]

Here's your special edition. And the disclaimer is only on the website, not on the products themselves. Dungeon Masters Guild - Planescape -

Most of those look to be PDF only.

I'm talking high quality, hard cover, complete catalog, 'break out the credit card' type special edition.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

This looks like a knucklehead trout from Icewind Dale to me:

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For reference, here is the illustration of a knucklehead trout from Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frost Maiden:

Good spot. I wonder how much else is hidden? There is stuff in the collectors edition cover as well.

 

[Guest 7034872]

Most of those look to be PDF only.

I'm talking high quality, hard cover, complete catalog, 'break out the credit card' type special edition.

As an unabashed Planescape fan, I can assure you the bound versions are prohibitively expensive. I looked into picking them up at one point while researching for my current PS campaign, and the prices immediately convinced me that sometimes .pdfs are, at any rate, good enough.

If WotC ever reprints them, you and I will be in business, but unless that improbability somehow comes to pass, fuhgeddaboudit.

 

[BookTenTiger]

The more I look at this, the more amazing it is.

In past discussions, we (the ENworld community) have talked about what WotC can do to fight racism in the real world... And I feel like this product is just a fantastic example of WotC actually doing the work, actually supporting creators of color, actually amplifying minority voices.

It's such a fun time to be a D&D fan.

 

[Scribe]

As an unabashed Planescape fan, I can assure you the bound versions are prohibitively expensive. I looked into picking them up at one point while researching for my current PS campaign, and the prices immediately convinced me that sometimes .pdfs are, at any rate, good enough.

Yeah thats all fine and good. I'm talking collector piece here. Just look at those covers. I'm looking at it as a time capsule, as that 'peak 90's' mentioned earlier.

All good, but those dont fit what I want.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

But we've seen boxed sets before. These are new formats we haven't seen.

I put it in a footnote earlier, but it occurred to me that two hardbacks, a DL setting book and The War of the Lance campaign, packaged together in a fancy cardboard sleeve, would be a "new format". Especially since it looks like they are aiming for Christmas with that one.

They could release the books separately (and digitally) a couple of months later for those whose budgets don't extend to fancy $100 gift boxes.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Most of those look to be PDF only.

I'm talking high quality, hard cover, complete catalog, 'break out the credit card' type special edition.

As someone who only got into the setting well after the original run was already out of print and has been actively filling out my library over the past couple of years, quite a bit of that is available as Print on Demand.

Not everything, and it's mostly softcover, but still...