Planescape 5 New D&D Books Coming in 2023 -- Including Planescape!

At today's Wizards Presents event, hosts Jimmy Wong, Ginny Di, and Sydnee Goodman announced the 2023 line-up of D&D books, which featured something old, something new, and an expansion of a fan favorite.

The first of the five books, Keys from the Golden Vault, will arrive in winter 2023. At Tuesday's press preview, Chris Perkins, Game Design Architect for D&D, described it as “Ocean’s Eleven meets D&D” and an anthology of short adventures revolving around heists, which can be dropped into existing campaigns.

In Spring 2023, giants get a sourcebook just like their traditional rivals, the dragons, did in Fizban's Treasury of Dragons. Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants will be a deep dive into hill, frost, fire, cloud, and storm giants, plus much more.

Summer 2023 will have two releases. The Book of Many Things is a collection of creatures, locations, and other player-facing goodies related to that most famous D&D magic item, the Deck of Many Things. Then “Phandelver Campaign” will expand the popular Lost Mine of Phandelver from the D&D Starter Set into a full campaign tinged with cosmic horror.

And then last, but certainly not least, in Fall 2023, WotC revives another classic D&D setting – Planescape. Just like Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, Planescape will be presented as a three-book set containing a setting guide, bestiary, and adventure campaign in a slipcase. Despite the Spelljammer comparison they did not confirm whether it would also contain a DM screen.

More information on these five titles will be released when we get closer to them in date.

 

[Reynard]

Phandelver is such a good adventure, I can't imagine them not screwing it up trying to expand it to a typical 11 level campaign. They should have just done a remaster and used Phandelver to usher in a new era of actually playable shorter adventures.

 

[JEB]

Ah, well. I thought I had heard that they did weird things when MPMM came out, so I got confused.

They did remove Volo's and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes from sale on D&D Beyond, and declare them non-canon "Legacy Content." But they didn't take the content away from existing users. (Though they did apply the errata that cut certain descriptions, I believe.)

 

[JEB]

So no mention of the "new settings?"

This surprised me as well. Maybe they'll be released alongside the new edition in 2024?

 

[Reynard]

For The Deck of Many Things, it's mentioned that the book will have a collection of creatures, locations, and other player-facing goodies, which is interesting. So maybe it will be part monster book, part Tasha's/Xanatar's in format? Consider me intrigued.

Their absolute refusal to put out a GM facing book is astounding.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I think I’m most excited about the Phandelver campaign, but I’m definitely curious about Planescape too.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I wonder- Wizards having declared Volo's a non-canon "Legacy Content" product - if giants will get a thorough reimagining in this new book.

I doubt "thorough" - I mean, frost and fire giants aren't going to switch environments after all - but I'm sure we'll see some changes. I'm going to bet that we'll get the giant perspective to the First World origin myths from Fizban's, which will of course paint the giants in the right and dragons in the wrong. I'd imagine it's going to be in a similar format as Fizban's, with miscellaneous and general overview stuff at the start, deep dives in to various giant types with lair/habitation maps (although they could steal these straight from SKT if they want), and then a bestiary with variants and updated-for-5e types.

Fizban's focused on 20 different dragon types, so I wonder if they'll aim for that number here as well. There's 6 main giant types, then ogres, oni and trolls, and then the giant-kin, of which cyclopes, firbolgs, and verbeeg have appeared so far in official products. Fog Giants have appeared in a free monster source on D&D Beyond. That gives us 13, and there are still some old 2e/3e types that have yet to appear (mountain, ocean, jungle, and desert, as well as voadkyn giant-kin). I wonder if they're ok with a lower number, or pull up more esoteric (or even new) types to round things out...

 

[Parmandur]

I doubt "thorough" - I mean, frost and fire giants aren't going to switch environments after all - but I'm sure we'll see some changes. I'm going to bet that we'll get the giant perspective to the First World origin myths from Fizban's, which will of course paint the giants in the right and dragons in the wrong. I'd imagine it's going to be in a similar format as Fizban's, with miscellaneous and general overview stuff at the start, deep dives in to various giant types with lair/habitation maps (although they could steal these straight from SKT if they want), and then a bestiary with variants and updated-for-5e types.

Fizban's focused on 20 different dragon types, so I wonder if they'll aim for that number here as well. There's 6 main giant types, then ogres, oni and trolls, and then the giant-kin, of which cyclopes, firbolgs, and verbeeg have appeared so far in official products. Fog Giants have appeared in a free monster source on D&D Beyond. That gives us 13, and there are still some old 2e/3e types that have yet to appear (mountain, ocean, jungle, and desert, as well as voadkyn giant-kin). I wonder if they're ok with a lower number, or pull up more esoteric (or even new) types to round things out...

Don't forget Goliaths, Firbolg, and perhaps even Orcs: it would be a good spot to dive into lore for those Races, too.

I wonder if theybwill provide rules for Large or, Heaven fortend, Huge PCs...?

 

[Charlaquin]

I find the notion of a cosmic horror “tinged” expansion to LMoP intriguing…

 

[Parmandur]

So no mention of the "new settings?"

I honestly wonder if the "Book of Many Things" is part of what Winninger was hinting at? Just what thst book is, is very unclear so far: might be a sort of oddball pseudo-Setting book, like Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel?

 

[Parmandur]

I find the notion of a cosmic horror “tinged” expansion to LMoP intriguing…

Lots of room to expand, wonder what the final title will be.