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.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

The community seems to enjoy insulting people for houseruling. Otherwise, why is all the talk and angst focused on WotC's rule set?

I don't know where you get that feeling from. There are few people how call macaroni fallacy if you suggest using a houserule... but other than that, I have not seen someone tell you, you shouldn't use them...

 

[A2Z]

I'm not a big fan of ignoring canon (though it doesn't help when canon gets all tangled up, but that's mostly just a problem for the Realms and arguably Dragonlance), but I didn't care at all for the events of FW. I don't like what it did to Duke Darkwood (even if he was a jerk), and I don't like the factions exiled from Sigil. FW supposedly wasn't supposed to be the endpoint of the setting and there were supposed to be follow ups to it. Quite frankly, FW shouldn't have ended with the factions booted out of Sigil. Even if the people working on the setting thought the factols should have all been eliminated (okay except for Rhys), it should have left things open where the players could have their PCs become the new leaders of their factions.

I wonder if they'll take the opportunity to advance the metaplot and return the factions to Sigil that way. As I understand it that was the original plan before the line got cancelled, although they weren't necessarily going to bring all the same factions back. And we might still get stuck with the new ones that emerged after faction war. My preference would be reverting to the original boxed set.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

It seems that Chris Lindsey and Chris Perkins did a press conference with a bunch of venues to give some talking points on these products, whence the Phandelver Campaign being "tinged with cosmic horror" and confirming the three book format for Planescape.

Now, knowing that it is a 3 book slipcase like Spelljammer, first I hope that it has larger books. Second, I would love it if the main book was a Manual of the Planes diving a bit deeper than the DMG into the Planes, while the Advebture was a Great Modron March style story.

Yeah while I strongly dislike the GW cosmology (vastly too neat and symmetrical, and causes shoehorned elements to make symmetrical anti-pairings), there are a lot of rad localities in the D&D cosmos, and I hope we get some notes on those.

 

[Demetrios1453]

It seems that Chris Lindsey and Chris Perkins did a press conference with a bunch of venues to give some talking points on these products, whence the Phandelver Campaign being "tinged with cosmic horror" and confirming the three book format for Planescape.

Now, knowing that it is a 3 book slipcase like Spelljammer, first I hope that it has larger books. Second, I would love it if the main book was a Manual of the Planes diving a bit deeper than the DMG into the Planes, while the Advebture was a Great Modron March style story.

Ok, I hadn't seen that before just now this thread.

I imagine given how the main complaint for Spelljammer is the page count not being enough that they'll attempt for larger books as Planescape has a lot more info necessary than Spelljammer...

 

[TrainedMunkee]

They seem to Be leaning heavily on Sigil, see the play test and the origins of humans for one. I for one would love the adventure to be Sigil based. As an aside I haven’t cracked my Planescape box set since the ‘90s, so hardly an expert. I just remember enjoying Sigil more than a planes romp. Haven’t dived into my Spelljammer set yet, but at first glance it doesn’t seem to offer much. Hoping the adventure adds something, but not overly impressed with the format.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I don't know where you get that feeling from. There are few people how call macaroni fallacy if you suggest using a houserule... but other than that, I have not seen someone tell you, you shouldn't use them...

I'm sure I'm overreacting. I've just heard a lot of bad-mouthing 3pp and I'm getting pretty sick of it. WotC is no better.

 

[Mercurius]

Planescape ? or are you hung up on the plural ?

PS is a classic setting. They've also talked about a couple "new" settings in development.

 

[mamba]

PS is a classic setting. They've also talked about a couple "new" settings in development.

I understood new to mean new to 5e, but maybe they did mean new entirely, not sure what exactly you were referring to - then there obviously is nothing in 2023

 

[Mercurius]

I understood new to mean new to 5e, but maybe they did mean new entirely, not sure what exactly you were referring to - then there obviously is nothing in 2023

For the last year or two they've mentioned that they have two entirely new settings in development - not just new to 5E, but new to D&D.

 

[timbannock]

I'm not a big fan of ignoring canon (though it doesn't help when canon gets all tangled up, but that's mostly just a problem for the Realms and arguably Dragonlance), but I didn't care at all for the events of FW. I don't like what it did to Duke Darkwood (even if he was a jerk), and I don't like the factions exiled from Sigil. FW supposedly wasn't supposed to be the endpoint of the setting and there were supposed to be follow ups to it. Quite frankly, FW shouldn't have ended with the factions booted out of Sigil. Even if the people working on the setting thought the factols should have all been eliminated (okay except for Rhys), it should have left things open where the players could have their PCs become the new leaders of their factions.

Bloody metaplots.

Well, they've straight up said "there is no canon except the 5e canon," so if they want to rewind to pre-Faction War, and then mote it be! They've already retconned/reimagined/etc. Ravenloft plenty, and it sounds like Dragonlance is going to be setup with Dragonborn and the like as if they were always there, so it seems like if they do Sigil they'll do right by it, at least regarding the appearance of Factions.