WotC No new DMs Guild Adept titles since mid-December?

[darjr]

WotC loves DMsGuild.

Just look at all the stuff they just endorsed from the Radiance third party content to now Spelljammer and the two initiatives with Baldman Games and Gameholecon.

In fact the entirety of their extra Spelljammer season other than the initial adventures and the book set are all DMsGuild products from third parties.

 

[Zaukrie]

They get free money and, more importantly, ideas. No chance they shut it down.

 

[Parmandur]

They get free money and, more importantly, ideas. No chance they shut it down.

That's also where they find new designers to recruit.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Do you mind sourcing that, because it's news to me.

I'm too lazy to look up it, but it's from the same interview/announcement where Winninger said multiple old-setting books were coming, which was like, what 2+ years ago now? Feels that way anyway. You might have to dig around a bit as it was less reported then the old settings stuff.

He said that WotC had already developed and decided not to complete/publish two new-IP D&D settings, and that whilst there was another new-IP (as in entirely novel) D&D setting on the way, he couldn't guarantee it'd make it through the process to actually get published. Which contrasted with what he was saying re: old settings.

He didn't provide a timeline for the new Settings, so I don't think that it is definite that they are scrapped at this point. Theybare not on the release schedule, unless Radiant Citadel and maybe the Book of Many Things are what was being referenced.

He talked about two new-IP settings having already been cancelled. He wasn't unclear about that, though we dunno when in like the 2014-2020 period it happened. A third new-IP setting he didn't provide an exact timeline on, but did warn us that it might not make it to being published. So that might be cancelled (I suspect so) or it might come out sometime in the next few years, albeit probably at least 2024 or later unless they want a real surprise for the 2023 schedule.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm too lazy to look up it, but it's from the same interview/announcement where Winninger said multiple old-setting books were coming, which was like, what 2+ years ago now? Feels that way anyway. You might have to dig around a bit as it was less reported then the old settings stuff.

He said that WotC had already developed and decided not to complete/publish two new-IP D&D settings, and that whilst there was another new-IP (as in entirely novel) D&D setting on the way, he couldn't guarantee it'd make it through the process to actually get published. Which contrasted with what he was saying re: old settings.


He talked about two new-IP settings having already been cancelled. He wasn't unclear about that, though we dunno when in like the 2014-2020 period it happened. A third new-IP setting he didn't provide an exact timeline on, but did warn us that it might not make it to being published. So that might be cancelled (I suspect so) or it might come out sometime in the next few years, albeit probably at least 2024 or later unless they want a real surprise for the 2023 schedule.

Here is what Winninger said a bit over a year ago below, after obliquly discussing how Spelljammer was well along at the time and Dragonlance had just started, and teased "new formats" thar "we had not seen before" (slipcase and Adventure-Board Game tie in, as it turns out). He says that they have two new Settings "in early development," that is further out than Dragonlance by a significant amount. He does then add that any future product may be cancelled, but it seems that it is too early to assume the new Settings are done if they were very early in development at that point. I half-suspect that the Deck ofany Things book may be one of the things he was talking about, weird mish-mash that it sounds like.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I don't think the Book of Many Things sounds weird at all. Just imagine a Dragon magazine special issue around a single theme and make that theme not be the groan-worthy April Fool's issue. That's what this sounds like to me. (And, essentially, it's what Fizban's is, but we've just seen books all about dragons before, so it doesn't seem weird to have a mix of various sorts of dragon content in one book.)

 

[Parmandur]

I don't think the Book of Many Things sounds weird at all. Just imagine a Dragon magazine special issue around a single theme and make that theme not be the groan-worthy April Fool's issue. That's what this sounds like to me. (And, essentially, it's what Fizban's is, but we've just seen books all about dragons before, so it doesn't seem weird to have a mix of various sorts of dragon content in one book.)

Basically the entire line of 5E books past the core boil down to feeling like big Dragon or Dungeon blowout Annuals, part of the Smorgasbord content strategy.

I find the Book of Many Things, conceptually at least, one of the most unique set-ups, even if it is functionally somewhat similar to Fizban's: the theme is much less...obvious. I think it's the 2023 product which excites me the most, actually, due to the potential for weirdness and fun inherent in the premise.

 

[Parmandur]

He said that WotC had already developed and decided not to complete/publish two new-IP D&D settings, and that whilst there was another new-IP (as in entirely novel) D&D setting on the way, he couldn't guarantee it'd make it through the process to actually get published. Which contrasted with what he was saying re: old settings.

Been digging around a bit further, and the latest info I can find on the future of new Settings is from the big September event last year to kick off Witchlight, where they announced Monsters of the Multiverse and the 2024 revisions coming down the pipeline, and Perkins showed the rough version of the alternate cover for the Spelljammer bestiary. As of thst event, they were hinting at Spelljammer, Dragonlance, and next years Planescape, while saying that:

What should we look forward to?

• Chris Perkins exists in 2022 and beyond
• More adventure anthologies
• A classic setting returns in 2022 (conflicts with what Ray Winninger said at the beginning of the panel?)
• 2 NEW settings coming. First time since Eberron in 2004
• New settings are in development

2021's "The Future of DnD" Panel

If you followed D&D Celebration 2021, the absolute final panel of the annual 3-day event was titled "The Future of DnD". While we typically see some great announcements at both DnD Live and at DnD Celebration every year, there are some frankly startling announcements.

rpgbot.net

 

[Burnside]

Does Radiant Citadel count as one of the two new settings?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

2 NEW settings coming. First time since Eberron in 2004

That's more recent than I'd seen! So that's jolly interesting! Personally I hope one materializes in 2023 but if they don't start dropping until 2024 oh well. New settings is huge.

The cancelled ones was an earlier discussion where he had a very specific disclaimer. If I see it I'll link it, it's quite recognisable.