D&D 5E Planescape, Bigby, Phandelver and the Deck of Many Things: Covers & Details Revealed!

The covers of the upcoming D&D books — including Planescape, Glory of the Giants, and the Deck of Many Things have been revealed.

• August 15th -- Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants ($59.95)
• August 15th -- The Practically Complete Guide to Dragons ($39.95)
• September 19th -- Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk ($59.95)
• October 16th -- Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse ($TBA)
• November 14th -- Book of Many Things ($TBA)

Coming August 15th with two variants. Lore about giants, 76 stat blocks, feats, and a giant subclass.

3 hardcovers in a boxed set-- 96 page guide to Sigil, 64-page bestiary, and 96-page adventure, along with a poster map and DM screen. Coming October 16th.

224-page adventure for levels 1-12, poster map, 16 new monsters. Coming September 19th.

66 illustrated cards, 192-page book with lore, character options, magic items, and monsters, 80-page card reference guide, all in a slipcase. Coming November 14th.​

These Are Dungeons & Dragons' New Products For 2023

New books for the fantasy role-playing game include Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants, and a look at the legendary Deck of Many Things.

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[QuentinGeorge]

Oh, by the 80s, yeah, they had to change stuff to fit with the world. But KT still inherits that debt as it were from its origin

In that case Faerun is still an incurable horny Ed Greenwood wet dream of brothels and teenaged brides. Yeah, don’t really buy it.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

In that case Faerun is still an incurable horny Ed Greenwood wet dream of brothels and teenaged brides. Yeah, don’t really buy it.

The Low Lantern, a Baldur's Gate brothel/casino, is a location in the Murder in Baldur's Gate Cluedo game.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I don't like D&D to be too focused into only or mainly FR although this is the easiest option because they can work with the creator.

Of course always there are some differences between the point of view of the producer and the creators. It is an artistic creation, but also a product to be sold in the market.

Other option could be Hasbro/WotC as sponsor for game-live shows in no-English-speaker countries, and these DMs creating their own settins, like Matt Spencer's Exandria(Critical Role).

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* Off topic: It sounds imposible but there is a (future) collab among the main toy companies Mattel and Hasbro. This could allow in a future a D&D version of some Mattel franchise.

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

I've flipped through the 2E Chult book, and honestly Tomb of Annhilation might just have more usable Setting info in it's pages, even more actual pages of Setring info.

WotC also sells the old AD&D books, actively and often in print now...and I've seen Chris Perkins at least recommended specific 2E titles to help run 5E games, which seems doable enough.

I remember back in the days of 2E, I was collecting books that had spells in them, and I bought the The Jungles of Chult paperback because the back blurb mentioned it introduced gemstone magic and spells. But there was no gem magic! It must have been cut. I was so upset. After that disappointment, the lore felt... meh. I do like the content introduced in Tomb of Annihilation, though.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I'm sure that someone can come in here and talk about some sort of grand unified field theory of Realmslore...but Kara Tur stuff is, like, reeeeeaaaally base before even considering how to smooth it onto Faerûn somehow, so I Donnelly think it's worth the headspace.

I mean, Planescape basically did that work for them. The Celestial Bureaucracy is slotted, square peg into round hole, into various places around the Great Wheel cosmology.

And as for regular history, The Grand History of the Realms also did the work of integrating Kara-Tur's history with the rest of the continent. Although, with endless steppes or impassable mountains between them, such contacts were uncommon and usually brief, outside of Shou Lung starting out as a branch of the fallen Imaskar Empire, just like Mulhorand and Unther...

 

[Parmandur]

I mean, Planescape basically did that work for them. The Celestial Bureaucracy is slotted, square peg into round hole, into various places around the Great Wheel cosmology.

And as for regular history, The Grand History of the Realms also did the work of integrating Kara-Tur's history with the rest of the continent. Although, with endless steppes or impassable mountains between them, such contacts were uncommon and usually brief, outside of Shou Lung starting out as a branch of the fallen Imaskar Empire, just like Mulhorand and Unther...

Yeah, I'm pretty confident that square peg poundeed into the round hole is precisely the sort of awkwardness that WotC wanted to disavow with their current canon policy.

 

[Quickleaf]

@Parmandur I think in a thread (that now is gone/moved) you speculated on the Reborn being a potential PC race in 5e Planescape?

Found a miniature release info that supports your speculation: New 'D&D Nolzer's Marvelous Miniatures' Character Packs Head to Retail "Reborn Paladin" coming in D&D Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures: Character Packs.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Not sure about Reborn being recast as a specifically "Planescape" race, but I could definitely see a strong case for them being treated as more setting neutral overall. Same with the other lineages from Ravenloft, frankly - sure, they're gothic horror themed, but the underlying ideas of "a little bit vampire", "a little bit hag", and "a little bit undead/Frankenstein's Monster" can be worked into a lot of different settings.

I've had a reborn Planescape concept percolating in my head for a while now - basically someone who willingly(-ish) sacrificed themselves as part of an Odin-style ritual to gain knowledge/power and then woke up after being dead for several days as a reborn warlock.

 

[Parmandur]

@Parmandur I think in a thread (that now is gone/moved) you speculated on the Reborn being a potential PC race in 5e Planescape?

Found a miniature release info that supports your speculation: New 'D&D Nolzer's Marvelous Miniatures' Character Packs Head to Retail "Reborn Paladin" coming in D&D Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures: Character Packs.

Oh, wow: mostly I threw it out there as a potential reprint because I doubt that anything from Monsters of theMultiverse will be reprinted and the Reborn seem like the only other reprint that would be thematic. Seems a real possibility with this.

 

[Quickleaf]

Oh, wow: mostly I threw it out there as a potential reprint because I doubt that anything from Monsters of theMultiverse will be reprinted and the Reborn seem like the only other reprint that would be thematic. Seems a real possibility with this.

Yeah, and also the Nameless One from PS: Torment (released a while back, not new)...