D&D (2024) What's In D&D's New Starter Set?

There's a new Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set, titled Heroes of the Borderlands, coming in September. WotC has given us a quick peek at what's inside! The set is designed to be replayable, and comes with maps and cards, which are presumably part of the tile-based character creation system WotC has hinted at recently. The video doesn't reveal much else, but we should have more information over the coming months.

 

[Maggan]

I’m intrigued. Is this keep on the borderlands

Probably. In the video you can see a cover titled "Keep on the Borderlands – Adventure Booklet".

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Probably. In the video you can see a cover titled "Keep on the Borderlands – Adventure Booklet".

Also Caves of Chaos!

 

[Distracted DM]

Also Caves of Chaos!

I am interested to see what they do with it. If it gets good reviews I might actually pick it up; I should look to see who's writing/designing etc.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I am interested to see what they do with it. If it gets good reviews I might actually pick it up; I should look to see who's writing/designing etc.

There's a lot of potential, since the caves are largely modular and they can close off old ones or add new ones as they wish, since this is apparently a sequel to the original.

 

[aco175]

I see on the map of the castle that gnolls are the new orcs, judging from the monster tokens.

 

[The Soloist]

There's a lot of potential, since the caves are largely modular and they can close off old ones or add new ones as they wish, since this is apparently a sequel to the original.

It would be a sequel to the '25th-anniversary sequel' of the original KotB.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It would be a sequel to the '25th-anniversary sequel' of the original KotB.

Not necessarily. WotC has said that each edition has its own continuity and it's not beholden to previous continuity unless they think the previous stuff was worth continuing. I suspect they'll address whether it's a sequel to Return to the Keep on the Borderlands in the coming months.

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

That is a goofy looking red dragon. Then again, tracks to the 1e illustration hah.

Looks good from the little bit we've seen. Phandelver is hard to beat though!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That is a goofy looking red dragon. Then again, tracks to the 1e illustration hah.

Looks good from the little bit we've seen. Phandelver is hard to beat though!

I didn't even think about that. A red dragon in the Borderlands is new to me. (No idea if one was in Return.) This definitely looks like part of the thinking with Dragon Delves, that players probably expect to encounter dragons in and around a dungeon in their games.

 

[Parmandur]

Probably. In the video you can see a cover titled "Keep on the Borderlands – Adventure Booklet".

From what they said previously, it's three Adventure modules: a social Adventure at the Keep, an exploration Adventure in tge Wilderness, and a Dungeoncrawl in the Caves of Chaos.