D&D 5E (2024) Predict WotC's 2026 D&D releases

I don't disagree with your criticism of it, but it has always been a good seller. I don't think they have any motivation to do what you suggest.
Well, that's a shame. While some of those mostly classic adventures are just OK, I think others deserve better and could really flourish with a longer treatment. The giant series in particular is so bare bones that it's really ripe for additional detail.
(I think its success is down to people searching for shorter adventures rather than anything particularly well done about it).
As more and more adventure anthologies come out, it'll be interesting to see if Yawning Portal starts to fade. I'm running an every other month Radiant Citadel campaign, and all of those adventures so far have been a lot of fun right out of the box.
 

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Well, that's a shame. While some of those mostly classic adventures are just OK, I think others deserve better and could really flourish with a longer treatment. The giant series in particular is so bare bones that it's really ripe for additional detail.
I more than agree.

Have you ever read Perkins' 4e update from Dragon Magazine of Against the Giants? It was excellent. It even had a fourth location, the Crag of the Stone Giant Thane. When I heard that adventure line was going into TFtYP, I had hoped to see that one, updated once again. Instead we got a bare-bones update of the original. The 4e one even had Mike Schley maps!

As good a book as TFtYP manages to pull off being, it's a strange beast.

Even the Yawning Portal itself belongs more in Waterdeep Dungeon of the Mad Mage than it does in that book!
 


I more than agree.

Have you ever read Perkins' 4e update from Dragon Magazine of Against the Giants? It was excellent. It even had a fourth location, the Crag of the Stone Giant Thane. When I heard that adventure line was going into TFtYP, I had hoped to see that one, updated once again. Instead we got a bare-bones update of the original. The 4e one even had Mike Schley maps!
I went to Castles & Crusades during the 4E era, but I've heard good things about it.
As good a book as TFtYP manages to pull off being, it's a strange beast.

Even the Yawning Portal itself belongs more in Waterdeep Dungeon of the Mad Mage than it does in that book!
Yeah, shoehorning mostly Greyhawk adventures into a book with Forgotten Realms theming was weird and unnecessary. Just make all of these tales from a bard or something.
 


Well, that's a shame. While some of those mostly classic adventures are just OK, I think others deserve better and could really flourish with a longer treatment. The giant series in particular is so bare bones that it's really ripe for additional detail.

As more and more adventure anthologies come out, it'll be interesting to see if Yawning Portal starts to fade. I'm running an every other month Radiant Citadel campaign, and all of those adventures so far have been a lot of fun right out of the box.

I'm currently running a group through a "best of WotC 5E short adventures" campaign. This is what I have lined up for them:

Level 1 - The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces (Candlekeep Mysteries)
Level 2 - Scream of the Crop (Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club)
Level 3 - Baker’s Doesn’t (Dragon Delves)
Level 4 - The Fiend of Hollow Mine (Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel)
Level 5 - Tockworth’s Clockworks (Keys from the Golden Vault)
Level 6 - Axe from the Grave (Keys from the Golden Vault)
Level 7 - Gold for Fools and Princes (Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel)
Level 8 - Heart of Ashes (Keys from the Golden Vault)
Level 9 - Tammeraut’s Fate (Ghosts of Saltmarsh) OR Affair on the Concordant Express (Keys from the Golden Vault)
Level 10 - Between Tangled Roots (Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel)
Level 11 - Shivering Death (Dragon Delves)
Level 12 - Dragons of the Sandstone City (Dragon Delves)

Depending on how we're feeling, we may or may not then go on to tackle some of the level 13-16 adventures from Radiant Citadel and Candlekeep Mysteries.

In selecting adventures, I did include the reprint anthologies (Tales from the Yawning Portal, Ghosts of Saltmarsh, and Quests from the Infinite Staircase) for consideration; it's pretty telling that only one adventure from all three of those books made the cut and even then I'm not 100% sure I'm running it. FWIW, nothing from the new Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun book made the cut either.

Regarding that Silver box from B&G, long shot but if it is something from 5E's back catalogue I'd love them to do Tomb of Annihilation, which came out the year before B&G started but richly deserves a deluxe treatment.

FWIW though, I'm 90% sure that Silver box will be a new product. If it was just an older B&G set going back into print they'd just say so (they've announced another print run for their Keys from the Golden Vault DM Vault, for example).
 
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Level 4 - The Fiend of Hollow Mine (Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel)
I didn't really do as good of a job with this adventure as I would have liked but my group still loved it. Such a fun one.
In selecting adventures, I did include the reprint anthologies (Tales from the Yawning Portal, Ghosts of Saltmarsh, and Quests from the Infinite Staircase) for consideration; it's pretty telling that only one adventure from all three of those books made the cut and even then I'm not 100% sure I'm running it.
I don't see that one on your list.
Regarding that Silver box from B&G, long shot but if it is something from 5E's back catalogue I'd love them to do Tomb of Annihilation, which came out the year before B&G started but richly deserves a deluxe treatment.
Maybe I'm weird, but I'd love to see an upgraded version of Heroes of the Borderlands with sturdier character boards and handouts, even more handouts, actual miniatures, etc.
 



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