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

[pukunui]

I guess that is a reason, but if they were to update to the 2024 design paradigm there could/should be improvements and you are not obligated to buy it. I just see it as a win - win situation. You have the older version and newer version. They both work and you can buy or not buy either. You can use whichever you prefer. That and hopefully new art!

I would happily buy an updated to 2024 version of Monsters of the Multiverse. The species and stat blocks in that book are in an in-between state. If 2014 is 5.0 and 2024 is 5.5, then MotM is 5.25.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I guess that is a reason, but if they were to update to the 2024 design paradigm there could/should be improvements and you are not obligated to buy it. I just see it as a win - win situation. You have the older version and newer version. They both work and you can buy or not buy either. You can use whichever you prefer. That and hopefully new art!

I don't disagree with you that it sounds like a nice idea. However, I don't think that it will ever happen. They are far more likely to make another similar book than to update that one. I mean, the newer, similar book could contain some updates from that book (for example the Species) making it effectively a MMoM update, but I suspect that it would be a different name, with mostly different content.

Hey, this IS a predictions thread, after all!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I don't disagree with you that it sounds like a nice idea. However, I don't think that it will ever happen. They are far more likely to make another similar book than to update that one. I mean, the newer, similar book could contain some updates from that book (for example the Species) making it effectively a MMoM update, but I suspect that it would be a different name, with mostly different content.

Hey, this IS a predictions thread, after all!

Yeah, outside of adventures, I don't think there's much chance of them reusing the names of supplements. And even with adventures, they are likely to go the "Phandelver and Below" approach, and signal that it's both new and old, I suspect.

 

[Reynard]

I would happily buy an updated to 2024 version of Monsters of the Multiverse. The species and stat blocks in that book are in an in-between state. If 2014 is 5.0 and 2024 is 5.5, then MotM is 5.25.

That book was a waste the first time, and you would buy it again? To each their own.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That book was a waste the first time, and you would buy it again? To each their own.

People love books full of playable ancestries.

 

[pukunui]

That book was a waste the first time, and you would buy it again? To each their own.

I have made extensive use of my copy of MotM. Didn't feel like a waste to me at all.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

People love books full of playable ancestries.

Sure, but they might like some different ones, and some different monsters.

Or they may put backgrounds and species in with a subclasses book. I think the number of subclasses tested makes that kind of book very likely. Along with artificer and psion in a book that isn’t setting specific.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Sure, but they might like some different ones, and some different monsters.

Or they may put backgrounds and species in with a subclasses book. I think the number of subclasses tested makes that kind of book very likely. Along with artificer and psion in a book that isn’t setting specific.

Yeah, I think that it's more likely for us to see updated and new species (going forward) in books with subclasses rather than ones with monsters (except in cases where the book has both, which might be the most likely scenario of all).