D&D 5E (2024) So What Is Winter's Mysterious D&D "Season of Champions"?

Parmandur · Mar 20, 2026

mamba said:
Feels too early but who knows, how does the Season of Champions tagline fit into this?

I dunno, Champions of spelunking into Castle Greyhawk?

It does explain why some of the Subclasses in UA were Gygax Ian classics like the Cavalier...

Parmandur · Mar 20, 2026

mamba said:
Feels too early but who knows, how does the Season of Champions tagline fit into this?

But the main thing is, the way Ayoub and Gygax were talking about the Greyhawk project and future product announcements at GenCon. Could be Greyhawk is next year, and they want to build buzz...but right now I think it is the Winter product.

Plaguescarred · Saturday at 6:14 PM

After hearing Luke Gygax at the D&D Past, Present, & Future with Dan Ayoub, Luke Gygax, Justice Arman, & Kara Kenna discussing GREYHAWK, i wonder if Champion will not be tied to GREYHAWK.

''The core of it is really going to be a world of adventure, calling for adventurers, a world that is out of balance that need to be restored, evil is on the rise, what are you going to do to stop it''

Remathilis · Saturday at 11:17 PM

Plaguescarred said:
After hearing Luke Gygax at the D&D Past, Present, & Future with Dan Ayoub, Luke Gygax, Justice Arman, & Kara Kenna discussing GREYHAWK, i wonder if Champion will not be tied to GREYHAWK.

Maybe Lord Soth is going to take over Greyhawk!

Parmandur · Saturday at 11:43 PM

Remathilis said:
Maybe Lord Soth is going to take over Greyhawk!

Seriously, though, after listening to the first third of the panel, it sounds like the Greyhawk project and what is being announced for Q4 were two separate thighs, so Dark Sun or Dragonlance seem more likely right now.

Given Weiss hints aboht GenCon elsewhere, I think the odds of something Dragonlance in the next year at some point are extremely high, as are Dark Sun with the UA.

Remathilis · Sunday at 1:36 AM

Parmandur said:
Seriously, though, after listening to the first third of the panel, it sounds like the Greyhawk project and what is being announced for Q4 were two separate thighs, so Dark Sun or Dragonlance seem more likely right now.

Given Weiss hints aboht GenCon elsewhere, I think the odds of something Dragonlance in the next year at some point are extremely high, as are Dark Sun with the UA.

The ONLY reason I still don't think its Greyhawk OR Dragonlance is they explicitly said they were holding back on announcing the Q4 product until later so as to let them build hype for it and to give the rest of the 2026 books room to breathe and build hype. If they said that and the immediately announced Melf's, then they keep secrets worse than a 5 year old at a surprise party. What did they make it, two weeks?

Parmandur · Sunday at 1:42 AM

Remathilis said:
The ONLY reason I still don't think its Greyhawk OR Dragonlance is they explicitly said they were holding back on announcing the Q4 product until later so as to let them build hype for it and to give the rest of the 2026 books room to breathe and build hype. If they said that and the immediately announced Melf's, then they keep secrets worse than a 5 year old at a surprise party. What did they make it, two weeks?

Yeah, that's why I think it is not Greyhawk. Dragonlance and Dark Sun do seem to be circling the next year and a half, though.

Sorcerers Apprentice · Sunday at 8:04 AM

My prediction:
The main product of the season will be a book with character options for martial characters.
There will be a tie-in adventure set in the Forgotten Realms.