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  1. Paul Farquhar

    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

    It's a relatively short book, judged by the price point. I doubt it will have space for a Magocracies of the Multiverse gazetteer in amongst the subclasses, spell lists, magic items, monsters and eight completely new unconnected-to-any-known-existing-factions factions. That's what Deadfall is...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

    Can you think of any setting books that had pre-release art that did not feature any recognisable setting locations, setting characters or setting organisations? Compare it to the art released for Deadfall or Ravenloft. The setting for both is easily identifiable from any of the art.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

    None of the art remotely resembles a land of mask-wearing witches and rustic berserker lodges either. It looks like Sigil, Stryxhaven, Eberron, Ravnica or some other high magitech location.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Cthulhu Confirmed!

    It seems to be quite a lot longer, so certainly those! If you build a bastion in Ravenloft, does that make you a dark lord? One thing that occurred to me is that as well as being a mechanical patch for VGR, it might also be a mechanical patch for CoS, in terms of updated monster stat blocks...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

    Have you looked at the art? Seen anything that looks like Thay or any other Forgotten realms location? We have Alustriel in Sigil, and a Hogwarts style wizard school with students happy, excited and engaged. I’m pretty sure Thayan wizard school is more like Dotheboys Hall. Lots of other pictures...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    If a tree falls in the Shadowfell and there is no PC to observe it, does it make any sound?
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    He is established as being in Krynn, so no, he is not in Ravenloft. But it’s Sithicus that they won’t be doing, for the simple reason is you need to know a lot of lore around Krynn’s elves for it to make sense, and very few players are familiar with that these days. Soth himself gets recognised...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    Soth appears in in V: EoR, and is still in Krynn. Indeed, the "current time" in Krynn, the War of the Lance is still raging. This can be liked to the "current date" in other settings since EoR is a crossover. Events that occur after that are still in the future. Of course time is whacked in...
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    Trailer Lanterns | Official Teaser | HBO Max

    Hodge would have been a good Hawkman if the script had been sharper.
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    We know she was happy with the outcome, and we know that she hated Soth in Ravenloft. The lore changes in VGR are permanent. WotC aren’t going to wind them back because some older players can’t abide change.
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    The metaphysics isn’t what the players see, only the adventures. And they almost always happen in domains.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Cthulhu Confirmed!

    According to the portion of text that is visible, this Cthulhu is not a prisoner. Every time you adapt a literary character, you create a new version of that character. There are lots of different Draculas, lots of different Frankensteins, lots of different Sherlock Holmes, and not quite as many...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    There isn’t really much left of the Shadowfell that isn’t Ravenloft. Domains of Delight has the entirety of the Feywild divided into domains.
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    We know she has been in negotiations with WotC, so someone seems to think it matters.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

    Adventures are specifically DM targeted, so yes, the split is Player Book/DM book. With the player book expected to sell more copies. No reason to put any setting specific stuff in the player book though, setting books are for DMs, and splat books historically sell better than setting books.
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