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D&D 5E Iggwilv/Tasha To Join Volo, Xanathar, and Mordenkainen? [UPDATED!]

Is WotC teasing a new announcement? There have been a few D&D books named after famous personalities from the game's extensive lore - Vole's Guide to Monsters, Xanathar's Guide to Everything, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. It looks possible that the next such personality might be Tasha of Tasha's Hideous Laughter fame -- which was an adventuring alias of the Greyhawk villain Iggwilv. UPDATE --...

Is WotC teasing a new announcement? There have been a few D&D books named after famous personalities from the game's extensive lore - Vole's Guide to Monsters, Xanathar's Guide to Everything, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. It looks possible that the next such personality might be Tasha of Tasha's Hideous Laughter fame -- which was an adventuring alias of the Greyhawk villain Iggwilv.

UPDATE -- A page has appeared on Amazon entitled Dungeons & Dragons November Title (Announced August 24). It's a hardcover, $49.95, November 17th release date.


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On their Discord channel, WotC posted a short audio clip; it features some female-sounding voices laughing, and it is titled "Feather and Tart". It also has a metadata info which says August 24th, 2020, which is Monday. But in addition to that, a WoTC staff member on Reddit's avatar was changed to an image of Iggwilv.

Iggwilv was an evil magic-user, a villain created by Gary Gygax. When adventuring with the Company of Seven, she used the alias Tasha. The lore has it that the witch Baba Yaga adopted her as a child and named her Natasha, and she soon became Natasha the Dark (Baba Yaga also adopted Elena the Fair).

Iggwilv has two forms, one old and one young. You can read more about the character on Wikipedia.


What does seem clear is that WotC is teasing an impending announcement! I assume that the announcement they are teasing will be the announcement of an upcoming announcement, or I'll be disappointed.
 

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dave2008

Legend
Nope. Every BOOK was official core. Dragon magazine was not. There was all sorts of test stuff in Dragon magazine.
Here is an excerpt from Dragon #364 ("Same as it Ever Was"), the first Dragon issue of 4e:
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I will highlight: "So if you see it in Dragon, it's D&D canon like never before."

Not to mention all the content was part of the online tools (character builder, compendium, monster maker) too, which as a big part of 4e
 
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Thirteenspades

Great Wyrm
Here is an excerpt from the Dragon 364 (letter from the editor "Same as it Ever Was"), the first "Dragon" of 4e:
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I will highlight: "So if you see it in Dragon, it's D&D canon like never before."

Not to mention all the content was part of the online tools (character builder, compendium, monster maker) too, which as a big part of 4e
But (not necessarily true in this case) what's canon in one edition isn't necessarily canon in another. (Asmodeus-Ahriman theory). Sometimes lore changes are deliberately made by the company for some reason or another.
 

Yeah its the same content as I have just in a different order. DMs Guild has the whole Iggwilv article in the sample page for anyone who cares to read. Since Iggwilv being Tasha was also in Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk it seems like a bit of a moot point.
It's literally two pages later in his link. Dragon Magazine

I assume it may be because the scans might not account for covers or something?

Edit: Oh nevermind. This is from when they went digital. yeah just seems misnumbered. But it's there.
 


Dire Bare

Legend
It really was not. Dragon Mag isn't official. And that article was just acknowledging a prior article called her that. Which isn't lore man, it's just acknowledging someone called her that in a prior Dragon magazine.

Let me know when it ends up in a setting book. Or even an official adventure. Until it does, it's just dragon magazine extra content which just plain isn't official stuff. Often, it's just like UA stuff is now - testing ideas out.

So, the official magazine of Dungeons and Dragons isn't official? Where did you get that idea?

This feels like a weird hill to die on.

Yup.

I mean, I get not caring for specific lore changes . . . but to outright deny they exist or are "official" . . . . jeez.
 


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