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D&D 5E The Next D&D Book is JOURNEYS THROUGH THE RADIANT CITADEL

We peered, poked, squinted, flipped, and enhanced the teaser image that WotC put out last week, and it turns out we got it right -- the next book is, indeed, Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel. Wraparound cover art by Evyn Fong Through the mists of the Ethereal Plane shines the Radiant Citadel. Travelers from across the multiverse flock to this mysterious bastion to share their...

We peered, poked, squinted, flipped, and enhanced the teaser image that WotC put out last week, and it turns out we got it right -- the next book is, indeed, Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel.

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Wraparound cover art by Evyn Fong

Through the mists of the Ethereal Plane shines the Radiant Citadel. Travelers from across the multiverse flock to this mysterious bastion to share their traditions, stories, and calls for heroes. A crossroads of wonders and adventures, the Radiant Citadel is the first step on the path to legend. Where will your journeys take you?

Journeys through the Radiant Citadel is a collection of thirteen short, stand-alone D&D adventures featuring challenges for character levels 1–14. Each adventure has ties to the Radiant Citadel, a magical city with connections to lands rich with excitement and danger, and each can be run by itself or as part of an ongoing campaign. Explore this rich and varied collection of adventures in magical lands.
  • Thirteen new stand-alone adventures spanning levels 1 to 14, each with its own set of maps
  • Introduces the Radiant Citadel, a new location on the Ethereal Plane that connects adventurers to richly detailed and distinct corners of the D&D multiverse
  • Each adventure can be set in any existing D&D campaign setting or on worlds of your own design
  • Introduces eleven new D&D monsters
  • There’s a story for every adventuring party, from whimsical and light to dark and foreboding and everything in between


Slated for June 21st (update - I just got a press release which says it's June 21st "in North American stores"; I'm not sure what that means for the rest of us!), it's a 224-page adventure anthology featuring a floating city called the Radiant Citadel. The book is written entirely by people of colour, including Ajit George, who was the first person of Indian heritage to write Indian-inspired material for D&D (in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft). Around 50 POC writers were involved in total in various ways.

The Radiant Citadel is on the ethereal plane and is carved from the giant fossil of an unknown monster. A massive gemstone called the Royal Diamond sits at the core, surrounded by a bunch of smaller Concord Jewels, which are gateways to the Citadel's founding civilizations. DMs can link any world to the citadel by placing a Concord Jewel there.

The Citadel, unlike many D&D locations, is more of a sanctuary than a place of danger. The book's alternate cover features a Dawn Incarnate, a creature which is the embodiment of stories and cultures.


The adventures are as follows:
  • Salted Legacy
  • Written In Blood
  • The Fiend of Hollow Mine
  • Wages of Vice
  • Sins of Our Elders
  • Gold for Fools and Princes
  • Trail of Destruction
  • In the Mists of Manivarsha
  • Between Tangled Roots
  • Shadow of the Sun
  • The Nightsea’s Succor
  • Buried Dynasty
  • Orchids of the Invisible Mountain
UPDATE -- the press release contains a list of some of the contributors: "Justice Ramin Arman, Dominique Dickey, Ajit A. George, Basheer Ghouse, Alastor Guzman, D. Fox Harrell, T.K. Johnson, Felice Tzehuei Kuan, Surena Marie, Mimi Mondal, Mario Ortegón, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Pam Punzalan, Erin Roberts, Terry H. Romero, Stephanie Yoon, and many more."

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Regular cover by Even Fong

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Alternate Cover by Sija Hong
 

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Scribe

Legend
The debate about whether the sky-bridge-wall being "practical" is pretty funny considering Sigil is a massive floating donut above an infinity-tall spire. There's no way that's practical either, but people LOVE it.
I dont think the issue is really one of practicality, because again much of Sigil is not either 1. Practical, or 2. Possible.

I think the issue is one of using a clear cultural signpost in a way that may or may not be (cuz again who's read it) logical or practical and why.
 

Urriak Uruk

Gaming is fun, and fun is for everyone
I'll add on the setting speculation... you could conceivably link some of the 5E Ravenloft Domains to these worlds, being their original Prime Material worlds. I'Cath (Chinese inspired), Kalakeri (India), Kartakass (Louisiana), and Chakuna (South-East Asia) could probably be linked to the worlds being developed in the Radiant Citadel.

Additionally, you could hint at them with essentially those worlds having their own "Mournlands," or areas that once existed but were covered in fog, their lands and inhabitants never seen again. So you could link the Ravenloft and the Radiant Citadel pretty well if you wanted a bit more horror, and to develop the history of these worlds yourself!
 

Urriak Uruk

Gaming is fun, and fun is for everyone
I dont think the issue is really one of practicality, because again much of Sigil is not either 1. Practical, or 2. Possible.

I think the issue is one of using a clear cultural signpost in a way that may or may not be (cuz again who's read it) logical or practical and why.

Sorry, does the giant sky-bridge-wall look either practical or possible? I'm saying it makes no sense to criticize one for this but not the other.
 

Parmandur

Book-Friend
I'll add on the setting speculation... you could conceivably link some of the 5E Ravenloft Domains to these worlds, being their original Prime Material worlds. I'Cath (Chinese inspired), Kalakeri (India), Kartakass (Louisiana), and Chakuna (South-East Asia) could probably be linked to the worlds being developed in the Radiant Citadel.

Additionally, you could hint at them with essentially those worlds having their own "Mournlands," or areas that once existed but were covered in fog, their lands and inhabitants never seen again. So you could link the Ravenloft and the Radiant Citadel pretty well if you wanted a bit more horror, and to develop the history of these worlds yourself!
Or, the other way around, you could take a Domains of Dread and deescalte it slightly to be a civilization connected to the Radiant Citadel.
 



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