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.

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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.

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D&D 5E - Here's Radiant Citadel's press release

Dropped in my inbox a short while ago, if you want the official announcement. It's the same info as in the news article on the front page. Dungeons & Dragons Invites You to Explore the Radiant Citadel Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel is a new collection of short adventures set in wondrous...
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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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So the Amazon ranking has lagged behind others. Especially those saying it’s in the top three or number one out of all books.
Turns out Amazon had issues with the preorders of the book. No explanation. But it’s fixed now.
Even so at Amazon, with pre orders glitching, it’s in the top 300 of all books on Amazon.
 

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Hussar said:
I just assume now that any time someone says "this thing sucks" they just mean, "I don't like this." and then pretty much ignore everything they say after it.
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That's almost certainly the case. But as the random listener in the original post that started this thread said, it is rather a jerk way of phrasing things. Especially when "I don't like this" is just as easy to say as "this thing sucks."
 

darjr said:
So the Amazon ranking has lagged behind others. Especially those saying it’s in the top three or number one out of all books.
Turns out Amazon had issues with the preorders of the book. No explanation. But it’s fixed now.
Even so at Amazon, with pre orders glitching, it’s in the top 300 of all books on Amazon.
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To be clear, in current rankings in Amazon's "Dungeons & Dragons Game" category, the book is only behind Call of the Netherdeep (#2) and the PHB (#1). Clearly quite a surge in pre-sales.
 

JEB said:
How so? How was another round of the same arguments between the same folks to the same end better than a thread that stayed focused on the new product and its features?


What kept folks who liked the product from just disagreeing with the complaints and moving on, rather than going in circles and then targeting the critics themselves?

If you like this product, that's great! Talk up the positives, get folks hyped, gush about the possibilities. All way better uses of your time than complaining about complaining.
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Well this is a discussion board and not anyones personal journal. So if posters are going to come in and make claims—that current dnd art is only cute and silly, that the game is moving in a particular direction, that the fan base is happy when other people don’t get the product they want—they’ll encounter people who read their claims and respond to them. 🤷🏽‍♂️
 


Malmuria said:
Well this is a discussion board and not anyones personal journal. So if posters are going to come in and make claims—that current dnd art is only cute and silly, that the game is moving in a particular direction, that the fan base is happy when other people don’t get the product they want—they’ll encounter people who read their claims and respond to them. 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Sure, but unless actual new points are brought up in the course of said discussion, it just derails what could have been a largely positive thread. Even more so when the arguments become increasingly personal, and ever less about the art or the new settings or the like. After a certain point, it's just not worth engaging.
 

JEB said:
To be clear, in current rankings in Amazon's "Dungeons & Dragons Game" category, the book is only behind Call of the Netherdeep (#2) and the PHB (#1). Clearly quite a surge in pre-sales.
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Before the preorder snafu I saw it at a close #2, and it was probably #1 shortly before that. I think it hit #1 out of all books on Amazon for a bit, then the preorder process broke.

here is from a couple days ago, yesterday? Maybe?
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Micah Sweet said:
I didn't hear anything in the example that insulted the fan who liked it. He just said that he liked it a while back and hasn't liked it since. It was the other guy who called him a jerk.
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Here's the original quote:

Michael Linke said:
One time at an LGS, an obvious Whovian asked me how much I liked the new Dr Who season at the time. I said "The impossible Astronaut season was amazing, and I feel like every season since, I've wanted it to be that good again, and it just hasn't been and probably never will be." He looked at me quietly for a beat, then said "Wow. You're a jerk."
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Michael Linke didn't say he didn't like it. He said it was literally not good and never would be good again. This is what I was talking about in my other thread. He's stating this as an objective fact, when it's an opinion, and certainly not one that was universally shared--I liked the Silence but not the Astronaut part of the story, which annoyed me.
 

JEB said:
Sure, but unless actual new points are brought up in the course of said discussion, it just derails what could have been a largely positive thread. Even more so when the arguments become increasingly personal, and ever less about the art or the new settings or the like. After a certain point, it's just not worth engaging.
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Now this is getting REALLY circular. You're complaining about people complaining about people complaining and then people are arguing with you about you complaining about other people complaining about other people complaining.

I think. :p

The point is, it would just be a hell of a lot simpler if people would actually be positive for a change. I just don't get the mindset that feels the need to be unendingly negative all the time. What's the pay off?
 


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