Planescape 5 New D&D Books Coming in 2023 -- Including Planescape!

At today's Wizards Presents event, hosts Jimmy Wong, Ginny Di, and Sydnee Goodman announced the 2023 line-up of D&D books, which featured something old, something new, and an expansion of a fan favorite. The first of the five books, Keys from the Golden Vault, will arrive in winter 2023. At Tuesday's press preview, Chris Perkins, Game Design Architect for D&D, described it as “Ocean’s...
At today's Wizards Presents event, hosts Jimmy Wong, Ginny Di, and Sydnee Goodman announced the 2023 line-up of D&D books, which featured something old, something new, and an expansion of a fan favorite.

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The first of the five books, Keys from the Golden Vault, will arrive in winter 2023. At Tuesday's press preview, Chris Perkins, Game Design Architect for D&D, described it as “Ocean’s Eleven meets D&D” and an anthology of short adventures revolving around heists, which can be dropped into existing campaigns.

In Spring 2023, giants get a sourcebook just like their traditional rivals, the dragons, did in Fizban's Treasury of Dragons. Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants will be a deep dive into hill, frost, fire, cloud, and storm giants, plus much more.

Summer 2023 will have two releases. The Book of Many Things is a collection of creatures, locations, and other player-facing goodies related to that most famous D&D magic item, the Deck of Many Things. Then “Phandelver Campaign” will expand the popular Lost Mine of Phandelver from the D&D Starter Set into a full campaign tinged with cosmic horror.

And then last, but certainly not least, in Fall 2023, WotC revives another classic D&D setting – Planescape. Just like Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, Planescape will be presented as a three-book set containing a setting guide, bestiary, and adventure campaign in a slipcase. Despite the Spelljammer comparison they did not confirm whether it would also contain a DM screen.

More information on these five titles will be released when we get closer to them in date.
 

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grimslade

Krampus ate my d20s
I am most excited about the expanded Phandelver campaign. Lost Mines was a great way to introduce D&D to new players but required some adjustment to connect with any other adventure path.
 


Faolyn

(she/her)
I just pray that this announcement doesn't affect Level Up. I really like it as its designed now, and look forward to buying more books.
Me too. While I'll keep reading the playtests, I have no desire to move to 5.5/6e/whatever. At the moment, the only way I'd buy a book for the new edition is if they came out with a totally new setting.
 



Well, if you're coming to my game in 2025, do you want to know if you're using the 2014 Player's Handbook, the 2024 Player's Handbook, or should I make you a list of options in between?
The distinction matters because the rules matter. Already we're seeing significant boosts in Backgrounds and handing out Feats like candy. Do you want a character made with a crappy 2014 background and no Level 1 feat if Mistwell gets a shiny, new 2024 character? No, you don't.
It's. Not. The. Same. Game.
Isn't that true already, then? Someone who makes a character using Tasha's or some of the newer supplements will have a more powerful character that just a PhB character.

So it's just a matter of degree. The shift from 2e to 3e (or, from what I gather, from 3e to 4e) is huge, much more than a matter of if you get a specific background feat at 1st level or just take Alert. The 2024 edition seems like it will be more akin to how editions work in other games, say between Call of Cthulhu 6th and 7th.

In other words, if you want to play The Night Below in 5e, you have some converting to do. But if you want to play Rime of the Frostmaiden in the 2024 edition, you would not have much or any work to do. The CR might be messed up--it already is--but the basic mechanics ("Dexterity save," "per long rest," etc) remain the same.
 

dave2008

Legend
As you say, 1e-2e was an edition change, and was also almost completely backwards compatible.
Yes but it was most definitely not like 2e-3e-4e-5e. Those are not apples to apples comparisons. I feel like we need a new way to describe them. I mean this is still much more of an "update" compared to the last three edition changes. Maybe we call this a different version, like 5e 2.0?! Or minor vs major edition change. Anyway, I am not comfortable with using the same word to describe the change from 2e-3e-4e-5e and the change from 5e-5e+ (or whatever we call it). They are to dissimilar IMO.
 

dave2008

Legend
To quote the holy scripture of Spaceballs: "How could there be a cassette of Spaceballs-the Movie. We're still in the middle of making it.
Basically, how in the world can WotC know that everything published since 2014 will be compatible with the 2024 edition when they haven't even playtested the 2024 edition?
Because that is the design goal they set for themselves.
Well, if you're coming to my game in 2025, do you want to know if you're using the 2014 Player's Handbook, the 2024 Player's Handbook, or should I make you a list of options in between?
If I am the DM, no, I don't care which book you use.
The distinction matters because the rules matter. Already we're seeing significant boosts in Backgrounds and handing out Feats like candy. Do you want a character made with a crappy 2014 background and no Level 1 feat if Mistwell gets a shiny, new 2024 character? No, you don't.
It's. Not. The. Same. Game.
Some would care, some would not. If I had a player that cared, then I would give them extra goodies. Of note, the background feats, as noted in the video, are intend to provide more versatility, not numerical power creep. Regardless, the rules will be right there in the book (if these actually get adopted, which I hope the do) to guide a player and DM to bring a 2014 PC up to snuff with a 2024 PC.

However, why does this get you all worked up? Does it bother that they are calling D&D One and 6th edition or 5.5 edition? I mean the are actively marketing as a change. Or do you not want change?
 

dave2008

Legend
They're not calling it a new edition, but that's all corporate speak. The changes they are making fall within the spectrum of previous edition changes.
Yes, the smallest changes will always fall within the spectrum of the larger changes. IMO it is disingenuous to call this an edition change if an edition change is defined by 2e-3e-4e-5e as it has since the first edition change. This clearly something different. I prefer precise language typically, but I don't really care what is called, it will simply me marketed as Dungeons and Dragons as it should be IMO.
 

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