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A 5E take on Urban Arcana would be amazing. I'd personally like a 5E Gamma World Setting, or Star Frontiers.

I agree with the Hasbro execs that D&D is undermonetized...but the monetization should be in cool stuff like Owlbear stuffies or Beholder Mr. Potatoeheads...the RPG can only make so much money as a TTRPG. Based on what @mearls said above, this does sound like a return to the model WotC had in...

Yeah, as listed by @Misanthrope Prime , there those five areas that are getting deep dives in the DM book, while the while Realms has a general knowledge Gazateer in the Player's book.

Now, the Forgotten Realms was never the assumed default Setting for 5E, but it was frequently centered, especially early on. The new Core vols have decentered the FR considerably, so it seems this product is free to get a little bit more into the weeds of older FR lore with stuff like that...

Both books are in November.

This part particularly excited me, it means that the 5 focused on areas are basically getting the equivalent to what the Greyhawk region got in the DMG, along with a set of quick setup Adventures for each. These can be tremendous resources for DMs to mix and math in kitbash worldbuilding, beyond...

Honestly, the options haven't presented mu h difficulty in meshing together in my experience, but I also came of age in an era when we casually mixed 3E and 3.5 like sociopaths, so I might just have a high threshold for messiness. The Race-Species difference seemed in line last time I crunched...

Don't jinx it.

I wouldn't expect much: some bonus skills and a Cantrip or Spell, maybe.

It's going to really uncover what the current design team feels comfortable doing without UA feedback.

That's...astounding.

I think you must mean the 2014 PHB, the 2024 PHB doesn't have a ranking since it is a game not a book in Amazon's catalog.

I started playing with 3.x, and I personally gave the Prestoge Class concept bad marks in the uA survey at the time. Never again, please. I did like the proposed Multiple Class Subclasses, and I would personally have been fine if they had standardized progression to make that more...

A step beyond that even...ot is bizarre to equate individual people making career moves (like Perkins with his long broadcast retirement) as mystical occult evidence of a hoped-for business failure in defiance of corporate Quarterly reports.

Well, sure, anecdotes are anecdotal. 5E was already so good that improving it is fairly incremental, yes, so the excitement is around things like the logical organization of the DMG (massive, massive improvement) which isn't necessarily "sexy". The real test is commercial success and adoption...

The Wizard updates are a pretty decent iteration on the 2014 counterparts. The Arcane Archer seems a good Elf-ish Fighter that is less spell-ish than the Eldritch Knight. Other than that, no super strong feelings.

Yeah, those 5 are confirmed. We already have playable Govlinoids in Monsters of the Multiverse, at least, though I wouldn't be surprised of they get revisited sooner rather than later.

The reception has overall been quite positive...?

Extremely doubtful: if 4E didn't do that, nothing recent will.

Not necessarily: yellow flag, maybe. Lanzillo's predecessor left because she got a higher job title at Funko Pop, and she took the D&D Executive Producer with her. That was about them pursuing their careers. None of this is new for WotC.