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 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.

 

[Micah Sweet]

No they didn’t - I skipped that whole edition. It didn’t please me one bit

Your opinion is worth exactly as much as mine is.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

Your opinion is worth exactly as much as mine is.

Except you claimed they pleased everyone. I pointed out they didn’t.

So, in reality, yours was an opinion. While mine was a fact. Now a very limited fact, giving it was just about me, but still a fact.

 

[Parmandur]

Kyle Brink's recent admission that Dark Sun would be too problematic to tackle now admittedly adds fuel to that fire.

I mean, I think most people had figured that out by now, but it was nice of him to make thr clear...but it also serves as a foundation for any future effort being forthright as a modernization.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Spelljammer’s biggest problem was its length. But what was in it was pretty good, here is hoping they learned their lesson for Planescape and it’s longer.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Art & Arcana, which was written in conjunction with a lot of current/former WotC folks, says 3.5 was 100% a money thing, based on chasing target numbers. It's an extremely good book, both as a wonderful art book and for a very even-handed and unsparing history of D&D. I hope they are planning on a new edition next year.

 

[Parmandur]

Art & Arcana, which was written in conjunction with a lot of current/former WotC folks, says 3.5 was 100% a money thing, based on chasing target numbers. It's an extremely good book, both as a wonderful art book and for a very even-handed and unsparing history of D&D. I hope they are planning on a new edition next year.

Man, that book is good: that is probvly where I read that, or Jon Peterson elsewhere.

But, yeah, mass layoffs and a complete overhaul of a 3 year old product line kind of speaks for itself.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Art & Arcana, which was written in conjunction with a lot of current/former WotC folks, says 3.5 was 100% a money thing, based on chasing target numbers. It's an extremely good book, both as a wonderful art book and for a very even-handed and unsparing history of D&D. I hope they are planning on a new edition next year.

It is a good book, but there's much positive to say in a new edition, sadly.

 

[Scribe]

Spelljammer’s biggest problem was its length. But what was in it was pretty good, here is hoping they learned their lesson for Planescape and it’s longer.

Yeah I agree with this for sure.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It is a good book, but there's much positive to say in a new edition, sadly.

There's more art to include, and if they can get anywhere near the frankness of the 3.5 and 4E discussions, it'll be a valuable document to have.

I'm a nut for commemorative editions, though. I want to see 50th anniversary editions with gilt edging for the corebooks for every edition of the game. Slap gold foil on the covers of a ton of books, with sewn in ribbons and all the trimmings!

 

[Micah Sweet]

There's more art to include, and if they can get anywhere near the frankness of the 3.5 and 4E discussions, it'll be a valuable document to have.

I'm a nut for commemorative editions, though. I want to see 50th anniversary editions with gilt edging for the corebooks for every edition of the game. Slap gold foil on the covers of a ton of books, with sewn in ribbons and all the trimmings!

I wouldn't mind having such a thing, but I can't bring myself to spend money on stuff like this.