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.

 

[Zaukrie]

Looks like the price is going up for physical books.....which is fair, given they haven't raised prices in 9 years and paper is A LOT more expensive.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Looks like the price is going up for physical books.....which is fair, given they haven't raised prices in 9 years and paper is A LOT more expensive.

Fair maybe, undesired certainly. This far into the game new books have enough working against them without throwing increased prices into the mix.

 

[Michael Linke]

Well, it's got 50% more page count, (three 96 page books instead of 64 page books) so that may help.

I'm sure the fan feedback on Spelljammer was heard loud and clear.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Query from someone who didn't play "back in the day": What's the relationship between Planescape and the Great Modron March? They've been sort of hinting at the latter for years, but I'm wondering whether it's been scrapped, been rolled into the Planescape book, or is still in development.

The Great Modron March refers to two things.

The first is a regular event occurring every 289 years, in which an exploratory army of modrons spills forth from Mechanus upon the orders of the modron lord Primus to walk a circuit around the Great Wheel, recording whatever they find as they go, and ultimately return to Mechanus to share their findings.

The second is an adventure module by the same name, in which the titular march is unexpectedly triggered some ~150-200 years early due to shenanigans - namely the current Primus being killed and secretly replaced by Tenebrous (a.k.a. Orcus) who sets off the march as one of several actions taken to rebuild his power and find his missing wand (later followed up on in the module Dead Gods).

 

[Queer Venger]

Well, it's got 50% more page count, (three 96 page books instead of 64 page books) so that may help.

yes, I hope so, but again, I predict hardcore fans of PS may be disappointed just as what happened with Spelljammer.

 

[Incenjucar]

yes, I hope so, but again, I predict hardcore fans of PS may be disappointed just as what happened with Spelljammer.

There's basically zero chance they'll get it so right that we're all "yes, this!", as 2E and 5E design philosophies may as well be from different hobbies. I'm just hoping they can do better than average for 5E.

 

[Micah Sweet]

There's basically zero chance they'll get it so right that we're all "yes, this!", as 2E and 5E design philosophies may as well be from different hobbies. I'm just hoping they can do better than average for 5E.

Has the average quality of 5e trended up in your opinion? It certainly hasn't in mine.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Well, it's got 50% more page count, (three 96 page books instead of 64 page books) so that may help.

Not quite. Looks like it's two 96 pagers and one 64 pager. Better than Spelljammer, sure. Still pretty light on pages. (Though that would be the old HC page-count of 256, if they put it in one book, not the more recent ~192-224).

 

[Incenjucar]

Has the average quality of 5e trended up in your opinion? It certainly hasn't in mine.

I haven't purchased any 5E, so I can't say much more than browsing has yet to entice me to purchase in 8 years. Radiant Citadel looked interesting, but I have no use for adventures so the ROI was too low.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I haven't purchased any 5E, so I can't say much more than browsing has yet to entice me to purchase in 8 years. Radiant Citadel looked interesting, but I have no use for adventures so the ROI was too low.

Respect.