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.

 

[Parmandur]

For the last year or two they've mentioned that they have two entirely new settings in development - not just new to 5E, but new to D&D.

Looks like not yet.

 

[Parmandur]

@JEB yup, he cops to it in the video: Monsters of the Multiverse, specifically, is designed to fit these new PHB options and their plans for the Monster Manual. There were some who were calling everything from Tasha in "5.5," and it seems they were right, even if thst is nothing to fear.

 

[JEB]

We didn't get Dark Sun....

FWIW, Athas gets a mention in the playtest packet. Maybe Doomspace didn't eliminate the possibility.

 

[Micah Sweet]

@JEB yup, he cops to it in the video: Monsters of the Multiverse, specifically, is designed to fit these new PHB options and their plans for the Monster Manual. There were some who were calling everything from Tasha in "5.5," and it seems they were right, even if thst is nothing to fear.

It's nothing to fear if you like the changes.

 

[Parmandur]

It's nothing to fear if you like the changes.

Don't fear the reaper.

 

[Parmandur]

FWIW, Athas gets a mention in the playtest packet. Maybe Doomspace didn't eliminate the possibility.

Their approach basically means they aren't resetting the clock on Setting products, so Dark Sun remains a love possibility.

 

[Demetrios1453]

FWIW, Athas gets a mention in the playtest packet. Maybe Doomspace didn't eliminate the possibility.

As was brought up in the Radiant Citadel thread, the Radiant Citadel (or Ravnica for that matter) didn't spell the end of Planescape...

 

[JEB]

As was brought up in the Radiant Citadel thread, the Radiant Citadel (or Ravnica for that matter) didn't spell the end of Planescape...

True, but there's no indication that Radiant Citadel was ever meant to be a reimagined Sigil. Doomspace, on the other hand, was almost certainly a reimagined Dark Sun at some point...

 

[Chaosmancer]

Ok. To put into perspective, I'm being asked to run a D&D event for teenagers tonight at a public library. I have the adventure and I know they're playing 5e. All is cool. I can basically run what's going on.
If this were an event in 2024, after the release of D&D Whatever Edition, what do I do? Bring 2014 and 2024 Player's Handbooks? Look at character sheets to determine if the characters made from the 2014 PHB get appropriately improved backgrounds and that the humans now gain Inspiration every day ( - or is that only for 2024 Humans?) Do I allow the monsters from pre-2024 sources to do critical hit damage since they don't get the new recharge mechanics?
What about warlocks from 2014? Do they get full access to the arcane spell list like their 2024 counterparts?
Look, I have said in the past that 5e was growing stale and needed a new edition. I am not being resistant to change. We need a new edition and be willing to make big changes to make the best version of D&D. Otherwise, we are limiting what the game can be for perhaps the next 8-10 years.
I wish they'd just call it 6E and let real change happen.

Here's what you do.

You bring a PHB, and you either bring pre-gen characters, or you ask them to make characters.

Currently there are only a few differences between 2024 characters and 2014 characters.

1) An extra language
2) An extra tool proficiency
3) An extra feat
4) Variant race abilities (like we already have)

So, if you have a bunch of 2024 people who bring their own characters, and you feel like the other PCs in a one-shot aren't as good... give them a level 1 feat from 2024 (someone has the book, since they built the characters) and... that's probably it. All of the other major changes are on the DM side, and just like "do you allow us to climb on monsters" or "do you use the Piety system" from other official books, you might need to field questions on what rules you are and aren't using.

Easy.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I sure hope they get Tony DiTerlizzi to do some art somewhere in the new Planescape book. Now THAT would be a coup! I mean a large part of the appeal was his aesthetic that permeated the entire product line.