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.

 

[ersatzphil]

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.

I'd be (mostly) satisfied if he at least does the alt covers.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I'm sure I'm overreacting. I've just heard a lot of bad-mouthing 3pp and I'm getting pretty sick of it. WotC is no better.

I challenge you to find any instance of wizards, during the run of 5e, being anything but friendly toward 3pp.

 

[Zaukrie]

I wonder how much phandelver will be reprinting the two box sets, and how much new?

 

[Li Shenron]

This is wild. Show me where wizards has ever insulted anyone for houseruling!? The game literally encourages it!

Obviously not WotC! I meant the online fanbase.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Their absolute refusal to put out a GM facing book is astounding.

Their refusal to put out books with focus is problem, 90% of 5e books try to be too many think things at once, doing few of them well and it doesn't help that books also often don't have high enough page counts. It's a huge problem.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Their refusal to put out books with focus is problem, 90% of 5e books try to be too many think things at once, doing few of them well and it doesn't help that books also often don't have high enough page counts. It's a huge problem.

Yes. A very big problem... this is why they don't sell well. Most of them are at the bottom of Amazon ranks, even in the most niche category. How wizards can survive with D&D constantly dragging them down is amazing.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Obviously not WotC! I meant the online fanbase.

The online fanbase is special. A very tiny fraction of people who play DnD.
So if you don't want to get bashed by random people, it is easy to avoid them.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Just looking back, there are a lot ofnoptions. They could expand on the Mercane, for example. Or possibly the Primordials and other Elemental critters.

I'm hoping for Eldritch Giants from 4e getting updated.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Their absolute refusal to put out a GM facing book is astounding.

It's just good business. There are a lot more players than there are DMs. Putting out a book for DMs only is rather like putting out a product only for people with green eyes.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

SHOCKED that there's no tie in book to the movie. You know, like a Neverwinter adventure. An obvious miss.

The bigger miss is no MtG card set tie in to the D&D movie, it's leaving $100 million dollars on the table.