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]

Although I still disagree, at least I can follow your thoughts.

Fair enough. I never asked anyone to agree with me.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I can't speak for @Micah Sweet , but my dislike for the First World is similar to my distaste for the FeyWild and Shadowfell. It's another (destroyed) plane being shoehorned into the cosmology that I have no interest in incorporating into the game worlds I use (homebrew and Greyhawk mostly). I'm irritated because WoTC products will most likely continue to use and incorporate the First World into future products, and new players will likely come to the game expecting it to be Truth, when I don't want to add it in the first place.

Its kind of like ordering steak & potatoes and getting a pizza thrown in on the side you didn't ask for.

Yeah, I was happy with Planescape's version of the Great Wheel, and didn't need anything else.

 

[SkidAce]

I want the paraelemental planes back

I use them as locations greatly affected by at least two elemental planes.

I use the heck out of the gem/radiance? one...and ooze.

 

[SkidAce]

I can't speak for @Micah Sweet , but my dislike for the First World is similar to my distaste for the FeyWild and Shadowfell. It's another (destroyed) plane being shoehorned into the cosmology that I have no interest in incorporating into the game worlds I use (homebrew and Greyhawk mostly). I'm irritated because WoTC products will most likely continue to use and incorporate the First World into future products, and new players will likely come to the game expecting it to be Truth, when I don't want to add it in the first place.

Its kind of like ordering steak & potatoes and getting a pizza thrown in on the side you didn't ask for.

"Thanks, I will eat this pizza for dinner tomorrow....a to-go box please!"

 

[Micah Sweet]

I think you are abusing the term “lesser” here. It is ok to not like the lore, you don’t have to make the claim it makes everything else lesser, broken, damaged, buy its existence. That just isn’t so.

It is how I feel. Objective truth doesn't enter into it.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I am of the view that canonicity should be taken out the back and shot. Canon may have some merit in theology but real world myths have differing version of the same tale floating about and sometime even actual recorded history have conflicting account of events.
Players should not be coming to the table with the notion that the lore they have read is true in the gameworld they are playing. Even if their characters believe that a particular version of the lore is true that should not mean that it is actually so.

Canon in D&D means just as much to me as in the other franchises I referenced above. About halfway through 5e they finally changed and ignored enough stuff such that I can no longer imagine it as the same continuity. I'm obviously still sore about it.

 

[Micah Sweet]

To be fair, there was a distinct tendency towards this sort of attitude in the in-character voice in the Planescape line. Sigil residents (and Planescape was all about Sigil) were written has having mild contempt for most Prime Material worlds, treating their concerns as small-scale and provincial, and their inhabitants as clueless hicks. This always rubbed me the wrong way, personally, and I think it was a poor creative choice.

I always thought that was cool, actually. Made it seem more realistic to me.

 

[Micah Sweet]

If we're shoehorning planes into settings, can we bring back the Planes of Mirrors, the coolest of the transitive planes? (And yes, it's a plane in my campaign.)

From 3e's MotP right? That was pretty cool.

 

[Azzy]

Man, I hated when they added the demi-plane of Dread back in 2e. D&D was never the same for me after that retcon.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

To be fair, there was a distinct tendency towards this sort of attitude in the in-character voice in the Planescape line. Sigil residents (and Planescape was all about Sigil) were written has having mild contempt for most Prime Material worlds, treating their concerns as small-scale and provincial, and their inhabitants as clueless hicks. This always rubbed me the wrong way, personally, and I think it was a poor creative choice.

Maybe (never read it), but we are not talking about planescape