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]

What evidence do yoy.have that laziness or fear are the motivation, rather than money and customer demands...?

So greed? I admit that's also a factor.

And where is the evidence of customer demands for less and sketchier lore? Has WotC been getting letters?

 

[bedir than]

Sure, but the less lore they provide, the more they are demanding that their players make up in order to have a fun, rich game. It just seems like laziness and fear to me.

Every bit of lore that existed still exists. Those tables that don't want to make things up have close enough to infinite options to not matter

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I would like to know if they are going to suggest any new plane style Shadowfell or Feywild. I miss the paraelemental planes. The mirror plane had got a great potential. Whatif the alternate timelines become canon?

The lore should be a source of inspiration for new stories, but if you add too many details then the coherence with the continuity could constitute a straitjacket.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Every bit of lore that existed still exists. Those tables that don't want to make things up have close enough to infinite options to not matter

But they can't look to the books they actually want people to buy to find that lore.

 

[bedir than]

But they can't look to the books they actually want people to buy to find that lore.

Some companies assume their customers are intelligent.

 

[Parmandur]

So greed? I admit that's also a factor.

And where is the evidence of customer demands for less and sketchier lore? Has WotC been getting letters?

It is alwayss the primary factor in a business decision, in my experience.

If customers only ever use "lore" as loose inapiration...why shouldn't WotC write to be used as it will be? They have spent years gathering customer data, odds are they re following their leads.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Some companies assume their customers are intelligent.

WotC is clearly not one of them, or they would not be seeking to make the blandest, least interesting new edition they can.

 

[bedir than]

WotC is clearly not one of them, or they would not be seeking to make the blandest, least interesting new edition they can.

Assuming that customers can find or create the lore they need isn't a sign of thinking the least of their customers

 

[Parmandur]

But they can't look to the books they actually want people to buy to find that lore.

Lore is a tool for use at the table, nothing more nor less. And tools have to be fit to use.

 

[Zaukrie]

And people wonder why WOTC doesn't make original settings...

Or any. Ten pages of this..... So far.