D&D 5E 5E Product Chart - Updated 4/21/22

[Parmandur]

Do you think so? Sure, it isn't impossible, but as someone who loved both Dark Sun and Planescape back in the 90s - I think it would be relatively easy to do a Planescape 5e that was both true to the original 2e setting and to the general milieu of 5e. Making a 5e version of Dark Sun that achieves both seems dramatically more challenging to do - but I would have put Dragonlance on that list as well, and here we are.

Planescape seems the most likely next year, mainly because I could see the same format from Spelljammer working very well with that Setting.

 

[Mercurius]

That Dragonlance trailer is quite gritty

Yeah, I was a bit surprised by the tone. They seem to be emphasizing the "world at war" element of DL, rather than Krynn as a setting in which stuff happens. Meaning, this is a War of the Lance book (or whatever era they set it in) rather than a Krynn sourcebook.

 

[Parmandur]

From SOME. Others are more "classic" - e.g. Eberron and Ravenloft.

But I think the presentation is key: as a slip-case with three books of each of the three main product types (splat, setting, adventure), it is loudly declaring, "This is a hybrid product!" It is less ambiguous about it than, say, Strixhaven.

Yes, but Ravnica and Eberron had those same sections as Chapters.

 

[Mercurius]

Yes, but Ravnica and Eberron had those same sections as Chapters.

Yeah, I know. But all books have a bit of each in them. We just call them a setting or splat or adventure, depending upon the primary emphasis. I mean, you could probable put together a 96-page setting supplement from Tomb of Annihilation.

My point is that Spelljammer seems to be the first product that is openly saying, "this is all three in one - and roughly equally so."

(I mean, in actually it looks more like 35-40% setting, 30-35% adventure, and 30% splat, but that's just nitpicking).

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Well, but Dragonlance isn't getting a "Setting book" as such, but an Adventure with some Setting elements. The first Adventure book to have Subclasses, admittedly, but they billed it as an Adventure in the trailer.

To be clear, I was talking 2023. I don't think there's a 6th book coming this year at all, I think what was announced is what we're getting.

 

[Parmandur]

To be clear, I was talking 2023. I don't think there's a 6th book coming this year at all, I think what was announced is what we're getting.

Still have the work of several D&D studio leads unaccounted for, so I wouldn't be surprised to see another book.

 

[Scribe]

So is Planescape like, dead dead?

 

[ersatzphil]

So is Planescape like, dead dead?

Why would it be? If Spelljammer can come back from the dead after having not been supported since 2e, I don't know why Planescape can't.

 

[Minigiant]

Wait so when are we getting a new non-MTG setting? 2024?

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Wait so when are we getting a new non-MTG setting? 2024?

Very late 2022 at the earliest, 2023 seems more likely.