D&D 5E (2014) Any info on next release?

[Parmandur]

Monte Cook Games doing the Far Realm might be interesting: the core books mention Firestorm Peak several times.

 

[mflayermonk]

A monster menagerie would be a pretty cool thing to be locked away in a crashed space ship hidden deep in the mountains of the Forgreytten Realms.

 

[Jeff Carlsen]

Heck, they could even work with Paizo. There are options.

Plus, we don't know if the current pace of story lines will continue. They could drop down to one per year if they discover that groups aren't keeping up. Or focus on a product for those that write their own adventures.

My point is, we don't really have enough precedence to know what is coming.

But, I'm excited to find out.

 

[Uder]

I'm hoping Monster Menagerie is a menagerie of monsters and not an AP.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

According to the results of the "what do you want us to make?" survey, the most popular results were campaign settings and monster books. Since we just got a campaign setting, I'm expecting a monster book is their next "extracurricular" publication.

Of course, the actual next book we'll get will be the next seasonal adventure sometime in the first half of next year, unless they can whip together, expand, and revise all of that monster stuff they already created but didn't make the cut for the MM, before the next adventure path.

I don't expect the monster menagerie miniatures have anything to do with any upcoming monster book, since they feature the treant, which is already published in the MM.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Oh. I...hadn't expected that meaning. I mean, if that's what you're going for, it's basically a truism. "More info will come at some point after this event that will happen really soon." Well, yes, they'll almost certainly say more release things eventually, and "eventually" almost surely entails a time the day of, or any day after, the release of SCAG. I figured the only reason to highlight the relationship to the SCAG release date was to imply proximity to it; otherwise, it would be no different from saying, "I'm sure we'll hear something when there's something to hear."

But maybe I'm just splitting hairs now. Fact is, the OP's question is pretty decisively answered: no, we really don't know anything (official/provable) about the "next release," other than the "Shakespeare-inspired Giants story" pseudo-summary of the next adventure path. (I mean, really, "Shakespeare-inspired" etc.? Everything from King Lear and Hamlet to A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew qualifies there--plus some decidedly unsavory things like Titus Andronicus. At this point, given Shakespeare's influence on modern English, it's hard to call a native English work not "inspired" by Shakespeare to one degree or another!)

Well, using A Midsummer's Night's Dream would have to be done in a "Shakespeare-inspired fey story", wouldn't it? If you want to discuss Shakespearean inspiration in D&D, that's Exhibit A, right there!

What would work in mixing Shakespeare and giants? A Henry V Agincourt-type scene against a horde of giants? A King Lear "divide the kingdom" scenario where the result is a giant invasion?

I did notice in SCAG (and mentioned it in the thread about it) that Hartsvale was noticeably covered in detail in the book. Given that it's a prime spot in the setting for giants and humans to interact, I very much wonder if it will be the setting for this proposed "Giants" AP.

 

[pukunui]

What would work in mixing Shakespeare and giants? ... A King Lear "divide the kingdom" scenario where the result is a giant invasion?

It just so happens that there's an AD&D-era adaptation of King Lear featuring storm giants in Dungeon 78.

 

[Parmandur]

It just so happens that there's an AD&D-era adaptation of King Lear featuring storm giants in Dungeon 78.

Tease!

 

[pukunui]

Tease!

Here's the intro:

"Lear the Giant-King" is an AD&D game adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. Shakespeare's bleak tale forms the substance of this scenario for 4-7 PCs of levels 9-11 (up to 70 total levels). These PCs have the opportunity to steer the drama away from Shakespeare's sober final act, wherein the principals meet their end.

This module takes huge liberties with the play. King Lear and his court are now cast as storm and cloud giants. This sets the proceedings on a properly epic scale, with the PCs entering after much of consequence has occurred. The script is shaped by PC actions, with a potentially triumphant conclusion for heroes who demonstrate great valor.

I've been considering converting it to 5e for use in my homebrew campaign.

 

[darjr]

Wasn't Green Ronin stupid busy already when they took on their AP? Same with Sasquatch? Or did the actual work fall into a lull that nobody noticed?

Who is a bit quiet now or has been recently? Or who would drop everything and jump at the chance to do giants? Or a crashed spaceship? I could see Goodman games being lured by the crashed spaceship.

Also the clues to the next thing are in the current thing, right, that's what Chris Perkins has hinted at.