D&D 5E "Big Summer Adventure" Drow related? Announcement imminent?

[Urriak Uruk]

Don't forget

Ghosts of Saltmarsh: 1-12
Candlekeep Myateries: 1-16

I'd be cautious about overgwnralizimg the average, as it looks different if you look at just Advebtures published since 2016 for instance: only Dungeon of the Mad Mage and Candleskeep are over that average in the past 5 years, and I do recall Perkins commenting that 15 was generally on the high side in terms of market demand, which is why they shifter focus a little bit downwards.

I knew I forgot some... average doesn't change though. I largely agree however that they're more likely to end adventures at 12 or 13 instead of 15.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Follow that up with the as-close-to-official-as-you-will-get DMs Guild Adept releases that follow on some of those to provide content up to level 20.

Do you have examples? I'd be curious about material like this that has been released.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Do you have examples? I'd be curious about material like this that has been released.

I remember one for sure for Chult, but I would have to go and search through the site to find any others.

Edit: Okay, not as many as I thought I remembered seeing. Looks like only Tomb of Annihilation and Descent into Avernus got any Adept content for level 15+.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Weird theory; let's say that the upcoming summer adventure has a strong drow theme, and ALSO a strong Feywild theme, to tie in with the other recent UA.

It actually kind of works, if the villains are radical Underdark drow who plan to strike at the other drow, other elves, Eladrin, and maybe even the Elven gods themselves. A vast and complex plan for Lolth to invade and supplant all the Elven gods, to finally pull off a coup against Corellon in the Feywild itself.

No idea if this is close or not, but I'd play the heck out of it.

 

[Parmandur]

Weird theory; let's say that the upcoming summer adventure has a strong drow theme, and ALSO a strong Feywild theme, to tie in with the other recent UA.

It actually kind of works, if the villains are radical Underdark drow who plan to strike at the other drow, other elves, Eladrin, and maybe even the Elven gods themselves. A vast and complex plan for Lolth to invade and supplant all the Elven gods, to finally pull off a coup against Corellon in the Feywild itself.

No idea if this is close or not, but I'd play the heck out of it.

Not that far out there, honestly: the Drow are Fey, after all.

 

[Greenstone.Walker]

No, no. It's going to be called "Big Hot Wet Drow Summer". Only thing that fits all the clues.

Starring Drow Richards and Drowri Peters?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Weird theory; let's say that the upcoming summer adventure has a strong drow theme, and ALSO a strong Feywild theme, to tie in with the other recent UA.

It's not that weird, and it's not unprecedented for an adventure to add a bunch of playable races: Princes of the Apocalypse did it. Although in that case it was via free download, which WotC have said they wouldn't be doing again. If the story starts with a drow attack on the feywild then it might be reasonable that the PCs are bunch of fairies.

The difficulty is that the owlfolk and bunnyfolk are completely new to D&D, rather than a revival of something that already existed in earlier editions. It seems to me that such a major addition would require a whole lot of context, beyond an appendix in an adventure.

IMO Folk of the Feywild is for a product that is still a long way out. The UA was in March this year, which could fit with a Christmas release.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I remember one for sure for Chult, but I would have to go and search through the site to find any others.

Edit: Okay, not as many as I thought I remembered seeing. Looks like only Tomb of Annihilation and Descent into Avernus got any Adept content for level 15+.

SKT did. Eye of Xxiphu/Mysterious Isle for levels 17-20. But they are not very good (as in suck big time)!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Looks like I was wrong about this. Good to know the universe can still surprise me!

I still think WotC have spent too much (Cumberbatch don't come cheep) on marketing Drizzt for it to be just about the computer game and Salvatore's new novel. So I will change my prediction to a new boxed set featuring Drizzt and Co as playable characters. As a boxed set it would be less likely to leak on Amazon, and qualify as one of WotC's "surprises".

 

[Mecheon]

The difficulty is that the owlfolk and bunnyfolk are completely new to D&D, rather than a revival of something that already existed in earlier editions. It seems to me that such a major addition would require a whole lot of context, beyond an appendix in an adventure.

A few folks are of the opinion that the owlfolk are a rebrand of the Hsiao and, honestly, I see it being the case.

Y'know, the Hsiao? They were owl people from way back in basic. Literately just, giant owls. But given the fey connection it makes sense for them to be around, and its not like Hsiao had much going for them to really make people grumble like with the Firbolg redo