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

[Rikka66]

Just like DESCENT INTO AVERNUS tied into BALDUR'S GATE III and RIME OF THE FROSTMAIDEN tied into the upcoming DARK ALLIANCE video game, I expect the big summer adventure to tie into one of the other four or five unannounced but teased video games that are in the works
Or Neverwinter as the movie is set there

"Tied" in the loosest sense of the world. But I agree, they will market it as a tie-in.

 

[Steampunkette]

Menzoberranzan.

The trailer put a lot of focus on Drow Children and their lives before Driz'zt left.

If it's an adventure, I think it might revolve around Menzoberranzan. If it's a setting book, same. Possibly expanding to a general Northdark Primer, including the Draconic Content from the UA, since Sapphires are explicitly Underdark Dragons and such.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Menzoberranzan.

The trailer put a lot of focus on Drow Children and their lives before Driz'zt left.

If it's an adventure, I think it might revolve around Menzoberranzan. If it's a setting book, same. Possibly expanding to a general Northdark Primer, including the Draconic Content from the UA, since Sapphires are explicitly Underdark Dragons and such.

I dunno, they already did an underdark adventure that had Menzoberranzan, I don't know why they'd do another.

 

[vecna00]

I dunno, they already did an underdark adventure that had Menzoberranzan, I don't know why they'd do another.

If they had a solid story they wanted to tell and a fun adventure idea, they could do another. I just don't see it yet.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

"Tied" in the loosest sense of the world. But I agree, they will market it as a tie-in.

Baldur's Gate was super tacked-on to DESCENT INTO AVERNUS
For no reason other than to tie-into the game

And RIME is set in the same place as DARK ALLIANCE and ties into the backstories of the game's characters

They didn't tie into the narrative but tied into the location and put it in the public's mind

 

[Weiley31]

My own previous prediction was that the “drow problem” would be addressed either in the new Drizzt trilogy or in a big adventure this year or next, via this plot development (mild spoiler for almost every 5e WotC hardcover adventure and Frostmaiden in particular): the Netherese obelisks would be used to alter the timeline and erase the descent of the drow from history on all worlds. Those things just scream “retcon-enabling plot device invented in order to eliminate major setting elements we no longer want in our settings.”

Plenty of time still for that to happen.

 

[Weiley31]

We already have Out of the Abyss, I doubt we would get another Underdark focused book.

We already have Curse of Strahd and we just got Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

We already have Curse of Strahd and we just got Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft.

One is an adventure and the other is a setting. We would be talking about two separate adventures here, at least that is the implication of the OP.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

One is an adventure and the other is a setting. We would be talking about two separate adventures here, at least that is the implication of the OP.

That's what fits the schedule. We have been told the next book is a "big summer adventure". And we have a "hot Drizzt summer" event. It would seem very odd marketing to have the Drow book at Christmas time!

I agree that it's unlikely that the will "do the Underdark" again in an adventure (although Icewind Dale is in both SKT and RotFM). I think it more likely the adventure will visit the new surface drow cities, briefly revisit Menzoberranzan, then finish up in the Demonweb pits. I also think this will be a level 11-20 adventure.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

Can't imagine they'll do drow for the RPG

First, they did them already with OUT OF THE ABYSS
Second, drow are problematic because entirely evil races are problematic, and dark skinned ones are racist

Even if they continue to show drow as light gray (like they have since the start of 5th Ed) and have equal numbers of good drow, every single article and preview regarding a drow focused adventure will focus on the previous racism, creating bad press
They'll have to spend as much time talking about how they've fixed drow and changed them as they would the adventure. Selling the changes and not the story

The recent drow articles and Drizzt videos are almost certainly related to DARK ALLIANCE. Which has Drizzt as a main character