D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie to get Prequel Novels

[Parmandur]

These are being published by Penguin Random House, which means that WotC is getting paid by the publisher for the right to put out books, rather than internal commissions like old TSR/WotC publications.

 

[Alby87]

Weird name

"So, I'm behind this tree, that should give me a total cover"
"You see, that tree is not enough to give you a total cover, maybe it's a three quarter, but this can change during your enemies' turn"
"COVER NOT FINAL, at your favourite book store"

 

[Paul Farquhar]

They're both very reliable. I haven't read anything by Johnston, but her non-IP "young adult" novels are well regarded, and she knows her way around IP, having written four Star Wars novels.

Johnson (no t) is the big news, in my opinion. She has five published Forgotten Realms novels under her belt already, including some really good ones. And her book will be the first Forgotten Realms novel since 2016 that doesn't feature Drizzt and isn't aimed at kids. That alone is very exciting news to those of us who like that sort of thing.

Not Johnson and Johnston?

 

[Seramus]

thank you I DID pull that up and kept skipping it thinking they meant a D&D offical character

She's not officially stated up, but the Vox Machina group has noted exploits in the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. The main point of interest for me is seeing if they make the background sufficiently different, which shouldn't be too hard.