"Dust" and "Midway" - Codenames for Upcoming D&D Hardcovers

Tales from the Yawning Portal was codenamed Labyrinth. Curse of Strahd was Cloak, and Storm King's Thunder was Dagger (or vice versa). Now two new codenames have emerged, spotted by EN World member kettite. Dust is dated 19 Sep 2017, hardcover, $49.95, and Midway is dated 21 Nov 2017, hardcover, $49.95. These have both appeared over on edelweiss' catalog. They do not match the four unnamed RPG Accessories on Amazon. Engage speculation mode - two new hardcovers later this year!

Typically the September release has been an adventure, and the November release a rules book (Sword Coast Adventurers Guide; Volo's Guide to Monsters). WotC has been hinting at a "major rules expansion" for a while now.

My guess? Take it with a massive truckload of salt, but I'm going to guess that Dust is fey or fey wild related. Possible the thing Adventure Time's Pendleton Ward helped with. But it really is a wild guess.

"Dust"
Wizards RPG Team
FRONTLIST
On Sale Date: 19 September 2017
9780786966103, 0786966106
Hardcover
$49.95 USD, $63.95 CAD


"Midway"
Wizards RPG Team
FRONTLIST
On Sale Date: 21 November 2017
9780786966110, 0786966114
Hardcover
$49.95 USD, $63.95 CAD

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[JeffB]

OK, seriously, this is a no brainer. If you recall your WWII history, the battle of Midway was immediately preceded by the US sending out a fake message that they knew the Japanese would intercept. That fake message was about how they were out of water. What happens when you have no water? It's nothing but barren dust. There's your dust and Midway reference without having to go 7 steps from Kevin Bacon to do so.

So quite clearly, WoTC is putting out a WWII supplement for 5e. I for one can't wait for my halfling fighter to hop into his corsair and get into a dogfight with a dragon.

Then again, I've been wanting to do that ever since this dragon magazine came in the mail back in the 80s...

AF!

 

[Reynard]

Oh how I love the Dragon covers from the mid 80s to mid 90s

 

[Zaukrie]

I still feel moonshae is the place for a d&d TV series or movie

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[Kobold Avenger]

If secret D&D modules were named after other WWII battles what would they'd be?

And what if Dust is really named after that same overplayed Counter-Strike map?

 

[Corwin]

OK, seriously, this is a no brainer. If you recall your WWII history, the battle of Midway was immediately preceded by the US sending out a fake message that they knew the Japanese would intercept. That fake message was about how they were out of water. What happens when you have no water? It's nothing but barren dust. There's your dust and Midway reference without having to go 7 steps from Kevin Bacon to do so.

So quite clearly, WoTC is putting out a WWII supplement for 5e. I for one can't wait for my halfling fighter to hop into his corsair and get into a dogfight with a dragon.

Then again, I've been wanting to do that ever since this dragon magazine came in the mail back in the 80s...

Please tell me you've seen Reign of Fire (2002)!

 

[Sacrosanct]

What kind of nerd would I be if I hadn't? A bad one, that's what.

 

[Valdier]

I would agree that Dust == Darksun, although I would VASTLY prefer this to be Al-Qadim

But I think Midway could be Undermountain. Two AP's is it possible?

 

[tuxgeo]

If secret D&D modules were named after other WWII battles what would they'd be? . . .

"Bulge" (as in The Battle of the Bulge") could be a new, secret module based on Shakespeare's King Henry the Fifth, wherein a small party of "good guys" are faced against an enormous ("bulging") force of enemies, where the enemies are standing in the way of the party's only possible escape route.

I mean, if "Storm King's Thunder" was based on King Lear, we could have another reference to The Bard, right?

 

[gyor]

I would agree that Dust == Darksun, although I would VASTLY prefer this to be Al-Qadim

But I think Midway could be Undermountain. Two AP's is it possible?

I like Darksun like many here, but honestly I think even Al Qadim is more likely then Darksun.

But I still believe and hope it's Desert of Desolation (or an advantage that is influenced highly by it, like the previous adventurers we're influenced by the classics.

 

[speculart]

Agreed with everyone that Dust does seem obviously Darksun. Too easy to be true.

Midway though. I think a good interpretation of that could be Sigil which is at the midway point of all things in the Planescape setting.

My thoughts precisely