D&D 5E Halruaa might be the location of the next AP

[gyor]

I'd say that's a stretch.

The spring AP won't be out until April, which is 7+ months away. That's a long time to be seeding hits, especially when ToA has yet to be released.
They've also done Lore You Should Know on other side places, like Realmspace and Spelljammer. It's more likely someone asked about Halruaa.

Plus, they've settled into a pattern where the spring AP is more reprints and is the less dramatic story (not being the focus of Neverwinter, minis, summer convention games, streaming storylines, etc). Coincidentally, it's also the AP planned and written when Perkins is the most busy, so the spring one often has reprinted elements.

They've been seeding hints for future APs since the, PHB, they plan ahead YEARS, they already know what the next 4-5 books, after ToA and XGE are going to be.

 

[Jester David]

They've been seeding hints for future APs since the, PHB, they plan ahead YEARS, they already know what the next 4-5 books, after ToA and XGE are going to be.

Yeah, but they're not going to distract away from the upcoming / current hotness with what's coming after. They record a LYSK twice a month. All 24 can't relate to storylines...

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Something else to think about. The Adventurer's League season that starts with Tomb of Annihilation is supposedly going to be about a year long, instead of the usual 5-7 months. That makes me think the Spring release with not be a standard hardcover adventure and may be another set of adventures like Yawning Portal, seeing as how every AL season has been tied directly to the release of each hardcover adventure. Even the Ravenloft one had an AL season. It may be possible that the Spring release will be a sequel to ToA, which would let the AL season run a full year without a new one needing to start midway, and Chult and Halruaa are not that far apart. The other possibility is that the Spring book is not set in the Realms at all, making it very unlikely for there to be an AL season connected to it.

 

[Remathilis]

Plus, they've settled into a pattern where the spring AP is more reprints and is the less dramatic story (not being the focus of Neverwinter, minis, summer convention games, streaming storylines, etc). Coincidentally, it's also the AP planned and written when Perkins is the most busy, so the spring one often has reprinted elements.

Interesting, I've also noticed that the Spring AP tends to be a bit more "outside adaptable" than the Fall one; PotA had an appendix for putting it in other settings (no other AP has), CoS was set in Ravenloft (not Faerun) and TotYP's adventures were fairly setting agnostic. Whereas OotA, SKT, and ToA seem very Realms-centered and focus on Realms-plots and places and are generally harder to adapt to otther worlds/settings.

I'm still holding out hope next spring is Planar related, perhaps an anthology of planar-themed adventures that can be used separately or as an AP. I mean, WotC has the Sigil, the Infinite Staircase, the Modron March, the Well of Many Worlds, and the Codex of Infinite Planes as framing devices; Pick one WotC!