D&D 5E (2014) Here Is The Full & Alternate Cover Art Of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Here is the cover art for The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, the hardcover D&D product revealed this weekend.

Cover art by Tyler Jacobson

Alternate cover by Hydro74

D&D 5E - Two New D&D Books Revealed: Feywild & Strixhaven Mage School

Amazon has revealed the next two D&D hardcovers! The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is a feywild adventure due in September, and Curriculum of Chaos is a Magic: the Gathering setting of Strixhaven, which looks like a Harry Potter-esque mage school, set for November...

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[Weiley31]

The whole thing makes me think of Ravenloft's Carnival. And how its mistress is connected to another Carnival of Fey that travel the planes...

That seems to be the connection. We'll probably meet the Shadar-kai that met/swapped Carnivals with Isolde in VRgTR.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

For D&D, I am similarly uninterested in the implied Victorian era style of dress on that guy with the pocket watch.

I can't imagine it'd be hard to remove modern references from the adventure, unless there's a train involved. (Hey, it figures into Something Wicked This Way Comes, which would probably be worth a re-read before this comes out.)

If the carnival is just the level 1-4 set-up adventure, and the rest of it is more traditional fey stuff, running around an archfey's domain, the 19th century vibe is probably immaterial, since there are already low level fey adventures (including one from EN Publishing!) that could fill that gap.

 

[Weiley31]

Any ideas on what the fancy gentleman in the top hat is supposed to be?

It would be nuts, given that this book and the Ravenloft book are connected, if that would be the Gentleman Caller(or just the Gentleman in the 5E Ravenloft guide) that Isolde wants to destroy.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Any ideas on what the fancy gentleman in the top hat is supposed to be?

A fey hobgoblin from the UA?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It would be nuts, given that this book and the Ravenloft book are connected, if that would be the Gentleman Caller(or just the Gentleman in the 5E Ravenloft guide) that Isolde wants to destroy.

I certainly hope they're not going to insert a serial rapist into this adventure, which will likely be appealing to groups with younger players.

 

[Weiley31]

A fey hobgoblin from the UA?

I thought it was a Fancy Dressed Orc but that could work as well.

 

[Weiley31]

I certainly hope they're not going to insert a serial rapist into this adventure, which will likely be appealing to groups with younger players.

Is THAT WHY they changed it from the "Gentleman Caller" to just "The Gentleman?

 

[sevenbastard]

Cool Displacer beast, but i have been disappointed in the 5e version of this venerable creature. It is not much of a threat. To low an AC and weak displacement.

Hopefully they provide a advanced version.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Is THAT WHY they changed it from the "Gentleman Caller" to just "The Gentleman?

I'm honestly shocked they brought him forward. While he's definitely representative of a certain sort of ghost story, he's tough to fit in to official products aimed at all ages. If I were on the design team, I might just say "you know, Bluebeard's Bride is out there, and handles this stuff great" and leave it at that.

EDIT: WotC's official blurb for this book calls it "whimsical" and "for all ages." It's almost certainly not the Gentleman.

 

[Yaarel]

I thought it was a Fancy Dressed Orc but that could work as well.

The cover?

A Shadar-kai jester?

I didnt notice the ears on the circus founder, maybe a Half-Orc?