D&D 5E Is there even a new D&D setting?

Though we’ve been speculating about what the new setting recently pre-announced for D&D might or might not be (Icewind Dale being one suggestion), there's some doubt about whether it exists at all!

The press release that was sent out said:

Fans of D&D will learn all about the new setting and storyline as well as accompanying new products

The web page for the event says:

Fans of D&D will learn all about the new storyline as well as accompanying new products

The word “setting” is missing from the web page, but exists in the press release. The text is the same otherwise.

I don’t know which order the two were written in, or if the latter changed, or if the former contains extra information.

 

[Parmandur]

Maybe overplayed their hand. Or misspoke and panicked when they saw our chatter creating odd expectations.

 

[Guest 6801328]

It's entirely possible that they meant "setting" in the normal, everyday sense of the word, not "Setting(tm)" as fans use it. In which case it would have been an injudicious word choice, but Icewind Dale (for example) would qualify.

 

[jgsugden]

Or, it is not a true setting per se, but is more along the lines of a location within a setting - like Icewind Dale is within the Forgotten Realms setting.

 

[teitan]

Could it be the Hickman based project hinted at by Perkins? Probably Dragonlance?

 

[Parmandur]

Could it be the Hickman based project hinted at by Perkins? Probably Dragonlance?

Ooooh, when did Perkins hint about that?

 

[Fenris-77]

@Morrus, I suspect you are enjoying this immensely.

 

[Lidgar]

I prefer to think it is an announcement of a setting within a setting that has been announced, setting the expectation that the announcement of a setting sets announcing a setting positively announced. So I’m set.

 

[imagineGod]

Or maybe, just maybe, no, wait for it:
"a setting playing at being a setting disguised as another setting".

 

[darjr]

Inception the D&D