D&D 5E Mike Schley hints at something bigger than Phandelver, The Book of Many Things, and even Planescape!

[darjr]

Mike Schley has illustrated some fantastic books and three new ones from WotC have his maps in them. But what could be bigger than the three listed here? Speculation thread I think is needed.

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[Demetrios1453]

Mike Schley has illustrated some fantastic books and three new ones from WotC have his maps in them. But what could be bigger than the three listed here? Speculation thread I think is needed.

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Hmmm, BIGGER than those? We know the three revised core books will be out next year, but not too much call for Schley's maps in those (other than the possible sample setting in the DMG, but even then that's probably a just a few maps). And we know about the Vecna adventure, but unless that's a lot bigger than expected, I can't see it being BIGGER than than what he's listed. And this and the core books have already been announced, more or less.

I'm going to say the rumored setting revisit we've known has been in the works for a bit. I would lean towards a full-fledged Forgotten Realms campaign setting book like the 3e FRCS or the 5e Eberron setting, filled with lots of Schley maps to illustrate the setting, its countries, and its cities...

 

[Scribe]

A mighty FR tome after all?

 

[darjr]

Hmmm, BIGGER than those? We know the three revised core books will be out next year, but not too much call for Schley's maps in those (other than the possible sample setting in the DMG, but even then that's probably a just a few maps). And we know about the Vecna adventure, but unless that's a lot bigger than expected, I can't see it being BIGGER than those. And these have already been announced, more or less.

I'm going to say the rumored setting revisit we've known has been in the works for a bit. I would lean towards a full-fledged Forgotten Realms campaign setting book like the 3e FRCS or the 5e Eberron setting, filled with lots of Schley maps to illustrate the setting, its countries, and its cities...

I can't help but think he's using a bit of word play too.

 

[pukunui]

Are you sure he’s talking about another 5e product and not something of his own devising? He has hashtagged his Schleyscapes series in the post.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Are you sure he’s talking about another 5e product and not something of his own devising? He has hashtagged his Schleyscapes series in the post.

He also hashtagged D&D.

I mean, it's possible, but it would be odd to set up a pattern of mentioning only D&D projects and then randomly tease something else.

 

[Stormonu]

Finally, Dark Sun confirmed!

 

[mamba]

I can't help but think he's using a bit of word play too.

we just got the Giants book

 

[Azzy]

I can't help but think he's using a bit of word play too.

Like maybe the page count won't be as anemic as recent books?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Hmmm, BIGGER than those? We know the three revised core books will be out next year, but not too much call for Schley's maps in those (other than the possible sample setting in the DMG, but even then that's probably a just a few maps). And we know about the Vecna adventure, but unless that's a lot bigger than expected, I can't see it being BIGGER than than what he's listed. And this and the core books have already been announced, more or less.

I'm going to say the rumored setting revisit we've known has been in the works for a bit. I would lean towards a full-fledged Forgotten Realms campaign setting book like the 3e FRCS or the 5e Eberron setting, filled with lots of Schley maps to illustrate the setting, its countries, and its cities....

A mighty FR tome after all?

We do know that Ray Winninger said there was a setting revisit, and we know until Spelljammer that the SCAG was the book that got the most complaints by far, largely for the same reasons, way too small, way too little content. Didn't even get a full proper map of Faerun.

The timing is right with a minor edition change, fitting the traditional time when they put out an FR setting book.

Also with both BG3 and DADHAT coming out this year, an absolutely huge amount of people have been pulled into the Forgotten Realms this year, that previously would have been unfamiliar with the setting. I mean a movie that's earned hundreds of millions of dollars and a video game that will like make over a billion dollars.

I think it's very likely FR Setting book is coming and I'm excited for it.

 

[dave2008]

Could be the rumored completely new setting?

 

[aco175]

My local news station likes to come on during primetime and tease something like, "This one food you may be eating right now might kill you- tune in at 11:00."

Then you tune in and they are talking about children swallowing peach pits and choking or lab rats swallowing 12 times their body weight in peanut butter getting cancer.

 

[Umbran]

The context is mapmaking, which is teasingly ambiguous. A map of the FR beyond the Sword Coast would be "bigger", for instance.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The context is mapmaking, which is teasingly ambiguous. A map of the FR beyond the Sword Coast would be "bigger", for instance.

It'd be huge, Faerun is like the size of North America if North America had Asia and Middle East sized contenients attached.

Actual if the Super Continent that Faerun is apart of got a map, that would be enormous map.

 

[Parmandur]

Hmmm, BIGGER than those? We know the three revised core books will be out next year, but not too much call for Schley's maps in those (other than the possible sample setting in the DMG, but even then that's probably a just a few maps). And we know about the Vecna adventure, but unless that's a lot bigger than expected, I can't see it being BIGGER than than what he's listed. And this and the core books have already been announced, more or less.

I'm going to say the rumored setting revisit we've known has been in the works for a bit. I would lean towards a full-fledged Forgotten Realms campaign setting book like the 3e FRCS or the 5e Eberron setting, filled with lots of Schley maps to illustrate the setting, its countries, and its cities...

The new DMG comes with a giant fold out poster map of whatever example Setting they are using. Mike Schley is the big gun for cartography, so I'm going with Schley doing a map of the Flannaes for the DMG.

 

[darjr]

The context is mapmaking, which is teasingly ambiguous. A map of the FR beyond the Sword Coast would be "bigger", for instance.

Whoa! That totally fits!

Fingers crossed.

 

[darjr]

The new DMG comes with a giant fold out poster map of whatever example Setting they are using. Mike Schley us the big gun for cartography, ao I'm going with Schley doing a map of the Flannaes for the DMG.

Yes please. I’ll take a dozen.

 

[Umbran]

It'd be huge, Faerun is like the size of North America if North America had Asia and Middle East sized contenients attached.

Actual if the Super Continent that Faerun is apart of got a map, that would be enormous map.

Yep. I mean, it was just an off-the-cuff example that "bigger" can mean several different things in the context of mapmaking. But having said it, doing world maps for the 2024 publication would totally fit the bill.

 

[Ibrandul]

I can't help but think he's using a bit of word play too.

Obviously this is a tease of a new, original setting designed for Large PCs: Bigby Presents: Bigly in Bigworld

 

[Zaukrie]

If this has come out earlier, I'd assume it was about the giants book.....

I'll third my assumption for a continent spanning map