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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8000392" data-attributes="member: 5948">I don't think we'll see Ravenloft.  We'll probably see another horror-themed and Ravenlofty adventure along the lines of CoS at some stage, but i don't think an actual setting book will happen.  The setting has always been weird and disjointed and a bit incoherent even by early-edition D&D standards (and i say this as someone who really likes it) and making a strong setting book out of all the various monster-of-the-week adventures that are the building blocks of the original product line is not an easy thing to do.  Plus I'm not sure what the rights status is - White Wolf owned them during 3e and put out some wonderful stuff, has the rights to that material reverted to WotC?  It could be a minefield...More MtG settings seem inevitable.  Judging from the very early glimpses of Theros, it could also cover some quasi-Epic level material, in lieu of a dedicated Epic Level handbook?  Though I have nowhere near enough knowledge of MtG to guess what other settings might get books devoted to them.Dark Sun I suspect we'll see eventually, but probably not soon.  If it were anywhere on the near horizon, WotC wouldn't still be spitballing around ideas about how to make the very basic bits of psionics work.  Speaking of which, my guess is that the entirety of psionics will be found in the 5e Dark Sun sourcebook.  Some of the subclasses etc might make it into a Xanathar's 2 at some point, but a psionics sourcebook looks vanishingly unlikely. I'm less convinced than some that we'll get a Planescape setting or planar sourcebook.  Specialised sourcebooks really seem to be out of fashion.  A planes-traversing mega-adventure maybe, or a Xanathar's 2 type book with significant coverage of the planes, maybe, but Ravnica has already done one pass over the 'entire campaign setting in a single city' ground and I can't see it being done all over again with Sigil in a big hurry.I reckon we'll see some sort of Asian-inspired book at some point, though I don't think it'll be a re-do of Kara-tur or Rokugan or any other D&D attempt at covering this ground.  I suspect WotC will try to partner with some sort of Chinese or Japanese media or games property for this, thought that may mean the book is weighted heavily towards one particular culture from the region rather than being about a generic fantasy Asia and trying to cover all the bases from ninja to Chinese dragons to Mongol horse archers, the Celestial Bureaucracy, and penangallans... Spelljammer I think is a pipedream.  It'll get mentions here and there as nod-and-wink easter eggs for us oldies, but I can't see a serious attempt to make a setting out of it.  It hasn't been touched since 2nd ed and wasn't a big seller even then, and it's not like there's a huge grassroots groundswell of support for it. And there'll be more adventure hardbacks.  They'll all be nominally located in the forgotten realms.  There won't be a FR sourcebook.</blockquote>

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