D&D 5E New D&D Hardcover To Be Announced On The 23rd (Tomorrow)?

According to this page on Amazon.com, a new Dungeon & Dragons hardcover title for May will be announced tomorrow. Users in the US see the product below (those in the UK are seeing a Wizkids miniatures set instead).

So far signs look like Ravenloft, but we’ll know for sure tomorrow.

[Update -- also mentioned by Todd Kendrick, recently of D&D Beyond].

WotC has posted the below animation, which says “The Mist Beckons”.

 

[embee]

Because his watch is broken.

A wizard would never use a watch. Watches are simply too imprecise. S/he would use a chronometer.

 

[dave2008]

"New D&D Hardcover To Be Announced On The 23rd (Tomorrow)"​

Really, what's the point of making us wait a day to announce the product? This more than what the title is, is what aggravates me. I'm going to go spend all my disposable income today so I cant afford whatever it is tomorrow, take that WotC!!

It is not an WotC issue it is Amazon issue, I think. There is no need to pre-announce the announcement. I imagine WotC tells Amazon we are announcing a new book on 2/23/2021 - here is what it is. Amazon then chooses to make a placeholder. I would guess it is on Amazon, not WotC.

 

[Lieslo]

Too early for Ravenloft or Innistad given they have only recently released UA classes so I'm going with Dragonlance or Plane-Jammer

 

[dave2008]

It seems strange that they’d be announcing tomorrow. The last book had press releases, a mention on DNDBeyond, and other notices that they were announcing a book, not just a page on Amazon. In other words, there was a lot more fanfare.

At any rate, I’m gonna say Dragonlance, because if I keep saying it, someday I’ll be right.

Yep, that is another reason I don't think it is a game book (rules, monsters, adventure, etc.)

 

[Lidgar]

So is this the pre-announcement to the pre-announcement of the impending announcement?

And could it be minis inside a hardcover book? For those super secret minis you need to hide from miniature burglars.

 

[embee]

So is this the pre-announcement to the pre-announcement of the impending announcement?

And could it be minis inside a hardcover book? For those super secret minis you need to hide from miniature burglars.

Are these burglars who steal miniatures or are they very small burglars?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Are these burglars who steal miniatures or are they very small burglars?

I have a miniature burglar amongst my minis.

 

[R_J_K75]

It is not an WotC issue it is Amazon issue, I think. There is no need to pre-announce the announcement. I imagine WotC tells Amazon we are announcing a new book on 2/23/2021 - here is what it is. Amazon then chooses to make a placeholder. I would guess it is on Amazon, not WotC.

Yeah you are most likely correct.

 

[darjr]

 

[embee]

I have a miniature burglar amongst my minis.

This is, of course, your Miniature Burglar of Burglar Miniatures Miniature.

Truly the most puzzling and esoteric of minis.

 

[NerdyBird]

Latest episode of DragonTalk podcast hinted strongly at a new setting. Something to the effect of: "Someone better run a game of this for me, and soon!"

 

[TwoSix]

My head and my heart are both saying Planescape.

 

[darjr]

 

[darjr]

Ah! What does it say?!???

 

[Remathilis]

Ah! What does it say?!???

"The Mist Beckons"

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Ah! What does it say?!???

It says Ouija boards, because everyone loves a Satanic panic.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

"The Mist Beckons"

Definitely not Ravenloft then.

 

[TwoSix]

"The Mist Beckons"

Welp, that makes it a lot more obvious or it's a whopper of a red herring.

 

[Scribe]

My head and my heart are both saying Planescape.

I would be overjoyed.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

The mist beckons.​

This sounds as Ravenloft or Innistrad. It may be a module/adventure, or a planar handbook for gothic horror as 3.5 "Heroes of Horror". And something also will be published next to Halloween.

2021 will be a year of satanic panic worse than the first one, but don't worry, the target will be not the RPGs, not even the ultragore videogames, neither the horror movies.