New Look at Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Red and Black Dragon Revealed Via Bookends

WizKids has provided Dungeons & Dragons fans with a new look at the 2024 Red and Black Dragons thanks to a new set of bookends. This week, WizKids revealed two new 7-inch resin bookends, one featuring the head of the newly redesigned red dragon and the other featuring the head of the newly redesigned black dragon. Both individual bookends will be released in Q2 2025 with a recommended retail price of $59.99. Notably, WizKids has stated that this will be the start of a new line of official D&D Bookends.

As part of D&D's 50th anniversary and the release of a new set of Core Rulebooks, Wizards of the Coast also redesigned the game's chromatic and metallic dragons, marking the first significant redesign of the game's iconic monsters since Ted Lockwood's versions of the dragons for D&D 3rd edition. Wizards has revealed each of the dragons at a slow and deliberate pace, using the new dragons to promote the just released Player's Handbook. The dragons themselves will be in the 2025 Monster Manual, which will be released in February.

WizKids also recently announced plans to produce a miniature of the redesigned Black Dragon, marking the first of the new dragons to get their own tabletop miniature.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

Imagine a person with celiac disease has starved for a week, and they're given a sandwich (meaning, something containing gluten.) The sandwich is better than starvation, that's a simple fact. Yet it is also a simple fact that a meal containing gluten is still not good. The starving person should still eat that sandwich, even though it will almost certainly give them intestinal issues, because starving is worse. But "better than starving to death" is damning with faint praise.

i missed the "with celiac disease" bit when i first read this, and was thus very confused when you started saying food with gluten is inherently not good.

 

[UVAtom]

Black dragons have immunity to acid damage. Even wyrmlings. So how did the acid eat away at the skin?

 

[Azzy]

Black dragons have immunity to acid damage. Even wyrmlings. So how did the acid eat away at the skin?

Looking at the pictures, it seems that there's still skin (no actual bone or musculature are shown), so perhaps the fumes from its breath weapon are just bleaching its skin.