D&D 5E New products featuring Vistani will be?

[Wolfram stout]

I agree with those predicting a Xanathar's style book. Since it built our sub-classes, and their are several races that need updating, a book that provides a fairly big range of new race (folk?) options would work on several levels.

 

[pnewman]

Players Handbook Reincarnated, of course.

All the races (including some, but not all, from non PHB sources) re-done as Ancestries and Cultures. Vistani will be a culture. It will be made clear that they take people of all Ancestries.

They'll also fix the Ranger, add in Artificers, add about one more variant for each class, and add in some new backgrounds. No new gear or spells, they'll save that for future books.

Oh, and if we're really lucky they will fix the index to get rid of all the unhelpful "Dueling see under fighting styles" references; and that the page number for Dueling is listed both under Dueling and under Fighting Styles.

 

[Mercurius]

I really don't get the "ancestries" name. It isn't a very accurate word - race, species, people, folk and kindred all work much better.

 

[Parmandur]

I really don't get the "ancestries" name. It isn't a very accurate word - race, species, people, folk and kindred all work much better.

I favor "people" personally.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Ravenloft as complete setting will come back. The first step after the Curse of the Strand will be a copilation of modules about the grand conjuction.

I bet the lore will be retconed. The dark powers maybe can't control out of the demiplane of the horror, but they could manipulate and cause a lot of troubles, even in planes without magic but with modern technology. I guess Hasbro plans for Ravenloft is to change some things to allow easily action-live productions by EnternaimentOne, and even horror movies set in XX or XXI century. The movie "Ready or not" may be an example. Fandom could notice it was linked to Ravenloft, but it is not necessary for the most of the public. Ravenloft also allow horror stories with a softer style for teen public, like R.L.Stine's Goosegumps books.

Not all dark domains are within the demiplane of the dread. This allows new doors to be opened. For example when the players wait "other weekend in the hell" they discover they are in.... the ripoff of Resident Evil 4, or something like mixing the videogame "the evil within" and the movie Crimson Peak, or a hidden underground secret laboratory with monster mutants

 

[doctorbadwolf]

If it be some other Ravenloft domain adventure path, what could it be? Something with werewolves eventually? We hadn't had werecreatures featured yet.

If it is, I hope it involves both creatures and characters of Shadow, and of the Fey, and of the intersection of the two.

The game needs more high level, and just more variety of, Fey.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

But i think it will be more of a guide to the multiverse, and travel to a handful of worlds with different themes, but the adventure will focus one maybe 2 worlds, or a plane and a world, and both will have Vistani guides and encourage Vistani protagonists.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yep, just remembered, from Dragon 380. Plane hoping culture that welcome any travelers as part of their own. In the art, you add a dragonborn vistani and a tiefling vistani.

That's way better. Gives me a sense of "what where they thinking?!" when they were written as always-evil vampire lackeys in CoS.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I favor "people" personally.

The only advantage if ancestry is that it comes with ancestral, which is easier to use than any alternative in the same tense for folk or people.

 

[Mercurius]

I favor "people" personally.

Yeah, me too.