New Release Predeictions

[jester47]

I figure the upcomming titles from WotC are going to include:

Legends and Lore - Pick up more dieties not covered in Dieties and Demigods, Aztec, Chineese, Finnish, hero stats such as hercules etc.

Creature Collection - Tome of Horrors was supposed to be called this. It was an Basic D&D book back in the day, and is another monster book title to use.

Unearthed Arcana - Monte can put out Arcana Unearthed all he wants, it still won't be Unearthed Arcana. It was an incredibly popular title. They would be foolish not to use it.

Tome of Magic - Centralise all the spells from FR, the splatbooks, some good ones from dragon and you could get a sizable tome. Add new rules for Different kinds of magic and you get a good popular release.

Book of Artifacts - Magic toys.

Thats five almost sure good books.

A survival guide that combines Wilderness Survival Guide and Dungeoneers Survival Guide. Or perhaps both. Don't know how well these would go over.

Aaron.

 

[Angcuru]

I wonder when the 3rd edition version of The Complete Guide to Unlawful Carnal Knowledge is to be written. That's one useful book.

 

[jester47]

Wow, that wasn't the funniest thing I have read.

Congratulations:

Whatever.


Aaron.

 

[Angcuru]

what? i do not understand your comment. the book is useful, that's all. good for when you want to create a character who happens to be the child of two particular characters.

 

[haiiro]

After giving Monte permission to use Arcana Unearthed, there's no way WotC is going to foster confusion among customers by putting out Unearthed Arcana, IMO. Creature Collection is already taken by S&SS, so that one is out as well.

Tome of Magic and Book of Artifacts I could see, but Legends and Lore seems unlikely after D&Dg and F&P. The Survival Guides didn't seem to do very well back in the day; perhaps bundled with the better parts of the Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide they would work out a bit better. In any case, I agree that a combined book would be more likely than two separate ones (and is actually a pretty neat idea).

Of the prospects you listed, I think Tome of Magic is the best bet. There's enough material out there to justify reprinting/centralizing, and there's plenty of variant magic info available without delving into OGC.

 

[jester47]

After giving Monte permission to use Arcana Unearthed, there's no way WotC is going to foster confusion among customers by putting out Unearthed Arcana, IMO. Creature Collection is already taken by S&SS, so that one is out as well.

Tome of Magic and Book of Artifacts I could see, but Legends and Lore seems unlikely after D&Dg and F&P. The Survival Guides didn't seem to do very well back in the day; perhaps bundled with the better parts of the Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide they would work out a bit better. In any case, I agree that a combined book would be more likely than two separate ones (and is actually a pretty neat idea).

Of the prospects you listed, I think Tome of Magic is the best bet. There's enough material out there to justify reprinting/centralizing, and there's plenty of variant magic info available without delving into OGC.

Doh! I meant Creature Catalogue not Creature Collection. Sorry. Scott was originally going to name the Tome of Horrors after his web site which took the name from that product. WotC has plans for that title. It was AC7 for BD&D, a collection of monsters.

IMO As for Unearthed Arcana, I have a theory. I think Monte went to them and said "Hey guys, I have this idea for doing stuff conceptually based on what the original UA did. Do you guys plan on releasing Unearthed Arcana?" "They said yes, eventually we would like to. Oh and by the way please sign this NDA." He signed and then said, "Ah, OK, well you don't mind if I name my project Arcana Unearthed do you?" And they said "No, thats no problem at all." I have said it before and I will say it again: I think they don't care. Name recognition is everything and they are targeting the older audience that remembers the original UA. And they will use that as leverage. IMO.

As for Legends and Lore, I think they might look to cover other mythologies after the olympian, Norse, and Egyptian. Subtracting the Lhankmar, Melnibonian, and Cthulu myhologies that leaves 11 pantheons unaccounteed for. Legends and Lore was actually the same book, but still its a damned good title, and so I think it will appear.

Faiths and Pantheons is FR so I figure it wouldn't count... And that is another indicator that WotC likes to reuse titles. Lords of Darkness was a old FR title, and Faiths and Pantheons is a combination of two popular FR titles "Faiths and Avatars" and "Powers and Pantheons."

I agree about the Survival stuff. Still a book that presented more streamlined rules and information for wilderness and underground adventures would be fairly popular. I think we MIGHT see such a beast but my guess about the title is not as sure. I think your observations on this are good.

So revising... (its the big thing these days )

My predictions for the next year are:

Unearthed Arcana
Legends and Lore
Tome of Magic
Book of Artifacts
Creature Catalogue

Possibly a Wilderness/Dungeon/Campaign Guide of some sort.

Then again, they might fold Tome of Magic and Book of Artifacts into Unearthed Arcana...

Who knows.

Aaron.

 

[Nightfall]

Thanks for the correction Jez. I was going to call you on that...but since you fixed it, that's fine. As for you speculation, hey you guess is as good as anyone elses.

 

[NiTessine]

Undermountain 3E, obviously. The Legends & Lore thing seems likely. I also believe they will eventually come out with racial splatbooks. Unearthed Arcana is also a given. They'll probably wait for a while before doing Creature Catalogue, or Monster Manual III, or any new monster book, though as they now have three hardcovers devoted solely to monsters.

Arabian Adventures 3E, while a very interesting idea, is unlikely for the time being. Maybe in a few years.

 

[haiiro]

Doh! I meant Creature Catalogue not Creature Collection.

I should have assumed that was what you meant.

As for Legends and Lore, I think they might look to cover other mythologies after the olympian, Norse, and Egyptian. Subtracting the Lhankmar, Melnibonian, and Cthulu myhologies that leaves 11 pantheons unaccounteed for. Legends and Lore was actually the same book, but still its a damned good title, and so I think it will appear.

Faiths and Pantheons is FR so I figure it wouldn't count...

I didn't get the impression that D&Dg was well-received overall (and I didn't like it myself, for what that's worth). Particularly on EN World, GR's Book of the Righteous gets a lot more acclaim (and rightly so), and I don't see WotC releasing another book of deities in the same style as D&Dg (and changing the format would appear to be a concession that D&Dg wasn't all that good...). F&P covers a lot of ground, and does a better job than D&Dg, IMO, but I don't think that after doing two large HC deity books WotC is too likely to do another one. Then again, who knows.

I agree that Legends and Lore is a cool title. It's also very broad, so it could easily be used for something similar to (but different from) the original.

Then again, they might fold Tome of Magic and Book of Artifacts into Unearthed Arcana...

I still disagree about UA. It seems more likely that BoA would get folded into ToM, which would be just fine; I liked BoA, but it could have been shorter and more concise.

 

[haiiro]

Undermountain 3E, obviously.

That would rock. Perhaps a Silver Marches-style sourcebook covering Waterdeep and Undermountain, as it seems like WD would have to be done first/at the same time to do UM right.

I also believe they will eventually come out with racial splatbooks.

A compiled book along the lines of RoF but with fewer races (just the core ones from the PHB, perhaps) would be nice. Two or three splatbooks (humans & elves; dwarves & gnomes; half-orcs, half-elves & halflings, perhaps) would also work. Now that I think about it, that does seem like a pretty good prediction, NiTessine (in some form).

Unearthed Arcana is also a given.

Why is UA a given?