D&D (2024) New Year Wishes For D&D in 2025?

[Stormonu]

A book of Bastions and expanded/improved rules for same.

 

[Echohawk]

I hope the Forgotten Realms books bring back classic critters from that setting, like the saurials and the sharn! (I really like the saurials in particular, so fingers crossed!)

I'll be (pleasantly) surprised if we see saurials covered in any detail in any 5e product, given how rare they are according to Tomb of Annihilation.

Dragonbait is a champion of good and a saurial — a race that originated on a distant world and whose members have long lives. Very few saurials dwell in the Forgotten Realms, and no saurial communities are believed to exist anywhere in the world.

 

[Sulicius]

My wishlist is a great adventure anthology for the dragons, and the new MM having monsters dealing the right amount of damage. I want monsters to deal 10% more damage starting at lvl 5, scaling up to 100% at CR ~20.

 

[DavyGreenwind]

Official 5e Witch Class. More Eberron stuff.

 

[KYRON45]

I wish for people who don't really seem to like 5e to stop playing it so they will stop complaining about all of the things they feel are wrong with it.

I also wish that those same people find a system that they do like so that they can have some joy in their lives.

 

[Queer Venger]

So what are your New Years Wishes for D&D in 2025?

For me I want them not screw up the FR setting books and for them to be everything those of us have been asking for them for years the books to be. I want Ed Greenwood and other important FR writers if possible involved. I want it to be awesome.

I want a D&D TV show.

I want a detailed explanation how Eberron and it's planes fit into the broader D&D cosmology.

I want them to decide once & for all if they will merge the D&D & MtG multiverses some how, the whole thing has been in this suspended animation if indecision for years now.

Kind of D&D related given it's a 5e setting I want but I want them to fix Theros some how.

I want Exodus TTRGP to be great.

I want more FR novels from class FR writers like Erin M. Evans, Ed Greenwood, Paul S. Kemp Elaine Cunningham, Troy Denning, Jeff Grubbs, etc...

I want no new scandals of 2025 for WotC.

I don't want Musk to buy WotC, I don't want devs at WotC to keep baiting him into it. It'd be like Lex Luther buying the Daily Planet. Just no.

I want a D&D TV show announced and I want it to be for grown up like BG3.

I want the next Trilogy of Drizzt novels announced.

I want to know who will be making BG4.

I want Exodus to be RTwP using a version of its TTRPG 5e rules variant.

I want Project Sigil to be so good it blows our minds.

I want SRDs for 2024 rules and then for EVERY other edition.

I want to know what book the updated Artificer is for. I want a brand new class in that book as well. Maybe a Psion finally. Or a new Binder or Swordmage or Warlord class. Maybe a new Divine Caster that us very different from the current ones.

I want D&D flavored popcorn

 

[Queer Venger]

I wish for people who don't really seem to like 5e to stop playing it so they will stop complaining about all of the things they feel are wrong with it.

I also wish that those same people find a system that they do like so that they can have some joy in their lives.

ha ha, they won't LOL

 

[Mind of tempest]

I want D&D flavored popcorn

what would that even taste like?

 

[delericho]

Not really a 2025 wish, since I think their slate of products is basically locked, but one thing I'd like to see is a compilation of "campaign starter" adventures - a set of adventures where the intent is that a group uses one of them and then steps into something else (be that the DM's own campaign, or one of the other published adventures, or whatever).

A key advantage of this would be that then the other big campaign books can start at that higher level without issue, making for a smaller leap.

For bonus points, it would be good if those adventures weren't intended for beginner groups - aim them at groups who have some game time behind them and are now starting a second (or subsequent) campaign. "Lost Mine of Phandelver" was great, but it was great for beginners and probably a bit too basic for most.

 

[Parmandur]

Not really a 2025 wish, since I think their slate of products is basically locked, but one thing I'd like to see is a compilation of "campaign starter" adventures - a set of adventures where the intent is that a group uses one of them and then steps into something else (be that the DM's own campaign, or one of the other published adventures, or whatever).

A key advantage of this would be that then the other big campaign books can start at that higher level without issue, making for a smaller leap.

For bonus points, it would be good if those adventures weren't intended for beginner groups - aim them at groups who have some game time behind them and are now starting a second (or subsequent) campaign. "Lost Mine of Phandelver" was great, but it was great for beginners and probably a bit too basic for most.

It sounds like the Eberron book is supplying just that...