D&D 5E (2024) Predict WotC's 2026 D&D releases

[Scribe]

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[EzekielRaiden]

I predict a positive integer number of books, which will have themes, and include content both for GMs and for players.

 

[mamba]

I predict a positive integer number of books, which will have themes, and include content both for GMs and for players.

nailed it...

 

[EzekielRaiden]

nailed it...

Technically, I could still be proven wrong.

If they published no books other than those explicitly announced as of today (which aren't predictions so they don't count), then it wouldn't be a positive integer number.

But yes, the point was more that we have no information to make any guesses upon, so it's literally going to be just wild shots in the dark.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I don't think that they'll do a sequel to Heroes of the Borderlands next year. I think they'll have wanted to know how well it does before starting development on something like that, which would put it a year or two down the road. I DO think that Dark Sun is on its way, in one form or another. Another MTG book, probably, as well. Hopefully WotC-made Spell Cards. Otherwise, I really have no idea.

 

[THEMNGMNT]

I want to see WotC actually get its act together with a coherent publishing strategy. Here's what I mean:

Storm King's Thunder = adventure about giants

Bigby's Glory of the Giants = supplement about giants

They were published 7 years apart.

Now hear me out. This might sound crazy. But what if they were published in the same year? Wouldn't that be both cool and useful...?

 

[Remathilis]

I want to see WotC actually get its act together with a coherent publishing strategy. Here's what I mean:

Storm King's Thunder = adventure about giants

Bigby's Glory of the Giants = supplement about giants

They were published 7 years apart.

Now hear me out. This might sound crazy. But what if they were published in the same year? Wouldn't that be both cool and useful...?

Storm Kings Thunder was produced though the same year as Volo's Guide to Monsters, which has a section on... giants! Bigby is a larger amount of info, but there was some initial synergy as well. They did similar synergy with Xanathar and Dragon Heist, Fizban and Dragonlance, and Tasha and Witchlight. It's not much, and you could argue more can be done, but synergy was attempted.

 

[GarrettKP]

Storm Kings Thunder was produced though the same year as Volo's Guide to Monsters, which has a section on... giants! Bigby is a larger amount of info, but there was some initial synergy as well. They did similar synergy with Xanathar and Dragon Heist, Fizban and Dragonlance, and Tasha and Witchlight. It's not much, and you could argue more can be done, but synergy was attempted.

There is also something to be said for avoiding this level of thematic saturation in a given year.

If you don’t like Giants, but the big adventure book and the big supplement are both giant themed, you’re basically taking the year off from buying D&D products, and WotC doesn’t want that.

 

[Remathilis]

There is also something to be said for avoiding this level of thematic saturation in a given year.

If you don’t like Giants, but the big adventure book and the big supplement are both giant themed, you’re basically taking the year off from buying D&D products, and WotC doesn’t want that.

It also creates the illusion you need both books (supplement and module) to get the most out of them.

 

[cimbrog]

Hasbro begins the Universes Beyonding of D&D.

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Q2 - Final Fantasy D&D supplement
Q3 - The Matrix D&D supplement
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