D&D 5E Ray Winninger mentions third project!

WotC's Ray Winninger has confirmed that another D&D release, by James Wyatt, will be released in between Witchlight (September) and Strixhaven (November). Strixhaven was Amanda Hamon's project, while Witchlight is Chris Perkins'. That assumes he's not referring to the Feywild accessory kit in September.

A lot of people are asking Qs about the [D&D] releases for the rest of this year.

Yes, WILD BEYOND THE WITCHLIGHT is the [Chris Perkins] story product I referenced in our dev blog. STRIXHAVEN is [Amanda Hamon's] project. We have not yet announced [James Wyatt's] project, which releases between WITCHLIGHT and STRIXHAVEN.

Why did we announce STRIXHAVEN so early? Pretty simple--there was no way to release the STRIX-related Unearthed Arcana without letting the cat out of the bag.

You'll learn a lot more about all of these products at D&D Live on G4, July 16 and 17. And yes, there is still a little surprise or two ahead.

D&D 5E - Two New D&D Books Revealed: Feywild & Strixhaven Mage School

Amazon has revealed the next two D&D hardcovers! The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is a feywild adventure due in September, and Curriculum of Chaos is a Magic: the Gathering setting of Strixhaven, which looks like a Harry Potter-esque mage school, set for November...

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[hopeless]

Been wanted for a long time?
By whom?
After all we could theorise all we want but its not any of us that decides this so whilst I would have said Mystara as there is actually a player's handbook based on that setting available this doesn't strike me as that.
Still would like to know why they removed that pic of the back cover if that Feywild adventure though...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I think that the very is important. It implies to me that it is a setting that hasn't been update recently (3e or 4e).

You are definitely reading too much into it. A week is a long time in politics, and six years is a very long time in publishing.

 

[Parmandur]

So I guess I'm confused, if the third book is a dragon book, which does seem likely, does that mean the "two classic settings" thing was just an outright lie from WotC? Or are we going to get two in 2022? Which would seem a bit packed. Winniger said "three in the next year or two" in September last year (so nearly a year ago).

Year or two from late 2020 would be 2021 or 2022. We got two Settings in 2021, so the implication is we will get two next year of the Classic variety.

 

[Parmandur]

I think the flip side to my point:

• What is a very long time, and..
• What hasn't been asked for.

Since I am sure everything has been asked for at some point, I imagine has to do with how much a setting as been asked for. So I am wandering what setting has been asked for frequently and for a very long time.

I think that the very is important. It implies to me that it is a setting that hasn't been update recently (3e or 4e). So what settings have not been updated since 2e and people continuously ask for? I don't know the history well enough, but I know Dark Sun fails on one account (but that doesn't mean DS isn't one of the 2 remaining, just that it is not the one that meets the very long time qualification, at least by me )

Planescape has lain fallow since the 90's, longer than Ravenloft.

 

[Parmandur]

Been wanted for a long time?
By whom?
After all we could theorise all we want but its not any of us that decides this so whilst I would have said Mystara as there is actually a player's handbook based on that setting available this doesn't strike me as that.
Still would like to know why they removed that pic of the back cover if that Feywild adventure though...

The back of the book gives away the plot, before they've begun promoting it.

 

[ChaosOS]

Noooooo.

I know you probably think it's just "Fantasy South America", because people talk about it that way, and almost no-one has read it (or read it in like 1993), but Maztica is a viciously racist setting. Like, viciously and unpleasantly - pro-imperialist/colonialist too! You can't "give it a makeover". It's like giving the British Raj a "makeover" or something lol. It's easily the most racist setting D&D has ever done (though IIRC Savage Coast is pretty bad too what with turning all the natives into evil monster-people but keeping trappings so you know they're still natives). Oriental Adventures doesn't remotely compare, because OA is basically positive, just uses outmoded stereotypes, the term "oriental" long after it was really okay to use it (even as a direction), and is solely about Japan (which is not a "representative" nation/culture of SE Asia, and was an imperial power with bad blood with China and Korea). It's like outright racism vs. talking to grandad about some "exotic" (his word) nation he admires.

And an Asian setting will need them to cultivate y'know, actual Asian/Asian-American writers, which they are doing, but I'm not sure they're there yet. I expect it to happen eventually, but not soon immediately.

Ixalan when? Eberron can't be the only setting with dino goodness!

(Yes, I know the answer is "when the MTG team decides to return to Ixalan")

 

[nyvinter]

That's a grotesque misunderstanding of Planescape.

Planescape is powered by the Factions and their philosophies. The Great Wheel cosmology was based on alignments. But Planescape/Sigil doesn't need the Great Wheel at all. It could be applied to almost any cosmology (just reposition Sigil and reconcept some of the stuff).

I'd even say that without being shoehorned into the alignment chart, the factions' belief structure is both more prominent and less stereotypical which means it's better in play. Combined with the renown rules they worked out for Ravnica, I'd say 5e is a far better fit for Planescape now than it was before, and even a bit better than 2e.

Now, if we could only get back the diverse tieflings...

 

[Parmandur]

Incorrect.

Here's what Winniger said.

So yeah actually he specifies three "you'll be seeing coming up here". That's not "might not make it", sorry, that's not even arguable. He also specifies "the next year or two", which does not include 2023, given he was talking in September 2020. He was a lot more detailed than you're saying - presumably you forgot what he said.

He doesn't limit them to three, of course - he says they're working on "several". But he is specific three are coming out in the next two years.

He gave a more recent update on Twitter, after Ravenloft was announced:

 

[Dire Bare]

@LuisCarlos17f I would encourage you to not use terms you know are offensive to people of Asian cultures, even if you say it's "politically incorrect."

Oh, relax.

The term "oriental" is definitely outdated and mildly racist. We should avoid using it in most circumstances, true. If WotC were to produce a new Asian-inspired D&D book, they certainly would not want to use that title again.

However, when referring to the older products titled "Oriental Adventures" . . . it's okay.

 

[ChaosOS]

He gave a more recent update on Twitter, after Ravenloft was announced:

My best guess is we get another a year from now, as a 2022 q2 release, then the third in the 2022 November slot