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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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

You could have a revised Sandstorm book that includes a chapter for various classic desert-based settings that exist such as Amonkhet (from MtG), Anauroch (from FR), Dark Sun, Sind (from Mystara), etc.

I would bet on desert rules being part of either a Ghosts of Saltmarsh-style Desert of Desolation anthology or a Dark Sun setting book.

 

[Azzy]

But why? I'm sorry, but this is all mostly wish-fulfillment for fans of these settings. I could see them doing Greyhawk as the iconic old school setting, but Mystara? I just don't see it happening, except as either within a Worlds of D&D book or maybe by a third party. Mystara doesn't add anything new to the 5E's thematic coverage, except for elves with mustaches.

Isn't that enough, though?

 

[Azzy]

Meepo the star of the Sunless Citadel and Tales from the Yawning Portal. That D20 Modern thing was just a phase while he was in college.

Nobody puts Meepo in the corner.

You are officially my hero now.

 

[Azzy]

I play the heck out of 1E oriental adventures to this day. If they would put out a hardback with a badass ninja and samurai and update of that book for 5E with a name other than oriental or Asian to make people happy. I would be buying a minimum of 6 copies to give to my players as a gift. That is my long term players of over 20 year more life 30+. Yes they look forward to Christmas from me.

We already have ninja and samurai (and kensei) in 5e. Other than the player races and monsters, 1e OA has little to add.

 

[OblivionDrive]

Greyhawk's niche is nostologia, not genre, it doesn't have to have a special subgenre like steam punk, to sell it play the this was the first D&D angle. It won't step on FRs toes, because FR's so big GH can't reqch them.

Nostalgia sells old players who have something to be nostalgic about. Doesn’t work as well on younger players who have no fuzzy warm attachments to those names. Hell, I’m in my mid-40s and I don’t even really have strong nostalgia for GH because I only every played like two games set there and neither were very memorable (more a DM issue than the setting itself, but still.)

Would there be a small segment of “I was born in the wrong era and wish I could have played back in the day” kids who would buy it? Sure. But I doubt them plus the old guard would be enough to validate sinking too many resources into it when there’s so much wilder, crazier flavors still untapped, as per my ice cream analogy.

 

[OblivionDrive]

I would bet on desert rules being part of either a Ghosts of Saltmarsh-style Desert of Desolation anthology or a Dark Sun setting book.

Dark Sun was always the safe bet there. Both some sort of psionics plus hardcore survival rules seem like the most obvious bolt-on options to stick in an Athas based book.

 

[Sithlord]

We already have ninja and samurai (and kensei) in 5e. Other than the player races and monsters, 1e OA has little to add.

Yes but those were yawn.

 

[ChaosOS]

Yes but those were yawn.

That's probably more of a 5e design style decision though than specific issues with those archetypes - Martials don't get to do cool things and I doubt they're going to change that any time soon.

 

[bedir than]

What if he saw an early version of the Draconic Options UA, and just assumed it was for Dragonlance like bunch of people did?

Joe actually likes and remembers Dragonlance. For those that know it and have played it nothing about the Draconic Options UA says Dragonlance.

 

[Leatherhead]

I think the question would be if they are still going to attach alignments to outer planes and keep the "belief-is-reality" element of the setting. Can a city in the outlands still "slip" into a LE plane? That would mean the alignments have a metaphysical reality in the dnd cosmos and are not descriptive. I can't see them doubling down on alignment int his way.

I hope so.
Memetic warfare is actually a thing IRL now, and the entire "philosophers with clubs" angle of the setting where towns flip alliances and slide off into different planes would be the metaphysical conclusion of that.