D&D 5E So I have a theory about the big Adventure next year and I want to share it with you guys (So you can inevitably tell me how wrong I am)

[GarrettKP]

The Rod of Seven Parts featured into the live stream games last summer during the Storm King's Thunder storyline.
I doubt they would have used that there, had they plans to use it elsewhere. They would have just teased its existence more and not made it a centrepiece of both Force Grey and Aquisitions Incorporated.

The fact that they used it during the live game is the reason I think it is coming soon! They also used Tomb of Annihilation stuff in that game, foreshadowing the book before they announced it. They always do things like that.

 

[Jester David]

The fact that they used it during the live game is the reason I think it is coming soon! They also used Tomb of Annihilation stuff in that game, foreshadowing the book before they announced it. They always do things like that.

They used the Tomb in the same year they did that adventure. They didn't save it for two years. And that story had an "end".

However... I do have my conspiracy theory that Tales from the Yawning Portal was a last minute filler product. Maybe it bumped the Rod when Perkins found himself too busy.

 

[Parmandur]

They used the Tomb in the same year they did that adventure. They didn't save it for two years. And that story had an "end".

However... I do have my conspiracy theory that Tales from the Yawning Portal was a last minute filler product. Maybe it bumped the Rod when Perkins found himself too busy.

Well, thing is, they've been baking in RoSP hooks to almost every product, with all the Aarocka/Wind Princes stuff...

 

[neogod22]

That would certainly give the PCs that finished the other adventure paths something to do after saving just the one world.

That being said, considering that most of them end around 15th level, assuming PCs make it to that level, that only gives five levels or so to run through.

Yeah but they can also get epic feats at 20

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[lowkey13]

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[Parmandur]

Well, if you consider that 5e loves to have callbacks to all the old stuff ...

... and you get little hints and allusions to just about everything in each book ...

... then it is perfectly reasonable to say that these hooks are there. Trouble is, so are A METRIC TON of other hooks.

It's plausible deniability combined with 20/20 hindsight. They can release just about anything that nods to the past, and say the hints were there, because every single book has a ton of references to past editions and lore.

Clever design is well thought out.