The New D&D Adventure Is - Tomb of Annihilation!

Tomb of Annihilation is in the Forgotten Realms set in the Lost Continent of Chult - Away from the Sword Coast (the hosts of the live stream are very interested with undead dinosaurs). Acererak is, as many predicted, the source of this plotline as the Archlich is more or less "eating" resurrection magic from the rest of the Forgotten Realms and causing a zombie apocalypse. Pendleton Ward from Adventure Time is a creative consultant on this adventure.

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More updates will be coming through the Dungeons & Dragons marathon live stream live on Twitch throughout the weekend.

 

[SigmaOne]

"Any DM worth his salt"... That expression bothers me.

Any DM worth his salt could come up with his own adventure with the players hunting down pieces of a Macguffin in various parts of the multiverse to destroy a super planar threat. Why would you bother buying an AP for that?

To say nothing of the fact that the person you quoted is actually saying "Any DM worth his salt can do something as yet unspecified; as I have not actually read the adventure, and I only heard a one-sentence description, so I really don't know at all how good or bad the product will be." The number of people on the forums who make pre-judgments about a product without actually knowing much is just staggering. It's fine to reject the thing based on the known specifics, if that's your inclination: "sorry, I'm sick of undead" or "I don't want dinosaurs in my D&D" or "I'm afraid this might have racist colonial themes, so I'm not sure I'm going to want it". There are plenty of reasonable negative statements to be made, and some have been in this thread. But, implying that the product will only live up to the minimum standards of DM competence ("any DM worth their salt") based just on just a few details is not reasonable.

Any DM worth their salt should know that a one sentence description can lead in infinitely many directions, and should not take as their first assumption that the direction will be a lack of, or minimal, creativity. People who aren't sold on the concept can wait until reviews come out to see if they might be interested. People who know the given themes aren't for them can move on. But of course they won't, because this is the internet, and (unlike the famous Avenue Q song implies) the internet is really for complaining.

 

[SigmaOne]

I own both the dice and the mug. They sold them during the live stream for Tales of the Yawning Portal. Sorry if you missed out, but they definitely sold them before so it isn't like they are hoarding them for themselves.

Whoever was representing D&D in the twitch chat definitely said something that left a hope these might be sold, when someone asked a question about it during chat last night. I don't remember exactly how it was phrased, I think it was a little stronger than "Not currently for sale" (which doesn't really imply you can get them) and a little weaker than "Not for sale yet" (which has some implication that they would be). I was definitely left with the feeling that they "might" be for sale.

 

[SigmaOne]

The WOTC/HasBro folks know way more than me about marketing, but it's hard for me to get too fired up for a release we will not see until mid-September.

The big announcement for me was that there is going to be a bunch of new streamed campaigns on the DnD Twitch site related to this setting/theme.

 

[GarrettKP]

Whoever was representing D&D in the twitch chat definitely said something that left a hope these might be sold, when someone asked a question about it during chat last night. I don't remember exactly how it was phrased, I think it was a little stronger than "Not currently for sale" (which doesn't really imply you can get them) and a little weaker than "Not for sale yet" (which has some implication that they would be). I was definitely left with the feeling that they "might" be for sale.

They were for sale in the past, and probably will be in the future.

 

[Erdric Dragin]

I'm confused.

I thought the Forgotten Realms was "restored" almost back to the way it was?

So why is Chult still an island? And why is Samarach, Thindol, and other nations along what USED to be a peninsula, still gone?

This is upsetting. As a Forgotten Realms fan.

 

[Jester David]

So... we don't get the awesome black/red official dice they were using? And peeps there were wearing an array of nice shirts which we can't have either. Along with the mugs we can't have. *Facepalm*

They give a bunch of stuff out as promo items that they hand out to special guests or during conventions. Like stickers, dice, pins, and notebooks.
Which is odd as I would throw money at them for the d20 and a mug. Or a simple T-shirt. But they seem to want those are rare or promo items.

WotC makes it really, really hard to be a collector...

 

[gyor]

I'm confused.

I thought the Forgotten Realms was "restored" almost back to the way it was?

So why is Chult still an island? And why is Samarach, Thindol, and other nations along what USED to be a peninsula, still gone?

This is upsetting. As a Forgotten Realms fan.

I think some people misspoke, it's a penisala now, not an Island anymore. It's isolated by mountains however.

And Samarach isn't gone its merely hidden by Illusions accordiing to the SCAG.

One interesting thing I learned on Candlekeep is that Mezro Ruins aren't the real Mezro, the real Mezro was pushed into a demiplane during the spellplague, and the ruins are just a decoy.

 

[GarrettKP]

They give a bunch of stuff out as promo items that they hand out to special guests or during conventions. Like stickers, dice, pins, and notebooks.
Which is odd as I would throw money at them for the d20 and a mug. Or a simple T-shirt. But they seem to want those are rare or promo items.

WotC makes it really, really hard to be a collector...

As I said above, those dice and mugs were for sale just a few months ago. You may have missed out, but that doesn't change that they were available. I bought them, so I know they were for sale.

 

[Jester David]

As I said above, those dice and mugs were for sale just a few months ago. You may have missed out, but that doesn't change that they were available. I bought them, so I know they were for sale.

But where?
WeLoveFine? Your game store? A subpage of the WotC site?

I don't recall seeing any announcement, so it must have been a short little perk. Which, again, makes it hard to collect.

 

[GarrettKP]

But where?
WeLoveFine? Your game store? A subpage of the WotC site?

I don't recall seeing any announcement, so it must have been a short little perk. Which, again, makes it hard to collect.

They sold them through Meltdown Comics online store during their Yawning Portal live stream. They sold them through the store for a week or two i believe.