D&D 5E The Next D&D Book is JOURNEYS THROUGH THE RADIANT CITADEL

We peered, poked, squinted, flipped, and enhanced the teaser image that WotC put out last week, and it turns out we got it right -- the next book is, indeed, Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel.

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Wraparound cover art by Evyn Fong

Through the mists of the Ethereal Plane shines the Radiant Citadel. Travelers from across the multiverse flock to this mysterious bastion to share their traditions, stories, and calls for heroes. A crossroads of wonders and adventures, the Radiant Citadel is the first step on the path to legend. Where will your journeys take you?

Journeys through the Radiant Citadel is a collection of thirteen short, stand-alone D&D adventures featuring challenges for character levels 1–14. Each adventure has ties to the Radiant Citadel, a magical city with connections to lands rich with excitement and danger, and each can be run by itself or as part of an ongoing campaign. Explore this rich and varied collection of adventures in magical lands.
  • Thirteen new stand-alone adventures spanning levels 1 to 14, each with its own set of maps
  • Introduces the Radiant Citadel, a new location on the Ethereal Plane that connects adventurers to richly detailed and distinct corners of the D&D multiverse
  • Each adventure can be set in any existing D&D campaign setting or on worlds of your own design
  • Introduces eleven new D&D monsters
  • There’s a story for every adventuring party, from whimsical and light to dark and foreboding and everything in between


Slated for June 21st (update - I just got a press release which says it's June 21st "in North American stores"; I'm not sure what that means for the rest of us!), it's a 224-page adventure anthology featuring a floating city called the Radiant Citadel. The book is written entirely by people of colour, including Ajit George, who was the first person of Indian heritage to write Indian-inspired material for D&D (in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft). Around 50 POC writers were involved in total in various ways.

The Radiant Citadel is on the ethereal plane and is carved from the giant fossil of an unknown monster. A massive gemstone called the Royal Diamond sits at the core, surrounded by a bunch of smaller Concord Jewels, which are gateways to the Citadel's founding civilizations. DMs can link any world to the citadel by placing a Concord Jewel there.

The Citadel, unlike many D&D locations, is more of a sanctuary than a place of danger. The book's alternate cover features a Dawn Incarnate, a creature which is the embodiment of stories and cultures.


The adventures are as follows:
  • Salted Legacy
  • Written In Blood
  • The Fiend of Hollow Mine
  • Wages of Vice
  • Sins of Our Elders
  • Gold for Fools and Princes
  • Trail of Destruction
  • In the Mists of Manivarsha
  • Between Tangled Roots
  • Shadow of the Sun
  • The Nightsea’s Succor
  • Buried Dynasty
  • Orchids of the Invisible Mountain
UPDATE -- the press release contains a list of some of the contributors: "Justice Ramin Arman, Dominique Dickey, Ajit A. George, Basheer Ghouse, Alastor Guzman, D. Fox Harrell, T.K. Johnson, Felice Tzehuei Kuan, Surena Marie, Mimi Mondal, Mario Ortegón, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Pam Punzalan, Erin Roberts, Terry H. Romero, Stephanie Yoon, and many more."

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Regular cover by Even Fong

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Alternate Cover by Sija Hong
 

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Do the warforgeds have got soul, and the tsukumogami, the awaken objects from Japanese folklore? (They are oficially creatures in Pahtfinder). Could an old robot from Kamigawa: Neon Dinasty to become a tsukumogami?




In my opinion to cause suffereing and injustice against the "husks" in Ravenloft can cause a "bad karma" and even to be closer to be tainted by the Dark Powers. Do you remember the sci-fi movie "Artificial Inteligence" with a show where robots were tortured and destroyed?

* Jackandor could appear in a future compilation of adventures, why not?

* In my game the souls of "innocent" people sent to Wall of the Faithless are for a time, and later to reincarnated in the Demiplane of the Dread.
 

Do the warforgeds have got soul, and the tsukumogami, the awaken objects from Japanese folklore? (They are oficially creatures in Pahtfinder). Could an old robot from Kamigawa: Neon Dinasty to become a tsukumogami?




In my opinion to cause suffereing and injustice against the "husks" in Ravenloft can cause a "bad karma" and even to be closer to be tainted by the Dark Powers. Do you remember the sci-fi movie "Artificial Inteligence" with a show where robots were tortured and destroyed?

* Jackandor could appear in a future compilation of adventures, why not?

* In my game the souls of "innocent" people sent to Wall of the Faithless are for a time, and later to reincarnated in the Demiplane of the Dread.
given that japan works of a Shinto metaphysics which is very animist I would say they at least gained a soul as they have a spirit which is mostly the same thing as a soul in all the ways that matter.
 

That really depends on what one defines as a soul: according to a more traditional and coherent definition of a "soul" (the form of the body) any moving, breathing organism with continuous existence has one by definition. If the inhabitants of Ravenloft have no "soul" that would mean then that they are not actually living organisms with a continuous existence, hence incapable of feeling or suffering.
At one point in D&D's history, it was a rule that elves could not be raised from the dead because they lacked a soul. They could be resurrected using the 7th level spell or equivalent or reincarnated also using the spell. I wager no one would argue elves lacked free will or consciousness.
 

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