D&D 5E The October D&D Book is Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons

As revealed by Nerd Immersion by deciphering computer code from D&D Beyond!

Spoiler

Fizban the Fabulous is, of course, the accident-prone, befuddled alter-ego of Dragonlance’s god of good dragons, Paladine, the platinum dragon (Dragonlance’s version of Bahamut).

Which makes my guess earlier this year spot on!

UPDATE -- the book now has a description!

D&D 5E - Fizban's Treasury: The Dragon Book Now Has A Description... And A Feat

Courtesy of Amazon, we now have a description for Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, the October D&D hardcover. The book introduces gem dragons, dragon-themed player options, and plenty of draconic lore! This joins September's The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, and November's Strixhaven: Curriculum of...

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D&D 5E - My guess for the other D&D book this year... Draconomicon!

We know the fifth major product this year will be James Wyatt‘s as-yet unannounced project, and we know it will be coming out this year between Witchlight and Strixhaven. Wyatt co-wrote the Draconomicon for 3E. There have been two recent dragon-themed Unearthed Arcanas — dragon-themed...

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Fizban the Fabulous by Vera Gentinetta

 

[pukunui]

Why not? Everyone has to start somewhere. Draconians have been PCs in previous Dragonlance books, anyways.

Gnolls have also been playable in previous editions but are now strictly off-limits in 5e. I can see them saying no to playable draconians as well due to their origins (despite the sidebar in the PHB).

Weren’t dragonborn originally a “made” race as well? In 3e, they were humanoids who underwent a ritual created by Bahamut to transform, right? Hence the “born” in their name. I actually kind of prefer that to the true-breeding version we got starting in 4e. You could represent it through a lineage like the ones in VGR easily enough, too. (Same with the psionic Elan race.)

 

[Parmandur]

Gnolls have been playable in previous editions as well but are now strictly off-limits in 5e. I can see them saying no to playable draconians as well.

Weren’t dragonborn originally a “made” race as well? In 3e, they were humanoids who underwent a ritual to transform, right?

Yeah, not sure if 4E ever provided a definitive origin story besides the ancient fallen empire bit.

Again, the 5E PHB addresses playable Draconians as Dragonborn directly. I see no reason to suspect that will change.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

We are now about just about three months until the book is released. Does that leave them any time at all for any last-minute UAs for its material? I can't remember how close to release they have pushed UA before.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Gnolls have been playable in previous editions as well but are now strictly off-limits in 5e. I can see them saying no to playable draconians as well.

Weren’t dragonborn originally a “made” race as well? In 3e, they were humanoids who underwent a ritual to transform, right?

Yeah they are made, but I think it's said somewhere that chromatic dragon eggs, when made into draconians actually turn good (draconians always being the opposite of their egg).

 

[Parmandur]

We are now about just about three months until the book is released. Does that leave them any time at all for any last-minute UAs for its material? I can't remember how close to release they have pushed UA before.

The absolute latest was the Races of Ravnica on August 13th, 2018 for a November 20th release date. Crawford commented at the time that the survey feedback was going into the last minute edits before being sent to the printer. So, might be close for this book, but maybe something for Strixhaven?

 

[overgeeked]

Morrus, the Seer

Him along with more than half the forum. Morrus "called" it a few months after most other people had already guessed exactly the same thing.

 

[embee]

Yep, OK. Two tails (or one forked tail).

I’m still weirded out about the copper dragon-style wings on the red dragon.

That's what weirds you out? Not the idea of a vertebrate with six limbs?

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Him along with more than half the forum. Morrus "called" it a few months after most other people had already guessed exactly the same thing.

 

[pukunui]

That's what weirds you out? Not the idea of a vertebrate with six limbs?

No, I can suspend my disbelief there. I’m just used to each of WotC’s dragons having a specific look, and this one blurs the lines enough that it stands out to me. (I’m a details person.)

Either the art dept gave the cover artist more creative licence than usual or it’s not an ordinary red dragon. It could be a blended red/copper dragon or a red dragon with a template of some kind.

I expect it’s the former but think it would be more fun if it was the latter.

 

[Steel_Wind]

I just hope that when DragonLance comes out they got rid of the steel monetary system. Sure, you can hand wave it, but when things take more steel to make then they cost to buy... it just annoys me to no end.

100% agreed. It was always beyond stupid. It was just a slap-dash rule put in place so that characters could be transferred from an existing Greyhawk or other campaign and their gold pieces could be hand-waived with a grin as not being worth anything on Krynn. That's it. That's literally the only reason it was a rule for the setting in Dec of 1984 /Jan of 1985.

There was no attempt to really work out how BAD an idea that iron as a store of value was and how plainly DUMB an idea that was. Even among DragonLance fans, the idea of steel pieces is admitted to be a dumb temporary rule that got out of hand. Some regard it as nevertheless something that is "inherent" to the Krynn setting - mainly because it was mentioned in a few of the novels and so it got treated as "canon". The few mentions of old "worthless golds treasuries" that appeared in the early modules were removed completely in the 3.5 versions of those modules, too.

Ignore the unreasonably nostalgic. Consign steel pieces to the dustbin of history. A concern that was a temporary one aimed at gamers in January of 1985 - and the role that g.p. played in 1st Ed Exp Points system should have no hold on us now.