Two New Settings For D&D This Year

if it comes out this year i would agree with you. Possibly published by a third party company that has a good reputation (Green Ronin etc)

However if it’s coming next year I would stake all the money in my pockets that it will be a Curse of Strahd style book. Campaign with background and new monsters etc. Curse of Strahd was too successful not to repeat!

 

[Jester David]

My Guesses:

Okay, as I mentioned above, I'm wildly guessing these are smaller PDF products like the Plane Shift PDFs for the Magic the Gathering settings. An adventure plus a brief setting overview with a few races and maybe a couple monsters. Perhaps a subclass.

This is an untested release method. They'd want to try it out with a few softballs before going all in. Classics. But maybe one weirder variant to give people *something* different that isn't generic fantasy.

I'm guessing Greyhawk or Mystara for one. A good old school option. Likely the former. It can be well served with a brief folio product, as was demonstrated in the early '80s.
The continued success of the novels make Dragonlance an appealing choice as well.
But Eberron is also a good choice and would pair well with the artificer. So I think that's a lock for the second option.

The limitations rules out something like Dark Sun that has a bajillion setting monsters, and likely too many new mechanics to easily update.
As such, I think the weird option is Planescape. It's safer than Spelljammer and is a subsetting that makes it easy to add to existing campaigns. And it's easily covered by focusing on Sigil.

But, these are wild guesses and WotC could surprise us...

 

[Eltab]

I can say, you might be surprised in what's coming out. I'm not going to say anything more, except it's probably not going to be what you're thinking.

A Nerath / Points-of-Light adventure & gazetteer?

 

[Demetrios1453]

So, our legendary fourth book will be appearing, and announced in July.

But as for the two settings, ive just realized a possibility that hasn't been brought up here. As has been mentioned by others, its awfully late for two previously unannounced products to be released and playable by the end of the year. Now some are assuming that this means PDFs or DMs Guild versions of setting guides. But... what about extensive UAs for these settings? That will get them released and playable by the end of the year, without physical products, but with likely physical products in the future, like next year.

I would assume that these would contain things that would need some playtesting, so I'm guessing Eberron and Dark Sun, leaving our soon-to-be-announced physical product something less difficult, like Planescape and/or Spelljammer. Heck, it might even be a full Forgotten Realms setting book, although I can only imagine the storm that would cause...

 

[NiClerigo]

I think Planescape is more likely - more directly compatible with and insertable in regular Realms adventures.

Note how nothing so far points towards a publication that cannot be used with all existing content.

WotC has indeed learnt TSR's lesson. I think they will do everything they can to support legacy gamer interests short of actually splitting the player base.

I respectfully disagree -artificer and psionics being worked on, and hints on Twittwr about Keith Baker and Mearls’s Eberron campaign make me think otherwise. Eberron has specific flavors, classes, races, rules that can complement traditional settings, and they insist it is part of the Multiverse. New or unheard of links with other settings can be explained

 

[neogod22]

My Guesses:

Okay, as I mentioned above, I'm wildly guessing these are smaller PDF products like the Plane Shift PDFs for the Magic the Gathering settings. An adventure plus a brief setting overview with a few races and maybe a couple monsters. Perhaps a subclass.

This is an untested release method. They'd want to try it out with a few softballs before going all in. Classics. But maybe one weirder variant to give people *something* different that isn't generic fantasy.

I'm guessing Greyhawk or Mystara for one. A good old school option. Likely the former. It can be well served with a brief folio product, as was demonstrated in the early '80s.
The continued success of the novels make Dragonlance an appealing choice as well.
But Eberron is also a good choice and would pair well with the artificer. So I think that's a lock for the second option.

The limitations rules out something like Dark Sun that has a bajillion setting monsters, and likely too many new mechanics to easily update.
As such, I think the weird option is Planescape. It's safer than Spelljammer and is a subsetting that makes it easy to add to existing campaigns. And it's easily covered by focusing on Sigil.

But, these are wild guesses and WotC could surprise us...

So the way it seems to work is, a lot of times, classes and races will go to UA for play test, but the campaigns get shipped to the play-testers. Seeing that they announced both new books coming out, they must've shipped the modules at the same time to different groups (probably to weed out the leakers). In the last couple books, they have been putting out some spelljammer monsters, and this last book had a lot of outer planes stuff, so those could be hints, but like someone said, they like to be misleading. Darksun isn't even possible until they bring psionics into the game, so you can count that out.

 

[Ghost2020]

Greyhawk and Mystara won't be on the list anytime soon. Greyhawk and Mystara aren't different enough, at this point, to make it worth the effort from the Realms.

A Planescape/Spelljammer hybrid would make the most sense in that regard. They can be blended well enough to exist in one book. A second book might be an adventure and additional sourcebook for that setting.

Eberron and Dark Sun not sure where they would drop those. Possibly Dark Sun before Eberron, but those would most likely come next year or later.

So for 2018 - Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, and the last would be D&D Planescape (or something like Tenser's Guide to the Planes) (which would include Sigil, Spelljamming, new backgrounds, a few new monsters, a chapter on the planes, etc.)

 

[thebakeriscomingforu]

Has anyone else seen this from twitter? Greg Tito retweeted this just a short time ago from an account made in may and this is the only tweet from it.
[video]https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1003669561768599552[/video]

 

[neogod22]

You can cross Greyhawk out. They've moved so much stuff from GH to the Realms already, I don't see them putting them back.

 

[ccs]

I wonder if one of them will be related to this:View attachment 98140

 

[NiClerigo]

Has anyone else seen this from twitter? Greg Tito retweeted this just a short time ago from an account made in may and this is the only tweet from it.
[video]https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1003669561768599552[/video]

Intriguing. If so... which setting does each glyph represent?