D&D 5E Upcoming D&D Tidbits: Phandelver, Book of Many Things, Venger, & More!

D&D Beyond has shared some more tidbits of information about upcoming products, including this summer's new Phandelver campaign, and information about Vecna, Planescape, and spring's Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants, and more.

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Here are the highlights:

• In the 2024 Vecna adventure, you will visit various worlds.
• Art by Brian Valezer and Kent Davis from fall 2023's Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants was shared (see below), along with art from the Phandelver campaign by José Manzanedo. There was additional art from Planescape and more which you can see in the video.
• The new Phandelver book will include the existing adventure Lost Mines of Phandelver in the first half and then continue on to higher levels from there.
• They're reimagining Planescape for today's audience--honouring the roots then expanding.
• More cards are being added to the Deck of Many Things in winter 2023's Book of Many Things. A new product type--a deck of cards and an accompanying book. The book digs into the history of the deck and its cosmic place as a force of chaos. It contains player and DM content.
• Venger, the villain from the 1980s D&D cartoon who will be featuring in an upcoming storyline and WotC's Chris Perkins might have hinted he is actually a Red Wizard--'a redder Red Wizard' was the phrase used.
• Many of the various bad guys in the League of Malevolence appeared in the D&D cartoon series -- Kelek, Warduke, etc.

Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants (art by Brian Valezer)

Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants (art by Kent Davis)

Phandelver Campaign (art by José Manzanedo)

Book of Many Things (art by Craig J. Spearing)​

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

the alternative would not be for the campaign to miss a piece, but for it to either pick up at 5th level (where Lost Mine ends) or simply have a different start altogether (I was expecting the latter). It's the duplication that is a bit disappointing

Fair enough. But I would still prefer to have the whole thing available to me. Are you concerned about cut content? I can understand that argument.

 

[mamba]

Fair enough. But I would still prefer to have the whole thing available to me. Are you concerned about cut content? I can understand that argument.

I am saying I rather wanted new content than a duplication of existing content (Lost Mine)

 

[Zaukrie]

I would be shocked if there aren't already a metric ton from the past several years.

Sure. I expect new ones, was my point. I should have been more clear.

 

[R_J_K75]

No, the new Starter Set came out last year, but will remain in print for the foreseeable future past the introduction of the new Core books, per Crawford.

Seems odd that theyd not release a new starter set for the 2024 release because the change in terminology

 

[aco175]

My players have already completed Lost Mines of Phandelver and moved on to other adventures. I'll have to figure out how to handle this, since I was looking forward to a new campaign. It doesn't seem like playing it again would work out for this group. How are you guys planning to deal with this?

I was thinking of what to do here myself. I already created a couple follow-on campaigns with an updated map of an expanded town. I might splice some things together and use the new town maps and NPCs with somehow blowing up the castle again after my old PC rebuilt it. My son never played the original and my father might not remember much of the specifics, but my brother might. I could use the new starter with Dragon isle and then send the PCs to Phandalin at some point around level 5 if I make some filler.

 

[Parmandur]

Seems odd that theyd not release a new starter set for the 2024 release because the change in terminology

Not that much is changing, and the new box points to the core books which have the same names.

 

[werecorpse]

When I heard there was going to be a Phandelver area expansion I thought it would just add to the Lost Mines adventure not reprint and add a bit, so I bought a back up copy of the starter set. More fool me.

I wonder if the part that isn’t a reprint of the starter set will be some of the Essentials stuff?

 

[bedir than]

When I heard there was going to be a Phandelver area expansion I thought it would just add to the Lost Mines adventure not reprint and add a bit, so I bought a back up copy of the starter set. More fool me.

I wonder if the part that isn’t a reprint of the starter set will be some of the Essentials stuff?

Gift that Starter Set to someone who is just starting!

Also, I expect that there will be a lot more Tier 2 play just takes more than Tier 1

 

[MockingBird]

When I heard there was going to be a Phandelver area expansion I thought it would just add to the Lost Mines adventure not reprint and add a bit, so I bought a back up copy of the starter set. More fool me.

I wonder if the part that isn’t a reprint of the starter set will be some of the Essentials stuff?

Hopefully not, I'm okay with Lost Mines being reprinted but I'd like more new content. The Essentials kit was great, I own it, but the adventures were just tacked on to the peripheral of Lost Mines. I'd expect a cohesive story line in the new book rather than a bunch of locations to visit. Just my opinion though.

 

[CM]

Related to Xxiphu? The citadel of the Abolethic Sovereignty?

What is this?!

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