D&D 5E What D&D Product Can Be Seen In The Crystals?

WotC has posted an image of a pile of crystals through which distorted glimpses of what looks like a product can be seen. In the comments below, folks have been flipping, enhancing, and generally squinting at the image behind the crystals, and while it's hard to make out, guesses include 'Journey Through the Radiant Ocean' (although I personally think that first letter looks more like an X or K than a J). 'Citadel' is also a popular guess for that last word--'Journey(s) to/from the Radiant Citadel'? Take a look and see what you think (or check the comments for flipped and enhanced versions).

In Spelljammer lore, the phlogiston--the space between the crystal spheres in which the prime material worlds can be found--is also known as the 'Rainbow Ocean'. And crystal seem on-brand for crystals spheres.

Below the text, the image appears to be of some kind of marketplace. Above it, WotC wrote "Through the depths of the Ethereal Plane is a beacon of possibility and adventure... "

There was apparently a press event today, pending some kind of product announcement on Tuesday.

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[vecna00]

Sure, no problem:

Oh!? It's 3 classic plus one revisit? I like it!

But it does beg the question: Does this count the cameo, or did the cameo evolve into it's own thing?

 

[Yaarel]

Not necessarily... Ghosts of Saltmarsh also falls into that "Adventure Compilation" category, and that book is entirely set in Greyhawk, even if it isn't a proper "setting book". Similarly, most of the adventures in Tales from the Yawning Portal are not set in the Forgotten Realms, by my understanding.

If this book is going "planar", as the tagline about "the depths of the Ethereal Plane" would suggest, I would imagine it'll probably stick to the 5e-incarnation of the Great Wheel, but it may not touch on the Forgotten Realms at all.

I view 5e FR as a blend of Greyhawk and FR and even some 4e sneaking in with Fey Shadow and monstrous races.

Altho the tone of Greyhawk might differ, such as low life expectancy at low levels and more futuristic scifi, the cosmological assumptions of a 5e Greyhawk is probably identical to 5e FR.

 

[vecna00]

Due to the timing, odds are either Forgotten Realsms or Greyhawk (which has been in 5E) to stand as part of the 50th Anniversary celebration along with revised core books

My initial assumption was that the revisit would be the Realms, but it has been an ever-changing thing for me.

 

[Parmandur]

Oh!? It's 3 classic plus one revisit? I like it!

But it does beg the question: Does this count the cameo, or did the cameo evolve into it's own thing?

Winninger has teased seven things:

- 3 classic Setting, 2in 2022 and 1 in 2023 (Spelljammer and Dragonlance this year, apparently)

- 1 Classic Setting cameo in 2022: this book might fit the bill, if it goes Planar

- 2 brand spanking new Settings with no Magic connection, release indeterminate

- 1 revisit in 2024

 

[vecna00]

Winninger has teased seven things:

- 3 classic Setting, 2in 2022 and 1 in 2023 (Spelljammer and Dragonlance this year, apparently)

- 1 Classic Setting cameo in 2022: this book might fit the bill, if it goes Planar

- 2 brand spanking new Settings with no Magic connection, release indeterminate

- 1 revisit in 2024

I was under the impression that either the cameo or the revisit got dropped in favor of the third setting. I won't say "no" to getting all of them!

 

[Maxperson]

look I get nothing solid but there is some wild looking stuff in those crystals.
maybe a cat and a ship

The tail on it is tipped in white and the head seems like it has a long nose. I think it's perhaps a fox.

 

[Maxperson]

Actually ya, flipped around I think I can see the word Radiant in the title.

Stormlight Archives confirmed!

 

[Yaarel]

In the crystal the ears of the anthropomorphic animal are distinctive. Neither cat nor fox. Not really hamster either, but more like that.

 

[pukunui]

I like to think that the 2024 revisit will be a proper Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Stormlight Archives confirmed!

Trying to convert the Stormlight Archive to a D&D-esque TTRPQ would be an absolute nightmare. Especially with trying to stat out the Singers/Parshendi as a playable race. Making distinct classes for all 10 types of the Knights Radiant would actually probably be one of the easiest parts of designing the system, as there's already different "levels" laid out for them.