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.

D&D 5E - Announcement Next Week--What Hints For Upcoming D&D Books?

WotC uses Unearthed Arcana to playtest D&D material which often ends up in a later hardcover book. Mages of Strixhaven was in Unearthed Arcana in June 2021, and Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos was published in December 2021. Draconic Options was in Unearthed Arcana in April 2021, and Fizban's...

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[Paul Farquhar]

Calling it now: Planejammer, the combined settings of Planescape and Spelljammer.

Sigil is the hub setting as ships come and go and they travel the planes of existence AND BEYOND*!

*also known as The Feywild

Despite not being a setting book, despite not having any of the words "plane", "scape" "spell" or "jammer" in the title and despite having no evidence of ships or Sigil on the cover?

 

[DarkCrisis]

Despite not being a setting book, despite not having any of the words "plane", "scape" "spell" or "jammer" in the title and despite having no evidence of ships or Sigil on the cover?

Do we even have setting books anymore?

Or are they adventure books with some local setting stuff? Like the Rime Frost Maiden aka Icewind Dale book.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Do we even have setting books anymore?

Yes, there are two coming later in the year. Spelljammer in the fall and Dragonlance for Christmas.

I guess you could describe this book as a Planescape adventure book, but one that does not involve Sigil.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Yes, there are two coming later in the year. Spelljammer in the fall and Dragonlance for Christmas.

I guess you could describe this book as a Planescape adventure book, but one that does not involve Sigil.

That’s what I’m saying though, are they really settings books when they are adventure books that give the minimum amount of lore about the world.

Again for example Rime of the Frost Maiden. Is that an adventure book or is it the Icewind Dale setting book? I’d say it’s an adventure book.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

That’s what I’m saying though, are they really settings books when they are adventure books that give the minimum amount of lore about the world.

They are settings, not adventures*.

Again for example Rime of the Frost Maiden. Is that an adventure book or is it the Icewind Dale setting book? I’d say it’s an adventure book.

It's an adventure. It was marketed as an adventure, and is listed as an adventure on D&D Beyond. WotC have never, at any time, suggested it was a setting book.

Typical internet logic: we get one book (Stryxhaven) that is a combined setting and campaign, and the conclusion "WotC aren't doing setting books any more" is immediately leapt to.


*I have a hunch that Dragonlance will include the setting and the War of the Lance campaign as two books in a cardboard sleeve, because Christmas is a time for expensive products.

 

[Morrus]

Do we even have setting books anymore?

Or are they adventure books with some local setting stuff? Like the Rime Frost Maiden aka Icewind Dale book.

Last year we had Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, the year before we had Mythic Odysseys of Theros, and Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, and the year before that Eberron: Rising from the Last War. So we get 1-2 setting books per year. If we get 1 or 2 settings this year (as seems likely), the pattern will hold true.

 

[Staffan]

It's most likely a bat, seeing as how it has wings.

Going back to Spelljammer, I am reminded of the cover of Realmspace, which has a batship attacking another spelljamming ship.

 

[Umbran]

Post 271 is missing from my view of the thread. It must have been posted by one of the bigots here who have blocked me after I called them out for being anti-inclusive.

Mod Note:
How about you take the personal jabs to some other site, before they get you in trouble, hm?

Thanks much.

 

[Daemini]

Obviously is a piñata Boo, you can see people under it collecting trinkets falling from it.

 

[Weiley31]

Maybe the adventure starts off at Sigil, and then the overall goal is to Spelljammer on over to Saridor's citadel, where the main crux of the adventure is to restore Saridor himself. Along the way, you'll meet Boo, who is Captain of his own Spelljammer ship with Minsc as his first mate!