D&D 5E What do you think the 2020 Summer, Fall, and Winter D&D books will be?

[gyor]

What do you think the 2020 Summer, Fall, and Late Winter D&D books will be?

We know the early Winter, borderline Spring book is Wildemount, Spring's book is Mythic Odyssey's of Theros. But what will Summer's book be, Falls book, and late Winter's Book be?

I think Summer's book with be Kate Welsh's book, Fall Perkin's next AP, and Winter a FRCG style book with somekind of link to BG3 somehow, like Lae'zel's Tourbook of Toril or something.

 

[TwoSix]

I don't know, but I would certainly expect a delay. I expect at least one 2020 product will end up in 2021.

 

[gyor]

I don't know, but I would certainly expect a delay. I expect at least one 2020 product will end up in 2021.

Why? If its Coronavirus, alot of work can been done remotely.

 

[gyor]

For 2021 btw I am expecting a Zendikar Campaign Setting Guide.

 

[TwoSix]

Why? If its Coronavirus, alot of work can been done remotely.

Yea, but they had been working in an office. Transitioning to home work takes time, not to mention the fact that people have kids that are stuck at home with them. And Seattle has already been pretty badly impacted.

Plus, everyone's timelines are going to slip, because there's a perfectly justified reason to let them slip that everyone knows about.

 

[gyor]

Btw for those wondering why I'm expecting a FRCG type book with tie ins to BG3 and player options this year, its mostly the because the Aberrant Mind Sorcerer.

"Or perhaps mind flayers kidnapped you, subjecting you to the nightmarish process of ceremorphosis—but the transformation failed and left you altered." Sounds like what happens to your character and companions in BG3 doesn't it? No freaking way that is an accident.

Plus there might be alot of other lore and things going on in BG3 and BG4 that WotC will want too tie into lore wise, but its too early to have an adventure based on BG3, but a BG3 influenced FRCG style book would be no problem. Plus folks have been bugging them for a 5e FRCG for years now (I'm not the onlg one).

 

[gyor]

Yea, but they had been working in an office. Transitioning to home work takes time, not to mention the fact that people have kids that are stuck at home with them. And Seattle has already been pretty badly impacted.

Plus, everyone's timelines are going to slip, because there's a perfectly justified reason to let them slip that everyone knows about.

Maybe by like month maybe, but I believe they will still be out this year.

 

[TwoSix]

Maybe by like month maybe, but I believe they will still be out this year.

Fortunately, this is a very testable hypothesis.

 

[Len]

Here are my predictions.

Summer: A sourcebook + adventure that is a tie-in to some non-Wizards IP that is currently popular on streaming because that's all the inspiration the writers have left after being stuck at home for months. It will sell well but D&D fanboys will despise it.

Fall: The Fall Classic - Another third-party tie-in book, with Major League Baseball (assuming the World Series gets cancelled). The pro sports leagues will be desperate by then, so this could be a whole new business for WotC.

Late Winter: Plague In Waterdeep - This is the first in a planned series of adventures based on a group of Waterdeep residents who are isolated in their separate homes due to a plague which is ravaging Faerûn. They spend their time bravely doing housework, crafting, and managing their toilet paper supplies.

 

[jayoungr]

I think the next book after Theros has pretty much got to be an adventure, with or without new setting attached. If I had to bet, I'd say it will be a return to the Forgotten Realms, since the last three books by then will have focused on new settings.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I hope the things will be better after spring and summer when days are warmer and sunnier.

In this year we should have more news about Dark Sun. There are plans about Ravenloft, maybe a compulation of modules about the Grand Conjuction. Spelljammer is also in the list.

Other lines will have to await until an adaptation to videogames or teleserie, for example Dragonlance.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Why? If its Coronavirus, alot of work can been done remotely.

Most printing nowadays is done in China. I don't know if WotC's is, but if it isn't, it's unusual in that regard.

 

[gyor]

Most printing nowadays is done in China. I don't know if WotC's is, but if it isn't, it's unusual in that regard.

There are other printers in other countries. Don't you think they have already thought of this and have put together alternatives and contingency plans in place by now? Its not like Corona was discovery yesterday, or that a possible trade war with China hadn't been a possiblity for years now.

 

[gyor]

I hope the things will be better after spring and summer when days are warmer and sunnier.

In this year we should have more news about Dark Sun. There are plans about Ravenloft, maybe a compulation of modules about the Grand Conjuction. Spelljammer is also in the list.

Other lines will have to await until an adaptation to videogames or teleserie, for example Dragonlance.

Darksun likely won't be until at least 2021, we need to playtest a Psion class first (Mystic wasn't popular enough to survive).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There are other printers in other countries. Don't you think they have already thought of this and have put together alternatives and contingency plans in place by now? Its not like Corona was discovery yesterday, or that a possible trade war with China hadn't been a possiblity for years now.

I admire your optimism on this score.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I haven't said DS to be published this year but we will have to receive some new, for example about the psionic handbook for 2021, or maybe the official anouncement of a new DS videogame with the sytle of Conan Exiles. My suggestion is WotC to hire Dreamscarred Press staff for the psionic powers (and later the martial adepts).

Greyhawk needs its own Baldur's Gate, a smashing-hit videogame, but theses needs a lot of time if you really want a good work.

If Mystara comes back the spin-off Hollow World could suffer a retcon with a style more closer to DS. After Spelljammer the next step may be Red Steel/Savage Coast to test new ideas as firearms and mutants(superpowers).

 

[Fenris447]

There are other printers in other countries. Don't you think they have already thought of this and have put together alternatives and contingency plans in place by now? Its not like Corona was discovery yesterday, or that a possible trade war with China hadn't been a possiblity for years now.

And those printers will also be swamped by everyone doing the same thing as WOTC; trying to find alternatives to Chinese printers. The demand will drive printing prices up. Now either WotC will eat those costs to deliver more expensive books on time, pass the cost on to customers, or delay until prices come back down.

Delays are a very, very real possibility. They're not a sure thing, but it would be foolish to discount that potential outcome. We really are going to have to wait and see.

 

[MonkeezOnFire]

The last book released (Eberron) was a setting and the next two confirmed books will also be settings. So I'm going to guess the unannounced products will go in another direction to avoid setting fatigue.

Summer: Shorter adventure collection. Following the Yawning Portal and Ghosts of Saltmarsh model, a collection of smaller adventures that can be used individually or run one after another. I believe it was reported that Kate recruited some big names to work on a book so I think that a number of these will be originals instead of conversions from old editions.

Fall: Adventure Path in the form we are used to getting them now. Levels 1 - 15 conflict that eventually grows to epic proportions. I'm betting that it will tie into Baldur's Gate 3 by focusing on the Gith vs mind flayer conflict.

Winter: It's been a while since we've had a monster book. Taking after Volo's and Mordenkainen's it would also double as a deeper exploration of some of the lore. This is the one I'm least sure about since we've now had 3 monster focused books and most of the classics and go to's are statted at this point. But there could be interest if they round up some of the truly obscure old monsters.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Summer: Shorter adventure collection. Following the Yawning Portal and Ghosts of Saltmarsh model, a collection of smaller adventures that can be used individually or run one after another. I believe it was reported that Kate recruited some big names to work on a book so I think that a number of these will be originals instead of conversions from old editions.

Greg Tito also referenced the Yawning Portal and "portals on portals" for an upcoming product in the official podcast a few weeks ago. I wouldn't be surprised if we see planar material throughout the year.

Fall: Adventure Path in the form we are used to getting them now. Levels 1 - 15 conflict that eventually grows to epic proportions. I'm betting that it will tie into Baldur's Gate 3 by focusing on the Gith vs mind flayer conflict.

That would be amazing. I'd love it if it was as setting-independent as possible -- at least for the Prime Material Plane portion -- but that may be naive.

Winter: It's been a while since we've had a monster book. Taking after Volo's and Mordenkainen's it would also double as a deeper exploration of some of the lore. This is the one I'm least sure about since we've now had 3 monster focused books and most of the classics and go to's are statted at this point. But there could be interest if they round up some of the truly obscure old monsters.

A Manual of the Planes 5E could give us planar lore, some of the more obscure critters and planar player-facing content.

We'll see, though.

 

[Dausuul]

A reprint of the 2E setting "Masque of the Red Death."