D&D 5E (2024) What Is 2026's Big Adventure

[mamba]

Look, i.am just saying that I, personally, want something innovative in D&D and the last innovative thing they did was advantage/disadvantage. Everything else for 5E has been playing it safe, 5E 2024 most egregious of all.

D&D is pretty much never innovative, market leaders rarely are, too risky

Everybody is excited to get yet another dusty setting in Dark Sun and I am here just begging them to do something, anything actually new.

I’d say I am curious, but not excited (much too early for that). The same would be true for a theoretical new setting.

Honestly the only thing that comes close is the one book they went out of their way to court the next generation on: Radiant Citadel.

did they succeed with that? Seems to have had pretty average sales… It’s not really what I am looking for, I prefer one larger setting over a dozen micro-settings.

 

[Reynard]

I'm also confused by calling the new hired 25 year olds.
I don't think Haek was the lead editor of EN5ider at 15.
Are we suggesting that Barillaro earned their Masters 13?
Merwin's been a college instructor for years now and wrote for two decades

Look at you cherry picking.

 

[mamba]

Look at you cherry picking.

that was three new hires, how many are there that this is cherry picking?

 

[Smackpixi]

We’re getting a big Thay baddies adventure in FR for sure. I would expect expansive territory usage. Dark Sun will happen, they abandon slipcases and go with a single normal style setting book with D&D Beyond free and for purchase additions…free player stuff, paid dm stuff. Repurposing from originally planned slipcase may delay. Ravenloft will be embiggened with a book of one shots that can be used individually, as a new Ravenloft campaign, or appended to a Strahd campaign. All within the next 18 months. People will be extatic about the plans, hardcores will be disappointed with the execution. These are my predictions.

 

[Smackpixi]

I also think they will use the expansive Thay baddies campaign to start doing mini setting “books” on D&D beyond for more FR territories. Like imagine all the Calimshan stuff in the FR books, but for Amn or whoever.

 

[bedir than]

that was three new hires, how many are there that this is cherry picking?

five
So here's the other two
Navarro earned her Masters in 2018, do we assume she earned that at 19?
Roberts graduated from Yale in 2002. I guess she did that at 3?

 

[zakael19]

Look, i.am just saying that I, personally, want something innovative in D&D and the last innovative thing they did was advantage/disadvantage. Everything else for 5E has been playing it safe, 5E 2024 most egregious of all.

Everybody is excited to get yet another dusty setting in Dark Sun and I am here just begging them to do something, anything actually new.

Honestly the only thing that comes close is the one book they went out of their way to court the next generation on: Radiant Citadel.

4e was pretty innovative, and that wasn’t a super young crowd right? Not sure the corporate environment at WOTC supports heavy “innovation,” but creativity is not innovation.

I’d say stuff like Gavin’s Dolmenwood is pretty dang creative if not innovative and he’s not young. I’d take anything along those lines out of WOTC. Radiant Citadel and its diverse set of themes were creative and fresh feeling. Folks in their late 20s and 30s who are seasoned enough to be professional and fit within a corporate team but have enough pull and trust to be heeded are well suited to add more of that sort of creativity and new perspectives.

 

[dave2008]

In the 80s they were viewed as distant threats that could easily be ignored. Now they are upon us.

I don't no about all of them, but environmental collapse had been a thing in the US since at least the '70s. Heck, Dune came out in the '60s and has a lot of DS themes.

 

[Zardnaar]

I don't no about all of them, but environmental collapse had been a thing in the US since at least the '70s. Heck, Dune came out in the '60s and has a lot of DS themes.

Environmentalism picked up 70s was a thing 90s. Maybe NZ focused more on it (nuclear free 1980s)

Captain Planet anyone,

New reboot of Darksun could focus a bit more in it but it was a big thing in OBS.