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

[mamba]

The big question is whether the December stuff will include an adventure the length of previous years and, if not, if that means WotC has dropped that format for now.

they seem to be experimenting with different formats and price points. The Arcana Unleashed is slightly cheaper at $50, so probably slightly shorter too, the adventure is half as long as usual for half the price, the ‘of Everything’ books seem to have been replaced by these new ‘extension’ ones that are thematically organized and contain about 8 to 10 subclasses…

 

[Parmandur]

it's literally about half the page count. You can argue it is one complete adventure and I do not disagree with that but since this was asking about the 'big adventure' my answer would be there isn't one as there is no full length one at all then

There is no standard metric unit for an Adventure module, per se. White Plume Mountain was like 12 pages and a complete module in the day.

To be honest, it being shorter might give this particular Adventure a greater chance at being cohesive than some of the bigger Campaign books, similar to the Spelljammer or Planescape campaigns which were even shorter.

 

[mamba]

There is no standard metric unit for an Adventure module, per se. White Plume Mountain was like 12 pages and a complete module in the day.

no there isn’t, but since this thread is about the big adventure that to me clearly means the full 2xx pages we got in the past, not 64, even if that were the largest one we got this year. That just means we did not get a big adventure in 2026

 

[Reynard]

no there isn’t, but since this thread is about the big adventure that to me clearly means the full 2xx pages we got in the past, not 64, even if that were the largest one we got this year. That just means we did not get a big adventure in 2026

How many pages would it have to be to be a "big adventure"? How many levels? How many discrete zones or bad guys? Is your only metric what has come before, or do you have some sort of broad definition?

 

[Parmandur]

no there isn’t, but since this thread is about the big adventure that to me clearly means the full 2xx pages we got in the past, not 64, even if that were the largest one we got this year. That just means we did not get a big adventure in 2026

Well...maybe, we will see.

If Dark Sun is the Winter product, then no (which I think is likely).

If the Dragon lance hints bear fruit...we could see a collection of the old DL modules reimagined, not implausible.

 

[Reynard]

Well...maybe, we will see.

If Dark Sun is the Winter product, then no (which I think is likely).

If the Dragon lance hints bear fruit...we could see a collection of the old DL modules reimagined, not implausible.

Dark.Sun may still happen this year, but a reissue old DL1-14? Pure fantasy.

 

[Parmandur]

Dark.Sun may still happen this year, but a reissue old DL1-14? Pure fantasy.

Is it, though...? Margaret Weiss has said that there will be announcements about what WotC has cooking with Drafpnlance this August, which is about when I expect we will hear about the Winter book.

Lord Soth is literally on the schedule for the year they just dropped, right below the unannounced book:

And at the same time that they announced the slate of book releases they revealed this new character coming to Idle Champions, along with promising other forthcoming Dragonlance characters for the game:

From Page to Party: Raistlin Majere Comes to Idle Champions

Raistlin Majere joins Idle Champions in 2026. Learn how Codename Entertainment translated Krynn’s hourglass-eyed mage into a formation-shaping DPS...

www.dndbeyond.com

And if they did re-do the DL series as they did a number of older books in Infinite Staircase, the use of the term Champions would not be unprecedented:

It is a solid possibility, and this sort of heroic fantasy epic always appeals to teens.

 

[mamba]

How many pages would it have to be to be a "big adventure"? How many levels? How many discrete zones or bad guys? Is your only metric what has come before, or do you have some sort of broad definition?

It’s what has come before, so 200+ pages, levels 1-10+. That is what I understand the OP means by big adventure, and every year from 2014 to 2024 there would have been one that fits that definition, 2025 only had an anthology I believe

 

[Reynard]

It’s what has come before, so 200+ pages, levels 1-10+. That is what I understand the OP means by big adventure, and every year from 2014 to 2024 there would have been one that fits that definition, 2025 only had an anthology I believe

Was Planescape or Spelljammer or Dragonlance a "big adventure?" My point is the definition has certainly shifted. That the Thay adventure is not a $60 adventure doesn't mean that it isn't THIS YEAR'S "big adventure."

 

[Scribe]

We should trust the people of the generation to sell to the generation, and our generation is functionally irrelevant.

Is this true? Gen X is the glue keeping everything going. It's spending money supporting both parents and our adult children. Nostalgia is aimed at us, it's our IPs driving media companies.