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

[Parmandur]

Is this really a change worth getting worked up over? I don't think so.

How dare you defy our most sacred and cherished traditions.

 

[Reynard]

Maybe they are changing the way they present adventures and dispensing with the walls of text and pointless prose. With some word economy, you could easily cut most WotC campaign length adventures in half without losing actual adventure content.

I don't think they are doing that, but they could.

 

[THEMNGMNT]

That would be too much to hope for!

 

[THEMNGMNT]

not sure anyone is getting worked up over it. If this ends up being 160 pages and levels 1-12 then it is a big adventure, if it is 80 pages and levels 7-12 then it is not. Given the price point I expect the latter, that is all there is to it

Dragon Heist was 5 levels and more expensive than Deadfall. By comparison, this is a deal.

Also, a 7-12 adventure would be a year of play for most groups.

That was the level range of Red Hand of Doom. Was that an adventure that shortchanged anyone?

 

[Zardnaar]

WotC you level up faster. I think DiA has 8 or 10 encounters for level 7-9 or 8-10 iirc.

 

[mamba]

Dragon Heist was 5 levels and more expensive than Deadfall. By comparison, this is a deal.

I did not include Dragon Heist in my list of big adventures either. There is more to it than the price point

Also, a 7-12 adventure would be a year of play for most groups.

so? It still is not a big adventure in the tradition of almost all adventures (not anthologies) we got for 5e

 

[vecna00]

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:

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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:

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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...

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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:

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

Your reasoning is indeed sound!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Dragon Heist was 5 levels and more expensive than Deadfall. By comparison, this is a deal.

I don’t think we have any real idea as to how long Deadfall will be yet, so can’t say if it’s better value than dragonheist. Forge of the Artificer was 112 pages, exactly half as long as Dragonheist.