D&D 5E Which D&D books currently scheduled for 2023 are you interested in?

[Ruin Explorer]

No interest in the Giants or Planescape books, on account of the topic and the format, respectively.

Wait, do we know the format for Planescape? If it's 64/64/64 again I need to change my vote to "nothing" lol.

 

[Scribe]

It was going to be the Giants (as I liked Fizbans) and Planescape (as I liked Spelljammer!)

It will now be nothing, and without a dramatic turn around I'll be pulping the books I do have.

 

[J.Quondam]

Wait, do we know the format for Planescape? If it's 64/64/64 again I need to change my vote to "nothing" lol.

Yes, I believe it's a 3-book set, like Spelljammer. Here's the ENW thread reporting the announcement:

Planescape - 5 New D&D Books Coming in 2023 -- Including Planescape!

At today's Wizards Presents event, hosts Jimmy Wong, Ginny Di, and Sydnee Goodman announced the 2023 line-up of D&D books, which featured something old, something new, and an expansion of a fan favorite. The first of the five books, Keys from the Golden Vault, will arrive in winter 2023. At...

www.enworld.org

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Yes, I believe it's a 3-book set, like Spelljammer.

Planescape - 5 New D&D Books Coming in 2023 -- Including Planescape!

At today's Wizards Presents event, hosts Jimmy Wong, Ginny Di, and Sydnee Goodman announced the 2023 line-up of D&D books, which featured something old, something new, and an expansion of a fan favorite. The first of the five books, Keys from the Golden Vault, will arrive in winter 2023. At...

www.enworld.org

Goddamn actual idiots.

Well that makes that completely and totally worthless. Oh you're just going to explain the ENTIRE Planescape setting, Sigil, its politics, the Factions, the concept, operation and nature of portals, all the races, subclasses, Feats, and so on, in 64 pages, then waste 64 pages on a Bestiary of obscure-ass beings that hardly anyone cares about (given all the major ones are already in 5E, minus, what, Modrons, who need like, what 12 pages?), and waste another 64 pages on a terrible adventure that only 5% of people who buy the book will ever even run, and 80% of those 5% will only run once ever?

The sheer wasteful stupidity of this kind of design is just mind-boggling. I honestly feel like I'm owed a very detailed explanation lol. Yet another hate-crime against Sigil. I guess I'll add it to the list.

 

[Older Beholder]

Wait, do we know the format for Planescape? If it's 64/64/64 again I need to change my vote to "nothing" lol.

Yeah, last I heard that was what they were going for.
I thought this would put more people off, and was surprised that Planescape was doing so well in the poll.

 

[grimslade]

Pending OGL outcomes...
Phandelver: I enjoyed Lost Mines immensely and would like to see what they will do with a bigger canvas from that strong base.
Glory of Giants: I am curious where they are going to go with Giants since Storm Kings Thunder
I am meh on the rest of the offerings.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Yeah, last I heard that was what they were going for.
I thought this would put more people off, and was surprised that Planescape was doing so well in the poll.

Awful lol I guarantee you most people voting Planescape don't know that.

 

[J.Quondam]

Goddamn idiots.

Well that makes that completely and totally worthless. You're just going to explain the ENTIRE Planescape setting, all the races, subclasses, Feats, and so on, in 64 pages, then waste 64 pages on a Bestiary of obscure-ass beings that hardly anyone cares about, and waste another 64 pages on a terrible adventure that 5% of people who buy the book will ever run, and 80% of those 5% will only run once ever?

The sheer wasteful stupidity of this kind of design is just mind-boggling.

I mean... maybe they could innovate and print it all in tiny, tiny font? And then sell an official reading device add-on?
I mean, losers could always just use their own magnifier to read it. But truly discriminating consumers of the under-monetized D&D lifestyle brand would never consider that. Instead, they would purchase an official Elminster's Embiggening Eyeglass for only $19.99.

 

[Older Beholder]

Awful lol I guarantee you most people voting Planescape don't know that.

Personally, I don't mind the 3 book format. But I'm hoping Planescape swap out the adventure for more setting info.
Also, swapping out the DM's screen for either maps or more pg count would go a long way too.

 

[jerryrice4949]

I think the main thing that has me less interested in getting more books is that with the changes to OneDnD, any player options that come out in books this year are likely to be out of date as soon as OneDnD comes out if they're something like subclasses.

That is my concern too. I would be a lot more interested if there were some assurances about what ‘backward comparability’ looks like. I suspect it will mainly apply to adventures.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

But I'm hoping Planescape swap out the adventure for more setting info.

You know they won't. It'll be a really bad adventure too. The Spelljammer one was particularly double-awful because it couldn't even be run "out of the box", you had to go to D&D Beyond and get the free level 1-4 adventure there to run before it lol. Like, what the hell is that? Talking about treating it like a videogame.

 

[Jer]

Two weeks ago I would have said probably all of them eventually.

Now it's looking very likely that I won't buy any of them. And not just because I won't be buying Hasbro stuff unless there's a major course correction in the company - but because my interest in the overall future direction of D&D has waned. Getting a vibe for all of their future plans tells me that I just probably am not that interested in the direction they're going, and I'm off looking at products from other companies to see what there is to get excited about.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Getting a vibe for all of their future plans tells me that I just probably am not that interested in the direction they're going, and I'm off looking at products from other companies to see what there is to get excited about.

Yeah, it's like, even if they hadn't done this OGL stuff, if we'd just had as much discussion on the direction of 1D&D as we've had, and the same revelations about that, I think I'd be a lot less keen than I was.

I'm still interested in a D&D-type game (i.e. medium-high crunch, tons of character options, level & class), but I'm increasingly feeling "This ain't it". The unimpressive (but also not awful) changes shown in the 1D&D playtest haven't helped.

 

[dave2008]

I will check them all out, but the only sure purchase for me is probably the giant book. Others are a wait-and-see. I never got into Planescape as I skipped 2e, so I am a bit more interested in that one.

 

[Parmandur]

I think the main thing that has me less interested in getting more books is that with the changes to OneDnD, any player options that come out in books this year are likely to be out of date as soon as OneDnD comes out if they're something like subclasses.

Not based on the UA playtests: all the Species elements will work the same, as they have since 2020, and the Class bits seem to be compatible.

 

[Parmandur]

All of these products interest me, particularly Bigby's and the Deck of Many Things.

 

[Caerdwyn]

That... has become a complicated question. Before the insertion of foot-into-mouth in Providence I would have said "Planescape" without hesitation. But now, unless something changes so drastically that I cannot even foresee as possible, "none of the above".

 

[teitan]

Personally, I don't mind the 3 book format. But I'm hoping Planescape swap out the adventure for more setting info.
Also, swapping out the DM's screen for either maps or more pg count would go a long way too.

Yeah I don't need another DM screen.

 

[cbwjm]

Not based on the UA playtests: all the Species elements will work the same, as they have since 2020, and the Class bits seem to be compatible.

Class bits are only somewhat compatible unless they haven't structured subclasses the same across the board. Even with what we have now, a current bard has 3 levels assigned to subclasses whereas a onednd bard has 4 levels assigned to subclasses, it means if we have a bard subclass pop up in planescape, it isn't going to easily translate to onednd.

 

[cbwjm]

That is my concern too. I would be a lot more interested if there were some assurances about what ‘backward comparability’ looks like. I suspect it will mainly apply to adventures.

I think adventures are part of it, another part I think is the old classes running in a onednd game should still work fine but have to use the older subclasses, but since I intend to upgrade to onednd when it releases, any subclasses in these 2023 offerings will be quickly out of date.