D&D 5E WotC Delays New D&D Book Announcement

This from WotC — “Get the quasits out of our office! Our plan to make a D&D book announcement on Thursday has been changed. Adventurers, mark your calendars for Monday, January 13.”

The book was due to be announced on Thursday 9th January after a mysterious entry appeared on Amazon with a product title of "Dungeons & Dragons March Release Book (Title announced January 9th)" and a release date of March 17th, 2020. See the original news item here:

D&D 5E - March's D&D Book To Be Announced On January 9th

A mysterious entry has appeared on Amazon! With a product title of "Dungeons & Dragons March Release Book (Title announced January 9th)" and a release date of March 17th, 2020, this $49.95 hardcover release will be revealed in under a week! The description reads "Your first look at the next...

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They haven't given a reason; back in November WotC delayed the launch of the sapphire D&D anniversary dice at the last minute, too.

D&D General - $300 D&D Dice Delayed

WotC has delayed the sale of the $300 dice. They haven’t said why.

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[Undrave]

Now With More Sword Coast!

Swordier and Coastier than ever!

 

[Demetrios1453]

If they took SCAG and doubled the page count, and filled that with info on the rest of the setting, I'd actually be ok with that.

 

[generic]

Jury Duty

I'm uh... sick, and, the accused is my best friend. Uh...

 

[Prakriti]

If they took SCAG and doubled the page count, and filled that with info on the rest of the setting, I'd actually be ok with that.

Speaking of expanding the SCAG... I always thought Faction information was conspicuously absent from that book. Remember, this was back when choosing a faction was a big part of organized play (and still is, as far as I know), so it seemed odd that the book didn't contain anything about the Harpers, the Zhentarim, the Emerald Enclave, the Lords' Alliance, etc. That's a whole chapter right there that should have been in the book.

 

[generic]

Speaking of expanding the SCAG... I always thought Faction information was conspicuously absent from that book. Remember, this was back when choosing a faction was a big part of organized play (and still is, as far as I know), so it seemed odd that the book didn't contain anything about the Harpers, the Zhentarim, the Emerald Enclave, the Lords' Alliance, etc. That's a whole chapter right there that should have been in the book.

If I remember correctly, there is a small section (1-2) pages which details some faction information, perhaps in one of the sections detailing Waterdeep. But, I was as surprised as you were to see the lack of organized material.

 

[iltharanos]

Argggg, way to drag it out. Annoying, very, very annoying.

Agreed. Absolutely lame. If it’s intentional grandstanding on their part, even more so.

 

[MarkB]

I can’t imagine the audiences overlap all that much.

Unless the new book is the Pokemon Campaign Setting.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Unless the new book is the Pokemon Campaign Setting.

I've seen many homebrews using 5e mechanics to play as a Pokemon catcher, but none of the type of Pokémon games I'd like: the ones where you play as a Pokémon against the catcher (which are monsters)! Bring back the old Races-as-classes design and there's endless possibilities of splatbooks with more ''classes'' and new islands.

 

[MarkB]

I've seen many homebrews using 5e mechanics to play as a Pokemon catcher, but none of the type of Pokémon games I'd like: the ones where you play as a Pokémon against the catcher (which are monsters)! Bring back the old Races-as-classes design and there's endless possibilities of splatbooks with more ''classes'' and new islands.

That has some scope. I just had a vision of running a game where the group are playing as a Tabaxi tribe in the wilderness, defending against the slaver Giants who frequently raid your lands, capturing your fellows in dimensional prisons and carting them off for use in gladiatorial fights.

Then see how long it takes them to realise that the 'giants' are actually humans, and the 'tabaxi' are a tribe of Meowth.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

It will not be My Little Pony but My Little Centauress: Heroines from Equestria. And It will not be Dark Sun but about a planewalkers (from Kaladesh) who arrives to a dessert planet where a spelljammer crashed and there is a confrotation between transformers dinobots vs mad Max's road warriors (with more transformers as monster road vehicles).

Later will be the Transformers -Star Wars Legend crossover where it will tell how the transformers caused Yuuzhan Vong' robotphobia-tecnophobia, and we will see gladiator arenas of dinobots vs rancors and other kaijus.

I've lost the ability to differentiate your real speculation and an actual joke.