D&D 5E (2024) WotC to release “several digital DLC” supplements for the new Forgotten Realms release

[GarrettKP]

Game Informer released its article detailing the upcoming Forgotten Realms books for Dungeons and Dragons, and one small but important note is the inclusion of “several digital DLC” supplements.

“Astarion’s Book of Hungers is one of several digital DLCs that will further expand the new setting, in this case with a specific genre focus on urban vampire adventures.”

What other supplements are you hoping might accompany these books?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

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Game Informer released its article detailing the upcoming Forgotten Realms books for Dungeons and Dragons, and one small but important note is the inclusion of “several digital DLC” supplements.

“Astarion’s Book of Hungers is one of several digital DLCs that will further expand the new setting, in this case with a specific genre focus on urban vampire adventures.”

What other supplements are you hoping might accompany these books?

Hard to say until we find out more about the DLCs (DLCs for PAPER Books just sounds weird, this isn't a video game).

I do wonder if Astarion's Book of Hunger will update the Dhampyr species. I also wonder what FR city he will use as his example setting for a Vampire City.

 

[Spectral Anomaly]

I'm guessing these won't be free.

 

[Desdichado]

DLCs? LOL!

 

[GarrettKP]

Hard to say until we find out more about the DLCs (DLCs for PAPER Books just sounds weird, this isn't a video game).

I do wonder if Astarion's Book of Hunger will update the Dhampyr species. I also wonder what FR city he will use as his example setting for a Vampire City.

I really doubt they will make a “Vampire City.” More likely it’s just rules and adventure ideas for how to run a Vampire villain preying on people in a city like Baldurs Gate.

 

[GarrettKP]

DLCs? LOL!

Certainly a strange choice of words. But their modern day audience has heavy overlap with video games so using the same language makes some amount of marketing sense.

 

[Alzrius]

Even with the fall of Sigil, their VTT initiative, I suspect that WotC hasn't given up the proverbial ghost on trying to make digital offerings the future of D&D, so this is really no surprise.

I just thought they'd try to be a little more circumspect than flat-out calling these DLC, though.

 

[Christian Hoffer]

LOL, I'm literally writing this for the front page as we speak.

 

[Alby87]

Remember the UA we didn't know what book they were for? Here it is. Probably a lot of subclasses are "DLCs" (that should be... well, "downloadable" per definition XD)

 

[TravDoc42]

I wonder if GameInformer used the term "DLC" because they're primarily a video game outfit?