Parmandur
Book-Friend
Spinning off from the thread about this Winter's forthcoming Critical Role book, it strikes me that WotC can put out a Spring book in a few months, then the Summer storyline like every year, and then a November release in Fall, and have a release every Season quite reasonably.
Indeed, we now have good reason to think three releases are forthcoming: this is not the book Welch is working on with Marisha Ray, Deborah Ann Woll and others, nor is this Chris Perkins big storyline, nor is this whatever Crawford has cooking. And finally, none of those three other known projects are likely to be identical with each other.
Four hardcovers is more than their 5E publishing year average, but would also constitute slowing down from 2019.
So, I currently posit that we are going to see 1 Setting in Winter, 1 compilation of smaller material in Spring (bonus speculation: maybe they'll use some part of Greyhawk as a sandbox hub?), a big Forgotten Realms Storyline in Summer, and a follow-up to Xanathar's Guide in the Fall to finish the year out for the Holidays.
Thoughts?
Indeed, we now have good reason to think three releases are forthcoming: this is not the book Welch is working on with Marisha Ray, Deborah Ann Woll and others, nor is this Chris Perkins big storyline, nor is this whatever Crawford has cooking. And finally, none of those three other known projects are likely to be identical with each other.
Four hardcovers is more than their 5E publishing year average, but would also constitute slowing down from 2019.
So, I currently posit that we are going to see 1 Setting in Winter, 1 compilation of smaller material in Spring (bonus speculation: maybe they'll use some part of Greyhawk as a sandbox hub?), a big Forgotten Realms Storyline in Summer, and a follow-up to Xanathar's Guide in the Fall to finish the year out for the Holidays.
Thoughts?