Tangentially related side note: apparently Shaggy's power has crossed dimensional boundaries yet again. Because once you see it, you can't unsee it - the man is clearly on the cover of the new book.
Like, zoinks maaan!
No, It's Caleb Widogast. I mean, look, there's even amber coloured light for his vault, and Shaggy (a brilliant character) has blonde hair, not red.
But is the blue orc Jestfjord? Jester-Fjord? Ford-Jester? Something Something Clay? Something Something Lavorre? And is the drow Essek? Or Essek and Caleb's adoptive child? Speculation abounds! But at least this means we actually get a water campaign! All 5E has been mostly on land, even most of Saltmarsh (it has ship rules, but I don't believe that I'd class a mansion as a water thing), but this, very clearly (in description as well as art) is set in the desert, in the wastes, and under the water....... This is definitely something new for 5E.
I haven't followed all the business-end of CR too heavily lately, but didn't they recently announce a self-published resource book for the Exandria setting? I thought with the EGW that maybe CR would become exclusively published directly from WoTC, then that book got announced separately, and now there's an official WoTC-published Adventure book in the setting. I wonder if there's any reason for the split publication... I know that the first Exandria sourcebook was published before the two companies had gotten deeply entrenched together, and I think there's some copyright conflict with the content in that sourcebook, but I find it interesting that there's still this divergent publishing going on.
Kind of interesting that Wizards would write it instead of being produced by Critical Role.
What is more hilarious is all the critters giving CR twitch money and then some of them crying because CR made $9 million over 3 years.
$9M split what nine ways? Thats like a salaray of $300k each which would be a miserable amount of money for what they do. I am sure they had a lot more income from other sources, sponsorships, merch, others ads etc.
Actually I don't think it was mostly critters making a stink about CR getting paid, probably just jealous unsuccessful "creators".
Kind of interesting that Wizards would write it instead of being produced by Critical Role.
What is more hilarious is all the critters giving CR twitch money and then some of them crying because CR made $9 million over 3 years.
$9M split what nine ways? Thats like a salaray of $300k each which would be a miserable amount of money for what they do. I am sure they had a lot more income from other sources, sponsorships, merch, others ads etc.
Actually I don't think it was mostly critters making a stink about CR getting paid, probably just jealous unsuccessful "creators".
9 ways? They've got a whole production crew. The people on camera aren't running the streams, building all the sets and miniatures, mixing the sound, etc. Honestly, if you think of it as essentially a Television Show, $9 Million is a pretty paltry sum. I"m sure they make more money from sponsorships and merch sales than from Twitch revenue.
OOOH! It is Essek and Caleb! Shaggy is Caleb, and the drow is Essek! Solved.
IDK, it looks like another Matt Mercer cameo to me. He was in the two-page-art of the Yawning Portal in Dragon Heist, after all.
(So, this is the third official book that Matt Mercer has worked in for D&D 5e, I guess. Dragon Heist, Wildemount, and now this. I'm guessing that a Marquet Campaign Setting Guide will be coming in 2024 as the "Revisited Setting Book for a setting that we've already published in 5e", but it will be good to get a tiny bit of info on Marquet before then.)
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OOOH! It is Essek and Caleb! Shaggy is Caleb, and the drow is Essek! Solved.
IDK, it looks like another Matt Mercer cameo to me. He was in the two-page-art of the Yawning Portal in Dragon Heist, after all.
(So, this is the third official book that Matt Mercer has worked in for D&D 5e, I guess. Dragon Heist, Wildemount, and now this. I'm guessing that a Marquet Campaign Setting Guide will be coming in 2024 as the "Revisited Setting Book for a setting that we've already published in 5e", but it will be good to get a tiny bit of info on Marquet before then.)
Maybe? I somehow doubt it, but that would be cool. Also, Matt Mercer has longer hair?
Kind of interesting that Wizards would write it instead of being produced by Critical Role.
On the writing side, going by the info on CritRole's site, there's a pretty big overlap with the team that authored the Wildemount book. Matt's still co-lead. What surprises me more is the timing, I'd expected Matt would have liked to let C3 play out a bit more before committing to canonizing Marquet to the point that it could feature heavily in a campaign book. Six months is not very long considering editing, printing and distribution take up a significant chunk of that time and logistics will continue to be iffy well into next year.
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On the writing side, going by the info on CritRole's site, there's a pretty big overlap with the team that authored the Wildemount book. Matt's still co-lead. What surprises me more is the timing, I'd expected Matt would have liked to let C3 play out a bit more before committing to canonizing Marquet to the point that it could feature heavily in a campaign book. Six months is not very long considering editing, printing and distribution take up a significant chunk of that time and logistics will continue to be iffy well into next year.
To be fair, Matt also does much sturdier pre-campaign worldbuilding than many/most DMs. Not just because that be how he do, but because of the vastly increased demand for consistency and internal logic required for his game. I imagine most of what goes into this new book will be things he already decided was canon for his world, and I'm also figuring he's willing to let his game go off the rails a bit if needed. After all, Chris Perkins is himself familiar with players' tendency to drag games by the nose off into the woods and do unconscionable things to them - who says Matt is any more beholden to every last letter in Netherdeep than any other DM running an Exandria game would be?
I think that it does explain why they have had such a big gap between the end of C2 and episode 1 of C3. So Matt could solidify parts of Marquet for both the adventure and the new campaign.
Their first campaign went to Marquet for several episodes, so it's also had a lot of basics in place for a while. Also, it's not clear from the blurb how long adventurers are in Marquet. And Matt's been known to change 'canon' as presented in EGtW to fit the campaign, so yeah, if things need to be adjusted for his campaign, I can see him doing that.
So, to good humoredly "well, technically" Yuriel, this is the first whole WotC book dedicated adventure set in Exandria, but EGtW actually has a number of one shots bundled into it (I personally use Frozen Sick as an intro to D&D instead of The Lost Mind of the Philanderer because it's quick and checks off all the boxes of "this is D&D" and the title is easier to say) ... all of which I believe end at third level, which is the recommended starting level for the forthcoming book begins. I don't think that's a coincidence, and maybe WotC hoping for some renewed interest in EGtW.
I think this is ... interesting. I think it's sorta odd that WotC is doing this while CR is doing their in house campaign book. I do think it's WotC "buying in" to CR's audience, and getting more emphatic that the CR play style can be sustained in a "regular" D&D campaign. They made that gesture already with WBtW and its "pacifist mode" but this may be an effort to balance that encouragement with other play styles prior WotC modules are more associated with.
One thing I'm unclear on, not being a Critter, press is already saying this adventure will be unrelated to CR campaigns 1 or 2 (and presumably 3 and this summer's guest DM mini season), but the whole Netherdeep makes me think of the [spoiler in case some folks really want their experience protected]
big bag cosmic horror thing fought at the end of CR2
and I thought the whole sea paladin oath Mercer got into DDB not too long ago with the Cobalt soul was sorta formulated because the game "went there." I really don't know.
I'm also curious about the press reporting the adventure will have a "rival party". I'm hoping this isn't a rival party with fully worked out PC style character sheets, but rather a Mercer brand endorsement of what I call "healthy DMing" that says, "no, your NPC rivals need not be a theory crafted class and level constructions for them to be compelling NPCs, you can build them as Monster stat blocks as the actually books guide you." Mercer does "enriched role playing" really well, he also does efficient brass tacts adventure design really well and I think maybe having some "meta" to the book where "CR processes" are sort of introduced may be to the benefit to some, probably many DMs who I feel "over labor" not realizing there are "smarter not harder" methods likely practiced by the style they're trying to emulate.
On the writing side, going by the info on CritRole's site, there's a pretty big overlap with the team that authored the Wildemount book. Matt's still co-lead. What surprises me more is the timing, I'd expected Matt would have liked to let C3 play out a bit more before committing to canonizing Marquet to the point that it could feature heavily in a campaign book. Six months is not very long considering editing, printing and distribution take up a significant chunk of that time and logistics will continue to be iffy well into next year.
To be fair, Matt also does much sturdier pre-campaign worldbuilding than many/most DMs. Not just because that be how he do, but because of the vastly increased demand for consistency and internal logic required for his game. I imagine most of what goes into this new book will be things he already decided was canon for his world, and I'm also figuring he's willing to let his game go off the rails a bit if needed. After all, Chris Perkins is himself familiar with players' tendency to drag games by the nose off into the woods and do unconscionable things to them - who says Matt is any more beholden to every last letter in Netherdeep than any other DM running an Exandria game would be?
That's fair. I'm sure the material is ready, just a little surprised by it.
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As said earlier in this thread, this isn't their first trip to Marquet so it really isn't spoilery unless Campaign 3 follows the new published adventure, which isn't very likely.
I don't know, I really think that WotC is more reliant upon CR than the other way around. Anything those guys endorse their fans throw money at. That doesn't mean that I think they are likely to switch systems or anything of that nature. I am just saying that the "Critters" are crazy like that.
Idk didn't the Ukatoa board game under-perform pretty significantly? I think CR gets a lot of mileage from DnD's status in the public eye as the ubiquitous TTRPG. That's why they switched from PF originally. I think they get nearly as much as they give.
Ukatoa was, IIRC a board game that board gamers found sort of broken or uninspired (that is, not worth playing more than once and hard core boardgamers would probably have big issues with it halfway through play), it was an experiment for CR and yeah it wasn't received well but it's more adjacent or even further derivative than say TTRPG content, or a graphic novel or all the other actually successful CR merch that rakes in dough to rival the Twitch cash flow for revenue.
I don't know the full inside baseball of the system switch but I don't think CR just decided to switch to 5e from PF, they were sort of sold on it by WotC. I'm actually curious about the CR viewing market and how many are really invested in the mechanics and action economy etc. vs. folks who are invested in story and know the real suspense resolution is by dice rolls. Another book under WotC's imprint does definitely cement the relationship though.
Any other TT game dev would sacrifice an intern or six under a blood moon to become Critical Role's new primary gaming system.
It's also never going to happen.
Wizards of the Coast has given CR two Official D&D Books, now. It's plainly obvious that the company is invested in CR in a way few other gaming companies could match, and CR is just as heavily invested in 5e. All of their gaming products are based in 5e. Their first independent book release is in 5e. Their entire broadcast history, short one-off one-shots and a single four-episode miniseries, is in 5e. The two are married at the hip at this point.
I'll admit that I'd enjoy seeing what the team could do with a long-form campaign under another system, but that's mostly an intellectual curiosity thing and a higher willingness than many Critters to let them experiment and see what they can do. It's not anything with a remote possibility of actually happening.
I'm now wondering whether CR may be a note on a white board figuring out part of the roll out strategy for "D&D 5e 2024 RED" or whatever it's going to be called. I could see a Matt fireside chat talking showcasing the new stat block style and what that means for managing magic in the action system, etc.
But going back to me wondering how mechanics invested the CR audience is, I'm wondering whether that has any input into how far "D&D 5e 2024 RED" may take license to depart from the existing rules (as some folks think more radical moves will be made, contra to a lot of folks who are expecting books that will much more closely resemble what we have as far as core mechanical aspects).
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This wiki article has made me soooo much of a conspiracy theorist. Here's why:
Times of Releases:
As previously stated, D&D will be announcing a new book this month.
Critical Role Campaign 3 starts this week as well.
This double-coincidence is very coincidental...
There has been rumors of a Tal'dorei (Critical Role) campaign anthology bouncing around areas of reddit recently.
This sounds disputable, and comes from either untrustworthy or age-old sources.
If we look back, EGtW had four mini-adventures, and Strixhaven has four adventures... Could these be Campaign Setting adventures?
Campaign 3 explores the new continent of Marquet.
Tal'dorei and Wildemount have campaign settings... Marquet might be coming.
The wiki article mentions a book found as a spoiler in the mini "Mighty Vibes" Critical Role, the Traveler's Guide to Marquet.
The first thing is, this preceded the announcement of the campaign's setting.
The second thing is, this uses the EGtW naming pattern (TGtM)
The real-life CR book, Kith and Kin, was mentioned in the same video.
James Haeak (spelling?) and maybe a few others mentioned in a few tweets some few months ago (after the announcement of the Tal'dorei setting) that "more stuff" from them is coming, and they had to keep it quiet.
D&D also suggested a "Return" to a setting was coming... Could the return be this?
This is still all far fetched, and Matthew Mercer would be 100% run down, but it might happen. Just don't count on it.
This was me 5 days ago. I am now feeling validated. Kinda. I was slightly off, but... do I get a prize?
This wiki article has made me soooo much of a conspiracy theorist. Here's why:
Times of Releases:
As previously stated, D&D will be announcing a new book this month.
Critical Role Campaign 3 starts this week as well.
This double-coincidence is very coincidental...
There has been rumors of a Tal'dorei (Critical Role) campaign anthology bouncing around areas of reddit recently.
This sounds disputable, and comes from either untrustworthy or age-old sources.
If we look back, EGtW had four mini-adventures, and Strixhaven has four adventures... Could these be Campaign Setting adventures?
Campaign 3 explores the new continent of Marquet.
Tal'dorei and Wildemount have campaign settings... Marquet might be coming.
The wiki article mentions a book found as a spoiler in the mini "Mighty Vibes" Critical Role, the Traveler's Guide to Marquet.
The first thing is, this preceded the announcement of the campaign's setting.
The second thing is, this uses the EGtW naming pattern (TGtM)
The real-life CR book, Kith and Kin, was mentioned in the same video.
James Haeak (spelling?) and maybe a few others mentioned in a few tweets some few months ago (after the announcement of the Tal'dorei setting) that "more stuff" from them is coming, and they had to keep it quiet.
D&D also suggested a "Return" to a setting was coming... Could the return be this?
This is still all far fetched, and Matthew Mercer would be 100% run down, but it might happen. Just don't count on it.
This was me 5 days ago. I am now feeling validated. Kinda. I was slightly off, but... do I get a prize?
Yes, you do. It's called "bragging rights."
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This wiki article has made me soooo much of a conspiracy theorist. Here's why:
Times of Releases:
As previously stated, D&D will be announcing a new book this month.
Critical Role Campaign 3 starts this week as well.
This double-coincidence is very coincidental...
There has been rumors of a Tal'dorei (Critical Role) campaign anthology bouncing around areas of reddit recently.
This sounds disputable, and comes from either untrustworthy or age-old sources.
If we look back, EGtW had four mini-adventures, and Strixhaven has four adventures... Could these be Campaign Setting adventures?
Campaign 3 explores the new continent of Marquet.
Tal'dorei and Wildemount have campaign settings... Marquet might be coming.
The wiki article mentions a book found as a spoiler in the mini "Mighty Vibes" Critical Role, the Traveler's Guide to Marquet.
The first thing is, this preceded the announcement of the campaign's setting.
The second thing is, this uses the EGtW naming pattern (TGtM)
The real-life CR book, Kith and Kin, was mentioned in the same video.
James Haeak (spelling?) and maybe a few others mentioned in a few tweets some few months ago (after the announcement of the Tal'dorei setting) that "more stuff" from them is coming, and they had to keep it quiet.
D&D also suggested a "Return" to a setting was coming... Could the return be this?
This is still all far fetched, and Matthew Mercer would be 100% run down, but it might happen. Just don't count on it.
This was me 5 days ago. I am now feeling validated. Kinda. I was slightly off, but... do I get a prize?
You will be able to change your title to Soothsayer, no longer Aspirant.
FWIW though, I just caught a Nerd Immersion video where he shows a Twitter conversation he had with Ray Winninger, who confirmed for NI that this book is not among the 2 classic settings to receive products next year or the 1 that will get one in 2023. (Warning, some people think NI is not a legitimate source for news, even when NI is citing primary sources, so be careful how you discuss this info). He did not refer to the future as "D&D 5e 2024 Red" but I just coined that and figuring I got at least the better part of year to get that to really stick, better than my effort to make Gothlines a thing.
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No, It's Caleb Widogast. I mean, look, there's even amber coloured light for his vault, and Shaggy (a brilliant character) has blonde hair, not red.
But is the blue orc Jestfjord? Jester-Fjord? Ford-Jester? Something Something Clay? Something Something Lavorre? And is the drow Essek? Or Essek and Caleb's adoptive child? Speculation abounds! But at least this means we actually get a water campaign! All 5E has been mostly on land, even most of Saltmarsh (it has ship rules, but I don't believe that I'd class a mansion as a water thing), but this, very clearly (in description as well as art) is set in the desert, in the wastes, and under the water....... This is definitely something new for 5E.
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I haven't followed all the business-end of CR too heavily lately, but didn't they recently announce a self-published resource book for the Exandria setting? I thought with the EGW that maybe CR would become exclusively published directly from WoTC, then that book got announced separately, and now there's an official WoTC-published Adventure book in the setting. I wonder if there's any reason for the split publication... I know that the first Exandria sourcebook was published before the two companies had gotten deeply entrenched together, and I think there's some copyright conflict with the content in that sourcebook, but I find it interesting that there's still this divergent publishing going on.
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Kind of interesting that Wizards would write it instead of being produced by Critical Role.
What is more hilarious is all the critters giving CR twitch money and then some of them crying because CR made $9 million over 3 years.
$9M split what nine ways? Thats like a salaray of $300k each which would be a miserable amount of money for what they do. I am sure they had a lot more income from other sources, sponsorships, merch, others ads etc.
Actually I don't think it was mostly critters making a stink about CR getting paid, probably just jealous unsuccessful "creators".
9 ways? They've got a whole production crew. The people on camera aren't running the streams, building all the sets and miniatures, mixing the sound, etc. Honestly, if you think of it as essentially a Television Show, $9 Million is a pretty paltry sum. I"m sure they make more money from sponsorships and merch sales than from Twitch revenue.
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IDK, it looks like another Matt Mercer cameo to me. He was in the two-page-art of the Yawning Portal in Dragon Heist, after all.
(So, this is the third official book that Matt Mercer has worked in for D&D 5e, I guess. Dragon Heist, Wildemount, and now this. I'm guessing that a Marquet Campaign Setting Guide will be coming in 2024 as the "Revisited Setting Book for a setting that we've already published in 5e", but it will be good to get a tiny bit of info on Marquet before then.)
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Maybe? I somehow doubt it, but that would be cool. Also, Matt Mercer has longer hair?
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I honestly expect the re-visit will be Faerun, Greyhawk, Eberron, or the Feywild.
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On the writing side, going by the info on CritRole's site, there's a pretty big overlap with the team that authored the Wildemount book. Matt's still co-lead. What surprises me more is the timing, I'd expected Matt would have liked to let C3 play out a bit more before committing to canonizing Marquet to the point that it could feature heavily in a campaign book. Six months is not very long considering editing, printing and distribution take up a significant chunk of that time and logistics will continue to be iffy well into next year.
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To be fair, Matt also does much sturdier pre-campaign worldbuilding than many/most DMs. Not just because that be how he do, but because of the vastly increased demand for consistency and internal logic required for his game. I imagine most of what goes into this new book will be things he already decided was canon for his world, and I'm also figuring he's willing to let his game go off the rails a bit if needed. After all, Chris Perkins is himself familiar with players' tendency to drag games by the nose off into the woods and do unconscionable things to them - who says Matt is any more beholden to every last letter in Netherdeep than any other DM running an Exandria game would be?
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I think that it does explain why they have had such a big gap between the end of C2 and episode 1 of C3. So Matt could solidify parts of Marquet for both the adventure and the new campaign.
Their first campaign went to Marquet for several episodes, so it's also had a lot of basics in place for a while. Also, it's not clear from the blurb how long adventurers are in Marquet. And Matt's been known to change 'canon' as presented in EGtW to fit the campaign, so yeah, if things need to be adjusted for his campaign, I can see him doing that.
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So, to good humoredly "well, technically" Yuriel, this is the first whole WotC book dedicated adventure set in Exandria, but EGtW actually has a number of one shots bundled into it (I personally use Frozen Sick as an intro to D&D instead of The Lost Mind of the Philanderer because it's quick and checks off all the boxes of "this is D&D" and the title is easier to say) ... all of which I believe end at third level, which is the recommended starting level for the forthcoming book begins. I don't think that's a coincidence, and maybe WotC hoping for some renewed interest in EGtW.
I think this is ... interesting. I think it's sorta odd that WotC is doing this while CR is doing their in house campaign book. I do think it's WotC "buying in" to CR's audience, and getting more emphatic that the CR play style can be sustained in a "regular" D&D campaign. They made that gesture already with WBtW and its "pacifist mode" but this may be an effort to balance that encouragement with other play styles prior WotC modules are more associated with.
One thing I'm unclear on, not being a Critter, press is already saying this adventure will be unrelated to CR campaigns 1 or 2 (and presumably 3 and this summer's guest DM mini season), but the whole Netherdeep makes me think of the [spoiler in case some folks really want their experience protected]
big bag cosmic horror thing fought at the end of CR2
and I thought the whole sea paladin oath Mercer got into DDB not too long ago with the Cobalt soul was sorta formulated because the game "went there." I really don't know.
I'm also curious about the press reporting the adventure will have a "rival party". I'm hoping this isn't a rival party with fully worked out PC style character sheets, but rather a Mercer brand endorsement of what I call "healthy DMing" that says, "no, your NPC rivals need not be a theory crafted class and level constructions for them to be compelling NPCs, you can build them as Monster stat blocks as the actually books guide you." Mercer does "enriched role playing" really well, he also does efficient brass tacts adventure design really well and I think maybe having some "meta" to the book where "CR processes" are sort of introduced may be to the benefit to some, probably many DMs who I feel "over labor" not realizing there are "smarter not harder" methods likely practiced by the style they're trying to emulate.
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That's fair. I'm sure the material is ready, just a little surprised by it.
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As said earlier in this thread, this isn't their first trip to Marquet so it really isn't spoilery unless Campaign 3 follows the new published adventure, which isn't very likely.
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Ukatoa was, IIRC a board game that board gamers found sort of broken or uninspired (that is, not worth playing more than once and hard core boardgamers would probably have big issues with it halfway through play), it was an experiment for CR and yeah it wasn't received well but it's more adjacent or even further derivative than say TTRPG content, or a graphic novel or all the other actually successful CR merch that rakes in dough to rival the Twitch cash flow for revenue.
I don't know the full inside baseball of the system switch but I don't think CR just decided to switch to 5e from PF, they were sort of sold on it by WotC. I'm actually curious about the CR viewing market and how many are really invested in the mechanics and action economy etc. vs. folks who are invested in story and know the real suspense resolution is by dice rolls. Another book under WotC's imprint does definitely cement the relationship though.
I'm now wondering whether CR may be a note on a white board figuring out part of the roll out strategy for "D&D 5e 2024 RED" or whatever it's going to be called. I could see a Matt fireside chat talking showcasing the new stat block style and what that means for managing magic in the action system, etc.
But going back to me wondering how mechanics invested the CR audience is, I'm wondering whether that has any input into how far "D&D 5e 2024 RED" may take license to depart from the existing rules (as some folks think more radical moves will be made, contra to a lot of folks who are expecting books that will much more closely resemble what we have as far as core mechanical aspects).
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Well, at least I can say I half called this:
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FWIW though, I just caught a Nerd Immersion video where he shows a Twitter conversation he had with Ray Winninger, who confirmed for NI that this book is not among the 2 classic settings to receive products next year or the 1 that will get one in 2023. (Warning, some people think NI is not a legitimate source for news, even when NI is citing primary sources, so be careful how you discuss this info). He did not refer to the future as "D&D 5e 2024 Red" but I just coined that and figuring I got at least the better part of year to get that to really stick, better than my effort to make Gothlines a thing.
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