D&D 2026 Calendar Release

This is some fun news to get on my birthday 

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Looks like those users at EN World were right. We’re getting a Ravenloft book and an updated Tome of Magic. Neat.

 For the record, those EN World users I'm referring to theorized that a Dark Sun book would follow the updated Tome of Magic. And for those who are dismissing the chances of a Dark Sun book, there is still a third season after the Season of Horrors and the Season of Magic, and as their 2026 Roadmap shows, that season's book has yet to be announced. I don't know about you, but I think Season of Champions sounds kind of fitting for an apocalyptic setting like Dark Sun.

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This is some fun news to get on my birthday 

 Happy birthday!

It's weird that the Season of Horror is not the Fall.  

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I won't be holding my breath for a Darksun book, even with all the teasing they've been doing.

 My money is on the unannounced Winter book being a Dark Sun sourcebook. If they had done one subclass in on Unearthed Arcana, ehh probably not a whole book. But they’ve done 3, fine-tuning a whole new class, a set of psionic origin feats, and a bunch of subclasses that overtly reference the setting (Defiler/Sorcerer King, etc.) 

Plus, look at the “seasons” they’ve introduced. Season of Horror for Ravenloft, Season of Magic for Arcana Unleashed… Season of Champions for Dark Sun gladiators?

I'm thinking the winter release is likely to be the rumored Dark Sun book, and if so it's likely in there

Thank you 

I’m willing to bet that was the original plan, but they probably hit some behind the scenes speed bumps in the other books and had to push up the release of the Ravenloft book 

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I won't be holding my breath for a Darksun book, even with all the teasing they've been doing.

 My money is on the unannounced Winter book being a Dark Sun sourcebook. If they had done one subclass in on Unearthed Arcana, ehh probably not a whole book. But they’ve done 3, fine-tuning a whole new class, a set of psionic origin feats, and a bunch of subclasses that overtly reference the setting (Defiler/Sorcerer King, etc.) 

Plus, look at the “seasons” they’ve introduced. Season of Horror for Ravenloft, Season of Magic for Arcana Unleashed… Season of Champions for Dark Sun gladiators?

 

 I second this wholeheartedly.

My question would be more that since in the dev's log say they are able to put the sub-classes from the other partner content and mechanics to the 5.5e version of the classes, would we also be able to maybe have the module, like the weapon masteries of the martial classes from 5.5e, to be selected in PC creation on the extended rules for the 5e version of the classes and the sub-classes from the partner books, like the grim hollow transform and even from the new 3rd party books to come, to also be backwards compatible with the 5e version of the classes?
Cause it would be cool to have the option to pick and choose the things we could put on the PC sheets, like in Tasha's book, to pick and choose how and what skills we wants our PCs and NPCs to have, since the DM would be the one to put the ground rules on their Tabale on what is and not allowed.

Ah so Ravenloft: The Horrors Within is a Remaster of Van Richthen guide to Ravenloft.

horrors?

Judging from the order of UA we got - horror themed, arcana themed, then dark sun themed - I would assume that it will be among the first official books released in 2027.

I am disappointed in the recycling of 5e content, like Ravenloft, when there’s so much of Faerun, let alone the rest of Torin, left to open up for 5e. This regurgitating things already in 5e shows a lack of imagination. Where’s the Calimemnon Crystal, east coast, Chuhlt,  adventures. and then there are the other planes  

you have so much more in you 50 years of treasure you could be sharing without repeating things already out. 

why not get creative, stretch your imagination, get your party together and head to Wild places you haven’t been to in such a long time. 

We will all lean into something old made new. 

Yes!!

Nice! I really hope Arcana Unleashed is a proper Adventure, and not just more of the same old Anthology bs that they've been releasing for a bit now. I don't want something I can just plug into whatever I'm running. I want some new adventures... and it would be cool if WotC could put out another great adventure instead of relying on partners like Kobold and Avantris. I enjoy the books I have. Just, there's room for... not improvement, just room for more I think. 

One of my groups is largely DM's that just take turns alternating adventures, and one of my lot has been pushing for us to do Daggerheart or ToV. We're just running out of steam on D&D. We're in the middle of an adventure now, and then I have one that I want to run, but after that it is their turn, and I think we're going to be switching over to one of those two, unless we can be swayed back.  Mind, thats likely going to be next Summer by this point

Thats my concern too. I'm so tired of the anthology stuff. I love running Homebrew, but sometimes a good pre-written campaign hits when you have the right table. And I would love a longer campaign book, even the last proper one they dead in Vecna, was basically a pieced together hodgepodge.  I Love that I can turn to some third parties like Avantris, or Kobold, or creators like JVC Perry, for good content. But like... sup, WotC? 

What if Dark Sun is redone as a domain? 

Hope there's a martial version of that arcana book too! Would love to see more options for non-magic folk!