D&D 2026 Calendar Release

Fingers crossed for Soth being a sign that we're getting more Dragonlance. Our group enjoyed going through Dragon Queen, so having more to use as a follow up would be nice. 

 Can someone please explain the differences between the labelling of the book types:

• Dungeon Master's Expansion,

• Players Expansion, 

• Rules Expansion,

•  

  Gameplay Expansion, and

• Adventure Expansion?

The first two seem to indicate the main intended audience, and splitting them between players and DMs. The third appears to be targetted for both players and DMs. Is Adventure Expansion the new name for a campaign module? What's a Gameplay Expansion and how might it be different from the first three? Is there an official statement as to what these categories are supposed to mean?

Do we have an ETA on the overhaul promised almost a decade ago for the Homebrew creation system on Beyond and more support in general?

I still have hopes for more subclasses in this material like the Scribe and the Kensai (along with many more) that have yet to be updated but this looks good.

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No DarkSun and more Ravenloft.... I've been pulling for our group to go back to DnD and away from Daggerheart, but this isn't helping! LOL

 Agreed. This is disappointing. 

As a massive Ravenloft fan I want to be super excited for this... but they just wholly nuked the setting with Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft that I just have low, low expectations for this product. 

Almost none of the original lore survived. It wasn't just a full reset to the starting point like Dark Sun in 4e or a major overhault like the Realms in 4e. But just a wholesale wiping of every past product and scrap of lore. A mismash of idea slapped together. 

 I'd almost hoping it's a small product like Eberron: Forge of the Artificer and just updates the previous book rather than butchers more of the domains and setting. 

Great news! These will be really nice to have.

Release Dark Sun you cowards!

'Season of champions', with the slight possibility of improved play for martial classes, is what I'm looking forward to the most here. Fingers crossed.

Only showing northern hemisphere seasons is not very endearing for the 1/8 of the population who don't live there. When we in the underdark rise up, we will impose our seasonal labels on the WOTC marketing department as suitable vengeance.

I love the art direction, can’t wait for Deadfall

So I took a look at a promotional image from ENworld, and they're

Hoping they'd add a vampire species option

I really hope its a campaign instead of another anthology. 

Dhampir is in the books, along with three other Species. 

MAKE MORE CLASSES AND/OR RACES AND MORE FREE STUFF

Whle I am excited for the new material, I am a little disappointed that we are returning ONCE AGAIN, for a 3rd time to Ravenloft. Don't get me wrong, it's a great setting, but with so much DnD lore still out there that is untapped material, especially with the major let down of Dragonlance and the underwhelming setting that was Spelljammer,  that the WOTC design team would want to explore better options than rehashing the same old thing. Like Ravenloft has been masticated, swallowed,  and regurgitated then presented as something new. What about a comprehensive setting of the Shadowfell? More importantly, what about the fan service to create a Greyhawk setting? It could be a boxed set like back in the day of 1E  and make it hearty like the newly released Starter Set? Or even as they do now, in the form of three comprehensive books PG, DM, Adv type books? Even just one nice chonky book dedicated to Greyhawk consisting of a locations and lore as well as a few one-shot adventures that can be dropped into any campaign or played solo. Again, with so. much untapped potential and the plethora of DND lore, why revisit the same setting, not twice but three times,?I just don't get whoever is sitting around the marketing table with the design team saying that this ok? Could these be some the reasons such legendary designers, after decades, have jumped ship to CR? Seems more like a money grabbing scheme than actual advancements in game play. Almost like they're thinking "If its sells why not do it again, people will gobble it bc we slapped a Ravenlot label on it"?

Heya D&D Beyond, I reckon you should do a collab with Pokemon

You can see on the roadmap that the knight standing slightly to the side looks sort of like Lord Soth from Dragonlance, just with his helmet removed. Maybe part of the unanounced stuff includes a dragonlance sourcebook? I may be wrong though, as he does look like something that might appear in the new Ravenloft.

Don't wait until Origins. Tell us about the upcoming Gygax-Weis-Hickman-Greenwood D&D edition a bit sooner, please? We all know. We know. Sorry bout it. We see the writing on the wall

Why have we not gotten Sebastian Crowes Guide to Drakkenheim yet? We got the first and third books already, and other classes have been coming in thick and fast.