D&D 2026 Calendar Release

I'm really excited for the new 2026 Dnd companions that are coming out.

Keep up the good work

radical

Good to see that Heliana's Part 2 is coming to Beyond!! Although I wonder if this will include the Beast Tamer class??

To kick off the magic, you’ll be able to add new tools to your table in August with D&D Reference Cards, built to keep key information close at hand when the action heats up.

Is this referring to just spell cards for 5.5e (given the Arcane season)?  I really hope that's what they mean, and if WotC is getting back in the card printing business, can you expand that out to help the DM too?

https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/general-discussion/229622-monster-manual-card-set-please

WAIT A MINUTE, DR DHROLIN’S?! Somebody pinch me or something!

Please more humblewood, Please more humblewood, Please more humblewood

I BEG YOU MAKE IT FREEEEEEE I NEED NEW RACES OR CLASSES PLEEEEEEEEESE

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I BEG YOU MAKE IT FREEEEEEE I NEED NEW RACES OR CLASSES PLEEEEEEEEESE

 Not exactly how you run a business.  The SRD has the free stuff.

lame. wotc cant even plan a new module in 2026 but are leeching of partner content to bring new content into their IP. super lazy. oh, sorry, your making 'cards'. whats the least amount of effort we can put for maximum profit. dnd is dead to me. all ur 2024 content is warm bin juice. im gunna keep stacking 2014 content and not buy anything you release until you replace yourcorporate executive team bcoz its very obvious they cant run a ttrpg company. 

The alternate cover editions aren't sold directly by Wizards, they're exclusively provided to physical retailers. It's an intentional strategy to promote fan support of local game stores.

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I’m starting to feel disappointed with the direction of D&D products since the 2024 revision.

The new core books (Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, Monster Manual) are great. No complaints there.

But everything released since then feels like settings, toolkits, or short adventure anthologies where the DM still has to build most of the campaign themselves.

What I really miss are big, structured campaigns like Tomb of Annihilation, Curse of Strahd, Storm King’s Thunder, or Rime of the Frostmaiden. Books that give you a full story, locations, factions, and a clear progression you can run for months. Right now it feels like we’re getting inspiration frameworks instead of full campaigns. And if I’m already writing most of the campaign myself… why buy the book?

Is anyone else hoping they go back to releasing more full-length adventures?

From what I can tell Deadfall is a full adventure based around the Red Wizards

yes

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Maybe I’m in the minority, but I’m starting to feel disappointed with the direction of D&D products since the 2024 revision.

The new core books (Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, Monster Manual) are great. No complaints there.

But everything released since then feels like settings, toolkits, or short adventure anthologies where the DM still has to build most of the campaign themselves.

What I really miss are big, structured campaigns like Tomb of Annihilation, Curse of Strahd, Storm King’s Thunder, or Rime of the Frostmaiden. Books that give you a full story, locations, factions, and a clear progression you can run for months. Right now it feels like we’re getting inspiration frameworks instead of full campaigns. And if I’m already writing most of the campaign myself… why buy the book?

Is anyone else hoping they go back to releasing more full-length adventures?

 The "community" spent years railing against slim settings books and the fact that all the cool monsters and lore were stuck in campaign books.  That they wanted frameworks to build their own stories in, not theme parks to guide their table through.

Basically WOTC can't win.

I really hope yall release the Psion soon, i really want to be able to actually access it for builds

ravenloft !!!

that said: maybe azalin rex wouldn't have beef with strahd if he was allowed to be on the cover of a ravenloft book instead of that dang vampire. just One Time 🥲

wait why isn't the season of horror in the fall? thats when the true spooky season starts

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Quote from loick262 >>

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I’m starting to feel disappointed with the direction of D&D products since the 2024 revision.

The new core books (Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, Monster Manual) are great. No complaints there.

But everything released since then feels like settings, toolkits, or short adventure anthologies where the DM still has to build most of the campaign themselves.

What I really miss are big, structured campaigns like Tomb of Annihilation, Curse of Strahd, Storm King’s Thunder, or Rime of the Frostmaiden. Books that give you a full story, locations, factions, and a clear progression you can run for months. Right now it feels like we’re getting inspiration frameworks instead of full campaigns. And if I’m already writing most of the campaign myself… why buy the book?

Is anyone else hoping they go back to releasing more full-length adventures?

 The "community" spent years railing against slim settings books and the fact that all the cool monsters and lore were stuck in campaign books.  That they wanted frameworks to build their own stories in, not theme parks to guide their table through.

Basically WOTC can't win.

 Personally, I hoping that we don't have to have like an either/or situation.

Perhaps we could get back to what seemed like [rose-tined spectacles of fond remembrance] an annual(-ish) release schedules that was something like Core Rules Expansion (new classes/subclasses, species, backgrounds, feats, spells, magic items, etc (encouraging players to buy)), a campaign setting (brand new or expanded existing), a multi-level structured campaign book (like Tomb or Rime), an anthology of stand-alone but could-also-be-connected-if-desired adventures (using a central hub/Radiant Citadel structure) and then a book like Yawning Portal/Infinite Staircase that updated some of the popular previous edition adventures (how many video's have you seen where someone mentions ye olde's modules like Against the Cult of the Reptile God (1982) or Red Hand of Doom (2006)). [Even if 4e wasn't necessarily to most popular mechanical edition of the game, you would imagine all the Nentir Vale based adventures would be super easy to update/transfer into Maps??? (Excusive D&D Beyond material like Netheril's Fall, perhaps?)]

Based on the limited information (and it's good that we have this information because it seemed like for ages it was only partnered content that was being talked about), things feel a little light this year, but we don't know how streamlined/massive the page counts of these books are yet and there's the [To Be Announced] to be revealed.

Cautiously optimistic. (thank you for your time)

Will the reanimator subclass for artificer be in the ravenloft book?

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Will the reanimator subclass for artificer be in the ravenloft book?

 That's what's thought to be coming in it