D&D 2026 Calendar Release

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YO EPIK! this is great!

I'm pretty excited to see that they are bringing Ravenloft more into a goth style again. Not the "Ravenloft Disney in the Mist" version that we got from Curse of Strahd. Crossing my fingers that we'll see new versions of the old modules from the good old 2nd ed D&D setting. There was some epic adventures in the 2nd edition Ravenloft series. Fingers crossed, and prepared to be disappointed. :)

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My current long-form campaign is returning a warlock (Efretti patron) to Calimshan, so all the Calimshan desert goodness - including tying in the Calimenon Crystal. It is a roadie from Princes of the Apocalypse local all the way down the coast. This is where I discover how very little of the coast - let alone Faerun - is covered by official DND content. It is mostly in a tiny northern corner of a vast and varied landscape.

I love that we now have Calimshan mentioned briefly in the Heroes books, but as you say burnout with the rinsing and repeating of lore for areas already covered. Where’s the Amn adventure book, or the Tethyr one? But, I agree, great content on DM’s Guild - go you creatives! Shall I include a resurgence of the Sky Fall battles - everything is connected!? ;P

You know what it's gonna be, I'd bet my platinum on another anthology...

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I'm pretty excited to see that they are bringing Ravenloft more into a goth style again. Not the "Ravenloft Disney in the Mist" version that we got from Curse of Strahd. Crossing my fingers that we'll see new versions of the old modules from the good old 2nd ed D&D setting. There was some epic adventures in the 2nd edition Ravenloft series. Fingers crossed, and prepared to be disappointed. :)

 Something like the 6 module story arc Feast of Goblyns to From the Shadows 5.5e update would be pretty cool (has it really been 30+ years since the Grand Conjunction!)

Know they like to highlight the new art in recent/upcoming books but if they can flavour the layout of the latest Eberron book, wouldn't mind seeing/hoping for a return of that old Ravenloft book style as well.

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So the hopes for a Dark Sun book after the various UA subclasses ended up a false flag for a Ravenloft one. Fair enough.

 There’s still an unannounced book in Q4. 

 Yeah, my guess would be that if they're going to announce Dark Sun, it's going to be held off to be a big reveal. 

Depends on what kind of game your table likes to play. Personally, I'm not as into the style that Daggerheart espouses but if your table is, then that's what your table should play. 

I dunno, Dark Sun has more then just uncomfortable themes going against it. It's gameplay is all about scarcity and survival in a brutal wasteland, which I don't think 5e is really equipped to handle. A lot of other tables already only pay lip service to spell components and rations on the road. I just don't think a whole bunch of people are up for dealing with water, weapons that break every few hits, constant streams of monsters that stretch those weapons well past the limit, and magic that salts the earth and gets the caster lynched in public. They would have to build a whole framework for a "hardcore mode" to 5e that works well before even trying to tackle Dark Sun, and If you think that's secondary to getting the setting published, then look back at Spelljammer.

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 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)

If we think of recent books, and account for larger initial season because they were reorganizing under new leadership, we got last season:

• Player Expansion
• Specific Setting Expansion (FR)
• A bunch of small adventure books
• Two starter box sets

(FotA was technically outside the season)

And we're getting:

• Specific Setting Expansion (Ravenloft already has 1 book and 1 campaign)

And then a season of:

• Player Options Book
• Adventure Book, either anthology or small complete adventure.

And then a Season of Champions with undefined contents, before the end of the year.

While they took a bit to get rolling, they definitely look like they're attempting to include adventures in the sequence.  They're just not going in for the 250 page hardcover Campaign books.

It's a completely contradictory position in the community that's the problem.  People complaining that there's no new content, and people complaining that they're releasing too much too fast.  People complaining that there's no campaign books just anthologies, and people complaining previously that there were no anthologies just campaign books.

Personally, I enjoy the new content but I don't need the new content.  The core player base is the one who is accepting new content, writing their own adventures and homebrew, and barely bothering to log onto DDB Forums to complain.  There is already so much content that they could stop producing and most people would continue to never be able to play it all.

These books exist to make the company profit, not to fill a hole in the game, because really, there isn't many actual holes, and third party authors have definitely covered those aspects.  If anything, incorporating more content like Abomination Vaults campaign books would be a better way to add campaigns for players, because it frees up the WOTC team to work on player options and monster manuals and stuff that requires balancing instead of storytelling that many others can do quite well.

The biggest thing that I personally think they need to focus on (and they're listening) is Homebrew and fixing the DDB Site, but that's a completely different group of software developers, not the game content producers.

I'm praying to Mystra that it's a full module. It'll be nearly the second anniversary of 5.5e and our first module

 

Personally, I enjoy the new content but I don't need the new content.  The core player base is the one who is accepting new content, writing their own adventures and homebrew, and barely bothering to log onto DDB Forums to complain.  There is already so much content that they could stop producing and most people would continue to never be able to play it all.

These books exist to make the company profit, not to fill a hole in the game, because really, there isn't many actual holes, and third party authors have definitely covered those aspects.  If anything, incorporating more content like Abomination Vaults campaign books would be a better way to add campaigns for players, because it frees up the WOTC team to work on player options and monster manuals and stuff that requires balancing instead of storytelling that many others can do quite well.

The biggest thing that I personally think they need to focus on (and they're listening) is Homebrew and fixing the DDB Site, but that's a completely different group of software developers, not the game content producers.

 Thanks for taking the time to reply, always great to interact/get alternative perspectives from other D&D fans!

I suppose I was trying to say something like, in the past when you used to go to the store and see shelves upon shelves of 32/64 page modules, you felt like the game was doing well and an abundance of new wonders were waiting to be discovered just around the next corner (or the next moving this module aside to see what's behind it).

Since previous post, noticed that Nerd Immersion has released some conversations with D&D/DDB peoples, going to set aside some time to watch them and learn a bit more.

Whilst I don't want to sound like I'm a complete and utterly quill and parchment old fossil, can I ask how you see 'Homebrew' here - or maybe recommend an article if it's already been discussed.

Again, thank you.

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Im curious as to why the book, Volo's Guide to Monsters is not part of the library that can be purchased? 

 Forgot to quote the comment…my original reply: think Volo’s and another book [Tome of Foes?] were replaced by Mordenkainen’s Monsters of the Multiverse. Not 100% sure, but that’s my recollection.

when the 2024 monster manual be in Map vvt

not excited to go to ravenloft again, for the 3rd time in fifth edition, but arcana unleash looks fascinating. I would love to see them take risks and visit some fan favorite older settings for a full campaign like Dark Sun, or the hollow world of mystara.

I really hope the unanounced book is a Dark sun campaign! or at least dark sun related! I really feel like Dark sun is exploring something the other settings arent quite able to achieve! I love the other stuff but damn are we due for some Dark sun content!

It says "gameplay expansion" so I'm assuming it's spells, subclasses and the like. Maybe a bunch of old stuff updated for 5.5E. Deadfall says "Adventure Expansion" so that might be what you're looking for.

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 Thanks for taking the time to reply, always great to interact/get alternative perspectives from other D&D fans!

I suppose I was trying to say something like, in the past when you used to go to the store and see shelves upon shelves of 32/64 page modules, you felt like the game was doing well and an abundance of new wonders were waiting to be discovered just around the next corner (or the next moving this module aside to see what's behind it).

Since previous post, noticed that Nerd Immersion has released some conversations with D&D/DDB peoples, going to set aside some time to watch them and learn a bit more.

Whilst I don't want to sound like I'm a complete and utterly quill and parchment old fossil, can I ask how you see 'Homebrew' here - or maybe recommend an article if it's already been discussed.

Again, thank you.

 Thing is, they are releasing the 32/64 page modules.  That's what things like Netheril's Fall are.  The campaign books are 200-300 pages long and far more work, which takes away from making a half dozen smaller modules.  There were never that scale of book back in the day, unless it was the occasional box set like Rod of Seven Parts.  So in effect, they are going back to that style with more smaller books.  The player options books are more like the Complete Book of Elves, or the Complete Fighter's Handbook from 2nd Ed.

Regarding homebrew, there's an entire section of the site devoted to settting up custom Monsters for the VTT, custom subclasses, backgrounds, and magic items for the players etc.  So that you can build your own and use them in the Character Builder.  There's long been a call for "Make my own classes" that can be used in the Character Builder, and the Dev Roadmap seems to be leading that way.

Basically, the digital version of making your own stuff, but up till now it's only been partially supported because of the way the site was built.