The First Additions to Dungeons & Dragons‘ New Edition Are More Dungeons, More Dragons

You would anticipation that, erstwhile launching a caller variation of Dungeons & Dragons—during the twelvemonth celebrating 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons, even—Wizards of the Coast would’ve felt comfy with the fig of dungeons and dragons it had disposable to players. And yet, present we are, with further dungeons and dragons to come.

Hot disconnected of its latest backtrack, contiguous Wizards of the Coast unveiled its plans for the adjacent twelvemonth of D&D supplements, aft the past of the caller halfway rulebooks, the Monster Manual, rolls retired successful aboriginal 2025. Next twelvemonth volition spot 4 caller large releases for Dungeons & Dragons, 3 sourcebooks and a marque caller Starter Set to regenerate the existent boxed release, which volition travel with a caller escapade to onboard players and is owed for merchandise successful autumn 2025. Things footwear disconnected archetypal successful summertime with a dragon-themed anthology, a postulation of lore astir the myriad types of dragons passim the D&D multiverse, arsenic good arsenic 10 caller adventures themed astir encountering, well, dragons successful dungeons. Where other could they perchance be?

Later successful 2025, Wizards volition travel up with a duology of books based astir D&D‘s astir fashionable run setting, the Forgotten Realms. The Player Guide volition diagnostic caller subclasses, feats, backgrounds, factions, and spells for players to trade their characters with, portion the Adventure Guide volition enactment arsenic a lore publication for dungeon masters to program and physique campaigns around. Whether oregon not they adhd immoderate dragons to dungeons volition beryllium wholly of their ain volition. Presumably, arsenic Wizards has antecedently stated, immoderate updated subclasses included successful the caller worldly that antecedently had Fifth Edition versions volition beryllium overridden with the caller variation mentation here. But fixed past week’s contention astir however D&D Beyond volition grip players having entree to some 2014 and 2024 rulesets, there’ll inactive beryllium immoderate mode to entree aged versions of returning subclasses.

Also concisely teased for 2025 was “Project Sigil,” Wizards’ ain in-house virtual tabletop system. Inspired by the success of Baldur’s Gate 3—to the constituent that crippled characters Karlach and Astarion diagnostic heavy successful Sigil’s gameplay demos arsenic playable figures—the caller 3D strategy volition fto players make customizable 3D miniatures for their characters, and DMs plan maps and areas to acceptable their campaigns in. Sigil volition participate closed beta investigating this fall, with immoderate Beyond subscriber careless of escaped oregon premium entree capable to motion up now.

But speech from that, it’s a beauteous evident spot for Wizards to statesman gathering backmost up its caller edition. While overmuch of the worldly from Fifth Edition tin inactive beryllium utilized with D&D‘s caller rulesets and books, it makes consciousness that the archetypal question of worldly made expressly for the caller rules is going to thin connected acquainted ideas and settings. The upcoming Dungeon Master’s Guide is already going backmost to Greyhawk, truthful for now, we’ll get dungeons, dragons, and Forgotten Realms for the foreseeable aboriginal earlier D&D‘s caller epoch begins to get a small much exploratory again.

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