Dungeons & Dragons shall be revisiting a number of basic marketing campaign settings over the following few years. During the closing panel of D&D Celebration 2020 yesterday, Wizard of the Coast’s Ray Winninger confirmed that D&D’s upcoming slate of publications will embrace a number of basic settings extremely requested by followers. “I can let you know that there are three of the outdated settings that we’re engaged on proper now that you’re going to be seeing within the subsequent yr or two, together with some that the followers have been asking for a really very long time ” Winninger mentioned throughout the “Inside the D&D Studio Panel.” Some of the extra extremely requested settings from followers embrace Greyhawk, Spelljammer, Planescape, and Dragonlance, all of which have been seminal and influential settings for previous (and present) generations of gamers. Notably, Dungeons & Dragons launched a survey earlier this yr asking followers which settings they’d wish to see revisited in upcoming merchandise.
The new settings shall be a part of a “renewed emphasis” on offering extra D&D settings for gamers, a development that began again in 2018 when Wizards of the Coast launched the D&D/Magic: The Gathering crossover marketing campaign setting Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica. Including that launch, D&D has launched 4 marketing campaign setting books over the past two years, making up practically half of the road’s publications. Winninger said that “they’d stretch the boundaries of D&D” by offering extra settings for gamers.
Winninger additionally confirmed that Dungeons & Dragons would additionally launch a number of anthology books that may assist usher in new writers and numerous voices, together with new “unconventional” materials like new sourcebooks and adventures that cowl facets which have by no means been coated earlier than in D&D. There will even be further D&D/Magic: The Gathering crossover merchandise, which can embrace the primary ever Magic: The Gathering set of playing cards set within the Forgotten Realms.
While we seemingly will not know a lot in regards to the new books till subsequent yr, the tease that D&D will carry again some basic settings has already excited the D&D fanbase. Let us know which settings you wish to re-visit within the remark part, or discover me on Twitter at @CHofferCBus to speak all issues D&D!
