What Will the Next Storyline From Wizards of the Coast Be?

[leozelig]

Tomb of Annihilation was released in September. Does anyone know what the next published adventure from WotC will be? So far, we have had...

• Tyranny of Dragons - dragons and cultists
• Elemental Evil - cultists and cultists
• Rage of Demons - drow and demons
• Curse of Strahd - vampires and werewolves
• Storm King's Thunder - giants and more giants
• Tales from the Yawning Portal - classics anthology
• Tomb of Annihilation - frog men and dinosaurs

It looks like they have hit most of the big settings and villain archetypes, paying tribute to Temple of Elemental Evil, Ravenloft, and the G-series along the way. Even Tomb of Annihilation was channeling a Dwellers of the Forbidden City vibe to me, which is not a bad thing.

So what's next??? I don't know if anything has been announced or even teased, but I don't mind speculating...

• An exploration of some part of the D&D multiverse to complement Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes.
• Desert setting with efreet, djinn, and the like.
• We had Rage of Demons, how about some devils?
• The Red Wizards or some other wizard-based theme.
• A more traditional undead threat rather than the gothic horror that is Ravenloft.

Other thoughts...

• Will they stick to expansive level ranges or maybe venture into higher level (i.e. level 11-20) adventures?
• They seem to have drifted towards a more open-ended adventure path with recent storylines - I expect this to continue.
• This is the longest break between storylines since the Starter Set was released in July 2014. Does that mean anything?

[Zacchaeus]

The next release next month is Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, which is not and adventure. No details on anything beyond that.

[LordEntrails]

ENWorld has a huge thread about this, I think it's over 800 posts.

There is no consensus, obviously. But it is known that the next two products (Broadway and Catacombs are the development names, if I remember right) will be published in September and October. They will be announced about 3 months prior to release (per usual). I suspect they are probably already in development for FG modules (or soon will be), but of course would be protected by Non-Disclosure Agreements so SW and the devs wouldn't be able to say anything.

Personally, I believe they will be adventures set in Waterdeep and Undermountain.

[celestian]

Darksun.

[leozelig]

Mordenkainen’s Tome isn’t an adventure - that’s true, but it does cover D&D cosmology and the multiverse from what I understand, so perhaps a plane-hopping adventure. That might be difficult as an overarching theme on its own but could certainly be part of something else, or they might focus on one.

[GunnarGreybeard]

Maybe they stopped to work on D&D 6e . . . . Just kidding!



Personally, I would like to see DarkSun.

[LordEntrails]

I'm hoping for DarkSun too. I only played a campaign that died early once. But it looked really cool and unique. I'm still confident this year's AP's are Waterdeep and UM

[ColinBuckler]

I am kinda hoping for Spelljammer - especially after Starfinder has been released living a gap in 5E's product profile. (Broadway?)

Though Planscape could be quite high - maybe more so after Mordenkanian's release if it contains a lot of planescape monsters....

However I would like to see Birthright - but I think thats a bit of a punt and well behind Darksun and other posibilities - though Undermountain could be a strong contender (Catacombs)

[JohnQPublic]

Personally, I believe they will be adventures set in Waterdeep and Undermountain.

Yawning Portal was set out of Waterdeep and kinda sorta touched on Undermountain. I suspect they are going elsewhere.

My money is on a higher level, plane hopping type adventure.

[celestian]

I'm hoping for DarkSun too. I only played a campaign that died early once. But it looked really cool and unique. I'm still confident this year's AP's are Waterdeep and UM

I'm not a fan if darksun I just suspect that is their direction after what I've seen. If much prefer generic setting adventures.