As some allready know WOTC has been showing off upcomming product.

The first is a new AL storyline which ties into Tomb of Horrors. Acererak is back and stealing resurrection magic. Causing people who've been raised to wither and die. Looks like will be based in Chult so Druids rejoice you can now nab those hard to acquire dino forms! Also seems that its using Isle of Dread as a idea as the dino island you end up on is mapped only along the edge.

Looks to be a multi-media event. Adventurers League, Gazeteer, a module. Wiz-Kids minis pack and a board game like the previous Castle Ravenloft.

Theres also a dice tin thats embossed with the Green Man? But... does it glow???



Xanathar's Guide looks to be the long suspected pending compilation of UA articles.

Aaaand lastly Avalon Hill is doing a retheme of Betrayal at House on the Hill to... Betrayal at Baldurs Gate.

Very busy!

I know it is fashonable to shit on WoTC but this sounds awesome to me.

Looks interesting to me, as well. I think that many of the hardback module settings have seemed like retreads (Ravenloft again, giants again) but I can't recall old school dino settings. Could be a lot of fun. :-D

Isle of Dread may have been an inspiration.

Quote from: finarvyn;966423Looks interesting to me, as well. I think that many of the hardback module settings have seemed like retreads (Ravenloft again, giants again) but I can't recall old school dino settings. Could be a lot of fun. :-D

Sounds like it may be a minor retread somewhere in there of Isle of Dread. But I suspect its just a followthrough of Chult's dino theme?

Looks like a nice product. I applaud the mix of nostalgia/new direction. Won't be buying it,  but I hope it fares well.

Please, please. please let Tomb of Annihilation be as fucking awesome as it sounds and not just another typical overwritten, written-to-be-read-and-not-played, modern big-company module.

Damnit, I really had intended on toning down my purchasing for the year.

How many are going to buy the dice set just for the Green Devil Face box?

Supposedly the minis are going to be some of the Classic Tomb things, like the 4-armed gargoyle and the rolling juggernaut.  
Awesome, but that means when Acererak made his new lair in Chult he decided to use all the same traps and creatures from the old one? Or maybe the minis are for the boardgame?

Quote from: CRKrueger;966593How many are going to buy the dice set just for the Green Devil Face box?

Or maybe the minis are for the boardgame?

Minis are for the board game. And hey. When you have something that good at exteminating adventurers why not re-use it?  I did wonder about that too. I assume that its going to either be some sort of new use for an old trick. Or its just a callback to the original module. In the board game these things tend to be random encountered so this new one is likely killable? Wont know till its out or more details surface.

Quote from: CRKrueger;966593How many are going to buy the dice set just for the Green Devil Face box?

Ok, it's pretty cool in a yes-I'm-that-big-a-nerd sort of way but will I really buy...

Quote from: CRKrueger;966593Supposedly the minis are going to be some of the Classic Tomb things, like the 4-armed gargoyle and the rolling juggernaut.  

MUST HAVE MUST HAVE MUST HAVE

Quote from: Just Another Snake Cult;966588Please, please. please let Tomb of Annihilation be as fucking awesome as it sounds and not just another typical overwritten, written-to-be-read-and-not-played, modern big-company module.

That descrpition doesn't match any of the WoTC 5e hardcover adventures, good (CoS and Out of the Abyss) or bad (Tyranny of the Dragon, uninspired but still lots of useable parts).

Quote from: Voros;966598That descrpition doesn't match any of the WoTC 5e hardcover adventures, good (CoS and Out of the Abyss) or bad (Tyranny of the Dragon, uninspired but still lots of useable parts).

WoTC stuff is often bad, but it doesn't really resemble written-to-be-read-not-played Paizo stuff.

I'm not too interested in the Tomb, but the Xanathar's Guide has me. I certainly don't want new crunch books every month, but I think 5e could do with a little more. Hopefully all of the playtesting went well. I confess, I haven't been following it.

Quote from: HappyDaze;966645Hopefully all of the playtesting went well. I confess, I haven't been following it.

Its been a little bumpy here and there. Especially the Artificer and Ranger. But otherwise nothing super broken. Even the psionics stuff works overall.