Wizards of the Coast announced that two all-new settings were in development at this year’s D&D Celebration. Here’s what we know.
This year’s “Future of D&D Panel” was a big one, folks. In addition to the reveal that a “new evolution” of D&D’s core rules was coming in 2024, we got teases of what we can expect in 2022 and 2023, leading up to it. But alongside all of those teases was the reveal that WotC is working on two brand-new settings for D&D. The first that WotC has developed in-house since Eberron. Now, WotC has certainly lent their stamp of approval to new or existing settings: we’ve seen Magic: the Gathering settings adapted in Theros and Ravnica (and we’ll doubtless see more), we’ve seen Matt Mercer’s Exandria, given life and incorporated as the first 3rd-party official Dungeons & Dragons setting,
But, not since Eberron has there been a new “official” D&D setting, and now we’re getting two. According to Chris Perkins, the two settings are still in an “exploratory phase” meaning that the company is still testing them out to determine their viability.
In other words, can either of these settings translate to a hardcover book that either exists as a setting book that we know it now, or, as D&D is starting to do–can they exist in a new format entirely? That seems to be the direction WotC is headed. Head of D&D, Ray Winninger announced earlier this year that two new “classic settings” were going to make an appearance in the next couple of years in a different format than players are used to.
You can find the relevant info at around the 8:32:30 mark in the video above. But Perkins seems hopeful and excited about the work they’re doing–and if these settings are to the point that they’re worth mentioning at the big Celebration event, that sounds promising indeed.
What would you want to see from a new “official” setting?
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