D&D Rules Expansions Set + A New Edition On The Way!
September 27, 2021 by brennon
Wizards Of The Coast has been holding their D&D Celebration event over the last few days. This has seen many groups putting together play sessions and also plenty of previews of what's coming up next for Dungeons & Dragons. One announcement was for the new Rules Expansion Gift Set.
Rules Expansion Gift Set // Dungeons & Dragons
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The Rules Expansion Gift Set has been designed as the next step for someone who has perhaps picked up the core books and wants to move on to explore more options. It collects together Xanathar's Guide To Everything, Tasha's Cauldron Of Everything and also a new book, Mordenkainen Presents - Monsters Of The Multiverse.
Xanathar's Guide To Everything and Tasha's Cauldron Of Everything are great books packed with additional resources for players and Dungeon Masters. Monsters Of The Multiverse is entirely new and presents thirty updated player character races and a huge bestiary with 250 redesigned monsters and their accompanying statistics. Spellcasting creatures have been reworked to make them less hassle for Dungeon Masters to control and you'll also find new ways to add characters and quirks to existing NPCs and creatures.
Both versions of the set come in a slipcase but you can also get the alternative art version below with fancy new covers.
Rules Expansion Gift Set Alternative Art Collection // Dungeons & Dragons
This does look very fancy and has been designed as a nice gift set for the Dungeon Master who has just started out in D&D but wants to own something pretty. I like that you've got the two alternative Dungeon Master's Screens too featuring more stunning artwork from Wizard's rather deep pool of creators.
The Future Of D&D - A New Edition?
As well as the news about the Rules Expansion Gift Set, we also heard that Wizards Of The Coast are working on a new edition of the game for 2024. Well, it's more of a tweak to the existing mechanics.
The Future Of D&D // D&D Celebration
As featured in the video above (start at around the eight-hour mark) the team talk about what they want to do next. With a big anniversary coming up for the game, Ray Winninger talked about a new set of books coming to the tabletop which tightens, reworks and tweaks the rules they have been building on for the last few years.
Thanks to an array of surveys sent out to the community, the new edition will hopefully help to work out some creases in the system that need to be ironed out. They did say that everything that currently exists for D&D will be compatible with these new core books (so more of a 5.5 than a 6th Edition) so the basics of the game aren't going to be changing that fundamentally.
In addition to that, Wizards Of The Coast are also going to be working on bringing the Multiverse into play. That means exploring brand new settings and plenty of old favourites too. A lot of people are already hoping to hear more on Dragonlance and perhaps a rework of Dark Sun.
2022 will bring more information on how this new edition of the game is going to play out so watch this space for more!
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So we can expect a revised Monster Manual as well at some point in 2022? Monsters of the Multiverse will apparently be available as a stand-alone book later in 2022. With the alt covers this looks like a product aimed more at current fans/collectors than at new players. Sell the same products over and over again…all sounds a bit like GW. Such a shame that the final panel touted as ‘the future of D&D’ was very light on actual announcements. The panel was meant to run for 1 hour, ran out of steam after 40 minutes, and didn’t actually tell… Read more »
There are a lot of people who are still starting in D&D so I guess it both serves as a present for those already invested and those who want the new books to expand on what they’ve exhausted from the core books. Also – whilst they didn’t actually announce the new settings it starts a discussion in the community with people thinking about what they’d like – Dragonlance, Dark Sun etc as mentioned. It’s a good way of seeing if what they have planned the community actually likes haha. But yeah – I’d say that D&D is in a solid… Read more »
Great looking new book’s.
Everyone keeps talking about bringing back the Dark Sun Setting. I can honestly say that I just do not see that ever happening. With the direction current WotC has been going on, I just do not see how they could reproduce Dark Sun in todays close minded social climate. Dark Sun has a heavy foundation on Racial hatred/insensitivity and Slavery. These are two things that are just not “allowed” today. Dark Sun had them in nearly every aspect of the game. The new generation of players would lose their shit knowing their character is going to judged on their race,… Read more »
or they could use it to preach climate change ideologies by equating magic with pollution …
(I’m not giving them any ideas, am I ?)
Besides D&D is inherently racist and clas-cist (is that a word?) … 😛
If you mean class and in character class, they there wasn’t discrimination against that…
But as with most settings (and the real world) some people think are smarter and more important because they have more money and better paid jobs… when covid has taught us that the most important jobs are held by the low paid workers… those that deliver goods, work in shops, care for people… and in general do the stuff that needs to be done…
“Judge me by my job, do you? And well you should not. For I am the work force…”
Same reason I doubt we will see Oriental Adventures for 5E.
Hadn’t thought about it like that, but you’re so right. And people would have a seizure at the artwork by Brom… all that skin exposed… It was such a grim setting… cannibalistic halflings are a little different than the like of Bilbo and Frodo… it’s more like a race of Gollums. And as you said… slavery, racism, brutality… and the S&M artwork. Even the ‘heroes’ of the fiction were not very heroic. I picked up the AD&D box set at UK Games Expo a few years back (for a lot less than what it’s going for on eBay at present).… Read more »
When artwork of a frog on your game cover can get you escorted out of GenCon is it any wonder companies are running scared of the virtue-signalling twitter mob? Makes the salem witch trials look like a well run judicial system.
A frog? What was so offensive about a frog? Or are you referring to an unflattering picture of frenchmen?
When I was on holiday in america many years ago I stopped for lunch in Salem. They were sadistic back then.
I assume he is speaking of the Pepe Meme frog…
Tournament Fishing: The Deck Building Game. People (who seem to have been waiting in the long grass to destroy this company) actually seem to think that the picture of the frog on the box cover is giving a racist sign. Even after the artist showed the original photo they worked from (with the frog hand in the exact same position). You really cannot make this stuff up. Or frogs are racist. You decide.
If you think about… most animals exhibit racist behaviour…
They don’t like it when another species moves into their neighbourhood…
Didn’t WotC say at one point that they wouldn’t be doing more campaign settings other than Forgotten Realms, because it was too much work and very little profit ?
Or do they expect to be printing a lot of money with the one they’re planning ?
The MtG tie-in’s can use recycled art so are cheaper to produce. And they know that certain settings have an existing fan-base who will buy the books. They have confirmed 3 old settings will return, and they are working on some original settings.
They just don’t provide much ongoing support for anything these days. All about selling the new shiny 🙂
it’s a company … making money is their top priority,so not surprised.
And just because fans remember something as ‘classic’ that doesn’t mean that it will remain ‘classic’ when updated or that fans will buy it (again).
I’ve heard they did Ravenloft, but I also recall that they appear to have butchered the essence of that realm in order not to offend anyone.