Hasbro/WOTC Announce New D&D Products And Dates (Then pull back dates)

Wizards of the Coast revealed the Dungeons & Dragons book release lineup for 2024 at PAX Unplugged last weekend.

Next year, D&D will celebrate its 50th Anniversary, and WotC has announced a slew of new books coming to market to mark the occasion. They begin the year with Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. This single-session dungeon crawl adventure, based on the 1982 classic module, features a tournament scoring system that can be utilized with in-store play as well as at convention events.

Also announced was Vecna: Eye of Ruin, a 5E adventure revolving around the legend of the powerful lich. This adventure goes up to the 20th Level and culminates with a battle with Vecna himself.

Also announced Quests from the Infinite Staircase, which is a collection of older D&D adventures update for 5E.

The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1976 will also hit stores in 2024. It is a book with a historical account of the creation of Gary Gygax’s and Dave Arneson’s original D&D book.

Hasbro/Wotc Rounded out the major announcement they unveiled the 2024 Player’s Handbook. This revised rulebook is based on months of playtest documents collected from Unearthed Arcana. It inserts backgrounds for races to determine stats and includes lots of subclasses and more.

Hasbro/WOTC also made mention of a new Dungeon Master’s Guide and a Monster Manual, which will contain 500 monsters is being worked on as well. .

There was a bit of snafu though, as all the slides they showed off, then released on social media had dates for all the books, they quickly pulled them from social media and released cropped versions with no dates.