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Dungeons & Dragons<\/a> publisher Wizards of the Coast<\/a> has finally detailed its 2025 release calendar for the iconic tabletop role-playing game. During the D&D Direct streaming presentation<\/a> on Tuesday, Hasbro<\/a>\u2019s leading role-playing game studio teased a handful of new releases designed to inspire creativity in its community. Pre-baked narrative campaigns are out, it would seem, while a return to the Forgotten Realms<\/a> setting is in. <\/p>\n

While the nearly 20-minute presentation closed with a lengthy look at the new virtual tabletop<\/a>, no firm release date was given outside of an open beta this fall. Instead, the meat of the video had to do with the new books already in the pipeline. <\/p>\n

The 2024 rules update seems pretty well locked into place at this point, starting with the new Player\u2019s Handbook<\/a><\/em> in wide release by Sept. 17. Next comes the revised Dungeon Master\u2019s Guide<\/a> <\/em>on Nov. 12 and the Monster Manual<\/em> on Feb. 18, 2025. Then things take a bit of a turn: An unnamed dragon-inspired anthology of adventures lands in summer 2025, while a new starter set arrives in the fall of next year. The calendar is then rounded out with a Forgotten Realms player guide and a Forgotten Realms campaign guide in late 2025.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s too much to fit into one book, so our return to the Realms is going to be in two books,\u201d said lead rules designer Jeremy Crawford in the announcement video. \u201cOne tailor-made for Dungeon Masters, and another a book that is tailor-made for players \u2013 but also of use to our DMs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, that also means fans are on the hook to purchase a second book now to get all of that 5th edition Forgotten Realms content. The move makes sense from a branding perspective. Created by Ed Greenwood in 1967<\/a>, the Forgotten Realms actually predates tabletop role-play by about a decade, but today the high-fantasy setting is home to virtually all of Wizard\u2019s most beloved characters \u2013 including R.A. Salvatore\u2019s Drizzt Do\u2019Urden<\/a>, Chris Pine\u2019s Edgin the bard<\/a>, and the entirety of the cast of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is a new approach to 5th edition adventure D&D content, which previously relied primarily on long-form narrative campaigns with the occasional anthology thrown in. While setting books have been published in recent memory, they\u2019ve often been smaller components of larger releases. For instance, the highly anticipated reboot of the Spelljammer<\/a> setting launched with a paltry 64-page Astral Adventurer\u2019s Guide<\/em>, which many fans thought gave the beloved space-based setting short shrift.<\/p>\n

The video promised lots of different gameplay styles in the Forgotten Realms, including urban fantasy, survival horror, and more traditional high fantasy. There\u2019s also an Elvish mega-dungeon involved as well.<\/p>\n

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Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast has finally detailed its 2025 release calendar for the iconic tabletop role-playing game. During the D&D Direct streaming presentation on Tuesday, Hasbro\u2019s leading role-playing game studio teased a handful of new releases designed to inspire creativity in its community. Pre-baked narrative campaigns are out, it would seem, while a return to the Forgotten Realms setting is in.  While the nearly 20-minute presentation closed with a lengthy look at the new virtual tabletop, no firm release date was given outside of an open beta this fall. Instead, the meat of the video had to do with the new books already in the pipeline.  The 2024 rules update seems pretty well locked into place at this point, starting with…<\/p>\n

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