This year’s book is a bit more of a whistle-stop tour of the hobby, but it's just as fun-filled. The new book has a very similar look to 2021’s effort a striking if slightly abstract cover, though this time it’s a much brighter red than the last one, and again it’s just over 90 pages long. The Dungeons & Dragons Annual 2022 shows that this wasn’t a fluke and that kids and adults alike really do want such a thing in their stocking this mid-winter.
They tend to be filled with light articles, word-searches and the like, rather than anything more detailed or serious.Īmid the annuals for football teams, popular TV shows and British comic books, the world’s most popular roleplaying game, Dungeons and Dragons re-joined this hallowed Pantheon last year. In keeping with tradition, that also means it’s Annual season – slim hardcover books aimed at younger readers that essentially serve to hype a certain thing. Fans will have to be satisfied with battling the darklords of Ravenloft and surviving a semester of Strixhaven in the meantime.Christmas is just around the corner, which means that your friendly local book shop is about to become flooded with all sorts of stocking-filler style Christmas gifts. Whatever the case, Wizards of the Coast isn't likely to reveal the returning Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings just yet.
The Spelljammer references that have crept into some of the new books (as well as Baldur's Gate 3) also suggest that it's on the list. The fact that Wizards of the Coast is releasing a book starring a Dragonlance hero as its POV character suggests that it's one of the contenders for a new Dungeons & Dragons book. Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft also launched in May, so a new classic campaign setting would be hot on its heels. The remainder of 2021 includes The Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign book, which will be released on September 21 Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, which is a guide to dragonkind that is launching on October 19 and Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos, which brings a wizard academy from Magic: The Gathering into D&D on November 16.
It isn't too surprising to learn that the classic campaign settings will launch next year, considering how fleshed out the rest of D&D's 2021 schedule is. However, D&D executive producer Ray Winninger recently revealed during a press event for the upcoming Fizban's Treasury of Dragons that the classic settings will launch in 2022. No time frame was given for the release of these settings, but fans believed that at least one of them could have launched at the end of 2021. Wizards of the Coast previously announced that two more classic D&D campaign settings were on the way after Ravenloft. Related: Will Dungeons & Dragons Get A 6th Edition? There are some Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings that cannot return due to legal reasons, but there are plenty of D&D worlds that could return to the multiverse. Some of the classic campaign settings from older Dungeons & Dragons editions have been revived for the fifth edition of D&D, like the magitek world of Eberron, but there are still many that fans would love to see brought back. These include the post-apocalyptic desert world of Dark Sun, where wizards used magic to bleed the planet dry, and the interstellar magic spaceships of Spelljammer. The default campaign setting for D&D is the Forgotten Realms, but a number of them exist in the lore of the series. The most recent classic setting to return was Ravenloft, which was updated in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. Wizards of the Coast has confirmed that the two upcoming classic settings for Dungeons & Dragonswill launch in 2022.