Dungeons & Dragons will quickly embody a mature-rated growth that’ll come shrink-wrapped to guard minors from seeing its pages containing “violence, bloodshed, nudity and sexuality.”
Wizards of the Coast laid out its D&D roadmap for the following 12 months this night at Gen Con 2026, detailing a sequence of expansions, its World of Warcraft crossover, and adventures based mostly in a number of marketing campaign settings — together with the mature-rated Dark Sun.
The motion begins on this 12 months’s Season of Magic which incorporates the Arcana Unleashed growth. This provides a additional eight subclasses, 10 backgrounds, 29 feats, 33 spells, six magical group patrons, 9 magical factions, 47 magical gadgets, guidelines for evolving magical gadgets, 19 magical creatures and a quick journey for 1st degree characters.
You possibly can then delve additional by way of Deadfall, described as a high-stakes magical espionage marketing campaign that gives a deep dive into Thay, with particulars concerning the ruling Purple Wizards and a gazetteer of Thay’s tharchs, or provinces. This journey is designed for characters at ranges 11-20.
Later this 12 months will see D&D transition to its Season of Champions, headlined by its massive Dungeons and Dragons crossover — the model’s first Universes Past launch that now we have a detailed take a look at proper right here.
Future seasons in 2027 embody the Season of Survival (together with that adult-only return to Dark Sun), the Season of Sword & Sorcery (that includes a return to Greyhawk with a new Crown of the Witch Queen growth) and then the Season of Rebel.
Set on the blood-soaked desert world of Arthas, Dark Sun has lengthy provided a darker tackle D&D than the standard Forgotten Realms journey. Certainly, a teaser proven in the present day started with somebody’s head and backbone being ripped out of their physique by somebody gouging fingers into their eye sockets.
A spread of merchandise that includes the Dark Sun setting are on the best way subsequent 12 months, although will include an advisory for his or her “mature content material” for which reader discretion is strongly suggested. “Comprises depictions of violence, bloodshed, nudity and sexuality, impressed by the brutal world of Athas,” reads a label we noticed. Darksun’s Blood and Energy gameplay growth shall be paired with the Fringe of Oblivion setting growth that includes the Psion class.
Different bulletins this night embody D&D Icons, a new inventive program that guarantees future content material from D&D luminaries, run by author and actor Joe Manganiello. This providing will embody a new Dragonlance product from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, plus a recent addition from Luke Gygax that features unfinished content material created by his father, the legendary Gary Gygax. Creator RA Salvator can also be contributing, engaged on a mission centering on legendary Drow, Drizzt Do Urden.
The panel even featured a temporary point out of the upcoming Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, the third-person action-adventure online game introduced again at December’s The Sport Awards. A primary take a look at gameplay shall be proven throughout Gamescom’s Opening Night time Dwell, with Resident Evil voice actress Maggie Robertson as Tasha (sure, she of the cauldron) and Tricia Helfer as lead character Kaatri. D&D followers have a lot to stay up for, then.
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