Wizards Presents - August 18th, 2022

Among the news delivered is that Magic: The Gathering will be doing The Lord of the Rings. M:TG has been around for 30 years (in 2023), and WotC are celebrating in Las Vegas for the Magic World Championship. They're also going to be doing a Magic: The Gathering Warhammer 40K set. They're also doing DOCTOR WHO. 

Wizards is revising the three core books to add more options, new spells, new monsters, new additional content, updating the rules. They're not calling it a new edition. Playtesting of the modifications begins today. The release of the updated books takes place in 2024, the 50th anniversary of the game.

They're working on a Digital/Physical bundle now that they have acquired D&D Beyond. using the Unreal Engine to provide graphic setups on screen.

2023 is the 35th anniversary of Drizzt and there will be a bunch of stuff going on to celebrate.

Spelljammer just released. 

The Dragonlance setting is returning. There's also a related board game (Dragonlance Warriors of Krynn).

Planescape is also coming back.

There were a handful of additional book releases mentioned including a book based loosely on the Deck of Many Things, The Book of Many Things.