Yesterday WotC announced the first D&D book to hit the shelves both virtual and physical next year (if we don’t count the gift set that lands in January), Call of the Netherdeep. Which will be its second book in collaboration with the Critical Role folks, and due to arrive in March.

For me the announcement is a bit of a dud. Which is fine. I’m not a Critical Role fan. It’s not aimed at me. Not everything WotC release for D&D has to be.

Just like out of the three books that make up the last third of this year, only one has me excited and will see me parting with scarce pennies. A big hint to which is dragons.

Am I complaining about the ones I’m not interested in? Nope. Although I would have preferred WotC chosen a different MtG plane to do than Strixhaven. But I appreciate there are some misguided folks out there that like it!

Which reminds me that given Mark Rosenberg has said WotC see Ixalan as a major failure recently. I’m very unlikely to see a return to Ixalan both in MtG and D&D. So if I want to play in Ixalan I’ll have to make do with the Plane Shift pdf that was done, and the art book.

Also announced by WotC in the last week was that Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons has had its release put back by about a week. Which is a nothing delay in this day of shipping chaos. I can wait until I throw money at them for it. Oh wait I just told you which book I’m excited about.