All Upcoming Books for 2025

Dragon Delves Anthology

Coming: July 8th, 2025

What is It: This new collection of 10 short adventures will be the first book to use the new DnD 2024 rules. As the name suggests, each adventure is focused around one particular dragon. The adventures will be suitable for a range of character tier levels and can be played together or run as individual one-shots.

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Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Coming: August 19th, 2025

Returning to the world of Eberron, the book will include new backgrounds and expanded rules for airship travel and combat. The book also makes significant changes to both lore and rules, including removing species requirements for Dragonmarked Houses and updating the Koravar elf-elf species. As the title suggests, the book will also feature the new Artificer class and include three adventures that can be reworked to create a complete campaign.

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DnD Starter Set “Heroes of the Borderland”

Coming: September 16th, 2025

What Is It: Like past DnD starter sets, this will be designed for new Dungeon Masters and players to learn the basics of the game. The box set will include dice, character sheets and a complete adventure based on the classic Keep on the Borderlands adventure module from 1979. The new adventure is entitled Heroes of the Borderlands and will be divided into three separate booklets: one focused on the titular keep, one exploring the Wilderness and one centred around the dreaded Caves of Chaos.

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Forgotten Realms Player’s Guide

Coming: November 11th, 2025

What Is It: In this new player-focused book, DnD returns to the Forgotten Realms, offering a ton of new rules options, including new subclasses, feats, backgrounds and spells. In addition it includes more lore and setting details and information on noteworthy factions like the Harpers, Zhentarim and Red Wizards of Thay.

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Forgotten Realms Adventure Guide

Coming: November 11th, 2025

What Is It: Designed solely for Dungeon Masters, this new sourcebook goes beyond the familiar and oft-explored Sword Coast region to focus on five key settings in Faerûn: Baldur’s Gate, Calimshan, the Dalelands, the Moonshae Isles and Icewind Dale. The book will also include adventure hooks, new monsters and new magic items.

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New Monster Manual

Release Date: February 18th, 2025

What Is It: The third part of the 2024 Core Rules update for fifth edition, the new 2025 Monster Manual will feature over 500 individual creatures, with tweaks made to better incorporate the new 5e rules updates and many of the elements included in third-party DnD monster books. In addition to changes to monster Challenge Ratings (CR), the book will also feature new monster lore and backgrounds, new artwork and the introduction of new monster “families.”

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New Dungeon Master’s Guide

Release Date: November 12th, 2024

What Is It: Another key part of the ongoing One D&D Playtest, the new 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide is designed to help both new and experienced DMs get up and running more quickly. The book features an enhanced content structure, new features (such as the Bastion system) and even a complete campaign world based on the legendary Greyhawk setting. It also includes detailed tips and tricks for novice DMs looking to cut their teeth on their very first adventure.

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Worlds & Realms: Adventures from Greyhawk to Faerûn

Release Date: October 29th, 2024

What Is It: Worlds & Realms is a 368 page illustrated book that explores some of the many locations in the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse, including Dragonlance, the Forgotten Realms,, Planescape, Spelljammer and Ravenloft. The book is narrated by the archmage Mordenkainen and features both new and existing artwork from various D&D sourcebooks, along with several new short stories written by a number of different game designers and fantasy authors.

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New Player’s Handbook

Release Date: September 17th, 2024

What is It: Based on new rules materials from the ongoing One D&D Playtest, the new Player’s Handbook is a major retooling of the existing DnD fifth edition rules and is designed to make the game easier to learn and faster to play. The new PHB includes the 12 standard classes, along with 48 subclasses and 144 character background options. While it remains completely backwards compatible with existing 5e materials, there are a number of new rules, including tweaks to classes, spells, races and the introduction of a new “weapons mastery” system that’s designed to make combat more cinematic.

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Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Release Date: July 16th, 2024

What Is It: Much like the adventure anthology Tales from the Yawning Portal, Quests from the Infinite Staircase features a collection of six classic DnD adventures updated to the new 5th edition rules. The book also details additional lore around the legendary “Infinite Staircase,” which allows individuals to traverse the multiverse. Notably, the book also introduces a new character named Nafas, a powerful genie who hears wishes made throughout the multiverse and recruits heroes to fulfill them.

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The Making of Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977

Release Date: June 18th, 2024

What Is It: Billed as a “retrospective historical account” of the early days of Dungeons & Dragons, this non-fiction book features original artwork, playtest materials, manuscript annotations and never-before-seen correspondence between DnD co-creators Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The book was produced by noted game historian Jon Peterson and alsos feature a complete version of the original rules, including random tables, page scans and concept art .

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Vecna: Eve of Ruin

Release Date: May 21st, 2024

What Is It: Drawing on one of DnD’s most iconic villains, the Vecna: Eve of Ruin takes players from Levels 10 to 20 as they journey through the multiverse and eventually face down the dreaded arch-lich himself. The campaign features famous locations and characters from past and present DnD history, including visits to the Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance and Eberron.

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The Book of Many Things

Release Date: January 5th, 2024

What Is It: Based on the legendary Deck of Many Things (a magical artifact that has destroyed its fair share of campaigns over the years), The Book of Many Things is a complete DnD 5e box set that contains a deck of 66 specialty cards, an 80-page reference guide and a new 192-page sourcebook. Notably, the physical product was originally supposed to be released in November 2023, but was pushed back to January 2024 due to printing errors. The digital version is also available on D&D Beyond.

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Cameron Nichols is a Senior Editor who lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and has been playing D&D since the early 90s, when he was introduced by his older brother and cut his teeth on AD&D 2nd Edition. Since then he’s played virtually every RPG he could get his nerdy little mitts on (including a weird Goth phase in the early 2000s when he rocked Vampire: The Masquerade pretty hard). His favorite D&D campaign setting is the Forgotten Realms and his favorite character to play was a Half-Orc Barbarian named Grug (who was unfortunately devoured by a gelatinous cube).