Wizards have made the official announcement about the next campaign event for D&D. As expected, it’s the Elemental Evil event with the adventure Princes of the Apocalypse being the adventure.
January 20, 2015 – Renton, WA – Today, Wizards of the Coast announced the newest Dungeons & Dragons storyline and accompanying product offerings for both digital and tabletop RPG players. Coming off of the biggest and most exciting year yet for Dungeons & Dragons, the Elemental Evil storyline starts in March and runs through mid-summer. During that time, heroes are needed in the Forgotten Realms to discover and defeat secret cults that threaten to annihilate the Sword Coast by harnessing the powers of the elements of fire, water, air, and earth.
The product line-up includes the release of a new downloadable module—Neverwinter: Elemental Evil—for the highly acclaimed free-to-play Dungeons & Dragons MMORPG from Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment. Serving as an additional way for fans to experience the storyline, Neverwinter: Elemental Evil brings a new playable class—the Paladin—and increases the game’s level cap to 70. Neverwinter is set in the Forgotten Realms, and the new expansion launches in early 2015. Cryptic also recently announced Neverwinter on Xbox One will be available in early 2015 as well.
Characters in the D&D tabletop roleplaying game can help prevent devastation to the lands and people of the Forgotten Realms in the Princes of the Apocalypse adventure by Wizards of the Coast and Sasquatch Game Studio. Princes of the Apocalypse is available on April 7, 2015 and includes an epic adventure for characters levels 1–15 as well as new elemental spells and the element-touched genasi as a new playable race. In addition, a free download will be available in mid-March that includes more new races plus the player content available in Princes of the Apocalypse, just in time for the start of the Elemental Evil season of the D&D Adventurers League.
Other products tied into the Elemental Evil storyline include the Temple of Elemental Evil Adventure System Board Game and pre-painted collectible miniatures, both from WizKids Games. WizKids has also partnered with Perfect World Entertainment to bundle in-game items for Neverwinter with the Temple of Elemental Evil Adventure System Board Game and miniatures boosters. Rounding out the tabletop RPG game products is Gale Force Nine’s new Dungeon Master’s screen featuring Elemental Evil art, as well as unpainted, resin miniatures that tie into the adventure, all slated to release beginning in March.
Princes of the Apocalypse
Abolish an ancient evil threatening devastation in this adventure for the world’s greatest roleplaying game!
Called by the Elder Elemental Eye to serve, four corrupt prophets have risen from the depths of anonymity to claim mighty weapons with direct links to the power of the elemental princes. Each of these prophets has assembled a cadre of cultists and creatures to serve them in the construction of four elemental temples of lethal design. It is up to adventurers from heroic factions such as the Emerald Enclave and the Order of the Gauntlet to discover where the true power of each prophet lay, and dismantle it before it comes boiling up to obliterate the Realms.
Price: $49.95 C$58.00; Release Date: 07 April, 2015
Temple of Elemental Evil Board Game
Abolish an ancient evil threatening devastation in this adventure for the world’s greatest roleplaying game!
In the Temple of Elemental Evil board game, you play as a heroic adventurer. With amazing abilities, spells and magic weapons, you must explore the dungeons beneath the Sword Coast where you will fight monsters, overcome hazards and find treasure. Are you ready for adventure?
The Temple of Elemental Evil board game features multiple scenarios, challenging quests and cooperative game play designed for 1-5 players. The contents can also be combined with other D&D Adventure System Cooperative play board games, including The Legend of Drizzt and Castle Ravenloft.
Price: $64.99; Release Date: 30 April, 2015
D&D Icons of the Reams: Elemental Evil – prepainted plastic figures
Collect all 44 figures from Elemental Evil, the newest set of randomly sorted monsters and heroes in our exciting new line of D&D miniatures, Icons of the Realms.
Bring the world of the Forgotten Realms to life with these new miniatures from the Elemental Evil storyline. Wage war against prophets, monsters and elemental creatures to thwart their devious plans to wreak massive amounts of havoc upon the Material Plane!
Price: $15.99; Release Date: 31 April, 2015
D&D Encounters Season – Princes of the Apocalypse
The complimentary portion of Elemental Evil for use in D&D Encounters should be available mid-March.
Player content for Princes of the Apocalypse will be released as a free pdf in mid-March.
D&D Encounters will start on/around March 18.
D&D Expeditions – Elemental Evil storyline:
D&D Expeditions will have its first debut adventure on March 13; all D&D Expeditions adventures debuting in March will be available for other conventions and stores in April.
Watch for updates about the the Elemental Evil Expeditions premiers through May soon, including debut shows and adventure descriptions!
Hmmm, will the temple of elemental evil use something similar to 5e mechanics, do you think?
Princes of the apocalypse sounds pretty metal!
Temple of Elemental Evil will likely use the same mechanics as the previous games in the series (e.g. Castle Ravenloft, Wrath of Ashardalon), although it might be that there are tweaks to the system.
I don’t own them, but were they based loosely on the 4e system, Merric?
Loosely. Characters choose from a few powers which are either one-use or ongoing, and they’re co-operative against the game system.