Ravenloft and Dragonlance, two of D&D’s most iconic basic settings, wouldn’t exist with out the work of husband-and-wife workforce Tracy and Laura Hickman. Now, the Hickmans are setting their sights on a brand new world for a tabletop roleplaying setting—and whereas it’s not explicitly part of D&D, it’s leveraging the latest system’s mechanical underpinnings.
Polygon reviews that the Hickmans have lifted the lid on Skyraiders of Abarax, a brand new fantasy setting of dragons and flying airships that the duo teases can be dropped at life by “magical books… with our distinctive ‘Dwelling Tome System’.” Skyraiders will base its guidelines on Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Version open-source System Reference Doc, a toolset that lets RPGs use the essential methods of the present iteration of D&D for customized settings and campaigns, underpinning every thing from Kickstarter smash hit Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent (from former Blizzard govt Chris Metzen’s Warchief Gaming), to the lately revealed Critical Role Tal’dorei Reborn sourcebook (itself separate from the earlier, D&D-sanctioned Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount).
The announcement of Skyradiers of Abarax comes at an attention-grabbing time for the Hickmans. Earlier this yr, Tracy Hickman and Dragonlance co-creator Margaret Weis introduced {that a} new trilogy of novels within the beloved setting would start a while in 2021, within the wake of a dropped lawsuit introduced towards Wizards of the Coast by the duo in late 2020. The lawsuit, searching for $10 million in damages, claimed Wizards breached Weis and Hickman’s contract in 2018 for a then-planned Dragonlance trilogy when the studio allegedly stopped approving drafts for the sequence, leaving the creators in limbo. The brand new trilogy was introduced simply weeks after Weis and Hickman dropped the go well with, with the authors solely assertion on the matter merely noting that the difficulty had been solved between them and Wizards in non-public.
Extra particulars can be revealed about Skyraiders of Aberax within the fall months to come back, when the setting’s “residing tomes” are set to start a crowdfunding marketing campaign on Kickstarter.
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