Books form the crux of D&D’s release calendar. They explain the rule, detail character options, encounters, adventures, magic items and so much more.
Wizards of the Coast has a continuous slate of books that expand the game but it can be hard to keep up with everything that has and hasn’t been released. This page will form a constantly updating resource to see what’s been released and what upcoming releases there are. You can also navigate to our guides around each book too.
Currently released books
Player’s Handbook
Type: Core rulebook
Setting: All
Release date: 17th September 2024
About: The Player’s Handbook is the most essential book for D&D 5.5e. It contains the core rules for players and DMs as well as a wealth of character options including 12 classes, 48 subclasses, 10 species and a wealth of feats, spells and other essentials for playing the game. While most books are optional for playing the game, the Player’s Handbook is the only pretty much essential book.
What’s included?
| Feature | Player’s Handbook 2024 |
|---|---|
| Pages | 384 |
| Classes | 12 |
| Subclasses | 48 |
| Races/species | 10 |
| Backgrounds | 16 |
| Feats | 75 |
| Spells | 391 |
| Items | 211 |
| Magic items | 3 |
| Monsters | 51 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Type: Core rulebook
Setting: All but also includes a mini setting guide to Greyhawk
Release date: 12th November 2024
About: As the name implies, this is for dungeon masters only. It contains a wealth of advice, rules and lore to aid DMs in running their own campaign. It also contains a load of magic items to use in your games. If you’re a dungeon master, this is an important purchase.
What’s included?
| Feature | Dungeon Master’s Guide 2024 |
|---|---|
| Pages | 384 |
| Bastion facilities | 29 |
| Magic items | 400+ |
| Settings | 1 |
| Rule elements and subststems | 18+ |
| Maps | 15 |
| Glossary entries | 73 |
| Maps | 15 |
| Tracking sheets | 9 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Monster Manual
Type: Core rulebook
Setting: All
Release date: 18th February 2025
About: If you’re a DM, the monster manual is really important so you have the hundreds of stat blocks necessary to run encounters in D&D. It has a massive range of different creatures and creature types from fiends to celestials, humanoids and monstrosities and many weird and wonderful things you might encounter throughout the multiverse. Published campaigns will often reference stat blocks from the Monster Manual.
What’s included?
| Feature | Dungeon Master’s Guide 2024 |
|---|---|
| Pages | 384 |
| Monsters | 500+ |
| Brand new monsters | 75 |
| Creature types | 14 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun
Type: Setting guide and rules supplement
Theme: High fantasy
Setting: The Forgotten Realms
Release date: 11th November 2025
About: Heroes of Faerun is one of two Forgotten Realms books released as a pair. This one details and lore and character options for Forgotten Realms adventures with new and revised subclasses, spells and feats.
What’s included?
| Contents | Heroes of Faerun |
|---|---|
| Pages | 192 |
| Subclasses | 8 |
| Backgrounds | 18 |
| Feats | 34 |
| Spells | 19 |
| Magic items | 3 |
| Items | 12 |
| Monsters | 2 |
| Maps | 13 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun
Type: Adventure collection and setting guide
Setting: Forgotten Realms
Release date: 11th November 2025
About: Details 5 regions of the Forgotten Realms, including The Dalelands, Icewind Dale, Calimshan, The Moonshae Isles and Baldur’s Gate. It includes an introductory adventure taking players from levels 1-3 as well as over 50 pick up and play adventures to send your party on set in the Forgotten Realms.
What’s included?
| Contents | Adventures in Faerun |
|---|---|
| Pages | 288 |
| Adventures | 50+ |
| Maps | 52 |
| Settings | 5 |
| Monsters | 40 |
| Magic items | 12 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Astarion’s Book of Hungers
Type: Mini rules supplement
Theme: Vampires
Release date: 11th November 2025
About: A mini, digital only supplement dedicated entirely too vampires. It contains the Dhampir species as well as a load of vampiric feats. There’s a bit of lore, a few monster stat blocks and an adventure too.
What’s included?
| Contents | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pages | 32 |
| Species | 1 |
| Backgrounds | 3 |
| Feats | 16 |
| Monsters | 5 |
| Adventures | 2 |
| Maps | 1 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Lorwyn: First Light
Type: Mini setting guide and rules supplement
Theme: Fae
Setting: Lorwyn and Shadowmoor
Release date: 25th November 2025
About: This mini digital-only supplement brings the Magic: The Gathering settings of Lorwyn and Shadowmoor to D&D. It inexplicably comes paired as DLC with the Forgotten Realms books but includes barebones lore for Lorwyn and Shadowmoor and a few of character options for the setting as well as 2 mini adventures.
What’s included?
| Contents | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pages | 32 |
| Species | 2 |
| Backgrounds | 2 |
| Feats | 2 |
| Monsters | 8 |
| Adventures | 2 |
| Gazetteer | 1 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Netheril’s Fall
Type: Mini campaign
Theme: Time travel
Setting: Forgotten Realms (Netheril)
Release date: 18th November 2025
About: Netheril’s Fall is a short DLC for the Forgotten Realms books that includes a few adventures that take players through time to the fall of Netheril.
| Contents | Netheril’s Fall |
|---|---|
| Pages | 32 |
| Adventures | 5 |
| Magic items | 8 |
| Monsters | 8 |
| Maps | 26 |
| Gazetteer | 1 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Type: Setting guide and rules supplement
Theme: Cyberpunk (though it might be more accurate to call it magipunk)
Setting: Eberron
Release date: 9th December 2025
About: Forge of the Artificer is a short supplement that expands on the 5e setting guide for Eberron, Rising From the Last War. It includes a revamped artificer class and subclasses, updated species, Eberron lore and plot hooks for adventures in Eberron.
What’s included?
| Contents | Forge of the Artificer |
|---|---|
| Pages | 112 |
| Species | 5 |
| Classes | 1 |
| Subclasses | 5 |
| Backgrounds | 17 |
| Feats | 28 |
| Spells | 1 |
| Magic items | 9 |
| Monsters | 25 |
| Maps | 1 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Type: Setting guide and rules supplement
Theme: Horror
Setting: Ravenloft
Release Date: 16th June 2026
About: The Horrors Within explores the Domains of Dread of Ravenloft, detailing their lore, geography, Darklords and plot hooks. It includes a load of player options including horror-themed subclasses and dark gift feats as well as a toolkit for DMs running horror-themed adventures, especially those set in the mists of Ravenloft.
What’s included?
| Contents | Ravenloft: The Horrors Within |
|---|---|
| Pages | 288 |
| Species | 4 |
| Classes | 1 (D&D Beyond gets the artificer class too) |
| Subclasses | 7 |
| Backgrounds | 4 |
| Feats | 11 |
| Magic items | 2 |
| Items | 0 |
| Monsters | 68 |
| Maps | 57 |
| One shots | 17 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Arcana Unleashed
Type: Rules supplement
Theme: Magic and the arcane
Release date: 15th September 2026
About: Arcana Unleashed expands on loads of magical options for D&D 5.5e including new and revised arcane subclasses, new spells, magical feats and more.
What’s included
| Contents | Arcana Unleashed |
|---|---|
| Pages | 160 |
| Subclasses | 8 |
| Backgrounds | 10 |
| Feats | 29 |
| Magic iems | 47 |
| Monsters | 19 |
| Spells | 33 |
| Bastion facilities | 9 |
| Adventures | 1 |
| Maps | 1 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall
Type: Campaign
Theme: Magical spy thriller/espionage
Setting: Forgotten Realms (Thay)
Release date: 15th September 2026
About: Takes players on an adventure from levels 11-20 to stop Szass Tam (a powerful lich and Zulkir of Thay) from unleashing a demonic undead horde upon the land.
What’s included?
| Contents | Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall |
|---|---|
| Pages | 128 |
| Levels | 11-20 |
| Monsters | 6 |
| Maps | 20+ |
| Lore | Gazetteer to Thay |
| Magic iems | 14 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Upcoming books
D&D: World of Warcraft
Type: Gameplay expansion crossover
Theme: Epic fantasy
Setting: Warcraft
Release date: 17th November 2026
About: Brings World of Warcraft to D&D with reskinned character options for gameplay in Azeroth as well as expanded species, subclasses, spells, lore and more. It also comes with 7 classic dungeons from World of Warcraft.
What’s included?
| Contents | D&D: World of Warcraft |
|---|---|
| Pages | 256 |
| Classes | 13 (some or all of these may be re-skins of existing classes) |
| Subclasses | 9 |
| Species | 16 (11 new and 5 re-skins) |
| Specializations | 40 |
| Magic iems | 25+ (including mounts) |
| Monsters | 50+ |
| Dungeon boss stat blocks | 30 |
| Spells | 60+ |
| Dungeons | 7 |
| Factions | 23 |
| Edition | 5.5e |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Dark Sun: Blood and Power
Type: Setting guide and rules expansion
Theme: Survival
Setting: Dark Sun
Release Date: 2027
About: Brings back the controversial Dark Sun setting with D&D 5e’s very first mature rated book. While there’s little confirmation of the exact contents of the book just yet, we are expecting the Psion to make a return having undergone multiple playtests in Unearthed Arcana.
Dark Sun: Edge of Oblivion
Type: Campaign
Theme: Survival
Setting: Dark Sun
Release date: 2027
About: Little is known about the campaign so far other than that it will be an adventure set in Dark Sun.
D&D Star Wars
Type: Gameplay expansion crossover
Theme: Sci-fi
Setting: Star Wars
Release Date: 2027
About: We know very little about this crossover so far other than that it will provide options to play D&D in the Star Wars setting.
Greyhawk: Crown of the Witch Queen
Type: Campaign
Setting: Greyhawk
Release date: Unknown
About: We only know that this adventure follows Drelnza, the vampire (and daughter of Tasha) and her attempt to become the next witch queen.