Beloved D&D art book Art & Arcana gets a 5th edition sequel
Dungeons & Dragons: Art & Arcana, the exceptional visual history of the original tabletop role-playing game, is getting a sequel. Lore & Legends: A Visual Celebration of the Fifth Edition of the World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game will chart the explosive mainstream growth of 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons, exploring its impact on modern pop culture (and vice versa) and the rise of actual play that brought new players into the D&D fold.
Polygon recently sat down with its authors of the new art book to discuss their approach to the material, and to learn more about what the book will (and will not) cover when it arrives on Oct. 3.
The biggest draw here — other than the unprecedented access to Wizards of the Coast staff and primary sources — is the team helming the project: Michael Witwer, author of Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons; Kyle Newman, the filmmaker behind Fanboys and Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made; Emmy-nominated actor Sam Witwer, best known as the voice of Darth Maul; and historian Jon Peterson, author of Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragonsand other books. That’s the quartet that brought us Art & Arcana in 2018, by the way.
“After the success of Art & Arcana, Wizards obviously was interested in working with us more on similar projects,” Peterson told Polygon in an interview with the group. “We realized that there was a rare opportunity to tell the more recent story of the game. If you look at Art & Arcana, it really runs out of steam circa 2017 or so. But something happened between 2013 and 2018 that is a very unlikely thing to have happened — a tabletop brand in this digital age suddenly became this massive, mainstream activity of a
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