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D&D admits it can't keep up with fans' appetites, and is deputizing other companies to create official add-on content

New content for every Dungeons & Dragons setting is ambitious, so Wizards of the Coast are asking for help from other studios in the TTRPG industry.

An image of the Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook at PAX East — Image credit: Jules Chin Greene

News by Trent Cannon, Senior Contributing writer

Published on Fri Jul 31 2026

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One thing I’ve learned about D&D players in my 20 years playing the game is that they have a voracious appetite for new supplements and sourcebooks about their favorite campaign settings. The problem, of course, is that Dungeons & Dragons developers Wizards of the Coast only have so many people with so much time to write about legacy campaign settings like Ravenloft, Forgotten Realms, and (my personal favorite) Eberron. To meet demand, they are enlisting other publishers from the TTRPG industry to create new official setting sourcebooks.

“One of the challenges that we’ve often had was how do we support all of the settings that people love with adventure content?” Dungeons & Dragons Executive Producer Greg Bilsand explained during a keynote presentation at GenCon 2026. “Players shouldn’t have to wait decades before we go back to an Eberron or a Ravenloft or a Dark Sun… We should be making it easier for everyone to run adventures, and the problem, of course, is that we have a team that is only so large, and so supporting all those settings with adventure content has been challenging.”

To fix the gap between supply and demand for new D&D adventures, Wizards of the Coast is tapping other companies to produce new content in some of their most popular settings. “One of the things that I’m excited to announce and talk about today is some incredible partnerships that we have with studios across the TTRPG industry.”

During the presentation, Bilsand confirmed three campaigns that were getting official content made by another company. They are:

Ravenloft – Ghostfire Gaming
Eberron – Visionary Productions and Design
Forgotten Realms – Kobold Press

“A big piece of what we’re trying to do is to provide annual support for every one of our settings,” Bilsand added, which is an ambitious aspiration considering how many settings there are to choose from in D&D. The multiverse is a big place, and fans clearly have a big appetite for their favorite setting.

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