Spooky Laughter and a New D&D Book Being Teased

 Well, it's about time that we'd be getting a new general sourcebook for D&D, and it's possible that this is what has been hinted at with their official Discord, where a strange audio file labeled "Feather and Tarts" was posted.

The audio is that of a female character laughing with some odd magical sounds in the background (and possibly some monster vocalizing - maybe even laughing.)

That's about it, but, as speculated by Nerd Immersion in a recent video, these scant details do seem to tie things to one Tasha/Iggwilv - a canonical character of D&D past.

The spell Tasha's Hideous Laughter has tiny tarts and a feather as spell components, so one might wonder if the spooky laughing could be Tasha herself.

Tasha goes by many names - the Demonomicon of Iggwilv is linked to another one of her sobriquets, and my understanding is that she's one of D&D's classic, long-running villains, created by Gary Gygax himself.

Given the convention in 5E of having general sourcebooks named after famous D&D figures - Volo, Xanathar, and Mordenkainen - it seems likely, then, that this could be hinting at another book written from Tasha's perspective.

What, then, would be the nature of this book?

Personally, I'm hoping for another Xanathar-like book that gives us new class options and spells. There have been many, many new subclasses tested on Unearthed Arcana over the past couple years, and I'm sure that at this point, they could narrow those down to two or three per class to make official.

In fact, I think I'll make a separate post going through the UAs of the past couple years and see which ones I'd most like to have put into the game.

Anyway, we have nothing but this very obscure hint. D&D has published a few books in 2020 - two campaign setting guides with Wildemount and Theros, and upcoming we've got Rime of the Frostmaiden. As a big homebrewer, I'm always most excited for the general mix-and-match books.

Mordenkainen's had a theme of ancient, ongoing conflicts, with the Githzerai and Githyanki, Elves and Drow, Demons and Devils, and Dwarves and Duergar. There was something of a lightly planar theme to that book as well, though I'd be curious to see more about the planes that aren't the Nine Hells or the Abyss.

While Volo's did introduce a fair number of Fey creatures, I think a tour of the Inner Planes could also be fruitful (I'm kind of obsessed with the Shadowfell.)

Anyway, keep an eye out, as I suspect we'll get an official announcement relatively soon.