TOPIC: What effects should I be preparing for this year?

I honestly cannot carry around all my tokens due to the weight and bulk.
I'm curious if anyone has some insight into what we should prepare for in terms of status effects. I haven't been able to dig into the lore and take a guess. Do I need underwater breathing? Resistance to undead? Fire? etc.

I know it's just speculation, but we usually have some hints for our preparation.

We won't know until people actually go through the dungeon. Jeff doesn't like to reveal adventure details beforehand. All we know is that one adventure will be on a gnomish airship and the other in a snake-cult temple .

The current year's tokens often have a clue. My advice would be to look over these for clues.

Though I can't say for certain, I feel pretty confident in thinking we won't be underwater this year. I suspect Cold environments and lycanthropy will not be a big concern this year either, but who knows.

It sure looks like you can get poisoned, stuck in sand, thirsty, and have potential visibility problems from sand, and potentially long-ranged combat in high winds...

I noticed this in the Coach's Guide:

The effect of turning in an ELDRITCH RUNESTONE will bestow 100% immunity to a specific type of damage, as determined by the adventure the player is undertaking:
Flight of the Zephyr: Shock
Into the Viper’s Pit: Poison

Poison was pretty obvious from the 2014 tokens, Shock a little less so. Ring of Shock Resistance, anyone?

-Joshua

Unless you're taking >20 points of Shock damage, Supreme Ring of Elemental Command is a better choice.

Granted, they may be a little hard to come by these days, but I figured I'd throw that out anyway.

I'm getting more depressed with every year that I spent so much gold on those Eldritch Runestones.

LOL well now I know what dungeon not to play the Drunken Master class... Into the Viper Pit... Since we loose Poison immunity to pick up a few things.