The New D&D Adventure Storyline Will Be Announced On June 2nd-3rd

WotC is holding an event, which they're calling the Stream of Annihilation, on June 2nd and 3rd to announce the new D&D storyline. Various D&D Twitch steamers have been invited to participate in the upcoming campaign, which will be live streamed along with interviews, and so on. "We’ll have folks from Misscliks, Maze Arcana, Critical Role, and Dice, Camera, Action! with Chris Perkins, not to mention international gaming groups like Yogscast's HighRollers (U.K.) and Dragon Friends (Australia)." You'll be able to watch it all live on Twitch at the time. Is this where we'll discover the identity of the mysterious Dust and Midway? Speculate away!

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Here's the announcement in full. There's more info about the hosts and the guests here.

Dungeons & Dragons loves the amazing video streams produced by our fans. This community-generated live-play highlights what’s fantastic about D&D—sitting down together with your friends to tell a grand story!


To celebrate, we’ve invited a bunch of D&D streamers and luminaries to Seattle, Washington to hang out and roll some dice on June 2nd and 3rd! This two-day event is called the Stream of Annihilation and it’s two full days of streaming that D&D fans won’t want to miss. We’ll have folks from Misscliks, Maze Arcana, Critical Role, and Dice, Camera, Action! with Chris Perkins, not to mention international gaming groups like Yogscast's HighRollers (U.K.) and Dragon Friends (Australia).
[h=3]PROGRAMMING[/h]Kicking off at 10am on both June 2nd and 3rd, hosts Anna Prosser Robinson and Kelly Link will talk to the Wizards of the Coast D&D team and learn all about our next exciting storyline coming in September. Then each group of streamers will play or share a sample of what to expect from the campaigns they’ll be running over the summer that preview the new D&D story. There will be multiple live games, interviews, new product unveils and improvised hilarity each day, starting at 10am PT and ending at 10pm each night. You’ll get introduced to the High Rollers crew delving into uncharted territory DMed by Mark Hulmes, a new Misscliks show investigating rumors called Risen, two weekly groups from our friends Satine Phoenix and Ruty Rutenberg at Maze Arcana, a new group of L.A. actors called Girls Guts Glory, and more!


Throughout the Stream of Annihilation, we’ll drop details on our expanded D&D Twitch programming, new accessories fans have been clamoring for coming later this year, and amazing board games and products from our partners. You’ll hear from Cryptic Studios about plans for Neverwinter, Curse Media for D&D Beyond, as well as WizKids, Gale Force 9, Fantasy Grounds, Roll20, and more. Plus, like any Dungeon Master worth their salt, we have a few exciting surprises to pull from our bags of holding!
[h=3]FURTHER DETAILS[/h]You’ll have to watch the Stream of Annihilation to catch it all live! Follow twitch.tv/DnD to get all the updates, then mark your calendars for Friday, June 2nd and Saturday, June 3rd to make sure you don’t miss a thing!


A full schedule, group bios and some more of the celebrities attending the Stream of Annihilation will be announced over the next few weeks. We’ll also be talking about the event on our official Twitter account (@Wizards_DnD) as well as interviewing some of the groups this month on Dragon Talk, the official D&D podcast.

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[MonsterEnvy]

I think its a big early to assume Acererak will be the villain given that he is already a villain in a 5e product that came out not too long ago.

 

[werecorpse]

That said, I did play Dungeon World once, and the way the backpack was dealt with was pretty cool. If that became part of D&D, would be D&D enough?

See adventuring gear here: http://www.dungeonworldsrd.com/equipment/#Dungeon_Gear

Tangent. yep that's pretty cool, thanks for the link.

the digital marketing side of d&d is going strong even if the production schedule of actual tabletop useful material is light.

edit: I doubt I'll watch it - I'll rely on someone else from enworld to watch it, filter out the info and post it here : )

 

[Quickleaf]

The green-devil image and the reference to spheres of annihilation is more evidence to suggest that we'll be getting a Tomb of Horrors sequel, as I've been predicting for a while now.

Here's what we know:
* According to R.A. Salvatore's latest Drizzt book, Hero, Acererak and his Tomb are now located in Chult (a region of the Forgotten Realms). In Hero, the main villain reveals that Acererak is distributing mirrors with green-devil frames in order to harvest souls throughout Faerun.
* The next adventure path will feature Artus Cimber and the Ring of Winter, as revealed in Storm King's Thunder. Chris Perkins confirmed in a tweet that Artus and the Ring would feature in a 2017 product. Artus, coincidentally, first appeared in a Forgotten Realms novel set in Chult.

I'll go further and predict that Acererak and his dungeon will have less of a presence in the new adventure than Strahd had in Curse of Strahd. In other words, most of the adventure will feature new locations and dungeons, all leading up to an epic battle with the lich himself. I also predict that there will be some planar or dimensional travel involved, due to Artus's role as an Exarch of Auril and Acererak's journey between worlds.

Thanks for the synopsis on Hero. Yep, that sounds pretty darn likely given all the clues!

 

[Pjack]

I find it more likely that all the marketing for the event is drawn from this season (Tomb of Horrors being in the Tales from the Yawning Portal hardcover), but that the actual storyline will be something quite different. WotC is in a pattern of alternating nostalgia products (Curse of Strahd, TftYP) with original adventures (Out of the Abyss, Storm King's Thunder); if the pattern holds, then next story should be something unique. Probably still set in the Realms, but I'm still holding out hope for extraplanar crossovers. All rampant speculation, of course!

 

[Barantor]

I just hope that if they keep rehashing enough of the Greyhawk content that we get Greyhawk opened up for DMsGuild just like we had Ravenloft opened up with Curse of Stradh.

 

[robus]

But of course we all know that WotC doesn't have a "default setting" so there's NO WAY Acererak would EVER be caught undead in the Forgotten Realms. Why, that would be proof beyond any reasonable doubt that the Forgotten Realms IS; as a cold, hard, provable fact, THE default D&D setting, once and for all and that Greyhawk, Mystara, etc. are all just quaint shadows chased by old losers that will never see the light of day. Only the glimmer of sidebar mentions, like light through the heartless grill of a barred dungeon window...

Old Losers! F**k You. That includes Perkins? He's my age. Grow up. Yes FR is the default, but to tell it's creator Gygax (Greyhawk) and others that they are irrelevant, you forget the roots and ages of these pioneers. Without them, you would be playing Monopoly and Risk only!

Ooh! Hot first post on first post action! Grabs popcorn... this should be good!

 

[Uchawi]

I am not interested in another Tomb of Horrors remake, including Acererak. That is one thing that can lay to rest in the dust.

 

[guachi]

If it's some Tomb of Horrors sequel/ rehash I'll save my money and yet again not buy an AP.

I do thank WOTC for coming out with an endless stream of product I have no desire to buy. Really saving me money.

 

[MNblockhead]

Old Losers! F**k You. That includes Perkins? He's my age. Grow up. Yes FR is the default, but to tell it's creator Gygax (Greyhawk) and others that they are irrelevant, you forget the roots and ages of these pioneers. Without them, you would be playing Monopoly and Risk only!

Pretty sure he was being sarcastic and is probably on the same side as you. Not that I give either way. This old loser has never bought or run a published campaign world.

 

[MNblockhead]

I think its a big early to assume Acererak will be the villain given that he is already a villain in a 5e product that came out not too long ago.

SPOILERS!!!!