D&D 5E WotC Announces An Impending Announcement: New Setting, Storyline

Early this week, WotC announced on Twitter that today there would be some kind of announcement on their Twitch channel. Those who heard that announcement and tuned in were treated to an announcement that the new storyline will be announced at a live event in June.

The press release announcing the impending announcement also mentions a new setting, as well as the storyline, so it sounds like it might not be set in the Forgotten Realms (or maybe is in a new region - to 5E - of the Realms, such as Icewind Dale). The adventure and the setting might be the same thing, or they might be completely different things. Recently, WotC has released a bunch of settings: Eberron, Ravnica, Wildemount, and the upcoming Theros.

Fans of D&D will learn all about the new setting and storyline

The new storyline specifically will be revealed at 12pm PST (8pm GMT) on Thursday, June 18th.

The June event will raise money for Comic Relief, and will feature celebrities including Brandon Routh (Superman), and will preview the brand new storyline. It takes place June 18th-20th. Other names involved include Felicia Day, Deborah Ann Woll, Amy Acker, David Harbour, Matthew Lillard, and more.

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 PRESS RELEASE

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RENTON, WA – May 21, 2020 – People all over the world continue to stay safe by staying home, but that doesn’t mean the adventuring has to stop. Dungeons & Dragons is more popular than ever because it allows people to weave compelling stories together even when they’re physically apart through online videoconferencing. Now, Wizards of the Coast brings the stars to this virtual table with D&D Live 2020: Roll w/ Advantage. An amazing cast of characters led by expert storytellers preview the latest D&D storyline with live gaming sessions, all while raising money for Red Nose Day to help the most vulnerable children across the US and around the world, who have been so affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.The adventure begins 10:00am PT on June 18, 2020 and will run through June 20, 2020 at dungeonsanddragons.com.

D&D Live 2020: Roll w/ Advantage features big personalities playing elves, wizards and fighters to accomplish quests using their imaginations. Funny people like Brian Posehn, Kevin Sussman and Thomas Middleditch will work together to solve problems or, more likely, cause some hilarious new ones. WWE ® Superstars Xavier Woods ®, Tyler Breeze ®, Ember Moon ®, Alexa Bliss ® and Dio Maddin ® will contend with beefcake destroyer Jeremy Crawford, a.k.a. Principal Rules Designer for D&D. Deborah Ann Woll will lead a group of actors in improvising a way to help people in a fantasy world not that different from ours. And principal D&D writer Chris Perkins takes players

Fans of D&D will learn all about the new setting and storyline as well as accompanying new products plus tons of unique gameplay available on June 18, 2020. D&D Adventurers League has four new short adventures everyone can enjoy. By donating a small amount to Red Nose Day, fans will have access to sign up for D&D sessions with players around the world! During #DnDLive2020, fans will also be able to choose the character best suited to help the region through Reality RP, a mashup of fantasy storytelling, community engagement, and reality television.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Proveably false, I've read the book and used and loved it for five years.

Five.

Years.

Not a failure. My wife's favorite character was a Crown Oath Paladin. Forum chatter ≠ accurate assessment of success.

You are the one exception I know of. Bladesingers are simultaneously OP at lower levels, and terrible at melee combat, and many of their later abilities suck. Battleragers are laughably bad and restricted more than Bladesingers. Many of the subclasses are very bad. The information on the setting is even lacking. It's a very short book as well, but costs as much as every other D&D 5e book.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

They didn't say much, bit based on the following and the publication schedule, I'd say that's it for a while:

Okay, this is the first I've heard of it.

 

[Parmandur]

You are the one exception I know of. Bladesingers are simultaneously OP at lower levels, and terrible at melee combat, and many of their later abilities suck. Battleragers are laughably bad and restricted more than Bladesingers. Many of the subclasses are very bad. The information on the setting is even lacking. It's a very short book as well, but costs as much as every other D&D 5e book.

Eh, they work. The book is a very fun read for me, and a good resource.

More importantly than any individual opinion, though: the books still sells, and is still in print. WotC reiterated on the design ideas for the book, and really hitnit out of the park with Ravnica, Eberron, Wildemount, and Theros. But SCAG is no failure.

 

[Parmandur]

Okay, this is the first I've heard of it.

Yeah, it's not definitive, but if they still had something to test for the Fall book, I feel they would have put that out there with the survey. As it stands, the next UA will probably look to the next step on their roadmap.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Yeah, it's not definitive, but if they still had something to test for the Fall book, I feel they would have put that out there with the survey. As it stands, the next UA will probably look to the next step on their roadmap.

They have occasionally released a survey and then a later UA, but normally just a survey means that they're done.

The last 2 UA were released on the second Tuesday, so if we're getting one this month, I'm guessing it's tomorrow.

 

[Parmandur]

They have occasionally released a survey and then a later UA, but normally just a survey means that they're done.

The last 2 UA were released on the second Tuesday, so if we're getting one this month, I'm guessing it's tomorrow.

Possibly.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Possibly.

Anything's possible. Who knows, maybe the next UA is "LATE APRIL FOOLS! Mystic, Archivist, Onomancer, and Revised Ranger UA".

 

[Parmandur]

Anything's possible. Who knows, maybe the next UA is "LATE APRIL FOOLS! Mystic, Archivist, Onomancer, and Revised Ranger UA".

The next UA will assuredly be "Wildspace Race Options: Spelljammer Confirmed."

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

The next UA will assuredly be "Wildspace Race Options: Spelljammer Confirmed."

Don't crush my dreams! I have a spelljammer campaign right now (on pause due to the pandemic) and I would love a spelljammer book! Let me play a space-hippo!

 

[Parmandur]

Don't crush my dreams! I have a spelljammer campaign right now (on pause due to the pandemic) and I would love a spelljammer book! Let me play a space-hippo!

Man, Mordenkein's should have had some more quirky options for PCs, like Volo's did.