D&D 5E D&D Celebration Schedule

From September 23-26, the D&D community comes together for D&D Celebration – a weekend celebrating the release of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, and previewing Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons (Oct 19) and Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos (Nov 16)!

The first official D&D musical? The cast of Star Trek: Discovery rolling the d20s? This year’s D&D Celebration will offer fans a front row seat to watch all that and more as hilarious Dungeon Masters lead adventures in a slate of side-splitting virtual games including:

- Disco Does D&D
o Cast members from Star Trek: Discovery Anthony Rapp, Mary Wisemann, Blu del Barrio, Ian Alexander, and special guest Wil Wheaton, play D&D with Noah Averbach-Katz at the helm as DM

- The Circus of Sound – a D&D Musical
o The long-awaited D&D musical event starring Anthony Rapp, Jason Charles Miller, Azie Dungey, Vico Ortiz, and Mariah Rose Faith with Kelly Lynne D’Angelo as DM

- The Slapstick Hunt: A Silly Chase
o DM Amy Vorpahl leads cast members from The Guild, Sandeep Parikh, Vince Caso, Robin Thorsen, Amy Okuda, and Jeff Lewis on a comedic adventure through the multiverse

- The Dungeon & The Dragon
o An unlikely band of monsters are assembled to help a wronged dragon track down the heroes who stole her hoard with Alicia Marie, Deborah Ann Woll, Todd Stashwick, Patrick Rothfuss, and Matthew Lillard playing as monsters and B. Dave Walters as DM

- The Great Dragon Tourney
o Get ready for a tourney unlike any other featuring dragon jousting, racing, and diplomacy starring Anna Prosser, Mica Burton, Nathan Sharp, Jonathan Indovino, and Kate Welch (in an extra-special role) with Mark Hulmes as DM

The weekend will close with a look to the future of the brand with the Future of D&D panel hosted by D&D’s own Liz Schuh, Ray Winninger, Chris Perkins, and Jeremy Crawford.

The full schedule of events, including virtual gaming and D&D Studio and community led panels, can be found here: https://dndcelebration.com/schedule

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I could see a 6E revision, but Winninger went out if his way to say that the new "Classic Setting" products would be breaking new ground format wise, so...here's an idea.

A Dragonlance megaset, containing an expanded 5E-ification of the original Adventures, but separated from the original precons and spun out way further, with more Setting material and a full on mass combat wargame.

It'd be so hard for me to actually spend $165... but that might just do it.

 

[Parmandur]

It'd be so hard for me to actually spend $165... but that might just do it.

If the Beadle & Grimm products have been successful enough, WotC might be trying to dip into aome more premiums product. We'll find out what this means soon enough!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

It'd be so hard for me to actually spend $165... but that might just do it.

See I feel like being pulled in two broad directions, the race/class surveys and Tasha/post Tasha books scream 5.5e Core Set, but Ray's comments on the classic settings getting a new format scream a campaign box set (although I see a Tier 1 setting like FR or Planescape [or Planejammer] being more likely then a Tier 2 setting like Dragonlance for such a high price product).

 

[Urriak Uruk]

See I feel like being pulled in two broad directions, the race/class surveys and Tasha/post Tasha books scream 5.5e Core Set, but Ray's comments on the classic settings getting a new format scream a campaign box set (although I see a Tier 1 setting like FR or Planescape [or Planejammer] being more likely then a Tier 2 setting like Dragonlance for such a high price product).

If the Beadle & Grimm products have been successful enough, WotC might be trying to dip into aome more premiums product. We'll find out what this means soon enough!

I do want to be clear though that some things are incorrect in this Amazon page (and the UK one). It's priced at $165, but weighs 5 ounces, and has 145 pages (UK page), and has the Acq. Inc. books reviews.

So... all of it could just be placeholders.

 

[Demetrios1453]

See I feel like being pulled in two broad directions, the race/class surveys and Tasha/post Tasha books scream 5.5e Core Set, but Ray's comments on the classic settings getting a new format scream a campaign box set (although I see a Tier 1 setting like FR or Planescape [or Planejammer] being more likely then a Tier 2 setting like Dragonlance for such a high price product).

The more I think on it, if it is a premium campaign setting set, it would almost have to be Forgotten Realms, simply as many of the other choices (Planescape, Dark Sun, Dragonlance, etc) would have had UAs recently released that would have tipped their hand a bit. The Realms, being fairly generic, could skip that step. Greyhawk could potentially get away with it too...

 

[ersatzphil]

...the race/class surveys and Tasha/post Tasha books scream 5.5e Core Set...

A 5.5 release would also be a good moment to unveil an in-house VTT - they could finally pull off what they attempted to do with 4e. Toss in a year's subscription if you buy the fancy box.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

A 5.5 release would also be a good moment to unveil an in-house VTT - they could finally pull off what they attempted to do with 4e. Toss in a year's subscription if you buy the fancy box.

How would Roll 20, D&D Beyond, and Fantasy Grounds react to that?

 

[overgeeked]

How would Roll 20, D&D Beyond, and Fantasy Grounds react to that?

Very likely go out of business.

 

[ersatzphil]

How would Roll 20, D&D Beyond, and Fantasy Grounds react to that?

Wasn't there news a few months ago about a bunch of D&DBeyond staff all jumping ship at once, and morale there being super low?

 

[ersatzphil]

Giants in the Playground.

Now that I think about it - assuming it's true, of course - I wonder if this is the project that Marisha Ray and Deborah Ann Wohl were supposed to be working on with Kate Welch before she left Wizards.