WotC D&D Direct--Learn About Upcoming D&D On April 21st!

D&D Direct is a 30-minute video which WotC will be releasing on April 21st at 9am Pacific Time (5pm BST, if I have my time zones correct). They'll be using it to reveal stuff about upcoming D&D projects (including video games and entertainment). The video will be presented by Anna Prosser and B. Dave Walters.

This is being billed in an emailed announcement entitled "Learn Everything That’s Happening This Year for Dungeons & Dragons" as the "first ever D&D Direct", so presumably there are more planned.

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The D&D Team at Wizards of the Coast is excited to debut D&D Direct, a jam-packed thirty-minute video presentation on April 21 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time.

Tune in to see exclusive reveals from the world's greatest roleplaying game, including video games, entertainment, and more, guided by hosts Anna Prosser and B. Dave Walters.

D&D Direct will be broadcast on the D&D YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/DNDWizards) and Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/dnd) channels.

To find out more on D&D Direct go to dnd.wizards.com and follow the official D&D social media accounts for more updates.

See you on April 21 at 9:00 AM PT for the first-ever D&D Direct!

 

[ersatzphil]

Planescape?

I'm not sure it's much of a tea leaf to read, but the recent leak of D&D-themed magic cards does include a card entitled, "Traverse the Outlands".

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Ravenloft has got a great future. Maybe we could see new novels and comics. With a look of XIX century is relatively easier to be adapted to an action-live production.

There is an open door for Sigil, at least some story-arc. We shouldn't see a player handbook without a previous UA.

Gamma World will be wellcome to the D&D multiverse some day, but it has special "crunch" what needs a lot of playtesting. Maybe it will be a videogame before a TTRPG. Maybe in the reboot version it will be in a fictional world, to avoid troubles about conflict between countries in the real life.

Jackandor could be one of the future settings of Magic: the Gathering. Also it is a right place for a survival videogame.

Cerilia/Birthright is the perfect setting for a strategy videogame, and a look very close to "Game of Thrones". But it needs special rules to be playtested.

Dark Sun needs a lot of previous planning, not only about possible retcons of the metaplot or details about the crunch, but possible future changes, for example to add more PC races and classes, but also potential spin-offs, at least to allow more creative freedom for a actual-play streaming show.

Mystara has got two interesting spin-off with a great potential: Hollow World(Conan the barbarian vs dinosaurs+megafaun) and Red Steel/Savage Coast(pirates and mutants). And the PCs as demigods could be as superheroes.

 

[Staffan]

One of the thing that FR does is that whenever the rules change, there is some kind of "cataclysm" where the rules of magic are inverted and Ao is mad and Mystara dies and comes again and either Bane or Cyric are being jerks. And these "cataclysms" explain the change to the world that are necessary to "explain" why things don't quite work the same anymore (because of the rule changes).

The 3e book was well thought out in that the settings reflected the rules well. And running 3e in the 2nd ed campaign setting would be a bit... rough.

3e, notably, was the one time they didn't explain the changes via some cataclysm. There were some changes, but on the scale of other changes they had been doing throughout 2e. Instead, the official line was that any game representation of the Realms would necessarily be an adaption of how the Realms "really" is, and 3e was just a closer approximation.

 

[darjr]

Here is the card “Traverse the Outlands”

 

[Staffan]

Jackandor could be one of the future settings of Magic: the Gathering. Also it is a right place for a survival videogame.

Jakandor does not seem likely for Magic, because the setting only has two big factions (Charonti and Knorrmen). Magic really, really, wants there to be 5 or occasionally 10 factions in a setting because of how the colors are set up. I'm not sure, but I think the last time they did factions with a different number was Ixalan with four, each using a different mix of colors (Dinosaurs in red/green/white, pirates in red/black/blue, merfolk in blue/green, and vampires in white/black), and they have remarked on how that made it really hard to keep both factions and colors balanced.

 

[ersatzphil]

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Here is the card “Traverse the Outlands”

Wait, ©2017? Probably just an (unfortunate) coincidence, in that case.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Jackandor has got only two factions, but more could be added. How many factions there are in Ixalan? Not always it has to be five or ten. And it is the perfect setting to test to design people with a tribal-punk look as a previous step befor Dark-Sun.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm not sure it's much of a tea leaf to read, but the recent leak of D&D-themed magic cards does include a card entitled, "Traverse the Outlands".

Seems to be a reprint, and "Outlander" is q basic Background in D&D, which might mean they have an "Outlander" Background card related to being a wilderness character.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Dragonlance later this year and then probably Planescape next year and a new setting. 2024 will see Greyhawk as part of the 50th anniversary celebration or next year if it’s not Planescape. I could also see Sigil merged with Spelljammer and Spelljammer including planar travel with the hints that have been dropped.

There's been nothing really that would indicate Planescape material being merged with Spelljammer. We'd be seeing things like braiaur and modrons (especially modrons, as they appear to love them) making appearances. At best, we might see rules for some Spelljamming ships like those of the gith and mind flayers to be able to travel to the Astral, but that would likely be the extent of it.

 

[overgeeked]

Dark Sun needs a lot of previous planning, not only about possible retcons of the metaplot or details about the crunch, but possible future changes, for example to add more PC races and classes, but also potential spin-offs, at least to allow more creative freedom for a actual-play streaming show.

Ugh. I'd rather they not touch Dark Sun than gut it.

Mystara has got two interesting spin-off with a great potential: Hollow World(Conan the barbarian vs dinosaurs+megafaun)

Uh...the Hollow World is ridiculously more involved than "Conan vs dinosaurs".

and Red Steel/Savage Coast(pirates and mutants).

Yeah, it's pretty great.

And the PCs as demigods could be as superheroes.

It really is perfect for 5E. Don't even need extra rules.