Spelljammer D&D Direct Live Report: 9am PDT (5pm BST) SPELLJAMMER CONFIRMED! DRAGONLANCE!

D&D Direct, WotC's new video-format announcement show launches today at 9am PDT (5pm BST). If you aren't able to watch it, I'll be updating this article live. Feel free to comment below! Once it launches, you will need to refresh this page when you want to see new updates. The video is expected to last about 30 minutes.

If you CAN watch it, you'll find it on YouTube or Twitch at the above times. Otherwise, follow along below!

• 45 mins to go. Live updates incoming!
• 30 mins to go!
• 5 minutes to go!
• Here we go! Opens with a sea shanty.
• Forgive typos. They talk fast and I can't type.

• Spelljammer is confirmed!
• They talk REALLY FAST!
• Spelljammer Adventures in Space, project lead Chris Perkins, Trystan Falcone graphic designer
• Cities built on asteroids, dead gods floating in the ether
• 6 races---astral elves, autognomes, hedozi(?), gif, plasmoids, thri-kreen
• 3 hardcovers in a slipcase: Astral Adventurers Guide, Boo's Astral Menagerie, Light of Xaryxis adventure
• Prequel adventure in July
• Wizkids miniatures

Other stuff also discussed!

• Baldur's Gate 3 CRPG preview video (game is in 2023)
• Journeys Through Radiant Citadel intro video -- 3 of the adventures are: Wages of Vice (5th level), Caribbean; Orchids of the Invisible Mountain (14th level), feywild, far realm, Whistler new monster; Fiend of Hollow Mind (4th level), skeletons and spirits

• "Campaign Cases" -- Creature tokens! Terrain tiles! July!

D&D Movie directors now onscreen. The movie in March 2023 is called HONOR AMONG THIEVES.

• New D&D starter set. Comes with 'digital onboarding'. Dragons of Stormwreck Isle. We knew about that one.
• D&D digital monstrous compendium. Available to those with WoTC or D&D Beyond Accounts. Volume 1 has an eldritch lich and the 10 legged asteroid spider. And the starlancer. Might have misheard some of that!

• MMO Neverwinter video. Dragonslayer begins June 2022. (I wonder if they'll need a dragonance for that?)
• New D&D actual play video, Legends of the Multiverse. Lots of 80s cartoon style soft rock music. Boo is in it.

WIzKids skirmish game D&D Onslaught. October

Finally -- DRAGONLANCE WARRIORS OF KRYNN! SHADOW OF THE DRAGON QUEEN!

 

[Morrus]

So I typed as fast as I could but couldn't get the best screen grabs as they flashed those super quick.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I'm running a 5E campaign right now using the 2E Spelljammer books so going to be really interesting to see how the setting changes. Either way....super excited for this. I wonder if the lack of excitement for the couple others posting here so far is because they either have their "sweet nostalgia spot" positioned prior to or well after the 2E Spelljammer era (my nostalgia sweet spot is dead in the center around 1989-1995).

Either way....Spelljammer was a weird and exotic product in 1989. In 2022 it's borderline plebian and feels almost conventionally necessary for D&D to represent the broader spectrum of high fantasy it is emblematic of.

Nope. Mine is in same place, but whilst Spelljammer was exotic I never found it even as compelling as the FR.

And the approach sounds likely to be extremely expensive with zero justification. If it isn't, great! But I'll believe it when I see the price.

 

[Zaukrie]

Wow, tiny hardcovers in a slipcase sounds like a massive rip off. Why on earth be so wasteful? Absolutely bizarre decision. Glad I'm sticking to digital but I'm sure they'll price digital at the same (likely extortionate) price as physical, in which case: hard pass.

Dragonlance as an adventure makes more sense than as a setting, at least.

Right? It isn't environmentally sound at all to get a slipcase and three hardcovers.....I think the prices are very fair, we'll just disagree on that.

 

[overgeeked]

Cool. A little lore change and drop back into the phlogiston and crystal spheres and we’re good.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

It’s basically a 2e era boxed set

Except likely way more relatively expensive.

 

[darjr]

 

[Demetrios1453]

It will be interesting to see how they do Dragonlance as an "adventure book." I would have thought you'd need a full setting book AND adventure to do it justice, but I suppose the setting--or at least Ansalon--is sparse enough in detail to make it work. Still, that better be a big book.

From the picture, it looks like Warriors of Krynn is a box set, or maybe another slip cover set...

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Dragonlance is coming back to D&D later this year! Battle for the world of Dragonlance across an adventure book and battle game that includes options to link them together as a new way to play D&D.
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen is an adventure book that tells a brand-new story at the beginning stages of the War of the Lance.
Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn introduces a war game experience to D&D 5th Edition, featuring large scale military battles.

 

[J-H]

Thanks for the summary.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Oooh, mass combat rules at last!