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!

 

[Weiley31]

Brandon is in the gather.town. Ask him questions.

More Dragonlance info.

HOT SMOKING DANG I CALLED IT!!!! The 5E Mass Combat rules are the foundation/IS the Warlord of Krynn Battle Game rules.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Just noticed the Eric in the starter has a sword. That's almost 40 years over due lol

 

[Mistwell]

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.

So players just need one of the three books, the DM has the other two, with the monsters in a separate book to keep that page open to the monster while the other book is open to the adventure page you're on. Makes good sense to me. Much better than cramming it all in one book.

 

[Weiley31]

I wonder if Shadows of the Dragon Queen and Warlord of Krynn will get bundled together OR get a boxed set type deal that boxes em together.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

VIDEO GAME AND BOOK TOGETHER?!? YES

 

[Weiley31]

Just noticed the Eric in the starter has a sword. That's almost 40 years over due lol

Man, it took him THAT LONG to level up to use a sword. LMFAO!

 

[teitan]

Art is subjective, but I've always found 5E's art of the highest quality.

But yes, I agree that even if a price hike was inevitable, these are huge price hikes. Really unjustifiable.

I miss the ability to recognize different artists and identifiable design elements for each world. Everything seems so generic now. It’s technically great but everything is so extra plus.

 

[Gradine]

Hell yeah, it's awesome having multiple booklets, rather than flipping back and forth constantly

 

[darjr]

 

[Jer]

From both the monster description and the product page on the Wizards website, it seems that Wildspace and the Astral are separate things. It's not "explore the Astral Sea and its subregion Wildspace" but "explore the Astral Sea and Wildspace". They are apparently seperate, and in equal footing with each other.

And in any case, if Wildspace were part of the Astral, then the entire Material Plane would be part of the Astral (as each planet is within Wildspace, which would be within the Astral). That would be a bit messy to say the least.

This may just be because I've been reading "The Plane Above" again for a game I'm running - but from this announcement I suspect that they're going to go for a vibe that every campaign world is floating in the Astral Sea surrounded by Wildspace, and one way to get to the Astral is to float your ship out to the edge of that Wildspace and breach into the Astral.

That would mean that the Astral is taking the place of the phlogiston for traveling between worlds purposes. Whether or not crystal spheres are part of the mix is left to be seen (but given that nobody mentioned them, I suspect that there will be a sidebar about them if there's any mention of them at all).