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!

 

[teitan]

If you think Sally and Billy are going to rush out to buy a Spelljammer slipcase over a starter set or maybe the core book slipcase just because they have some impression you’ve projected onto them that they’re going to feel the need to buy 8 years worth of books just to play. Unless they have a yen for tall ships or space, they’re not gonna be the target market for this. Hell, most players don’t buy that many books at all because a large amount of the material out there just isn’t player facing. It’s adventures, some of which sometimes have a small bit of player content.

As for your commentary on my saying I’m okay with the format a lot, I don’t see you equally chiding Ruins for his constant chorus of “rip-off.” So it’s clearly not frequency of stating opinion you have an issue with so much as you think my opinion is wrong and it’s annoying you.

You wanna talk luxury hobby prices? This isn’t Warhammer, man. The prices have maintained stability here for years despite rising print costs and the first time they take a slight uptick people start acting like it’s the end of the world. Would I love to pay less? Sure. Who wouldn’t? But I also lived through the glut of product releases in the 2e days too when we had like 3 new $20 books (now around $35 adjusted for inflation) every month cluttering up shelves with unsold product. One new book every few months is hardly what I’d call a luxury hobby. YMMV of course.

Have you seen the price of a dragon lately??? Lol I haven’t chided you. I responded to you quoting me.

 

[Weiley31]

Yeah no he’s not. That’s stupid.
Sigh

He low-key made a better DM anyway.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Well no, now you're judging your peers unfairly. Players having a player book in front of them means the DM can separately have the DM books in front of them simultaneously. There is large utility, for me at least, in having the monster book open simultaneous with the adventure book open. All of this is very high utility for me. If it doesn't have high utility for you, fair enough. But you calling this an "insult" and now saying anyone who likes it is a "tiny minority" with "badly behaved players" seems a few steps beyond fair decorum here. I mean, take a step back and imagine for a moment that other tables use books differently than do you, perhaps?

So you think that physical utility justifies an 80% price hike on digital? I will respond if you answer that.

 

[darjr]

 

[Zaukrie]

Hmmmm....I really like a couple of the monsters, and am not sure about the others. Lots of high level stuff......

Why would the tree let people in it if it hates all life?

 

[DarkCrisis]

It also seems like a bum marketing move. I can think of multiple 40-somethings who'd have bought it if they went all in but definitely won't art only.

Yeah that’s me

 

[Henadic Theologian]

80% increase on digital, going from 30 to 50.

And yeah, for a pathetic number of pages. And the usual lower-tier art too, adding insult to injury.

It's on sale for pre-orders for 20% off ($40 instead of $50) for D&D Beyond.

Not impressed by the low page count. I'll pre-order from Amazon, and decide if I want to cancel my order later when I know more, just in case any sales happen.

I do really love the art.

BTW just because Crystal Spheres aren't mentioned, doesn't mean they are gone, something has to be seperating Wildspace from the Astral Sea. Plus other books mentioned Crystal Spheres in 5e.

Interesting that they borrowed a 4e term, Astral Sea here. I'm not certain if they are using the Astral Sea interchangeably with Astral Plane here, or if the Astral Sea is a sublayer of the Astral Plane. This could really step on Planescapes toes.

Really unimpressed by the low page count of each book. My first thought was finally a setting done right until I saw the page count.

 

[overgeeked]

Man, Dungeons and Dragons 5E players gonna be eating good this year and next: Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, Dragonlance: Shadows of the Dragon Queen, Legends of the Multiverse, Flee, Mortals(!), and updated Monster Manuals Expanded 1&2.

More like eating Top Ramen to afford all that.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

It's on sale for pre-orders for 20% off ($40 instead of $50) for D&D Beyond.

Not impressed by the low page count. I'll pre-order from Amazon, and decide if I want to cancel my order later when I know more, just in case any sales happen.

I do really love the art.

BTW just because Crystal Spheres aren't mentioned, doesn't mean they are gone, something has to be seperating Wildspace from the Astral Sea. Plus other books mentioned Crystal Spheres in 5e.

Interesting that they borrowed a 4e term, Astral Sea here. I'm not certain if they are using the Astral Sea interchangeably with Astral Plane here, or if the Astral Sea is a sublayer of the Astral Plane. This could really step on Planescapes toes.

Really unimpressed by the low page count of each book. My first thought was finally a setting done right until I saw the page count.

Yeah for say 360 pages I'd eat the price hike.

 

[Weiley31]

Why would the tree let people in it if it hates all life?

Sometimes, having roommates is a complicated matter.