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!

 

[overgeeked]

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.

They could also be calling the phlogiston the astral sea and dropping the flammable bit.

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm totally putting the Goon Balloon in my adventure tomorrow (hoping my players don't read that).

 

[EthanSental]

My dndbeyond link has the spelljammer at 33.99, up from the usual 25.99. What price point are other seeing on the site as that’s not 80% increase in my case.

the fantasy ground version is 49 and says it’s for all the books, theDndbeyond says 49.99 initial so I’m hoping all items are included.

 

[Weiley31]

More like eating Top Ramen to afford all that.

Those things have soo much sodium too. Which is sad because they are quite nice for being so cheap AND actually delicious. (I stopped eating those LOONG ago once I found out how much sodium a single one has. The food we eat today already has enough sodium in it that you don't need to add any more in.)

Now I just subsist on Peanut Butter sandwiches.

 

[Greg Benage]

My dndbeyond link has the spelljammer at 33.99, up from the usual 25.99. What price point are other seeing on the site as that’s not 80% increase in my case.

Does that include the adventure (ETA: setting book...whatever) and everything? If so, that's a good deal.

 

[darjr]

Darksun!

 

[Mistwell]

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

I honestly don't know what's going to be included in the digital content so hard to judge it. If it's just the content of the three books and nothing outside of that, then I agree that's too big a jump for digital only. If it includes other stuff, I want to see what that other stuff is before deciding if that's a reasonable price increase.

But it also looks like your price claim for digital is in dispute. Is it $33.99? If so, I think that's a perfectly reasonable increase due to inflation.

But my comments, and yours that I was responding to, were about the utility of the physical products, and inflation. And I disagree with you on both counts. The split has high utility for my group, and inflation is far worse than what you listed, and that's happened in a relatively short period of time.

 

[OblivionDrive]

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

So “you’ve said that. A lot. Crazy emoji” was meant to be something supportive? Weird way to go about it. And you realize those expensive dragon minis aren’t being bought by anyone but completionist collectors or DMs who specifically need them for a scenario right? Your hypothetical Sally and Billy aren’t buying a $300 Tiamat in any world.

This is a very fascinating hypothetical world you live in where literally everyone is dying of FOMO.

 

[OblivionDrive]

Edit: Nevermind. Not worth it. Disengaging.

 

[darjr]