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!

 

[Parmandur]

My 1981 Doctor Who annual is hardcover and only has 62 pages. 64 if you count the covers. It cost £1.95.

So, a shade shy of $4 in 1981, or $12 today. How was the paper quality?

 

[SkidAce]

Re: leaving your "system".

I wonder if as quoted above, when you travel far enough to encounter the silvery mist and transition to the astral, is it mandatory?

Like a beach, to progress farther you must enter the water.

Or can you not transition, and just wander forever?

Probably like the beach analogy.

EDIT: Because in my campaign, the Void (Far Realm) is the space between Stars (atoms) and some adventures require travel through the space.

Which would not work if they have to go to the Astral.

 

[overgeeked]

Re: leaving your "system".

I wonder if as quoted above, when you travel far enough to encounter the silvery mist and transition to the astral, is it mandatory?

Like a beach, to progress farther you must enter the water.

Or can you not transition, and just wander forever?

Probably like the beach analogy.

EDIT: Because in my campaign, the Void (Far Realm) is the space between Stars (atoms) and some adventures require travel through the space.

Which would not work if they have to go to the Astral.

You can change the lore and how things like this work however you like.

 

[michaeljpastor]

Now that I've read the quote, it seems that it would be minimal work to change "silvery mist zone" to "crystal sphere" if one wanted to...

 

[michaeljpastor]

Basically both concepts are versions of gravity Wells. The Silvery mist are just more fluid and the crystal spheres are solid and fixed.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

When asked if any of the Spelljammer books in the slipcase will be available for individual sale Perkins said that they're only talking about the bundle package at this time. “But it's safe to say that we'll have some mechanism for breaking up the material into smaller pieces later,” said Perkins.

So can we all stop griping already? It seems obvious to me that this was the plan all along.

Didn't see that, but it's good to hear.

 

[Jer]

EDIT: Because in my campaign, the Void (Far Realm) is the space between Stars (atoms) and some adventures require travel through the space.

Which would not work if they have to go to the Astral.

I'm already thinking about how my own cosmology preferences fit with this model too. Regardless of what they decide is "official" I'm already thinking that there are different systems that work different ways. Some systems are smaller in size and when you hit the edge you either turn around and go back or go into the Astral. Others will be larger - like our own universe but allow you to enter the Astral at a certain point out from the planets - but you could keep going into deep space. Entering the Astral in those systems would be like hitting hyperspace to hop from one solar system to another within the same Prime plane.

(This is very similar to how I ran Spelljammer-modified games in Mystara back in the day - and with how the Astral plane was described in the BECMI Immortals set, making it a hyperspace dimension is almost rules-as-written.)

 

[michaeljpastor]

That's what we're discussing. From what @overgeeked said, it sounds like there will be a misty zone instead of solid crystal sphere. But they might sidebar crystal spheres as an option (since it would be easy to make the switch...)

@overgeeked can you re-link the quote, or at least the post you mentioned it in?

It just occurred to me that since they're moving spell jammer to the astral and not having phlogiston or Crystal spheres there's no reason not to suppose the crystal spheres and phlogiston still exists. They're just in the Ethereal where they have always been. Spell jammer just doesn't take place there anymore. But radiant citadel does.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Thinking more on the subject of the Psurlons of the Astral Plane, I guess they could combine them with the Syllix which are the Spelljammer versions of the Sathar from Star Frontiers. Though the Sathar have been depicted as more Earthworm like, the Syllix were depicted as being more Salamander like, while the Psurlons have been shown as being more Lamprey-like (though one artist made them Earthworm like).

 

[Maxperson]

Phlogiston=Astral Sea=Wildspace. I think it’s pretty clear. They simplified the concept.

Yeah. I called it as Planejammer back when the UA came out. Lotta folks argued with me that it was only Spelljammer, but the inclusion of Astral Elves, as well as the ship that travelled between planes in Minsc and Boo indicated Planejammer.