D&D 5E D&D Direct: WotC's 2023 Announcement Showcase Livestream

D&D Direct, the half-hour livestreamed event where WotC will reveal its new Virtual Tabletop (VTT), talk about the future of D&D, and celebrate the new D&D movie, starts at 9am PT (5pm UK time)! Watch it below!

D&D Direct 2023 is a digital showcase that will feature announcements from all corners of the D&D fandom. Get a first look at the D&D virtual tabletop, tie-ins for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, exciting partnerships, and even hear about what to expect in future books. Deep dives for tabletop products will come later this year.

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Highlights/Contents

• D&D Minecraft is coming soon. You can download a Minecraft Monstrous Compendium at Minecraft.net.​
• Honor Among Thieves movie trailer.​
• Song cartoon about teaching your friends D&D.​
• Hasbro's 'March Monster Madness' D&D movie toys.​
• Magic: the Gathering cards featuring D&D movie characters.​
• Lolth's Warrior, R.A. Salvatore's new book in The Way of the Drow trilogy.​
• Trailer for Neverwinter video game Menzoberranzan.​
• D&D Digital Playspace--the upcoming new Virtual Tabletop playtest coming in late 2023.​
• Newsroom skit about a lifesized mimic and a baby owlbear escaping WizKids.​
• Joe Manganiello updates about his D&D documentary.​
• Chris Perkins & Jeremy Crawford on the D&D multiverse, Keys from the Golden Vault, Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants, Phandelver & Below: The Shattered Obelisk, Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse, Deck of Many Things, and hints about Vecna coming in 2024 in a worldhopping adventure, a Red Wizard story in 2025, and D&D cartoon villain Venger will return in an adventure.

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[Veltharis ap Rylix]

This tweet sounds like it is his art

Now THAT's a win!

 

[DarkCrisis]

A lot of folks probably haven't kept up with him since Planescape, and that's what they remember and liked.

Can't expect an artist to do the same stuff for decades, of course. Maybe he's in his "cute" phase now.

His style (for this at least) is definitely more bright and happy than the old 2E gritty style. Another of those interesting contrasts of the old and new.

 

[Zaukrie]

The VTT is separatae from dnd beyond, but integrated some? Interesting....

 

[Demetrios1453]

Too cute? My friend, if that wasn't brand new DiTerlizzi art teased for the Planescape book, I'll eat my dice bag. If you've seen any of his more recent work it's dead on for his current style.

Well, a whole lot of Planescape fans probably just put it on their buy list for just that alone!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Oh, I thought you were joking, but the collab is real. It is a master play by Hasbro. The fun fact would be if we see a kid-friendly version of a retold "Dark Sun".

Crossover/collab monster dicelings and bakugan?

About the cartoon song... a clue about future no-fantasy settings? For example Gamma World and Star Frontiers later.

In the past I talked about a possible event in the D&D metaverse, but I had forgotten about those obsidian monoliths. We could bet WotC needed a good excuse to explain the possible reboot of the complete franchise. Even an "updated" (and maybe softer) version of Dark Sund is possible. If it is necessary, you can blame Vecna.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Bigby's Fizban for Giants, I think.

Phandelver after that, then it seems like Planescape has been moved up the schedule a bit - was originally listed as coming later than the Book of Many Things, but now it seems like it's coming out before it. A different look for the Lady of Pain than I'm used to, but I'll take it nonetheless.

EDIT: Ah, looks like you're correct - Bigby's been moved to Q3 as well.

Interesting - so no Q2 product. I would assume Bigby's will be early Q3 (presumably July), though, as that's a longer gap than usual.

 

[darjr]

The VTT is separatae from dnd beyond, but integrated some? Interesting....

You cold use it for an entirely different rpg. which is something I didn't think they'd let be.

 

[darjr]

The artwork for Planescape at least looks reminiscent of the original artwork, if not exactly Tony DiTerlizzi.

It is by Tony!

edit: oh you saw that. Hehe.

 

[Zaukrie]

It is utterly odd there is no q2 product.....like, not great, Bob. I know they want to spread out our spending....

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Focus on homebrew. Nice.

I still looks like it will be a ton of work to make stuff. Unless they go for AI assist terrain creation from flat maps.