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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[Dire Bare]

The steam over the coffee mug was a reference to Sigil, so at least that was a relevant tease. The potatoes are a reference to the D&D Movie so ditto. I will have to re-watch it to catch anymore.

Oh and, PLANSCAPE CONFIRMED!

Now that we have Spelljammer, and soon Planescape . . . . what will be CONFIRMED going forward? Dark times ahead . . . .

 

[OB1]

Looks great so far, and I'll def get on the beta test when it's available later this year. I've been struggling with Roll20 since the pandemic and hope this is an easy to use alternative. Hopefully it's running in the cloud so that it will work on any device. My other big hope is robust support for TotM encounters. I use a heavy mix of grid and TotM depending on the encounter, so I'm hoping for a way to easily run an encounter without any map at all.

 

[Zaukrie]

Looks great so far, and I'll def get on the beta test when it's available later this year. I've been struggling with Roll20 since the pandemic and hope this is an easy to use alternative. Hopefully it's running in the cloud so that it will work on any device. My other big hope is robust support for TotM encounters. I use a heavy mix of grid and TotM depending on the encounter, so I'm hoping for a way to easily run an encounter without any map at all.

They do mention phones and consoles, IIRC, in the video....so it can't be client based totally.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Now that we have Spelljammer, and soon Planescape . . . . what will be CONFIRMED going forward? Dark times ahead . . . .

We have dozens of candidates. Darksun confirmed.

 

[Saracenus]

Now that we have Spelljammer, and soon Planescape . . . . what will be CONFIRMED going forward? Dark times ahead . . . .

GREYHAWK CONFIRMED!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I'm going to cry. Obleisks finally! The original five year plan!

Looks like the plan to expand it over the next 5 years. Remember, along with the Spellweavers & Netherese, Vecna was responsible for the Obilesks.

They make it clear that there is going to be much more of a metaplot going forward, somewhat MtG style, that will tie Planescape & other settings with Vecna, Red Wizards including that cartoon dude, and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, er I mean The League of Malevilence (the single most comic book supervillian sounding name in D&D history) in multiverse spanning plots that all connect. I assume the Obilesks are heavily connected to all this as well.

Interestingly no mention of new setting books so far, just yearly advetures, Vecna, Red Wizards, and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, damn did it again

 

[Storyteller Hero]

Now that we have Spelljammer, and soon Planescape . . . . what will be CONFIRMED going forward? Dark times ahead . . . .

HALFLIFE 3 CONFIRMED

 

[Micah Sweet]

We have dozens of candidates. Darksun confirmed.

That's the dream.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

We have dozens of candidates. Darksun confirmed.

GREYHAWK CONFIRMED!

Hmm.. Greysun confirmed.

Rary discovers defiling, Mordenkainen missing. Only you can save Oerth from ecological doom.

 

[Ghost2020]

Sigil pronunciation history.... David "Zeb" Cook pronounced it incorrectly as Si-Gull, and they made a joke about it. They decided to keep it as a running gag.

Q&A with David “Zeb” Cook (2001) – Mike Weem

www.theweem.com