D&D (2024) D&D Mysteries of the Multiverse Reveal

The last segment of today's D&D Direct presentation featured Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford, both D&D game architects. They talked about what adventures to expect the rest of this year, what's coming next year, and beyond, all centered around the D&D Multiverse.

After a recap of the adventures to date, Perkins and Crawford showed some art from Bigby Presents: The Glory of the Giants, coming this year. Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk will explore the mysterious obelisks that have been appearing in adventures over the last nine years and connects to The Lost Mines of Phandelver.

That will be followed by Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse, which will lay groundwork for a major adventure in 2024. Lastly for 2023, they'll delve into the chaos-causing Deck of Many Things, and the story behind the legendary item.

A major D&D villain will be making his return in 2024. Vecna's true cosmic horror will be unleashed in 2024 with a world-hopping adventure that will celebrate D&D's 50 year history and reveals deeper plots for years to come.

But Vecna is just one-part of D&D's interconnected storytelling. A lot more will be revealed in the next five years. For example, the Red Wizards of Thay will be featured in a 2025 adventure, and Venger from the D&D cartoon will return to be the main antagonist in another future adventure. The League of Malevolence, introduced in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, will seek power across the multiverse in stories to come.

All in all, Crawford and Perkins teased many more adventures to come, some of which will interconnect, building a big story that plays out throughout the D&D Multiverse.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

O my goodness...

Phandelver and below and the obelisks could very well be an homage to night below.

This will be an instant buy!

 

[Frozen_Heart]

So much to be hyped for here!

 

[Jiggawatts]

Its interesting that they are ending 5E the exact same way 2E ended, with a massive world hopping adventure starring Vecna. Die Venca Die 2.0.

 

[Ghost2020]

They made it sound like he was actually a Red Wizard of Thay, not sure how direct an overlap that title has with game mechanic classes so he could be both.

I didn't get that at all. I would go with the fact that Venger has red on his outfit, that's likely the extent of it.

 

[Ondath]

Its interesting that they are ending 5E the exact same way 2E ended, with a massive world hopping adventure starring Vecna. Die Venca Die 2.0.

I'm currently running Die Vecna Die for my group so I couldn't be more hyped. Our campaign will end by the time this book is released, but Wizards following similar themes as my home games always excites me (and makes me suspicious that they've bugged my house or something, this is like the third time when I run something and a relevant book is announced a few weeks later).

 

[Weiley31]

So finally, they are going to be kickstarting/focusing on the Obelisk plotline that has been lying beneath 5E all this time. And Vecna seems to be the BBEG of the Multiverse Saga of DND/OneDND.

I wonder if Vecna will actually succeed in killing the Lady of Pain this time?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I'm currently running Die Vecna Die for my group so I couldn't be more hyped. Our campaign will end by the time this book is released, but Wizards following similar themes as my home games always excites me (and makes me suspicious that they've bugged my house or something, this is like the third time when I run something and a relevant book is announced a few weeks later).

It seems it going to be bigger then Vecna, Die, Venca, its going to be part of a broader multiverse metaplot. It seems like it'll link to Frostmaiden, Planescape, The Red Wizards/Venser, and the LoM/Witchlight, and more.

MtG just finished their current Multiversal Metaplot, except for its epilog, I wonder if this is the beginning of a D&D attempt to mimic MtG's metaplots and event arcs, to help build a cinematic universe?

 

[Weiley31]

Vecna and the Multiverse of Madness!

 

[Ondath]

It seems it going to be bigger then Vecna, Die, Venca, its going to be part of a broader multiverse metaplot. It seems like it'll link to Frostmaiden, Planescape, The Red Wizards/Venser, and the LoM/Witchlight, and more.

MtG just finished their current Multiversal Metaplot, except for its epilog, I wonder if this is the beginning of a D&D attempt to mimic MtG's metaplots and event arcs, to help build a cinematic universe?

Oh yeah! I briefly wondered if the MtG and D&D multiverses could merge, but March of the Marchines does not seem to have brought the Magic multiverse to the D&D cosmology in any meaningful way, so that seems unlikely.

 

[teitan]

Just when I thought I was out they pulled me back in.