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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[Kurotowa]

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

I love AD&D 2e nostalgia as much as anyone in the over-40 contingent, but I honestly wouldn't mind seeing some new settings on offer. And no, the Magic: the Gathering based books don't count. I want a new-new setting, one purpose built for D&D the way Eberron was that can enable new campaign types and character styles.

Because I honestly don't think they're going to move on Dark Sun or Greyhawk any time soon. And the D-list of Birthright and Ghostwalk and the rest are right out. So they may have to take the risk and do something entirely new. At least, that's my hope.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

I'm still hoping that the two new settings they had scheduled for this year at one point are still chugging along somewhere in the production pipeline.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I suspect Vecna is going to be responsible of a megaevent, and next to this the Sundering in Forgotten Realms was only a tipically fight in a tavern.

Vecna was in Sigil and he caused serious troubles, and the reboot of D&D multiverse from 2nd to 3rd Ed.

 

[Ghost2020]

Don't they have the Kara Tur books coming out later this year?

sorry that's pathfinder's Tian Xia

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Don't they have the Kara Tur books coming out?

Nothing announced on that front from WotC.

You might be thinking of Pathfinder's upcoming Tian Xia books.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I love AD&D 2e nostalgia as much as anyone in the over-40 contingent, but I honestly wouldn't mind seeing some new settings on offer. And no, the Magic: the Gathering based books don't count. I want a new-new setting, one purpose built for D&D the way Eberron was that can enable new campaign types and character styles.

Because I honestly don't think they're going to move on Dark Sun or Greyhawk any time soon. And the D-list of Birthright and Ghostwalk and the rest are right out. So they may have to take the risk and do something entirely new. At least, that's my hope.

That would be cool, but WotC isn't about taking risks.

 

[dave2008]

Well, that's stuff I already knew and disappointing.
I guess except for the Minecraft. My wife will like that.

Where had you heard about these previously? I missed it if they were mentioned elsewher.

• World-hopping adventure involving Vecna in 2024.
• Something involving the Red Wizards of Thay in 2025.
• Venger and the League of Malevolence from the D&D Cartoon/Wild Beyond the Witchlight.

 

[Weiley31]

The League of Malevilence (the single most comic book supervillian sounding name in D&D history) in multiverse spanning plots that all connect

 

[dave2008]

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

@Micah Sweet , this seems to suggest that WotC is still very interested in lore, but maybe not the lore your interested in (or the amount you want)!

 

[Weiley31]

@Micah Sweet , this seems to suggest that WotC is still very interested in lore, but maybe not the lore your interested in (or the amount you want)!

Just enough to keep the Metaplot going, but not too much to stifle the DM's of the world out there!