D&D (2024) D&D Direct Will Talk About Project Sigil & Future of D&D on Aug 27th

D&D Direct is an official live-streamed event which will take place on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, at 9 am PDT (5pm BST).

The event will talk about the future of Dungeons & Dragons, and the Project Sigil 3D virtual tabletop.

You'll be able to watch it on the D&D YouTube channel.

2024 Player's Handbook
As the official release of the 2024 Player's Handbook draws near, we'll be taking you for a last peek before you can start playing with the revised rules! You'll get a closer look at the stunning artwork throughout the book and more.

The Future of D&D
We'll also unveil an outline for the future of D&D, including what awaits your heroes in addition to the releases of the remaining 2024 Core Rulebooks. Tune in to discover what thrilling challenges, familiar realms, and formidable foes will test the mettle of your party as you embark on new magical stories!

Project Sigil
The Project Sigil closed beta is coming soon, and we want to show what's in store! Project Sigil is an immersive 3D sandbox to help you run your D&D games. With it, you can bring your games to life in impeccable detail as you create your adventures, share them with friends, and play them together as a group!

You can sign up for the Project Sigil closed beta, which kicks off this fall, to be one of the lucky players who will preview the functionality and provide feedback to help improve D&D's next virtual experience.

When and Where to Watch
D&D Direct will premiere on August 27, 2024, at 9 a.m. PDT on D&D's YouTube channel. In addition to big D&D announcements, there will even be a special collab with Magic: The Gathering to celebrate D&D's 50th anniversary!

Come join in on the fun and experience what's next for D&D together!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Maybe a "demicore" player sourcebook style PH2 in 4ed or Tasha's Cauldron.

Dark Sun would need previously to be published a psionic handbook. Other option could be an adventure working like a DS spin-off minisetting, maybe about a "rogue" githyanki faction.

Bloomburrow? Maybe, but it would need to show interesting crunch, not only PC species but monsters despise calamity beasts. Why not Duskmourn?

FR is the D&D superstar, but we shouldn't put all the eggs in one basket.

Some adventure set in Greyhawk.

Witchlight could return oficially like a new setting.

Other option could be Red Steel/Savage Coast, but not necessarially in Mystara, but in other wildspaces some zones could suffer the same phenomena about vermeil and cinnabryl but with the adventage planar portals can be opened towards other zones with vermeil.

 

[Corinnguard]

Maybe a "demicore" player sourcebook style PH2 in 4ed or Tasha's Cauldron.

Dark Sun would need previously to be published a psionic handbook. Other option could be an adventure working like a DS spin-off minisetting, maybe about a "rogue" githyanki faction.

Bloomburrow? Maybe, but it would need to show interesting crunch, not only PC species but monsters despise calamity beasts. Why not Duskmourn?

FR is the D&D superstar, but we shouldn't put all the eggs in one basket.

Some adventure set in Greyhawk.

Witchlight could return oficially like a new setting.

Other option could be Red Steel/Savage Coast, but not necessarially in Mystara, but in other wildspaces some zones could suffer the same phenomena about vermeil and cinnabryl but with the adventage planar portals can be opened towards other zones with vermeil.

Or an updated version of the Council of Wyrms setting.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I just hope that now that they've set the Multiverse as the core setting and made the PHB generally setting neutral, that when they do Settings, they remember that they can make those settings use only some of the available options, rather than force everywhere to be "kitchen sink".

 

[Corinnguard]

I just hope that now that they've set the Multiverse as the core setting and made the PHB generally setting neutral, that when they do Settings, they remember that they can make those settings use only some of the available options, rather than force everywhere to be "kitchen sink".

Settings in D&D tend to become 'kitchen sinks' thanks to portals, spelljamming vessels and divine intervention. Athas is the only setting that hasn't become one thankfully.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

The complaints about Planescape was it didn't have as much detail on the Planes as much as the entire product line of Planescape, which I think is a silly one since it's only 1 product that was released and it has perhaps a little more detail on the Sigil and the Outlands than the original boxed set does. Some complaints are of course about 5e'isms.

It doesn't detail the planes outside of the Outlands and Sigil, but the core books already do that job. I think they're certainly going to put out a Manual of Planes at some point.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Settings in D&D tend to become 'kitchen sinks' thanks to portals, spelljamming vessels and divine intervention. Athas is the only setting that hasn't become one thankfully.

Sure, but with elements of other settings being able to travel over, the designers don't need to force a way for Dragonborn to be in Greyhawk (or whatever) - a player who really wants to play one could have come from another world (for example).

My point is, they can make the worlds more distinct - and a group that wants to play with that world alone, won't have to worry so much about elements that "feel wrong". And those who don't mind chocolate in their peanut butter, can go nuts.

 

[Corinnguard]

Sure, but with elements of other settings being able to travel over, the designers don't need to force a way for Dragonborn to be in Greyhawk (or whatever) - a player who really wants to play one could have come from another world (for example).

It should be interesting to see how they'll appear in Greyhawk IMO.

Forgotten Realms- well they came from Toril's long lost sister planet, Abeir. The True Forgotten Realms. I wish Abeir was made into an official setting.

Dark Sun- an undead Dragon King transforms the population of an entire city into the first Dragonborn or Dray.

Eberron- I don't know how they came to be in this setting save that they live mostly on Argonessen.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Settings in D&D tend to become 'kitchen sinks' thanks to portals, spelljamming vessels and divine intervention. Athas is the only setting that hasn't become one thankfully.

I've been told that the Tablelands and surrounding area in Athas isn't bigger than Texas (or perhaps it was some other smaller American state). That means there's a very small part of an entire world that hasn't even been explored.

There's certain people like the Nikaal that come from unknown places in Athas.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I've been told that the Tablelands and surrounding area in Athas isn't bigger than Texas (or perhaps it was some other smaller American state). That means there's a very small part of an entire world that hasn't even been explored.

There's certain people like the Nikaal that come from unknown places in Athas.

Much like unique elements, IMO "unknown" elements is a feature, not a flaw, to D&D worlds.

 

[DavyGreenwind]

Kyle Brinks was hesitant about Dark Sun, and I don't see it approaching fast...but I don't think it is dead yet.

I thought that too, until I read the new PHB. It mentions Dark Sun conspicuously, along with the other published settings. It's the only setting mentioned in the PHB that has not been published yet