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.




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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Where had you heard about these previously? I missed it if they were mentioned elsewher.
Giants, Planescape, Phandelver, Deck of Many Things, VTT, Movie, Toys. That's stuff I've known about for months - all from this site. In fact, the movie is basically old news for how long the trailers have been out.
Vecna - being a Stranger Things Season 4 buzzword - had his moment last summer in pop culture (and statted out on DND Beyond). We've already run our whiteboard combats with him on this forum.
Basically, all old news.
 





Giants, Planescape, Phandelver, Deck of Many Things, VTT, Movie, Toys. That's stuff I've known about for months - all from this site. In fact, the movie is basically old news for how long the trailers have been out.
Vecna - being a Stranger Things Season 4 buzzword - had his moment last summer in pop culture (and statted out on DND Beyond). We've already run our whiteboard combats with him on this forum.
Basically, all old news.
Yes, I know all of that as well. I listed 3 products that we didn't know about. You may have surmised Vecna was going to be in another product, but it was never announced (and I noticed that is not what you said above either). Is there a particular reason you ignored the 3 new items I mentioned?
 

This, most of this is why the OGL thing happened. Licensing and transmedia deals. This and The Planes of Existence reforged as the D&D Multiverse. It is all about transmedia licensing. This is also one of the reasons for streamlining One D&D, to make it easier to code for VTT, and also to make it more accessible. Modiphius and Free League look out, WotC is coming for your license deals and plans to scoop up the big ones of the future. Did anyone else catch the mention of sci-fi in the song?

Of course, cutting off other VTTs, distro channels and the threat of another Pathfinder were still reasons too, though mostly as moats to protect the above.

It is all making sense now.
 

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