D&D General D&D Beyond Partners with Discord and Roll20 for Free Adventure

D&D Beyond partnered with the online communication platform Discord and the virtual tabletop Roll20 to release a free one-shot adventure, Voyage into Discord. The adventure can be played directly in the Discord app using the new integration with Roll20. From the announcement:

Discord has become a core component for many D&D adventurers across the world. Some play the game completely digitally with apps like Roll20, while others use their cameras in a Discord voice chat to show off huuuge, custom-made terrain, and meticulously crafted figures that represent their fantasy selves.

We also LOVE D&D at Discord, so in honor of Dungeons & Dragons’ 50th anniversary, we’re celebrating in two stylish ways: bringing you some brand new tabletop adventures — directly in Discord — to you and your party, and offering more ways to look the part when you’re playing your next campaign in chat.

New & Seasoned Adventurers: Try Discord’s One Shot!

This Halloween season, we’re bringing a Discord twist to your adventures into worlds unknown. How? Well, adventurer... you’ll have to discover that for yourself when you gather your party and play our haunting new Discord-themed One Shot adventure: Voyage Into Discord!

[…] Within the raging tempests and chilling voids of the planes, there lies a sanctuary where the separate became whole and lost became found: the realms of Discord. The secrets of these worlds have been lost to the ages, but there are those who seek to recover them — and to discover the manifold wonders of Discord for themselves. Band together in Voyage Into Discord and uncover these secrets for yourselves!

To launch the free adventure, use the App Launcher within Discord to find and launch the Roll20 Activity, then select “Voyage Into Discord” from the available campaigns and rulesets. Four Profile Effects are also available for Discord within the app’s Shop including a d20 effect when someone checks your profile resulting in either a 1 or 20 with different effects, a Red Dragon animation for your profile, and wrapper for your personal icon of a baby displacer beast or owlbear cub.

 

[darjr]

I…. What?

 

[Distracted DM]

It'd be nice if the article gave a little more of a description of the adventure, rather than that vague three-sentence collection of... vagueness

To answer your confusion @darjr
Discord integrated Roll20 into its "activities" feature a while ago- I've never used it but I assume it's basically Roll20 except instead of I your web browser window, it's in your Discord voice chat room like other activities.

I'm guessing this is just a little promotional tie-in thing they're doing in support of that feature.

 

[Uta-napishti]

Hurm..... D&D Beyond is mentioned exactly 0 times in the linked article. This, and the fact that D&DBeyond and Roll20 are strong competitors makes me extremely skeptical that your Journalism Headline Thingie is right.

 

[Spectral Anomaly]

Hurm..... D&D Beyond is mentioned exactly 0 times in the linked article. This, and the fact that D&DBeyond and Roll20 are strong competitors makes me extremely skeptical that your Journalism Headline Thingie is right.

You're completely right. There is zero indication that D&D Beyond had anything to do with this at all, so to put it in the headline and to lead off with "D&D Beyond partnered with..." is just plain false. Don't you think D&D Beyond might mention it themselves somewhere if they had done this?

 

[Uta-napishti]

Hey @Morrus , can you get this headline corrected please? It's taking down your otherwise brilliant recent journalistic record.