WotC D&D Direct--Learn About Upcoming D&D On April 21st!

D&D Direct is a 30-minute video which WotC will be releasing on April 21st at 9am Pacific Time (5pm BST, if I have my time zones correct). They'll be using it to reveal stuff about upcoming D&D projects (including video games and entertainment). The video will be presented by Anna Prosser and B. Dave Walters.

This is being billed in an emailed announcement entitled "Learn Everything That’s Happening This Year for Dungeons & Dragons" as the "first ever D&D Direct", so presumably there are more planned.

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The D&D Team at Wizards of the Coast is excited to debut D&D Direct, a jam-packed thirty-minute video presentation on April 21 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time.

Tune in to see exclusive reveals from the world's greatest roleplaying game, including video games, entertainment, and more, guided by hosts Anna Prosser and B. Dave Walters.

D&D Direct will be broadcast on the D&D YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/DNDWizards) and Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/dnd) channels.

To find out more on D&D Direct go to dnd.wizards.com and follow the official D&D social media accounts for more updates.

See you on April 21 at 9:00 AM PT for the first-ever D&D Direct!

 

[darjr]

Lol!
Ya ready?!

 

[overgeeked]

Oh, of course - if media is being displayed on a device, there's a way to pirate it. Just because you or I know how to do that, though, doesn't mean the average gent around town does. As Gabe Newell articulated it - the trick isn't to provide a product cheaper than the pirated one, it's to provide a product that's better than the pirated one.

The only way to be better than is official PDFs.

 

[darjr]

Well?

 

[ersatzphil]

The only way to be better than is official PDFs.

I don't disagree with you, but I do suspect WotC would view watermarked PDFs as too easy to clean and pirate. If you kept them inside an .ipa and / or .apk file, it'd at least be harder to get to, and would keep the more casual pirates away at least. Most high school nerds don't know how to...

idly thinks back to phreaking pay phones and rewiring cuecats and furbys for kicks in high school

...I take it back.

 

[overgeeked]

I don't disagree with you, but I do suspect WotC would view watermarked PDFs as too easy to clean and pirate. If you kept them inside an .ipa and / or .apk file, it'd at least be harder to get to, and would keep the more casual pirates away, at least. Most high school nerds don't know how to...

idly thinks back to phreaking pay phones and rewiring cuecats and furbys for kicks in high school

...I take it back.

Exactly. It’s a loss no matter what you do. Accept it and give everyone else what they want and are willing to pay for. Make money off legal PDFs instead of simply causing incredibly minor delays to pirates and snubbing your actual paying customers. Proper PDFs, please. Not hosted PDFs. Not browser-based PDFs. Here’s some money, now I can download and keep the PDF. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I think D&D Direct will be like the MtG 2021 Showcase, but stripped down, so no big sets or Mark Rosewater dressed as an Astronaught, or other threatrics, just a road map with a few details for 5e Table Top for 2022 and maybe 2023 or even 2024 (obviously including Spelljammer and DL), a video game announcement or two, possibly with short trailers,details of the FR movie with possible trailer and possibly an announcement of newer D&D shows or movies, maybe some swag partnerships announced, MtG crossover might get some new info, 5e PDFs finally being released.

Ray said some of the things he's hinted at could get details, so I'm curious if it will be more then SJ and DL, maybe next year's setting too, or ar least some of them).

D&D Beyond deal has not been finalized yet, so beyond it being mentioned I don't think there will be alot of news on that front.

MtG Showcase 2021 was over an hour, but that had TONS of products, but also banter, interviews, and showy threatrics, which is all stuff more likely to get shifted to D&D Live & Celebrations and Todd Kendrick Interviews (love those), so they can keep D&D Direct, well as direct as Nintendo Direct.

But yes I really expect a road map especially like MtG got last year in August for the upcoming MtG year, but for D&D.

 

[Parmandur]

I think D&D Direct will be like the MtG 2021 Showcase, but stripped down, so no big sets or Mark Rosewater dressed as an Astronaught, or other threatrics, just a road map with a few details for 5e Table Top for 2022 and maybe 2023 or even 2024 (obviously including Spelljammer and DL), a video game announcement or two, possibly with short trailers,details of the FR movie with possible trailer and possibly an announcement of newer D&D shows or movies, maybe some swag partnerships announced, MtG crossover might get some new info, 5e PDFs finally being released.

Ray said some of the things he's hinted at could get details, so I'm curious if it will be more then SJ and DL, maybe next year's setting too, or ar least some of them).

D&D Beyond deal has not been finalized yet, so beyond it being mentioned I don't think there will be alot of news on that front.

MtG Showcase 2021 was over an hour, but that had TONS of products, but also banter, interviews, and showy threatrics, which is all stuff more likely to get shifted to D&D Live & Celebrations and Todd Kendrick Interviews (love those), so they can keep D&D Direct, well as direct as Nintendo Direct.

But yes I really expect a road map especially like MtG got last year in August for the upcoming MtG year, but for D&D.

Possibilities are pretty wide open, since this is a new approach. Magic Jason the advantage for early announcements, due to their much longer product development cycle: in August, they already knew what the last card set released in 2022 would be, whereas WotC probably hasn't finalized next year's schedule yet. I think we may get a road map for this year, though, because I think Winninger wants that to be a little more transparent than they have been, with all his teases.

 

[Parmandur]

We are also on the cusp of D&D multimedia really going into overdrive...

 

[vecna00]

If it wasn't already announced as to who was hosting, I'd bet it was just 30 minutes worth of Todd Kenrick interviews. Which would be a very good thing, in my opinion!

 

[vecna00]

Unless it ends up getting the Morbius treatment (which hopefully it won't, and will be of better quality), in which case it's under a year > a year > year-and-a-half > two years away...




A Dragonlance announcement would make me very happy, but I've been saying that for years now!

Looking at 1984, there's a slew of products that came out that year, but Dragonlance is certainly the most notable.

Unless you count this...

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Not going to lie, I'd totally buy and wear an adult-sized version of that.

You and me both, sir.