Spelljammer D&D Direct Live Report: 9am PDT (5pm BST) SPELLJAMMER CONFIRMED! DRAGONLANCE!

D&D Direct, WotC's new video-format announcement show launches today at 9am PDT (5pm BST). If you aren't able to watch it, I'll be updating this article live. Feel free to comment below! Once it launches, you will need to refresh this page when you want to see new updates. The video is expected to last about 30 minutes.

If you CAN watch it, you'll find it on YouTube or Twitch at the above times. Otherwise, follow along below!

• 45 mins to go. Live updates incoming!
• 30 mins to go!
• 5 minutes to go!
• Here we go! Opens with a sea shanty.
• Forgive typos. They talk fast and I can't type.

• Spelljammer is confirmed!
• They talk REALLY FAST!
• Spelljammer Adventures in Space, project lead Chris Perkins, Trystan Falcone graphic designer
• Cities built on asteroids, dead gods floating in the ether
• 6 races---astral elves, autognomes, hedozi(?), gif, plasmoids, thri-kreen
• 3 hardcovers in a slipcase: Astral Adventurers Guide, Boo's Astral Menagerie, Light of Xaryxis adventure
• Prequel adventure in July
• Wizkids miniatures

Other stuff also discussed!

• Baldur's Gate 3 CRPG preview video (game is in 2023)
• Journeys Through Radiant Citadel intro video -- 3 of the adventures are: Wages of Vice (5th level), Caribbean; Orchids of the Invisible Mountain (14th level), feywild, far realm, Whistler new monster; Fiend of Hollow Mind (4th level), skeletons and spirits

• "Campaign Cases" -- Creature tokens! Terrain tiles! July!

D&D Movie directors now onscreen. The movie in March 2023 is called HONOR AMONG THIEVES.

• New D&D starter set. Comes with 'digital onboarding'. Dragons of Stormwreck Isle. We knew about that one.
• D&D digital monstrous compendium. Available to those with WoTC or D&D Beyond Accounts. Volume 1 has an eldritch lich and the 10 legged asteroid spider. And the starlancer. Might have misheard some of that!

• MMO Neverwinter video. Dragonslayer begins June 2022. (I wonder if they'll need a dragonance for that?)
• New D&D actual play video, Legends of the Multiverse. Lots of 80s cartoon style soft rock music. Boo is in it.

WIzKids skirmish game D&D Onslaught. October

Finally -- DRAGONLANCE WARRIORS OF KRYNN! SHADOW OF THE DRAGON QUEEN!

 

[Marandahir]

Plus, you get a nifty DM's screen, which cost $15 when bought separately.

So that's 206-220 pages plus a DM screen, in a format that is a bit easier to use, for $70. Or $33 if you have D&D Beyond and the Legendary Bundle. Accounting for the DM screen cost alone Means this is an increase of just $5 over the 220 page Volo's Guide to Monsters.

And that $5 can be attributed to inflation, as dave2008 and others have said.

 

[ART!]

Plus, you get a nifty DM's screen, which cost $15 when bought separately.

So that's 206-220 pages plus a DM screen, in a format that is a bit easier to use, for $70. Or $33 if you have D&D Beyond and the Legendary Bundle.

And a map, which is probably at least 16x20".

 

[Demetrios1453]

I like how the elf has MCU Star-Lord style pistols. Although, anybody know what race the first machine chick is with the wheels? Probably a refluffed Warforged, but in context of Spelljammer lore, I was just curious.

There's a mechanical gnome race in the book.

 

[Weiley31]

There's a mechanical gnome race in the book.

I figured that too. But the Gnome would be short. (I think, I mean, I don't know what's going on with sizes in DND at this rate. )

 

[Marandahir]

And a map, which is probably at least 16x20".

Good point! Though I didn't count the map in Wild Beyond the Witchlight for its page count, above.

 

[Jer]

And a map, which is probably at least 16x20".

I mean, books have been including a map in the back of them. Though I will admit not having to tear a map out of the back of a book means I might actually use it rather than finding an online version to use.

 

[Von Ether]

And in no way are my giant rodent people inspired by giant space hamsters. ... well maybe.

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[Marandahir]

I mean, books have been including a map in the back of them. Though I will admit not having to tear a map out of the back of a book means I might actually use it rather than finding an online version to use.

I definitely have ripped wayyyyyy too many of my maps trying to get the perforations free.

I always appreciate a map that is bundled separately, though I understand why it's hard to do so without plastic-wrapping every book.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

My theory about the machine chick with wheels is or a mechaniatrix, a planetouched race from Mechanus, or Mechanus, one of the races of "d20 Future".

Have you seen on of the last characters was, not a plasmoid, but a dralasite with a high-tech weapon? Maybe this show is a crossover with different lines.

 

[darjr]

New player hub and starter set with language localized “out of the box” and restart of kids clubs and after school clubs.