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!

 

[Greg Benage]

I mean that the price quotes I've seen for X number of hardcover books double for doubling the page count.

Are you talking about POD? Because I've done an awful lot of print buying and I've never, ever seen that. Typically there's something of a U-shaped curve: Your cost-per-page (or really cost-per-signature) is higher for very short books, then flattens out for a broadish range of signatures, then starts to get expensive again when you try to do really fat books.

 

[Parmandur]

Are you talking about POD? Because I've done an awful lot of print buying and I've never, ever seen that. Typically there's something of a U-shaped curve: Your cost-per-page (or really cost-per-signature) is higher for very short books, then flattens out for a broadish range of signatures, then starts to get expensive again when you try to do really fat books.

Well, you probably know more about it than I do, then: as I said, what I've seen is comically out of scale with my super limited experience in College.

 

[Greg Benage]

This makes me wonder even more why in the worlds Radiant Citadel is stuck in the Ethereal Plane.

 

[Parmandur]

This makes me wonder even more why in the worlds Radiant Citadel is stuck in the Ethereal Plane.

waves DM wand now it is in the Astral Sea.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I wonder if they're going to retcon the Crystal Spheres into being the fragments of Sardior's fractured body. It certainly fits their First World and 5e Multiverse lore. I'm also confused as to how the Solar and Lunar Dragons fit into 5e's dragon classifications. Are they "True" Dragons? If they are, do they count as Chromatic, Metallic, or Gem Dragons? Or something else, like the Moonstone Dragons?

(Gosh, having both "Lunar" and "Moonstone" dragons is going to get confusing. I'm just going to get rid of Faerie Dragons, rename the Moonstone Dragons to Fae/Faerie Dragons, and then keep Lunar Dragons in whatever form they'll be published in.)

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

They're just gonna do what they did to Ravenloft.

Butcher these settings.

I thought Ravenloft was great. I don't know exactly what the setting was like in previous editions, but from what I've heard, the idea of a "Core" is dumb anyways. The book is supposed to be a tool to running horror adventures in D&D, and from my experience, it does that really well.

 

[overgeeked]

Anyone know what the window was between Eberron being published and it opening on the DM's Guild? Same for Ravenloft. How long do people estimate before we get to see some truly epic bizarre madness unleashed?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Anyone know what the window was between Eberron being published and it opening on the DM's Guild? Same for Ravenloft. How long do people estimate before we get to see some truly epic bizarre madness unleashed?

Spelljammer is one of the most insane fantasy settings ever, and that's what makes it awesome. While playing in Spelljammer you can have an Awakened Giant Space Hamster that has a symbiotic relationship with a sentient flying space plant (Gadabout) that it uses to travel Wildspace and sample cheeses from all across the Multiverse, and have it be the least weird thing included in the entire campaign.

 

[jerryrice4949]

Hope Hickman and Weiss do some DMs Guild content like Greenwood and Baker have for their settings.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I thought Ravenloft was great. I don't know exactly what the setting was like in previous editions, but from what I've heard, the idea of a "Core" is dumb anyways. The book is supposed to be a tool to running horror adventures in D&D, and from my experience, it does that really well.

The more I learn about people's preferred "version" of a setting, the more I believe people prefer the version they grew up with. Meaning, folks whose first experience with Ravenloft was THE OG Ravenloft, like that version. The folks who first started with the Core, like that. And then there's folks (like me) who started with Curse of Strahd and like that.