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!

 

[nyvinter]

Considering the lawsuit, the phrasing in that which can at best be described as them awkwardly accusing WoTC for "virtue signalling" while at the same time saying all others who've worked on Dragonlance doesn't really matter, and the 60 pages of sensitivity revision in the first new DL book — which I'm sure had some back and forth about which revisions needed to be done and why from both parties — I'm not sure I'd invite them to consult either. And that's not even taking their social media into consideration.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I like current Ravenloft better the old Ravenloft. I can’t think of a single thing that makes it worse then the old version.

lack of caliban...

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Apologies if someone else has already posted this about the Dragonlance material.

did anyone ask what they meant by magicaL? Did they think they were not going to be changed at all? did they not want them to have spell like abilities? do they not want them to be able to be wizards>/Sorcerer/Warlocks?

 

[GMforPowergamers]

the 60 pages of sensitivity revision in the first new DL book

I forgot about that... I wonder how much of that was "no don't be racisist even if it is a made up card board cut out race"

 

[Weiley31]

Astral elves = Reigar?

That was one of my theories about "Astral Elves" from the UA when they first showed up. But Reigar in 2e at least to me, were very much based on David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust persona.

Can always refluff the Astral Elf so that way you can play as DND Ziggy Stardust/Reigars.

With Power Morphers!!!

 

[Weiley31]

As it stands, the only thing of interest to me is WotC explaining how putting everything in the Astral Sea/Plane doesn't lead to various pantheons simply wiping each other out.

Probably because, in lore wise, the gods don't want to deal with the headache of another Dawn War since they are too busy dealing with their own stuff/crap. Corellon just rolls his eyes at the 5E good drow.

(I mean, that's how I explain it anyway.)

 

[Seramus]

did anyone ask what they meant by magical?

I assume they mean the kender pockets ability, which produces glowing items that vanish after a little bit.
At least, that seemed to be the context.

 

[Parmandur]

Astral Sea, yes. Direct sailing to outer planes,yes. No phlogiston or crystal spheres? Gith and Illithids, yes. planejammer

Again, semantics. By your definition, maybe. By my definition, absolutely not. My point all along was that WotC would not smoosh Sigil and Spelljamming together in a single product, but maintain them as separate modular products. Not cosmologies, products. Also, the Gith and Illithids were always in Spelljammer.

This is a book about Spelljamming: the Blood War, Factions, intrigue in Sigil, all not present.

When a Planescape product comes along, it probably won't give much space to Elven Space Empires, Giff, Hamsters sailing, or planet of the Week adventures. Mark my words.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I assume they mean the kender pockets ability, which produces glowing items that vanish after a little bit.
At least, that seemed to be the context.

except that seems like something they would have to know to ask... like if they didn't know about it why would they ask that?

 

[Weiley31]

Until we "officially" get them into 5E, Centaurs and Autognomes can be "refluffed" into Bauriars and Modrons.

In regard to the Philogston/Space Explosive "juice," I can see it more as being like a kind of storm or obstacle that Spelljammers have to worry about crossing into while sailing the Astral Sea. You have two Spelljammers and their crews about to blast each other with Fireball spells and Bombards, only to hear "PHLOGISTON STREAM/WAVE DEAD AHEAD!!!"

Both ships get dragged in and now ya have both opposing crews having to board/send marines over to have an up close and personal fight while the Spell Casters have to worry (or not) about friendly fire since they either have to carefully choose what spells to use now to avoid the Phlogiston from negatively reacting or dealing with Heavy Fog conditions.