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!

 

[Demetrios1453]

According to the product page on the D&D website, they'll be in the player's book.

"The Astral Adventurer’s Guide, a 64-page hardcover book for players and Dungeon Masters that presents the Astral Plane as a campaign setting and includes space-based character options, spells and magic items, deck plans and descriptions for spelljamming ships, and more"

Spelljammer: Adventures in Space | Dungeons & Dragons

Explore the starlit Astral Plane with this set of three books + components! Spelljammer: Adventures in Space gives you guides, stats, a poster, a DM screen, and more!

dnd.wizards.com

That answered my question! Good catch!

 

[Demetrios1453]

Yeah. That's 17 pages long. They'll need 7-8 pages for the races. I'm hoping they'll include a few Spelljammer specific backgrounds, but the text is vague. But they'll also have all the lore, setting info, magic items, and spells fighting for that 64 pages. I'm really jazzed about Spelljammer, but the longer I think about the format, the more it looks like they just want to have people buy the old stuff from DM's Guild for the setting info and deep lore. Or just make it up themselves.

Fizban's had about 10 pages of spells and magic items, and I'm going to guess we'll have a similar number here. Outside the obvious Spelljammer helm, I can't think of many old setting-specific spells and magic items that are crying out for updates, really.

~10 pages for character options, ~10 pages of spells and magic items, ~20 pages of ships and ship combat rules, ~20 pages of setting-specific rules and "geographic" info (as I said on another thread, actual "geography" would probably need 10 pages at minimum for examples, but they could definitely go higher. Or not.). Leaves ~4 pages, but obviously these are just approximations and could be flexible either way. Seems a reasonable breakdown to me...

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah. That's 17 pages long. They'll need 7-8 pages for the races. I'm hoping they'll include a few Spelljammer specific backgrounds, but the text is vague. But they'll also have all the lore, setting info, magic items, and spells fighting for that 64 pages. I'm really jazzed about Spelljammer, but the longer I think about the format, the more it looks like they just want to have people buy the old stuff from DM's Guild for the setting info and deep lore. Or just make it up themselves.

Making into is probably the ticket. There may be some random generation systems in play, as with the other Setting books.

 

[Parmandur]

Fizban's had about 10 pages of spells and magic items, and I'm going to guess we'll have a similar number here.

~10 pages for character options, ~10 pages of spells and magic items, ~20 pages of ships and ship combat rules, ~20 pages of setting-specific rules and "geographic" info (as I said on another thread, actual "geography" would probably need 10 pages at minimum for examples, but they could definitely go higher. Or not.). Leaves ~4 pages, but obviously these are just approximations and could be flexible either way. Seems a reasonable breakdown to me...

Sounds about right.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Sounds about right.

And I just realized, they are going to put some Astral locations in the "geography", like dead gods and such, which I forgot about in my original 10 page breakdown. Definitely will need ~20 pages; say ~10 pages for Wildspace locations and ~10 pages for Astral locations.

 

[overgeeked]

And I just realized, they are going to put some Astral locations in the "geography", like dead gods and such, which I forgot about in my original 10 page breakdown. Definitely will need ~20 pages; say ~10 pages for Wildspace locations and ~10 pages for Astral locations.

Maybe. They might just have that on the inside of the DM's screen instead of in the book, too. With so little space it would make sense to boot that to the screen and not print it twice. From the images of the screen we know there are random encounter tables on it.

 

[Parmandur]

And I just realized, they are going to put some Astral locations in the "geography", like dead gods and such, which I forgot about in my original 10 page breakdown. Definitely will need ~20 pages; say ~10 pages for Wildspace locations and ~10 pages for Astral locations.

Se of that may be in the Adventure, or even the DM screen: the Screen may be an independent source of information in this slipcase. Instead of replicating tables from the book, it may have unique info.

 

[Parmandur]

Maybe. They might just have that on the inside of the DM's screen instead of in the book, too. With so little space it would make sense to boot that to the screen and not print it twice. From the images of the screen we know there are random encounter tables on it.

Lol, great minds think alike.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Se of that may be in the Adventure, or even the DM screen: the Screen may be an independent source of information in this slipcase. Instead of replicating tables from the book, it may have unique info.

I mean, a book that in its description states as one of its main features that it "presents the Astral Plane as a campaign setting" (as quoted from @overgeeked's post above) will presumably have at least some description of what's there, I would assume...

 

[Parmandur]

I mean, a book that in its description states as one of its main features that it "presents the Astral Plane as a campaign setting" (as quoted from @overgeeked's post above) will presumably have at least some description of what's there, I would assume...

For sure. But I'm thinking, given the format, that the DMs Screen is not purely redundant for thet sort of at the table information.