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!

 

[Ruin Explorer]

IMO, this is not luxury pricing for most people, Beadle and Grimm is luxury pricing for their product that is an accessory to the game, not a book you need for the game at $70.

My view is that's a point on the progression to where D&D supplements may well, by default, have better production values than now (though not art at the current rate, sheesh! PAY SOME MTG ARTISTS you misers!), but likely with less content, and significantly higher prices. I'd be very unsurprised to see over $100 for a setting by the end of the decade. And that is getting into the "can't afford" not just "poor value" range for a lot of people. naughty word $70 is pushing it for some, certainly as a relatively casual purchase, something they might not need (where for others, they might spend that on an evening out most weeks).

 

[thundershot]

So… in the excitement, I didn’t think about the possibility of dmsguild content… that right there could be a gold mine for those of us who love Spelljammer. I would assume they would open it up….

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Which is not necessary.

I have a question - what did you think my point in adding that was lol? Just that I was doing a burn on myself for no reason?! Anyway, yes, you correctly identified that I was pointing out that it was not necessary lol.

 

[overgeeked]

Man I am in a time loop. I've said REPEATEDLY how the new format is ridiculous as it includes a bunch of things I don't need, including the DMs Screen and the slipcase (not including the map, so many books have these included already).

If this is one release version, and you could just pick up a normal Spelljammer book for $60, great! No complaints from me. When Curse of Strahd Ravamped was announced, I didn't complain; I can get normal Curse of Strahd within my budget.

But locking consumers into nick-nacks they don't need to getting more $ out of them is NOT something I'm happy about, and breaking down the price isn't going to convince me to shell out more of my wallet.

So it’s a thing you won’t buy. Got it. Why the need to post about how much you don’t want it all day. You don’t want it. Got it. Why keep repeating that?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

The what now?

Is Kalidnay not in Van Richten's? I could have sworn that it was.

Nevermind then. I'll go edit that out.

 

[overgeeked]

So… in the excitement, I didn’t think about the possibility of dmsguild content… that right there could be a gold mine for those of us who love Spelljammer. I would assume they would open it up….

Here’s to hoping.

 

[ersatzphil]

...there's the Dark Sun Domain of Dread in Van Richtens

They left Kalidnay out of Van Richtens. Honestly it would have been a great tease, but I think it's pointed absence is a pretty good argument we won't get Dark Sun in 5e.

 

[overgeeked]

Is Kalidnay not in Van Richten's? I could have sworn that it was.

Nevermind then. I'll go edit that out.

It was in Ravenloft in 4E. But it’s not in Van Richten’s that I can see.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

So it’s a thing you won’t buy. Got it. Why the need to post about how much you don’t want it all day. You don’t want it. Got it. Why keep repeating that?

Same reason you keep responding to me I suppose... because this an internet forum?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I have a question - what did you think my point in adding that was lol? Just that I was doing a burn on myself for no reason?! Anyway, yes, you correctly identified that I was pointing out that it was not necessary lol.

I was saying that speculating about how WotC could "do you wrong" just to add extra negativity is not necessary or constructive to the thread. "I really hope the next classic campaign setting release is Planescape or Dark Sun" would have gotten the same point across without being unnecessarily negative.