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!

 

[Weiley31]

Well, at least Weiss will be happy the Kender aren't fey based in any way possible. Now bring on the Kender Bladesingers!

 

[michaeljpastor]

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.

it's not semantics. I'm not talking about the specifics of what this book is. I'm talking about the cosmology. By putting spelljammer in the astral plane it's automatically planeJammer. it doesn't have to have Blood Wars, Sigil, or Factions to qualify as planeJammer. that's you arguing semantics not me.

Sigil is only one aspect of Planescape, and unless they really alter it, ships don't dock there. So irrelevant.

The gith and illithids were always
Astral in origin
Spelljammer races.
this takes place in Astral now, so Planejammer 1 point.

There's no Phlo or Spheres (which are Ethereal) so two points against it being classic SJ.

You can spellJam to the Outer Planes. 1 Point planejammer.

 

[Parmandur]

Sigil is only one aspect of Planescape, and unless they really alter it, ships don't dock there. So irrelevant.

Boom, there you go: not Planejammer. No docking at Sigil = Not "Planesjammer" by the definition I' was operating off of in earlier discussions. People were arguing that WotC would release a book similar to the Plane Above and the Plane Below from 4E, with ships visiting the Outer Planers and the Inner Planes. This is not that, since the places being mentioned are Prime Material worlds. Hence not "Planejammer" but "Spelljammer," with "Planescape" coming later probably...not "Spellscape."

The whole point is, Planescape is a separate genre, hence subject to a separate project. They were always part of the same cosmology, same as the Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance. Just because Eliminster and Mordenkeinen can visit Krynn doesn't make the upcoming Dragonlance Adventure a "GreyRealmsLance" product. Similarly, this is Spelljammer, note "PlanesJammer?

You can spellJam to the Outer Planes. 1 Point planejammer.

Oh, can you? have they established that anywhere, or are you making an assumption? Can you point to where this has been stated or implied? I doubt they will address it in the books, frankly.

 

[Parmandur]

Actually, what I wonder with what they have laid down so far...they have consistently spoken of the space beyond a "cosmos" as being the "Astral Sea." I wonder if this is introducing a distinction similar to the "Border Ethereal" as opposed to the "Deep Ethereal." With the "Astral Sea that Spelljammer pilot between worlds being separated firmly from the "Deep Astral" where the Outer Planes and the Outlands are found.

 

[darjr]

Deep Astral. I like that.

 

[Parmandur]

Deep Astral. I like that.

Yeah, it just strikes me that they are being consistent about this language of an "Astral Sea," and Winninger said there was nuance to the Phlogiston going away. Seems there is a new cosmological wrinkle being explored.

 

[michaeljpastor]

Boom, there you go: not Planejammer. No docking at Sigil = Not "Planesjammer" by the definition I' was operating off of in earlier discussions. People were arguing that WotC would release a book similar to the Plane Above and the Plane Below from 4E, with ships visiting the Outer Planers and the Inner Planes. This is not that, since the places being mentioned are Prime Material worlds. Hence not "Planejammer" but "Spelljammer," with "Planescape" coming later probably...not "Spellscape."

The whole point is, Planescape is a separate genre, hence subject to a separate project. They were always part of the same cosmology, same as the Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance. Just because Eliminster and Mordenkeinen can visit Krynn doesn't make the upcoming Dragonlance Adventure a "GreyRealmsLance" product. Similarly, this is Spelljammer, note "PlanesJammer?

Oh, can you? have they established that anywhere, or are you making an assumption? Can you point to where this has been stated or implied? I doubt they will address it in the books, frankly.

we're operating on different systems of thought my only requirement first be playing Jammers that it takes place on the astral plane. You seem to think that it absolutely must have sigil in it in order to count. Therefore I am ending the discussion

 

[Parmandur]

we're operating on different systems of thought my only requirement first be playing Jammers that it takes place on the astral plane. You seem to think that it absolutely must have sigil in it in order to count. Therefore I am ending the discussion

That's what I said to begin with, it's a semantic difference.

Earlier this year, people were speculating that Spelljammer could never happen, so they were expecting a book thst included ailing to the Outer and Inner Planes including Sigil, hence "Planesjammer." This ain't that.

 

[Remathilis]

we're operating on different systems of thought my only requirement first be playing Jammers that it takes place on the astral plane. You seem to think that it absolutely must have sigil in it in order to count. Therefore I am ending the discussion

Because your definition is too simplistic. If something being on a plane is Planescape, then there have been a lot of things that are Planescape: Ravenloft (shadowfell) Radiant Citadel (Ethereal), Witchlight Carnival (feywild) would all be Plane- something by your definition.

Despite the movement of travel being astral, I think Spelljammer is going to keep its focus on going between prime worlds and not on the other planes. No sailing to the Abyss, docking in the elemental plane of air, or crashing into Mt Celestia.

One plane does not a Planescape make.

 

[SkidAce]

Oh, can you? have they established that anywhere, or are you making an assumption? Can you point to where this has been stated or implied? I doubt they will address it in the books, frankly.

Well their product page says:

Spelljammer: Adventures in Space presents the Astral Plane as a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting unlike any other. Home of the stars and gateway to the heavens, the Astral Plane teems with excitement and possibility. With the help of magic, spelljammers can cross the oceans of Wildspace, ply the silvery void known as the Astral Sea, and hop between worlds of the D&D multiverse.

describes Astral as "gateway to the heavens" and you can spelljam to astral so its at least implied.