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!

 

[Staffan]

Oh ok. I was under the impression the majority of WotC's revenue was now from D&D. That doesn't conflict with MtG making "more than ever", note. Both could be true simultaneously. But I know you track these things more closely than I.

You might have mixed it up with the announcement that Wizards now make up the majority of Hasbro's revenue and/or profits.

 

[SkidAce]

 

[ersatzphil]

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...

Don’t forget to account for at least two pages of trinket tables, that every WotC product seems to require

 

[Zaroden]

Tbh? Might start with this one.

 

[Zaroden]

Anything else has come up since then?