D&D 5E D&D Direct: WotC's 2023 Announcement Showcase Livestream

D&D Direct, the half-hour livestreamed event where WotC will reveal its new Virtual Tabletop (VTT), talk about the future of D&D, and celebrate the new D&D movie, starts at 9am PT (5pm UK time)! Watch it below!

D&D Direct 2023 is a digital showcase that will feature announcements from all corners of the D&D fandom. Get a first look at the D&D virtual tabletop, tie-ins for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, exciting partnerships, and even hear about what to expect in future books. Deep dives for tabletop products will come later this year.

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Highlights/Contents

• D&D Minecraft is coming soon. You can download a Minecraft Monstrous Compendium at Minecraft.net.​
• Honor Among Thieves movie trailer.​
• Song cartoon about teaching your friends D&D.​
• Hasbro's 'March Monster Madness' D&D movie toys.​
• Magic: the Gathering cards featuring D&D movie characters.​
• Lolth's Warrior, R.A. Salvatore's new book in The Way of the Drow trilogy.​
• Trailer for Neverwinter video game Menzoberranzan.​
• D&D Digital Playspace--the upcoming new Virtual Tabletop playtest coming in late 2023.​
• Newsroom skit about a lifesized mimic and a baby owlbear escaping WizKids.​
• Joe Manganiello updates about his D&D documentary.​
• Chris Perkins & Jeremy Crawford on the D&D multiverse, Keys from the Golden Vault, Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants, Phandelver & Below: The Shattered Obelisk, Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse, Deck of Many Things, and hints about Vecna coming in 2024 in a worldhopping adventure, a Red Wizard story in 2025, and D&D cartoon villain Venger will return in an adventure.

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[Micah Sweet]

You actually can. You just don’t consider the stories canon for Eberron.

You can consider them not canon for your table, sure. If the netaplot's in the books though, its just as "real" as any of the 2e stuff.

 

[Bolares]

You can consider them not canon for your table, sure. If the netaplot's in the books though, its just as "real" as any of the 2e stuff.

That’s not what I’m saying. In Eberron, the only thing considered canon is the lore information in the setting books. Nothing else is canon or advances the metaplot. It has always been the case and I don’t see why any change to thhte multiverse would need to change that

 

[Ruin Explorer]

That’s not what I’m saying. In Eberron, the only thing considered canon is the lore information in the setting books. Nothing else is canon or advances the metaplot. It has always been the case and I don’t see why any change to thhte multiverse would need to change that

Is this something Baker has stated? I could believe it.

 

[Bolares]

Is this something Baker has stated? I could believe it.

Keith has stated that, yes.

 

[Parmandur]

You actually think Eberron's going to be spared the metaplot, bawhahaha.

I don't think the D&D team is really going to do a metaplot at all, lol.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I don't think the D&D team is really going to do a metaplot at all, lol.

Eh, they might. They did earlier in the edition (the Second Sundering for the transition from 4e to 5e, Storm King's Thunder takes place after Tyranny of Dragons, Tomb of Annihilation had giants from Storm King's Thunder in Chult searching for the Ring of Winter). There's also been the obelisks/monoliths in a ton of the adventures that seem to be building to something Vecna-related. And the new "edition" and big world-hopping adventure seem to have more potential for one last metaplot advancement. Especially since the last Vecna-related adventure from the end of an edition advanced the metaplot a lot.

 

[Parmandur]

Eh, they might. They did earlier in the edition (the Second Sundering for the transition from 4e to 5e, Storm King's Thunder takes place after Tyranny of Dragons, Tomb of Annihilation had giants from Storm King's Thunder in Chult searching for the Ring of Winter). There's also been the obelisks/monoliths in a ton of the adventures that seem to be building to something Vecna-related. And the new "edition" and big world-hopping adventure seem to have more potential for one last metaplot advancement. Especially since the last Vecna-related adventure from the end of an edition advanced the metaplot a lot.

Connecting hooks aren't really a metaplot: once 5E got going, there is no advancement or canonical result to the Adventures. Which is what happened in the 80's & 90's: all the published Adventures were given official resolutions in canon. Thar I don't see happening.

 

[Micah Sweet]

That’s not what I’m saying. In Eberron, the only thing considered canon is the lore information in the setting books. Nothing else is canon or advances the metaplot. It has always been the case and I don’t see why any change to thhte multiverse would need to change that

Where does it say that?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Keith has stated that, yes.

Keith Baker unfortunately doesn't have any control over Eberron. WotC can do whatever they want with it, including folding it into the Multiverse plot.

 

[Stormonu]

You’d be surprised what WotC can change with a half assed DC comics level mega-event.

Or a CFO breathing down your neck