"Stream of Many Eyes" -- WotC To Announce New Storyline In June

On June 1st, WotC will be hosting a three-day streaming event called the Stream of Many Eyes. Similar to previous events, it will feature comedians, actors, and streamers, as the new Dungeons & Dragons storyline is unveiled.

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Here's the full press release:

On June 1 – 3 2018, D&D will bring tons of Twitch streamers, actors, comedians and D&D luminaries to the Stream of Many Eyes, a three-day livestreamed extravaganza full of cosplay, crazy sets and amazing stories. During the Stream of Many Eyes – #SOMEDND - the D&D team will unveil the new adventure story coming this year and showcase extraordinary D&D live play entertainment, and it will all stream live on twitch.tv/dnd.

The Stream of Many Eyes starts at 4pm PT on Friday, June 1st, with a visual tour of the studio led by host Anna Prosser Robinson and a roundtable conversation with the D&D team on the new storyline and what makes it so exciting. Dungeons & Dragons will then present live D&D play sessions with Force Grey & Dice, Camera, Action.

On Saturday, June 2nd, the livestream kicks off at 10 AM PT with Sirens of the Realms. Saturday’s games will feature well-known D&D gaming group Girls, Guts, Glory as well newer groups Rivals of Waterdeep and Dark & Dicey, all previewing content from the new story. The entertainment will run all day, wrapping up at 7 PM PT.

Four groups will perform on Sunday, June 3rd, beginning at 11 AM PT and streaming until 8 PM PT. Games will include members of Critical Role, High Rollers, Force Grey and the entire cast of Dice, Camera, Action performing together in costume for the first time.

D&D fans around the world can watch all the excitement unfold on twitch.tv/dnd, and on Sunday only, fans in the Los Angeles area can buy tickets to watch one of the live games in person. The live ticketed experience includes a curated set tour, live performances from musicians, dancers and stunt-people, food trucks, a D&D pop-up store full of merch, and of course some of your favorite gaming groups.

Check out the full schedule and buy tickets at dnd.wizards.com/some. Tickets are limited – so if you’ll be in the L.A. area on June 3rd make sure to grab them quick! Check out the D&D website, follow D&D on Twitter or subscribe to the Dragon Talk podcast feed for all the latest updates and for interviews with our special #SOMEDND guests.

You can read more here.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I may have remembered wrong on Maztica because of the way my DM used it back in the day, but the Al-Qadim books and Zakhara were designed to be dropped into any existing world, though technically part of the Realms. The original books for Al-Qadim did not even say Forgotten Realms on the covers. So, to me, it was not really fully integrated into the Realms til later on.

You are absolutely correct. The same is true for Kara-Tur. The original Oriental Adventures was designed to be used stand alone or with any campaign setting. It was later FR publications that gave these places a Forgotten Realms location.

Toril is a fantasy junk-planet that accretes everything.

 

[gyor]

What rules?

I have a Forgotten Realms guide here. It includes maps, descriptions, population statistics, names of rulers, names for days and seasons and absolutely no gameplay rules whatsoever. It was written for 2nd edition, but there is nothing that would be any different in 5e. That's because the sort of info in this kind of guide is rules-independent. They could simply reissue the old stuff.

One Setting to rule them all, One Setting to find them,
One Setting to bring them all and in the Forgotten Realms bind them

 

[Jester David]

What rules?

I was thinking adventures, monster books, etc.

I have a Forgotten Realms guide here. It includes maps, descriptions, population statistics, names of rulers, names for days and seasons and absolutely no gameplay rules whatsoever. It was written for 2nd edition, but there is nothing that would be any different in 5e. That's because the sort of info in this kind of guide is rules-independent. They could simply reissue the old stuff.

They are!
The DMsGuild adds 2-4 new products to their Print on Demand catalogue every week, slowly increasing the number of old books you can order physical copies of at will. I have some nice 3e books and have been picking up the Planescape releases, and there are quite a few Realms ones. In a few years, you'll be able to get a copy of almost any D&D book.

 

[kenmarable]

I've yet to see anyone actually back any of that "word on the street" rumours with anything, making it just seem like different fan's speculation. At best. Or a misreading of a comment.

Like the insistence we're getting a third book this fall.

[-]While agree that a lot of unsupported speculation gets repeated enough that people then take it more seriously than it warrants, the third book this fall claim actually originated with a bookstore website posting pages for those products (likely automatically as the new entries appeared in their database since they certainly don't look like a gaming store that would be speculating on D&D releases). So even tho it's unclear whether that is WotC's final release plans and questions remain, I wouldn't lump it into the same category at all. There is actual evidence behind the claim beyond just fans echoing each other's speculation. (Plus the link to "Marathon" now links to their entry for Mordenkainen's, so that wound up being accurate.)[/-]

Edit: I completely misunderstood the statement I was replying to. Nothing to see here, move along.

 

[gyor]

What rules?

I have a Forgotten Realms guide here. It includes maps, descriptions, population statistics, names of rulers, names for days and seasons and absolutely no gameplay rules whatsoever. It was written for 2nd edition, but there is nothing that would be any different in 5e. That's because the sort of info in this kind of guide is rules-independent. They could simply reissue the old stuff.

Nothing in 5e would be different?!?!?

There is over 100 years of change between 2e and 5e, countless events like the Spellplague and Sundering, various wars, and so on. Nations have fallen, risen again, as have gods, most of the NPCs in it are dead.

Dambrath for example was ruled by Half Drow worshippers of Loviator called the Crinti in 2e, in 4e the humans overthrew the Crinti and abbaddoned the cities, they now are tribal with Lycanthropes and shifters in there tribes. Who knows what happened to the Crinti.

then there is Tymanther, you won't find it in 2e, it didn't exist until 4e and it shrank, but still exists in 5e.

both Unther and Mulhorand were destroyed in 4e, but rose from the dead in very different forms in 5e, were before they were stagnating empires in 2e, they are Empires reborn fresh, with new cultural influences (in the case of Unther the Shyr Empire from Abeir). in 2e Horus-Ra was the head of the Mulhorand Pantheon, now Horus and Ra are seperate like they were long before 1e even.

5e is inspired by nostalgia, but it doesn't discard the past and a bunch of 4e elements and some completely new ones for 5e exist.

this is why I keep calling for a 5e FRCG, instead of this slow piece meal BS of APs slowly revealing the setting.

 

[Jester David]

While agree that a lot of unsupported speculation gets repeated enough that people then take it more seriously than it warrants, the third book this fall claim actually originated with a bookstore website posting pages for those products (likely automatically as the new entries appeared in their database since they certainly don't look like a gaming store that would be speculating on D&D releases). So even tho it's unclear whether that is WotC's final release plans and questions remain, I wouldn't lump it into the same category at all. There is actual evidence behind the claim beyond just fans echoing each other's speculation. (Plus the link to "Marathon" now links to their entry for Mordenkainen's, so that wound up being accurate.)

Kinda...
We always assumed there were three books this year. The "three books in the fall" bit came significantly after, from a recent Twitch Stream where Kate Welch commented on whether or not she worked on three products this fall, and several posters assumed the third *must* be a RPG book as well rather than a board game or card game or some other product.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Kinda...
We always assumed there were three books this year. The "three books in the fall" bit came significantly after, from a recent Twitch Stream where Kate Welch commented on whether or not she worked on three products this fall, and several posters assumed the third *must* be a RPG book as well rather than a board game or card game or some other product.

Actually, it started a good bit before that, when either Mearls or Crawford was talking about the two books coming up in the fall, as well as possibly one that he wasn't sure he was allowed to even mention yet.

 

[Parmandur]

What rules?

I have a Forgotten Realms guide here. It includes maps, descriptions, population statistics, names of rulers, names for days and seasons and absolutely no gameplay rules whatsoever. It was written for 2nd edition, but there is nothing that would be any different in 5e. That's because the sort of info in this kind of guide is rules-independent. They could simply reissue the old stuff.

Right, and as pointed out above, they are doing so and actively promote the old stuff. Still, generic fantasy is what people are looking for in their fantasy genre games by and large, so it is what sells, so they make more of it. Seems to be working so far.

 

[Parmandur]

Nothing in 5e would be different?!?!?

There is over 100 years of change between 2e and 5e, countless events like the Spellplague and Sundering, various wars, and so on. Nations have fallen, risen again, as have gods, most of the NPCs in it are dead.

Dambrath for example was ruled by Half Drow worshippers of Loviator called the Crinti in 2e, in 4e the humans overthrew the Crinti and abbaddoned the cities, they now are tribal with Lycanthropes and shifters in there tribes. Who knows what happened to the Crinti.

then there is Tymanther, you won't find it in 2e, it didn't exist until 4e and it shrank, but still exists in 5e.

both Unther and Mulhorand were destroyed in 4e, but rose from the dead in very different forms in 5e, were before they were stagnating empires in 2e, they are Empires reborn fresh, with new cultural influences (in the case of Unther the Shyr Empire from Abeir). in 2e Horus-Ra was the head of the Mulhorand Pantheon, now Horus and Ra are seperate like they were long before 1e even.

5e is inspired by nostalgia, but it doesn't discard the past and a bunch of 4e elements and some completely new ones for 5e exist.

this is why I keep calling for a 5e FRCG, instead of this slow piece meal BS of APs slowly revealing the setting.

There is nothing about 5E that enforces playing in a particular era. You can use the 1E, 2E, 3E, 4E or any combination you want. Perkins actively encourages this all the time.

 

[kenmarable]

Kinda...
We always assumed there were three books this year. The "three books in the fall" bit came significantly after, from a recent Twitch Stream where Kate Welch commented on whether or not she worked on three products this fall, and several posters assumed the third *must* be a RPG book as well rather than a board game or card game or some other product.

Whoops, my bad! I completely parsed your sentence differently ("third book of the year this fall" not "three books this fall"). Should have figured that I misunderstood you rather than you weren't aware of that post. Sorry about that!