"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.

 

[Wiseblood]

Fun Fact: In the classic CRPG game "Eye of the Beholder", set in Undermountain, there is a message on the wall in the Xanathar's Outer Sanctum that reads: "Leave no stone unturned"

I loved that game.

I look foreward to this stream. Beholders are one of my favorite monsters. They make me think of Megadeth and Architecture of Aggression.

 

[AmerginLiath]

So maybe Broadway = Waterdeep Sourcebook/adventure, Catacomb = Undermountain, divided in two like Horde of the DragonQueen?

That could actually work, especially if they were designed to work as sourcebooks for urban and megadungeon campaigns, respectively (keyed to elements of interaction and exploration pillars) beyond just the adventures themselves. Imagine consequently having Waterdeep thus set up enough that it could be used as the “home base” and center of multiple campaigns beyond just this adventure path, and likewise having Undermountain designed to be revisited as a classic respawning megadungeon after this combined storyline.

 

[Parmandur]

I could see two 1-20 books, basically allowing you to spend a whole campaign in Undermountain, a whole campaign in Waterdeep alone, or dip into either location as part of another campaign.

 

[LordEntrails]

Remember that they will almost certainly be announcing not one but two books during the "Stream of Many Eyes" -- Broadway and Catacomb -- and possibly three (the rumored fourth book for 2018).

If one attempted to do both Waterdeep and UM in one book it would be woefully insufficient. Waterdeep alone could be a full book just for NPCs and factions etc. (Broadway won't only be a setting book, but...) And to put any significant urban or the first levels of UM in would require a whole book.

UM, if done completely requires something over 2000 pages, and that's without 15 levels of maps and only brief information on Skullport and Spiderhaven.

So maybe Broadway = Waterdeep Sourcebook/adventure, Catacomb = Undermountain, divided in two like Horde of the DragonQueen?

This is a pretty good assumption, IMO. I think Broadway will include Waterdeep info and enough information to run PCs through tier 1 in the city and the first levels of Undermountain. Catacomb will be quests of tiers 2-4 in various locations in UM. I would love to see specific info on Skullport and Spiderhaven, as well as well done Xanathar background and quest series.

Here's a little something that I've been working on. Enjoy;
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[vpuigdoller]

Replying to the person who said a wizard with reflavored spells is good enough as a psion, I agree. A reflavored sorcerer also does the job and a reflavored Eldricht Knight can also fill in For the Battle Mind. I am not in favor of the premise of psionics not been magic in worlds fuled by magic.

I know many of you are sure is Undermountain/Waterdeep AP Im not a fan of mega dungeons, in the other hand I would love a fleshed out update to Waterdeep with sidequests and quest hooks included ala Port Nyanzaru.

Edit: I quoted incorrect comment meh.

 

[Gradine]

Am I the only one who thought a re-flavored Monk was the best way to build most Psionic archetypes? I mean, probably not a straight up Psion, but Soulknife, Lurk, Pyromancer were all practically built in to the basic Monk archetypes.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I sure hope this is only one book. Waterdeap is as generic as hell - one paragraph is more that enough space to spend on it. And Undermountain - it' s a big dungeon of the kick the door kill the monster take the treasure variety. I could knock off content like that in half an hour when I was 12.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

I sure hope this is only one book. Waterdeap is as generic as hell - one paragraph is more that enough space to spend on it. And Undermountain - it' s a big dungeon of the kick the door kill the monster take the treasure variety. I could knock off content like that in half an hour when I was 12.

Its always funny when people say things like that. Yes it was generic in previous editions, but it is not a fatality. Waterdeep is not condemned to be generic, nowhere was it written that the city must be boring a part of its narrative design. Its like when someone this week said that the design team should not touch Cormyr in the books because the devs couldnt remember the name of a dragon on a live stream. I mean, c'mon, trust that the devs can do better this time and will improve content from previous edition. If we discard any new stuff beforehand just because past attempts were bad, we're doom to have an edition just full of copy paste from previous edition's successes. Part of success is to improve past errors to get it right this time.

Cynicism and contempt are not good basis for creative content. Give the devs a chance. If they screw up, we'll see how they do with Waterdeep in 6e in 2050.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Sure, someone might be able to make something of it, but it's very unpromising raw material, and you are competing with stuff that was already done well 30 years ago (see: City State of the Invincible Overlord - the thing with cities is they don't need to change between editions).

 

[Queer Venger]

I live in LA, Ticket purchased!!!