D&D 5E The Next D&D Storyline Will Be Released In September; Plus 'Reality TV' D&D At D&D Live!

The new D&D storyline, which WotC announced that they would be announcing online at D&D Live this month, will be released in September, WotC's Greg Tito announced in an interview with Screen Rant.

The new D&D storyline, which WotC announced that they would be announcing online at D&D Live this month, will be released in September, WotC's Greg Tito announced in an interview with Screen Rant.

We've done these events annually for the past few years to get the Dungeons & Dragons community excited about playing with each other, as well as for the new storyline that we will introduce at this time that will be released in September.


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The announcement event will also feature some reality-TV style features which they're calling "Reality RP". The storyline involves a prison warden who's a wizard, and who traps a group of suspects in a food storage sabotage investigation and sets them challenges. One of these ten people is the culprit, and each is played by a different performer. Over the weekend, the cast members get reduced until there are only three left on the last day.

At its core it is a combination of different things, it's performative cosplay, deductive roleplay such as Clue, but there is Mafia/Werewolf, those type of party deductive reasoning social games, as well as reality television gameplay, I know we all hate on reality television but some of the shows are actually pretty innovative as far as what kind of game design and things that are going on.


There's other information in the long interview on Screenrant, so it's well worth checking the link. Amongst other things, Tito revealed that the proportional of women playing D&D has increased from about 39% a year or two ago to about 50/50 now. He also mentioned that we can expect to see more Magic/D&D crossovers in the future.

D&D Live is running June 18-20.
 

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amuller33

Explorer
I wonder if there is data on how many GMs are women? That's the next big step forward imo.
Agreed. I've been playing for 40 Years and have seen nothing but Male DMs. 2 years ago a young female player in my group expressed some interest in DM but was a tad overwhelmed by the thought. I agreed to Co-DM and help her with the technical aspects. Well after 6 months it became clear I was just just getting in her way and she didn't need any help :) the campaign is still going strong and I rolled up a Kenku artificer to be a full time PC.. Mentoring what a concept
 



Mercurius

Legend
Here’s an idea: “Lost Odyssey Heroes” plus the basic theme of this makes me think of Odysseus. While I doubt they’d do a story arc in Theros, I do wonder if they were inspired by Homer’s Odyssey: an evil wizard (or god) putting obstacles in the path of the hero(es).
 

Parmandur

Book-Friend
Here’s an idea: “Lost Odyssey Heroes” plus the basic theme of this makes me think of Odysseus. While I doubt they’d do a story arc in Theros, I do wonder if they were inspired by Homer’s Odyssey: an evil wizard (or god) putting obstacles in the path of the hero(es).

Having read through the book a bit, the main influence I see is "Clash of the Titans": the Adventure building tools are about making campaigns centered on Divine feuds with the PCs as pawns on the board.
 


Mercurius

Legend
Having read through the book a bit, the main influence I see is "Clash of the Titans": the Adventure building tools are about making campaigns centered on Divine feuds with the PCs as pawns on the board.

Yeah. I was thinking about the story arc, wondering if they're doing an Odysseus thing.
 


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