D&D General Watch the Baldur's Gate 3 Cast Play 'What We Do In The Shadow-Cursed Lands'

At MGM Comic Con in London (where the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide made its world debut), WotC's Jeremy Crawford ran a live Dungeons & Dragons adventure on stage for the cast of Baldur's Gate 3.

Neil Newbon played Astarion, the Elf Arcane Trickster Rogue; Samantha Béart played Karlach, the Tiefling Barbarian; Theo Solomon played Wyll, the Fiendish Warlock; and Devora Wilde played Lae'zel, the Githyanki Fighter.

The adventure was called What We Do in The Shadow-Cursed Lands, and features the 2024 D&D rules.

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[Bayushi_seikuro]

Or... just ignore all that, and have them meet up and run like the dysfunctional trainwreck they are? You're applying logic to comedic buggery.

I don't know. When Acq Inc started during 4e, it at least used the business as a framework for why these idiots stuck together.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Or... just ignore all that, and have them meet up and run like the dysfunctional trainwreck they are? You're applying logic to comedic buggery.

Astarion has entered the chat

 

[EthanSental]

I don't know. When Acq Inc started during 4e, it at least used the business as a framework for why these idiots stuck together.

Maybe not “idiots” but those were fun sessions to watch and listen too and they played well off each other.

 

[EthanSental]

Neil Newbon is fun to watch and he seems like he’s played the game. That might be common knowledge but just I didn’t know he already has been playing the game.

 

[Queer Venger]

Unless Larian Studios got involved with the writing, which I don't think they would, I don't think it would be the same unfortunately. Baldur's Gate 3's plot points, character developments and lore have aspects which I don't think WotC is comfortable doing anymore. The game was based on early 5E lore (Volo's Guide To Monsters/Mordenkainen's Tome Of Foes etc) which has now been expunged from 'official' D&D.

you really think its expunged? really?
Legacy content is not expunged. No need to sound so dramatic.

 

[Scribe]

you really think its expunged? really?
Legacy content is not expunged. No need to sound so dramatic.

Wizards has open said that anything not 5e, and I believe its even 'not recent 5e' is no longer canon. Its been disavowed.

 

[Queer Venger]

Wizards has open said that anything not 5e, and I believe its even 'not recent 5e' is no longer canon. Its been disavowed.

A company has o ficially said that non-5e lore is no longer valid/canon?!?
Really!?!?

Please provide your citation on this, otherwise it's just spurious nonsense.

 

[Scribe]

A company has o ficially said that non-5e lore is no longer valid/canon?!?
Really!?!?

Please provide your citation on this, otherwise it's just spurious nonsense.

It will take a bit, but yes it was said. I'll get you after work.

 

[Queer Venger]

It will take a bit, but yes it was said. I'll get you after work.

Im patient.

 

[Scribe]

Im patient.

Dungeons & Dragons Novels, Video Games, and Other Spin-Offs Are Not Canonical to D&D Roleplaying Game

Wizards of the Coast has provided some clarity on the canon of Dungeons & Dragons in regards to what it considers canon for the core roleplaying game. Over the past 45 years, Wizards of the Coast and its predecessors have published hundreds of Dungeons & Dragons adventures and supplements, as...

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As for what is considered canon in the D&D RPG, Crawford provided a very simple answer. “If you’re looking for what’s official in the D&D roleplaying game, it’s what appears in the products for the roleplaying game,” Crawford said. “Basically, our stance is that if it has not appeared in a book since 2014 [the year that Dungeons & Dragons‘ Fifth Edition core rulebooks came out], we don’t consider it canonical for the games.”