Wizards of the Coast launches official Dungeons & Dragons Actual Play show

Wizards of the Coast is getting back into the Actual Play game. Today, Wizards announced via Variety that they are launching a new Actual Play show called Dungeon Masters, starring Jasmine Bhullar as the Dungeon Master along with players Mayanna Berrin, Christian Navarro, Neil Newbon and Devora Wilde. Wilde and Newbon are veterans of Baldur's Gate 3, a smash hit for the Dungeons & Dragons IP. However, both actors will be playing new characters and not their Baldur's Gate 3 characters.

Of note is that the show will feature "official, unreleased D&D content" which will be put up for sale on D&D Beyond following every episode. The first arc takes place in Ravenloft and will feature content from Ravenloft: The Horrors Within. New episodes will be released weekly on YouTube, starting on April 22nd.

Wizards of the Coast previously produced several official D&D Actual Play series, including Dice, Camera, Action and Force Grey. Dice, Camera, Action was their flagship D&D program for years until it unceremoniously ended due to a scandal involving two of its players.

 

[Azzy]

Likewise I can find it ridiculous to hire a transcriber that can not spell the characters' names correctly between episodes.

Why are you assuming that the "transcription" is anything other than automated speech to text?

 

[Maxperson]

You're assigning a personal motive to the show about a decision that was made by Wes Schneider and his team who produced the upcoming book -- while also ignoring that Knight of the Black Rose is more than three decades old.

Way more. Like 34 decades more.

 

[mamba]

Have you read it?

Feel free to make your case for War and Peace containing a Lord Soth character they could have used instead of the DL one

 

[Maxperson]

I do not care what a new company 30 years later has to say about a product they did not create.

If you don't care what the new company has to say, why care about the streaming content? The streaming content has about as much effect on your game is my game would if I put Lord Soth and all the elven women in tutus and had them perform ballet every night.

I'm with you in that no company or person can decide for me how my Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, or Dragonlance will be portrayed.

 

[Maxperson]

Have you read it?

I remember Strahd and Elminster, but not Lord Soth.

 

[SothFan]

Why are you assuming that the "transcription" is anything other than automated speech to text?

It has the player names and is manually transcribed as others have noted.

effect on your game

I do not play the game.

 

[Chaltab]

I do not play the game.

You don't play D&D?

 

[liteberer]

It's amazing what happens when someone makes a fictional character their reason for being.

For my part, I'm loving the show. The players look like their having a lot of fun and the DM doesn't look like she has a slavish obedience to "canon". It seems she is really making it her own.

From what I can see, this Lord Soth on the show is a big buffoon. Is he a buffoon in the books as well?

 

[SothFan]

You don't play D&D?

No. It is not the type of thing I enjoy. If I had wanted to do improv theater then I would have taken it in college.

It's amazing what happens when someone makes a fictional character their reason for being.

For my part, I'm loving the show. The players look like their having a lot of fun and the DM doesn't look like she has a slavish obedience to "canon". It seems she is really making it her own.

From what I can see, this Lord Soth on the show is a big buffoon. Is he a buffoon in the books as well?

The fictional character is my reason for being here. Do not be silly.

Soth was the highest of the knights. He is being "punished" by Ravenloft and tormented. (This should have been done by the Gods of Krynn, not some upstart novelist who wanted a cool looking piece of artwork who later had to retcon his entire book.)

Nothing about him so far has gone against his character, even his book was used properly. Though he should have never been in Ravenloft. Like that dark elf from Icewin Dale was never there, nor was Elminster.

The problem is so far, bad acting, and wrongful use of Dragonlance specific terms. The overlay things also are unhelpful for teaching tools. They seem poorly planned and poorly executed, or an afterthought.

 

[Selas]

Funny, what you consider as unhelpful teaching tools and poorly executed has been one of the most liked things by almost all that has seen the show, regardless of whether they like it or not.
The fact that you admit you don't play DnD and are a novel-only fan explains a lot about your criticism of the show and why you're so inflexible to others viewpoints. Bringing Soth to Ravenloft is a decision for those that play the game and would like to use him as part of their campaigns. DnD is a multiverse, and the novels exists as their own thing within it.