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.

 

[VashVet]

If that is the same person mentioned here*, who insinuates everyone from back then, includig yourself just for working at TSR, was sexist, racist, etc; because he seemingly failed to do full research as this man did, then I have quite a few explitive nouns for him. He is a worse shock jock that Howard Stern and just trading on lies and a web he can no longer untangle.

But I will take your word for it.

*

If you can’t be bothered to actually read or find many of the firsthand writings or podcasts by Ben Riggs, perhaps you shouldn’t make assumptions about what he said about TSR or folks who worked there.

 

[SothFan]

For someone who don't care about rpgs trying to use a video about Gary Gygax that focuses mainly one one of his numerous missteps

If you can’t be bothered to actually read or find many of the firsthand writings or podcasts by Ben Riggs

This was the first video I saw in my YouTube search when his name was mentioned here. I had seen one other before when I noticed a history of D&D book and looked it up last week.

Did you even watch the video? nyvinter seems to have since it does contain firsth hand writings from Ben, and his earliest research, dating to prior to D&D existing, was fouled, incomplete and wrong. Was Gygax a "hole", probably but, the other things stated about that 1973 magazine were proven false. As the gentleman in the video stated, his credibility as a historian should be revoked. His opinions should be dismissed.

I will give you some credit for actually finding a video that wasn't reactionary swill.

It was not my effort, just the first thing YouTube offered me at the time. The video was only a few hours old when I saw it I think.

I think he was a bit reactionary, I can not imagine how others respond to Ben in their videos. Thanks for taking the time to check the video rather than assume its contents.

 

[SothFan]

Nah. Dialects do that to you. Like the crayon/cran/crown pronunciation. Prescriptivist linguistics constantly fails when encountering how people actually use language.

I assume it is an accent / dialect, half the time I hear the raven name as Soul-less

This can not be her first time coming across this word though as much as it is used in fantasy. We are not talking about Asian R for L swapping, but ruin (roo-in) and rune (roon), wrong syllable count.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

This was the first video I saw in my YouTube search when his name was mentioned here. I had seen one other before when I noticed a history of D&D book and looked it up last week.

Did you even eatch the video? nyvinter seems to have since it does contain firsth hand writings from Ben, and his earliest research, dating to prior to D&D existing, was fouled, incomplete and wrong. Was Gygax a "hole", probably but, the other things stated about that 1973 magazine were proven false. As the gentleman in the video stated, his credibility as a historian should be revoked. His opinions should be dismissed.

It was not my effort, just the first thing YouTube offered me at the time. The video was only a few hours old when I saw it I think.

I think he was a bit reactionary, I can not imagine how others respond to Ben in their videos. Thanks for taking the time to check the video rather than assume its contents.

Have you considered, maybe, that using YouTube, an algorithmic hellscape where clicks and controversy are the product rather than information or education, was a bad idea?

 

[SothFan]

Have you considered, maybe, that using YouTube, an algorithmic hellscape where clicks and controversy are the product rather than information or education, was a bad idea?

Where do you expect not to find this with how much Google had been given control of the world? Did you watch the video to see how Ben was discredited by the proof therein?

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

Where do you expect not to find this with how much Google had been given control of the world? Did you watch the video to see how Ben was discredited by the proof therein?

I mean I could google "Ben Riggs Gygax" and read an article he wrote in his own words.

 

[SothFan]

I mean I could google "Ben Riggs Gygax" and read an article he wrote in his own words.

There was one he wrote in the video. It was the topic of how he was discredited base on his research, or lack thereof, on Europa.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

There was one he wrote in the video. It was the topic of how he was discredited base on his research, or lack thereof, on Europa.

But why use a youtube video as an interlocutor when you could just engage with the original text in question (those being the works of Riggs and Gygax) and make up your own mind? Why do you need someone to tell you how you feel?

 

[SothFan]

But why use a youtube video as an interlocutor when you could just engage with the original text in question (those being the works of Riggs and Gygax) and make up your own mind? Why do you need someone to tell you how you feel?

The content was in the video. How would I know where to search for his baseless accusations.

What you are saying is why trust a doctors words when you can jyst go to med school to self diagnose.

No, we need independent researchers. I still feel you did not watch the video and just complaining that I did, like the previoys person who refused to watch 5 seconds of a video showung "5.5e" was used outside of the other website. You just want to dismiss the proof.

 

[Dire Bare]

But why use a youtube video as an interlocutor when you could just engage with the original text in question (those being the works of Riggs and Gygax) and make up your own mind? Why do you need someone to tell you how you feel?

@SothFan's YouTube source is sketchy, but watching videos of creators you trust and enjoy to learn about the hobby is perfectly fine.

But if you are going to make spurious claims, as @SothFan is doing . . . don't stop with one video. Yeah, go to the source, watch some other videos, post questions on ENWorld (in an honest way, without accusations).