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.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

@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).

I guess in my mind, this isn't "learning about a hobby you enjoy", this is "a disagreement between two artists."

If I want to learn what Salieri thought of Mozart, I'm not going to watch the movie Amadeus; I'm going to read Salieri's writings.

 

[nyvinter]

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.

It's not a stereotypical Asian dialect but an American one. Like in my example, "I pick up the crown and start drawing with it" is perfectly valid in a few Philly dialects. Language does amazing jumps, it's a source of amazement if you're open to it.

But having GM'd myself, I can also see how in the moment your brain just use the wrong word without knowing it.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

It's not a stereotypical Asian dialect but an American one. Like in my example, "I pick up the crown and start drawing with it" is perfectly valid in a few Philly dialects. Language does amazing jumps, it's a source of amazement if you're open to it.

But having GM'd myself, I can also see how in the moment your brain just use the wrong word without knowing it.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

It's not a stereotypical Asian dialect but an American one. Like in my example, "I pick up the crown and start drawing with it" is perfectly valid in a few Philly dialects. Language does amazing jumps, it's a source of amazement if you're open to it.

But having GM'd myself, I can also see how in the moment your brain just use the wrong word without knowing it.

If you are still talking about crayon, mine is more like crane or crain if I’m not focused on enunciating. But that’s what you get if you use a letter as both a vowel and a consonant.

 

[nyvinter]

If you are still talking about crayon, mine is more like crane or crain if I’m not focused on enunciating. But that’s what you get if you use a letter as both a vowel and a consonant.

I love this! Phonetic glides and how and why they happen is fascinating.

 

[mamba]

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.

say what? How does research on Europa, however (in)accurate, affect his research on Gygax? These are two independent things and need to be evaluated independently.

It’s not like this is the only time Gygax ever said / wrote anything sexist

 

[VashVet]

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.

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.

Frankly, this is so far off the topic of the thread, I’m not going to bother with this.

 

[SothFan]

say what? How does research on Europa, however (in)accurate, affect his research on Gygax? These are two independent things and need to be evaluated independently.

It’s not like this is the only time Gygax ever said / wrote anything sexist

You clearly did not watch the video. The gentleman explains the connection.

 

[liteberer]

I love how Sothfan found some random Youtube video and is hellbent on getting people to click on it. Talk about leading people down a path!

This is amazing!

 

[mamba]

You clearly did not watch the video. The gentleman explains the connection.

yeah, I watched part of it since, I disagree with the guy, so there is that… you can read Gygax’ post and decide for yourself, no need to drag whoever-that-is into it

And as mentioned, this is far from the only time Gygax posted something sexist