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.

 

[SothFan]

Episode 6:

World development seems good, though I guess it was part of the new Curse of Strahd product it tried to sell me, after the other products.

Character development went a little pear-shaped rather than peach shaped.

No less than 16 spelling errors in the manual transcription, example ARE for OUR. Yes it is manual because YouTube cannot add things like

(MAYANNA LAUGHS)

when such was not spoken. Also YouTube does not auto-transcribe "F**k", which can not be typed here, but all 4 letters are present in the closed captions.
The transcriptions are entirely human error. I hope the books have better copy-editors.

About 45 minutes in, I quit due to the sexual nature it was devolving into.

This episode should have been put on that ONLY website, or cut, reshot, something. It needs to have adult content warning labels.

 

[SothFan]

I can confirm that's not the intent!

Ma'am, this needs to stop. You can not have illiterate people working on transcription for on screen subtitles like this, or the main video's closed captioning. It is starting to look like descrimination or at the least neglect, if the person can not get the words correct.

icker

The word is "ichor" as in the automatic closed captioning for this short, not the on screen copy.

Definition of ICHOR

a thin watery or blood-tinged discharge; an ethereal fluid taking the place of blood in the veins of the ancient Greek gods… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

There is no such word as "icker".

 

[LaTia J]

Ma'am, this needs to stop. You can not have illiterate people working on transcription for on screen subtitles like this, or the main video's closed captioning. It is starting to look like descrimination or at the least neglect, if the person can not get the words correct.


The word is "ichor" as in the automatic closed captioning for this short, not the on screen copy.

Definition of ICHOR

a thin watery or blood-tinged discharge; an ethereal fluid taking the place of blood in the veins of the ancient Greek gods… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

There is no such word as "icker".

Thanks for the feedback; I'll pass this along to the production team!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Thanks for the feedback; I'll pass this along to the production team!

Any updates on getting the podcast feed somewhere other than Spotify players?

 

[LaTia J]

Any updates on getting the podcast feed somewhere other than Spotify players?

not yet; I'll include that in my messages to them!

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I love that when 5E DL came out and WotC was all "DL Bahamut and Tiamat are the same as all the other worlds versions! Same gods!" And Margaret Weiss came out and said "No, they aren't."

I'm going to go with the creators of the world instead of WotCs half-assed attempt at Dragonlance. Man, was that adventure a stinker.

So that lore has been in the game for decades at this point well well before the 5e adventure. In 5e it was mentioned in the first DMG.

I also thought (along with my players) that the adventure was pretty good. Did you even read it?

 

[MonsterEnvy]

@SothFan is it possible to tone it down a notch. You come across as insulting in every post.

 

[BruceWright]

I'm midway through this episode and I think this show gets better and better with each episode. I don't know if this big fight encounter is a new monster or an updated monster from a book I don't own, but WOW is it flavorful and horror-centric. The entire location, its residents, its dark secret, the throwback to a CLASSIC adventure from 3rd edition. Just incredible. The moments for Crem and Zora. Jasmine keeps upping the stakes and upping the imagination... The new book must have really inspired her, because this is an incredible adventure.

And the players are clearly having a blast here. As am I. This is my favorite Actual Play. Thanks and kudos to the cast, WotC and Fly on the Wall.

 

[SothFan]

Thanks for the feedback; I'll pass this along to the production team!

Thank you. After "6" episodes and over 100 wrong words in the closed captions, I had to direct this problem to official channels rather than "old woman yells at clouds".

 

[DarkCrisis]

So that lore has been in the game for decades at this point well well before the 5e adventure. In 5e it was mentioned in the first DMG.

I also thought (along with my players) that the adventure was pretty good. Did you even read it?

I even ran it until I got tired of it.

The story it self was fine. It having a lot of “walk down this road, gain a level.” “Fight this fight, gain a level.” “Every 3 special locations, gain a level.”

It’s a 5E issue where they need the party to level quickly so they can have you fight the big bad at level 10.

Maybe not every adventure book needs to be 1-10 especially when they toss out levels every other page and for simply walking down a road. If you want them to start the adventure at level 3 then just make it level 3. 3-10. But again 1-5 adventure. 3-8? 5-10? That’s fine.