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.

 

[bedir than]

Where are Eloin, Nora/Zora, Wessley, Livid, and Crem on DNDBeyond? The put up characters for Ted to use, but not the ones playing through the new book? Maybe they will be in a slot machine?

This is at least the fourth and maybe the 10th actual play run by D&D (definitional arguments about producing, co-hosting on YouTube, etc make the actual number kind of irrelevant). I don't recall them creating any pregens for others of those.

The closest would be the pregens for Crawford and Perkins characters within APs they were on as a way to celebrate their retirements.
Here's the full list of pregens on Beyond

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Note, the movie which had many millions more viewers than any actual play, didn't get pregens. Those characters were made as NPCs.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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[BruceWright]

I'm enjoying the hells out of this show, and am excited if we get to play these characters, now that their character sheets have been released. I'm gonna have a lot of fun playing Professor Crem de la Crem.

I feel like WotC is learning the lessons of BG3 and other big actual plays... the characters ARE their IP, and they can be used to create further life and further stories, as well as teach the game, get people excited for the new things in their game, etc.

 

[plecostomus]

Going by the Ravenloft pre-order bonuses on the webpage for the series, the current arc has 5 more episodes, with the last released July 1.

Or how about tomorrow?? That's an efficient party right there.

 

[BruceWright]

I have the same shocked look on my face as Zora and Lord Soth.

HOW THEY GONNA WRAP ANYTHING UP IN ONE EPISODE!!?!?!

 

[JLowder]

HOW THEY GONNA WRAP ANYTHING UP IN ONE EPISODE!!?!?!

If this is anything like my first encounter as a player with Lord Soth, he's just going to end everyone. (Before I'd read the original six novels or started at TSR, a friend ran the core DL modules for our group. We subbed in our own player characters for the Heroes of the Lance. My PC, and several others, did not survive meeting the Knight of the Black Rose.)

 

[nyvinter]

Two of them has probably seen Baldur's Gate 3 play videos. At the very least.

 

[Selas]

My guess is that there is a part 2 to this that runs for 4 more episodes since the play pack has 5 monsters left, and it ends on 02 July

 

[Gorck]

I have the same shocked look on my face as Zora and Lord Soth.

HOW THEY GONNA WRAP ANYTHING UP IN ONE EPISODE!!?!?!

Especially when most of the episodes so far have only been just over an hour long.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I have the same shocked look on my face as Zora and Lord Soth.

HOW THEY GONNA WRAP ANYTHING UP IN ONE EPISODE!!?!?!

TPK round one.