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Spelljammer D&D Direct Live Report: 9am PDT (5pm BST) SPELLJAMMER CONFIRMED! DRAGONLANCE!

D&D Direct, WotC's new video-format announcement show launches today at 9am PDT (5pm BST). If you aren't able to watch it, I'll be updating this article live. Feel free to comment below! Once it launches, you will need to refresh this page when you want to see new updates. The video is expected to last about 30 minutes. If you CAN watch it, you'll find it on YouTube or Twitch at the above...

D&D Direct, WotC's new video-format announcement show launches today at 9am PDT (5pm BST). If you aren't able to watch it, I'll be updating this article live. Feel free to comment below! Once it launches, you will need to refresh this page when you want to see new updates. The video is expected to last about 30 minutes.

If you CAN watch it, you'll find it on YouTube or Twitch at the above times. Otherwise, follow along below!
  • 45 mins to go. Live updates incoming!
  • 30 mins to go!
  • 5 minutes to go!
  • Here we go! Opens with a sea shanty.
  • Forgive typos. They talk fast and I can't type.
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  • Spelljammer is confirmed!
  • They talk REALLY FAST!
  • Spelljammer Adventures in Space, project lead Chris Perkins, Trystan Falcone graphic designer
  • Cities built on asteroids, dead gods floating in the ether
  • 6 races---astral elves, autognomes, hedozi(?), gif, plasmoids, thri-kreen
  • 3 hardcovers in a slipcase: Astral Adventurers Guide, Boo's Astral Menagerie, Light of Xaryxis adventure
  • Prequel adventure in July
  • Wizkids miniatures
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Other stuff also discussed!
  • Baldur's Gate 3 CRPG preview video (game is in 2023)
  • Journeys Through Radiant Citadel intro video -- 3 of the adventures are: Wages of Vice (5th level), Caribbean; Orchids of the Invisible Mountain (14th level), feywild, far realm, Whistler new monster; Fiend of Hollow Mind (4th level), skeletons and spirits
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  • "Campaign Cases" -- Creature tokens! Terrain tiles! July!
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D&D Movie directors now onscreen. The movie in March 2023 is called HONOR AMONG THIEVES.

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  • New D&D starter set. Comes with 'digital onboarding'. Dragons of Stormwreck Isle. We knew about that one.
  • D&D digital monstrous compendium. Available to those with WoTC or D&D Beyond Accounts. Volume 1 has an eldritch lich and the 10 legged asteroid spider. And the starlancer. Might have misheard some of that!
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  • MMO Neverwinter video. Dragonslayer begins June 2022. (I wonder if they'll need a dragonance for that?)
  • New D&D actual play video, Legends of the Multiverse. Lots of 80s cartoon style soft rock music. Boo is in it.
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WIzKids skirmish game D&D Onslaught. October

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Finally -- DRAGONLANCE WARRIORS OF KRYNN! SHADOW OF THE DRAGON QUEEN!

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Ruin Explorer

Ruin Explorer

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michaeljpastor said:
It just occurred to me that by moving Spelljammer to the Astral, it integrates the Gith and Illithid races to Spelljammer in a very rational manner.
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Yeah this is part of why people had been anticipating the move. It actually makes far more sense. The original setup was bizarrely convoluted and I suspect the result of reading too much Space: 1889 or something!
 

michaeljpastor

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Maxperson said:
Yeah. I called it as Planejammer back when the UA came out. Lotta folks argued with me that it was only Spelljammer, but the inclusion of Astral Elves, as well as the ship that travelled between planes in Minsc and Boo indicated Planejammer.
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Which got me to thinking that Spelljammer ships can be used in the Outlands. However, the ships require magic to operate. There fore they can't be used the closer to the Spire you get. But near the Gate Towns and Outer Edges, you could field and fuel vast armadas of Planejammer ships, each fleet modeled according to its Outer Plane source.

Imagine Blood War naval battles. Every mythology has their own Divine ships. First to come to mind are Egyptian, Norse And Carthage. it would be a great way to introduce mass combat in Spelljammer.
 
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Jer

Jer

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michaeljpastor said:
Which got me to thinking that Spelljammer ships can be used in the Outlands. However, the ships require magic to operate. There fore they can't be used the closer to the Spire you get. But near the Gate Towns and Outer Edges, you could field and fuel vast armadas of Planejammer ships, each fleet modeled according to its Outer Plane source. Imagine Blood War naval battles. And it would be a great way to introduce mass combat in Spelljammer.
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yeah - I started thinking about this the other day when there was a conversation in another thread about Spelljamming through the Astral to the outer planes. Flying ships in the outer few "rings" of the Outlands would make planar warfare even messier, and spark some need for adventurers to come in and save some Gate Towns.

I also have been rereading The Plane Above and a central conceit of that book is that the exarchs of the gods on the various outer planes all have their own flotillas and war with each other in the Astral Sea - I think that idea could work even if you just want to use the Great Wheel too.
 


overgeeked

overgeeked

B/X Known World
Jer said:
yeah - I started thinking about this the other day when there was a conversation in another thread about Spelljamming through the Astral to the outer planes. Flying ships in the outer few "rings" of the Outlands would make planar warfare even messier, and spark some need for adventurers to come in and save some Gate Towns.

I also have been rereading The Plane Above and a central conceit of that book is that the exarchs of the gods on the various outer planes all have their own flotillas and war with each other in the Astral Sea - I think that idea could work even if you just want to use the Great Wheel too.
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The Plane Below is great, too. Between those two and the Manual of Planes, there's a lot of content waiting to be used for 5E Spelljammer.
 

Veltharis ap Rylix

Veltharis ap Rylix

Legend
michaeljpastor said:
Which got me to thinking that Spelljammer ships can be used in the Outlands. However, the ships require magic to operate. There fore they can't be used the closer to the Spire you get. But near the Gate Towns and Outer Edges, you could field and fuel vast armadas of Planejammer ships, each fleet modeled according to its Outer Plane source.

Imagine Blood War naval battles. Every mythology has their own Divine ships. First to come to mind are Egyptian, Norse And Carthage. it would be a great way to introduce mass combat in Spelljammer.
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The Second Command (baatezu navy) exists for a reason.
 

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