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 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.

• 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

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

• "Campaign Cases" -- Creature tokens! Terrain tiles! July!

D&D Movie directors now onscreen. The movie in March 2023 is called HONOR AMONG THIEVES.

• 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!

• 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.

WIzKids skirmish game D&D Onslaught. October

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

 

[michaeljpastor]

I do think that they have worked out some "Grand Unified Theory" of the multiverse, but for genre purposes I doubt it will come up. I expect a Planescape product next year.

Along with Dark Sun. Those will be the last settings introduced before the 5.5 50th anniversary mega year I bet

 

[Parmandur]

Along with Dark Sun. Those will be the last settings introduced before the 5.5 50th anniversary mega year I bet

Well, we know that there is only one classic Setting in production for next year, and one return to a 5E Setting in 2024. My money is on Planescape.

 

[michaeljpastor]

It definitely seems based on the tweets I've read that you can sail to the Nine Hells or Outlands through the Astral. That said, I doubt it will be mentioned much at all (as that is essentially an entirely different setting) so I don't see much point calling this Planejammer.

No, but I think people are calling it planejammer as aspirational not factual. It's basically a 3-hour tour from spell jammer to plane jammer now.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I do think that they have worked out some "Grand Unified Theory" of the multiverse, but for genre purposes I doubt it will come up. I expect a Planescape product next year.

I'm giving Dark Sun an underdog chance, but yeah Planescape seems like the likeliest classic setting to show up next.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Along with Dark Sun. Those will be the last settings introduced before the 5.5 50th anniversary mega year I bet

Much as I would love Dark Sun, it'll be hard to do without either a robust psionics system in place or a LOT more psionic subclasses to work with... Distinguishing between psionics and magic can be largely handwaved for most settings, but it's central to the Dark Sun's themes, so I'm not expecting anything directly related to Athas anytime soon.

Keeping my finger's crossed for Planescape, though.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Well, we know that there is only one classic Setting in production for next year, and one return to a 5E Setting in 2024. My money is on Planescape.

Yeah I'm really conflicted on my bet here myself.

DiTerlizzi said some stuff a year or two ago that seemed very much like he was doing some Planescape work properly, or about to. But apart from that, I think we've heard zero to support Planescape, and this version of Spelljammer, whilst seemingly woefully underdeveloped (unless the 64-page "setting and player rules" book is a masterpiece way above anything seen in 5E so far) fills a very Planescape-like role, potentially. Plus with the Radiant Citadel and the Rock of Bral we have two extraplanar hub cities already. But personally, I'd kill for Planescape. done right.

Whereas with Dark Sun, they've got no psionicist class, and only a spotty array of psionics-themed subclasses, but they have got Thri-Kreen.

Neither of them actually seem terribly likely at this point. If I was very hopeful I'd say Dark Sun next and Planescape as part of DND2024, outside the predicted settings.

 

[overgeeked]

No, but I think people are calling it planejammer as aspirational not factual. It's basically a 3-hour tour from spell jammer to plane jammer now.

Well, you travel through wildspace...then enter the astral sea, which is the astral plane...and you then travel the astral sea to get to other settings/systems. You travel through the planes...that's Planejammer. The distinction being made is that the original Spelljammer didn't work that way, that's been tossed. It now works like it basically did in 4E, which is to say Planejammer.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Yeah I'm really conflicted on my bet here myself.

DiTerlizzi said some stuff a year or two ago that seemed very much like he was doing some Planescape work properly, or about to. But apart from that, I think we've heard zero to support Planescape, and this version of Spelljammer, whilst seemingly woefully underdeveloped (unless the 64-page "setting and player rules" book is a masterpiece way above anything seen in 5E so far) fills a very Planescape-like role, potentially. Plus with the Radiant Citadel and the Rock of Bral we have two extraplanar hub cities already. But personally, I'd kill for Planescape. done right.

Whereas with Dark Sun, they've got no psionicist class, and only a spotty array of psionics-themed subclasses, but they have got Thri-Kreen.

Neither of them actually seem terribly likely at this point. If I was very hopeful I'd say Dark Sun next and Planescape as part of DND2024, outside the predicted settings.

A year ago at this point, few people were confident in Dragonlance (despite the new novels). Biggest indicator of a new setting will be a UA, which drop at least 6 months before a product's release.

But if a classic setting is still coming next year, it's hard to imagine anything that isn't Planescape or Dark Sun. They're just the most popular remaining classics, by a lot.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

No, but I think people are calling it planejammer as aspirational not factual. It's basically a 3-hour tour from spell jammer to plane jammer now.

I don't really understand this comment?

 

[Maxperson]

It definitely seems based on the tweets I've read that you can sail to the Nine Hells or Outlands through the Astral. That said, I doubt it will be mentioned much at all (as that is essentially an entirely different setting) so I don't see much point calling this Planejammer.

Yeah, I would think you could find a big enough color pool(or some other plane hopping device) to wherever and sail there.