The Dungeons & Dragons Direct touched on a wide variety of products. Wizards of the Coast plans to release several new books with playable races, adventures, and monsters over the course of 2022, including some books that’ll bring fans back to a classic official Dungeons & Dragons setting. The showcase revealed a few compelling new physical products that’ll help Dungeon Masters arrange their games, and it also touched on some D&D side projects such as Baldur’s Gate 3. All in all, D&D fans seem to have a lot to look forward to in the coming years.
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Upcoming Core Dungeons & Dragons Content
Wizards opened the show by revealing Spelljammer: Adventures in Space. Longtime D&D fans likely remember the Spelljammer name; it was a space fantasy setting introduced for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. 5th edition will now have its own rules and mechanincs for the Spelljammer world. Spelljammer: Adventures in Space is a box set containing three sourcebooks: the Astral Adventurer’s Guide which provides setting info and player races, the monster-filled Boo’s Astral Menagerie, and a new printed adventure called Light of Xaryxis. Spelljammer: Adventures in Space also comes with a new DM screen and a map of one of Spelljammer’s asteroid cities.
Spelljammer releases August 16th, but before that, Wizards of the Coast will launch a new anthology of adventures in the style of Candlekeep Mysteries. On June 21st, D&D players can get their hands on Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel, a book of 13 premade adventures, all of which written by Black and Brown writers and draw inspiration from a diverse range of real-life experiences and cultures. Wizards also revealed that it’ll return to Dragonlance in late 2022 through an adventure book called Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen and a battle game called Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn. There’s no release date for this Dragonlance content yet.
On top of all these new materials, Wizards of the Coast emphasized Dungeons & Dragons accessibility in a major way. Anyone with a Wizards of the Coast account can now access the first volume of the Monstrous Compendium on the D&D website, expanding every DM’s roster of monsters. Wizards of the Coast also announced a new, more streamlined D&D starter set called Dragons of Stormwreck Isle that should make the game easier to introduce to new players. On top of that, Wizards also announced that Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, Monsters of the Multiverse, Curse of Strahd, and the new starter set will all be available in French, Italian, German, and Spanish soon.
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Additional Dungeons & Dragons Projects
Wizards of the Coast announced plenty of things beyond new sourcebooks. Fans of Spelljammer can look forward to a wide variety of Spelljammer-themed tabletop figurines from Wizkids, which will really help Dungeon Masters bring the setting to life. Wizkids is also working on a new board game called Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught, which releases in October. Aside from Wizkids’ projects, Wizards of the Coast itself is working on two Campaign Cases with creature tokens and terrain that can be customized through reusable clings.
Fans of D&D video games, movies, and streams got some announcements too. A new Baldur’s Gate 3 trailer showcased the game’s improvements in early access ahead of its 2023 release, while the long-running MMORPG Neverwinter announced the new Dragonslayer expansion. Wizards of the Coast also added a trailer for the new D&D actual play series Legends of the Multiverse, which features a huge list of D&D content creators and other notable entertainers. On top of all that, the upcoming D&D movie made an appearance: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will be in theaters on March 3rd, 2023. This huge list of announcements will be hard to top, but the wide variety of exciting content that Wizards of the Coast provided makes a strong argument for more D&D Directs in the future.
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