Thursday Knights

Nothic librarians, thank you gifts, astral observations, githyanki

This will be a brief set of notes.

The party returned to the library where thy were met by 8 nothics dressed in yellow robes (the librarians the giantess told us about. They thanked the part for ridding the library, lab,  and observatories of demons. Then they gave us choices of magic items as gifts.

One nothic went with us when we went into the Astral Observatory and aided us when we messed with things in an ill-advised manner, nearly getting possessed or trapped on other planes.

Then a Githyanki spelljammer ship arrived and the nothic bolted. All of us followed suit (if it ran, then maybe we should too). A'lan stayed behind to try communicating with them, but they attacked, so he eventually followed the rest of the party.

Sorry for not giving this the detailed treatment it deserves. Been busy, and also lacked motivation to put in proper effort.

Wizards Presents - August 18th, 2022

Among the news delivered is that Magic: The Gathering will be doing The Lord of the Rings. M:TG has been around for 30 years (in 2023), and WotC are celebrating in Las Vegas for the Magic World Championship. They're also going to be doing a Magic: The Gathering Warhammer 40K set. They're also doing DOCTOR WHO. 

Wizards is revising the three core books to add more options, new spells, new monsters, new additional content, updating the rules. They're not calling it a new edition. Playtesting of the modifications begins today. The release of the updated books takes place in 2024, the 50th anniversary of the game.

They're working on a Digital/Physical bundle now that they have acquired D&D Beyond. using the Unreal Engine to provide graphic setups on screen.

2023 is the 35th anniversary of Drizzt and there will be a bunch of stuff going on to celebrate.

Spelljammer just released. 

The Dragonlance setting is returning. There's also a related board game (Dragonlance Warriors of Krynn).

Planescape is also coming back.

There were a handful of additional book releases mentioned including a book based loosely on the Deck of Many Things, The Book of Many Things.

D&D Direct April 21, 2022

 

Wizards of the Coast announced a host of new products and projects coming out over the remainder of 2022 and into 2023. 

Spelljammer Adventures in Space, the updated Spelljammer setting has been confirmed.

Initially the setting will consist of three books and a DM screen in a slipcase. The books will be 64 pages each. Fair warning for those with coulrophobia, the monster book also includes Space Clowns.

Due in August, but in July prequel adventure

Wizkids will also be producing a series of miniature figures for Spelljammer. 

Balder's Gate 3 computer game will be releasing in 2023.

They displayed a brief look at the game and it looks beautiful. There were however no details given about game play.

Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel is coming on June 21st of this year.

The book contains 13 adventures and many locations. It is written by a team of diverse creators drawing on elements from their lives for inspiration. 

Adventures cover levels 1 -14.

Wizards also announced Campaign Cases. These two products are ideal for the travelling DM.

The first contains customizable creature tokens with three different sized disks that reusable monster clings can be attached to and removed from repeatedly.

The terrain case contains an assortment of two dimensional terrain boards that can connect together in multiple ways.

These are due to arrive in July of this year.

The D&D Movie Honor Among Thieves takes place in the Sword Coast of the Forgotten Realms.

Planned release is in March 2023.

A New D&D Starter Set containing a new adventure is slated for this Oct 4th.

It will come with access to digital tools.

Also in the pipeline is a new D&D digital library.

There will be a new Digital Monsters Compendium.

You will be able to collect groups of monsters over time. No mention if there is an associated cost.

MMO Neverwinter expansion is coming in June.

Legends of the Multi-verse was mentioned, coming April 27th. I need to research this one. Not sure if it's an animated show or live streaming play of a campaign.When I Googled the name I was taken to a site with a bunch of anime like Dragonball Z.

It will be available on YouTube and Twitch. 

Wizkids is producing Onslaught, a miniatures skirmish game. It is due this October.

A Dragonlance adventure book and battle game is coming. I didn't catch the date.