Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

Yeah. So on Tuesday, D&D Direct was a sort of live streamed, pre-recorded video event that went out on Tuesday evening, our time. I think it was like 10 a.m. in America. And basically it was about half an hour long and it covered three broad topics. It took a look at the upcoming 2024 core rule books. It talked about Project Sigil, the 3D virtual tabletop.

And it talked about the future of D&D in general in terms of what books are coming out in 2025 after the core rule books. So those are three things it talked about. I don't think we need to go into the core rule books yet again. I think, you know.

We all know what's in them. Yeah. Yeah. We don't need that. We can just sort of go on to... What should we do first? Should we do Project Sigil or shall we do the future, the 2025 books?

Do a Sigil first.

A Sigil.

So you talked about Project Sigil for about 10 minutes. They showed a lot of very, very nice clips from it, like swooping cameras over graveyards and towns and miniature builders where you put together your digital minis and the level designer where you're adding rooms and floors and walls and traps and things like that. It all looked super, super, super slick. Way more slick than it looked.

in that demo that they did, like, was it a month ago? Whenever it was. It was at Gen Con, wasn't it? About a month ago. So it looked way more slick. I don't know whether that's because it's come along a bit further or whether that's just some selected, like, pre-rendered, you know, not actual gameplay type stuff or not. I'm not entirely sure. But it did look super slick. I will give it that.

So it's going to come with an adventure called Danger in Dunbarrow, a free adventure which you can play. And that kind of introduces the 3D tabletop to you. You can bring in, I mean, this is what you would expect anyway, but you can bring in any character from D&D Beyond.

But there's this mini maker. It lets you design your digital miniatures. And they showed a few quick clips of that.

Basically, you add your clothes and your hair. It's like when you make a character appearance in a video game.

It was like that. But it's literally a 3D miniature that you're making.

No, I mean, it was literally just like a second. Yeah. And one shot of one mini.

There's people... Well, this is... I don't know if it's the answer to that.

I couldn't say what my idea was. Fair enough.

Yeah. I mean, they talk about, like, stylistically, these assets, as they call them, they say they're designed to make it feel like you're buying, like, a high-end miniature. Ooh, okay.

Ooh. A real one?

Yeah, well, no, they haven't said anything like that.

My guess is there's going to be obviously a whole load of stock miniatures. Monsters and things like that. There'll be lots and lots of those and you can buy and collect those. Almost certainly. I don't know whether you'll get any for free. You must get some for free.

Yeah, I don't know. Or maybe each adventure you buy will come with whatever miniatures it needs. I don't know. That's probably how it works. But I'm guessing that when you design a mini using this miniature generator, you can design it, but then you have to buy it once you've designed it. I would guess.

Well, I think they said there's going to be like a tryout sort of mode that you can try it out for free. So I assume that's going to be like a limited functionality or limited time.