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D&D Showcases the Disability Community of Wizards of the Coast in a New D&D Actual Play Special Event

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Promo graphic. Mostly white text on a dark blue background resembling stormy skies. Text: D&D Beyond and the Disability Community of Wizards Present Galesong: Dragons’ Convergence. 6 headshots of performers are labelled Makenzie De Armas, Aliza Pearl, Angel Giuffria, Jennifer Kretchmer, Rogan Shannon, & Quincy of Quincy’s Tavern. Under the photos, text reads: With special guests Aabria Iyengar, Sam de Leve & More! Coming soon on D&D Beyond

Everyone loves to experience stories of heroes doing their thing, but not everyone in the ever-growing D&D community consumes content the same way. Dungeons & Dragons present Wizards of the Coast‘s first official actual play event featuring American Sign Language interpretation and focusing on characters and performers with disabilities. Galesong: Dragons’ Convergence will be presented on Thursday, December 15th at 4pm PT on youtube.com/dndbeyond, with additional content shown throughout the week.

The adventure, written and DMed by De Armas, features the setting presented in the most recent D&D Starter Set: Dragons of Stormwreck Isle. This fantastical island off the Sword Coast is a center of magical energy that has been shaped by the lives and, especially, the deaths of dragons. When a ceremony on Stormwreck Isle takes an unexpected turn, five heroes must try to weather the resulting storm and prevent a disaster that could threaten the multiverse! 

Galesong: Dragons’ Convergence features an adventuring group that includes creator and performer Quincy of Quincy’s Tavern on TikTok, performer, consultant and writer Jennifer Kretchmer (Candlekeep Mysteries, Children of Earte), actor, consultant and self-proclaimed cyborg Angel Giuffria (Good Trouble, Chicago Med, Nerdist), actor & TTRPG streamer Aliza Pearl (NCIS: Los Angeles, Ripley Improv) and YouTube creator & freelance Deaf interpreter Rogan Shannon (“Queer Signs”).

The adventure rolls out over a week of content. Starting on Tuesday, 12/13, see how it all begins when guest players Aabria Iyengar (Dimension 20, Battle for Beyond, Critical Role) and Sam de Leve (Geek & Sundry, D&D Live) task two groups of adventurers with two very unusual missions in Galesong: Before the Storm!

Then fans can see it all come together on Thursday12/15in Galesong: Dragons’ Convergence with special appearances by Iyengar and de Leve. Fans will catch a quick glimpse of a few more friends including Taliesin Jaffe, Matthew Mercer, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Amy Dallen and Robbie Daymond.

Finally, on Saturday 12/17, fans can go behind the scenes for some Galesong secrets in a video of conversations with the creators and performers to learn about our players, how they worked with Makenzie to bring their personal visions of their characters to life in D&D, and what it means to them to say that D&D is for everyone!

Wizards of the Coast Announces Free Content for Educators, Librarians

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D&D Stay at Home Play at Home

Wizards of the Coast has announced that the company will distribute 2,000 digital kits to schools and libraries in the U.S. and Canada to provide educators and librarians with resources to engage their communities with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering virtual play while many are practicing social distancing.

Each kit will include a “Legendary Bundle” for D&D Beyond that unlocks access to all current rules and adventure content for D&D as well as a 15% discount on future D&D Beyond purchases and 30 Magic: The Gathering Arena digital codes, which can be redeemed for three Ikoria booster packs. The kits will also feature tips to help teachers and librarians engage their audiences in a virtual play environment.

Kits will be available upon request through the Wizards of the Coast customer service request portal to organizers over the age of 18 who are employed by or official volunteers at enrichment organizations, such as a schools, libraries, community centers, and scout troops, and represent the organization’s gaming programming.

D&D Beyond is a web tool and online repository for all officially published fifth edition D&D rules and adventures that provides players access to their characters and rules right at their fingertips. Magic: The Gathering Arena is the free-to-play digital version of Magic, and an exciting, feature-rich experience for anyone with a PC including tutorials to onboard players into the game and free starter decks.

Dungeons & Dragons offers additional resources on the Stay at Home, Play at Home portal, including new, free content released on a daily basis at 5pm PT, as well as tips and tricks for families and children to master remote play. Even more content is available on the DM’s Guild, a PDF web store containing thousands of D&D adventures and supplements for all editions of D&D, and the home to all official organized play content for the D&D Adventurers League.

Curse Launches an Official Digital Digital Toolset for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition

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Curse has launched D&D Beyond – an official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition.

For over 40 years, Dungeons & Dragons has ruled the TRPG market, bringing players together at tables all over the world. D&D Beyond, our new digital companion web app, aims to enhance the D&D experience by making game management easier by putting all of the game information you need to tell fantastic stories with your friends into a digital format, eliminating the need to manually search through books, and taking the load off of players through other features.

At launch, D&D Beyond offers a compendium with all the game rules, lore, and adventures, as well as sought-after tools like a character builder and an interactive digital character sheet. It’s built with official D&D content and the ability to create and add your own custom homebrew spells, magic items and monsters. Groups can play with digital versions of every official D&D sourcebook within the compendium. They can build characters using all the material published by Dungeons & Dragons for fifth edition, while adding custom magic items or spells created using the homebrew system. That homebrew content can then be shared with the community for other players to use in their own games.

The team at Curse has an extensive roadmap for D&D Beyond, including implementing features such as a mobile app, encounter builders, and combat tracking. D&D Beyond is excited to continue to work closely with the team at Dungeons & Dragons to implement all new adventures and rules material into the toolset, such as Tomb of Annihilation and Xanathar’s Guide to Everything coming this fall.

With over 200K active members in the beta, D&D Beyond’s rabid community has already created more than 240 thousand(!) characters and are already bringing the new modern era of D&D to their tables.

Dungeons & Dragons Goes Beyond

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At PAX East, Wizards of the Coast announce D&D Beyond an official digital toolset for use with the Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition rules. Partnering with Curse, the app goes beyond the pen and paper and provides rules, character building, digital character sheets, and more.

The app contains a D&D Compendium with official content, allows you to create, browse, and use homebrew content, manage characters, manage campaigns, news, articles, forums, and you’ll be able to access it anywhere on any device.

Its goal is to make management easier to play the popular roleplaying game. It’ll be available on any device and will empower by beginners and veterans.