Stream of Annihilation Day 2 Updates and Discussion Thread!

In case you missed any of the stream yesterday, you can read through the thread here.

#Xanathar's Guide to Everything Covers (credit u/Scamdor)

#I cannot do this all day and will probably stop after the 2 PM News Time Slot, so if someone else wants to take over that would be much appreciated.

#This great thread from/r/dndnext is doing a similar play-by-play in case I miss stuff

#Update One

• From yesterday's stream, it has become clear that Tomb of Annihilation is all about death. The DM has the power to scale back the level of deadliness, but the inevitable conclusion of the entire game is deadlier quests.

• It ends with a dungeon (Supposedly the new Tomb of Horrors).

• To quell the comments about, "Oh another bland Forgotten Realms storyline, where's my Eberron?!" Chris Perkins and Mike Mearls have made it quite clear that The Land of Chult is an environment unlike anything else. It is filled with new, exciting races, monsters, geography, and quests. While it is the Forgettable Realms, it is unlike the adventures before it.

• Four-Armed Gargoyle Mini coming out from WizKids.

• Xanathar's Guide to Everything: Unearthed Arcana book officially coming on November 10th (Gaming Store) and November 20th (Wide Release)! More options for players and DMs. New subclasses, each class gets 2 or more subclasses (except the Wizard) New downtime rules, traps, and tools to create traps.

• Xanathar is the beholder crime-lord of Waterdeep. He will have a voice in the book. He is obsessed with his pet goldfish and his entire crime organization will break down if his goldfish dies.

• Xanathar's Guide to Everything will have two covers!

• Information [from Crawford] (https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/871071659825872896) (credit u/The-Magic-Sword) More information

New Monster and Race Stuff for 5e (some may have appeared in past iterations or in Volo's, but are now the focus of ToA)

• Four-Armed Gargoyles (a la Tomb of Horrors)

• Stacking Goblins with Crazy Masks

• Grungs

• Undead Dinosaurs

• More Dinosaurs

• Pterafolk

• Flying Monkeys

• Other Flying Stuff (said as a joke by Perkins)

• Red Wizards

#Update Two: Betrayal at Baldur's Gate

• Avalon Hill, a tabletop strategy gaming company that created such games as Axis & Allies and Risk, is working with the Wizards of the Coast for their game Betrayal at House on the Hill (a horror roleplaying exploration game) and are now releasing Betrayal at Baldur's Gate

• It is a semi-cooperative role-playing game set in the town of Baldur's Gate. It should be very familiar for players of Betrayal now with a D&D flavor added to it.

• There are 50 different haunts (or adventures) within the game. The haunts will include familiar baddies like dopplegangers and spheres of annihilation.

• Characters will now have classes a la D&D rather than being just normal dudes in regular Betrayal

• Playtesters have called it a good introductory system for D&D or nice for in between sessions. Betrayal players will see no real difference in the two systems.

• It will be available October 6th in gaming stores everywhere

• Photo of Betrayal at Baldur's Gate (credit u/Scamdor)

#Update Three

• Dragon Talk, the official D&D WotC podcast, is now going to be live streamed.

• Tales from the Yawning Portal is on Roll20!

• Curse of Strahd is coming to Roll20 this month.

• Tomb of Annihilation is coming to Roll20 the same day as it comes to stores!

• Roll20 Con is a celebration of the Roll20 community starting June 24th. It is completely online!