After D&D’s big 2026 roadmap announcement, D&D Beyond has a “state of the game” video that shows off what’s next.
Not long after D&D’s big GAMA announcements, revealing three new sourcebooks: Ravenloft: The Horrors Within, Arcana Unleashed, and Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall, D&D and Nerd Immersion put out a sort of “roundtable” video talking about the “State of D&D” as it is right now, and as it will be in the future.
Dungeons & Dragons – State Of The Game
The video is hosted by Ted from Nerd Immersion, a popular D&D Youtuber (and on other platforms as well) who is joined by many members of the D&D team. Notably there’s D&D’s Executive Producer Greg Bilsland, Franchise Creative Director Kara Kenna, Head of Art Josh Herman, and Game Design Director Justice Arman. All there to talk about the new direction D&D is taking in 2026 and beyond.
I don’t know that there’s a ton of new new information, but the video provides a little more clarity to the ideas presented in WotC’s original roadmap reveal. At the heart of this video are the “seasons” that D&D is going to be tackling in the coming months.
“D&D State of the Game is a new seasonal update series from Dungeons & Dragons, and I’m excited to share the very first episode here, made in partnership with Wizards of the Coast, to give you a front-row seat to what’s ahead.
In this inaugural update, I’m joined by the D&D team for a deep-dive into the new D&D Seasons model, starting with the chilling reveal of Season of Horror, the haunting return of Ravenloft, plus a look at major D&D Beyond updates and the broader 2026 D&D roadmap.”
I think for my part, the success of the “seasonal model” is going to come down to two different things. If they can figure out what to support the seasons with – since the idea is to build up hype for a product release, but the season ends with the product; and if WotC can figure out the timing of the seasons.
For the inaugural launch of “seasons” we’ll have to wait to see what that support can look like. We know organized play is coming back to the fore with the return of D&D Encounters. Presumably during the Season of Horror these will be Horror Encounters (again, weird timing since no one will have the horror book until the season is over). But if it’s just organized play and one or two accessories, I don’t think it’s going to help the landing as much as the WotC team thinks it might. D&D is more about people’s creativity and even when organized play was a bigger focus, the vast majority has always, always been people playing at home, with their friends. It’s what keeps D&D alive and thriving.
What do you think of the state of D&D?
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