This 3-Hour D&D Show From Gen Con Was Hilarious And Now You Can Watch It On YouTube
Wizards of the Coast had a lot to do at this year’s Gen Con – besides the usual hustle and bustle of being the biggest name in tabletop role-playing games at the largest tabletop convention whose name is literally Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. You know, the place where D&D was born. But this year’s D&D Live presentation was also a chance for Wizards to show off a new project: a virtual tabletop game codenamed Project Sigil.
The event, set up as a true stage performance, was originally only supposed to last two hours, but it unsurprisingly lasted long thanks to the excellent showmanship of the all-star cast. Participants included Aabria Iyengar as the Dungeon Master, Brennan Lee Mulligan as a Dwarven cleric, Samantha Béart reprising her role as Karlach in Baldurs Gate 3, Neil Newbon as Astarion from BG3, and Anjali Bhimani as the human magician.
Polygon senior editor Charlie Hall attended the event in person, and said that the actors “chewed through the set for the first half,” giving the team a little less time to swap and play around with Project Sigil. Hall said that the Project Sigil screening was “stagnant” but ultimately well-received — and that any glitches aren’t all that surprising considering the platform hasn’t even entered closed beta yet. (Wizards is still accepting requests for Join the closed beta(expected to be released in fall 2024.)
Luckily for us, Gen Con filmed the entire game, affectionately titled “An Astarion and Karlach Adventure: Love is a Legendary Action,” and you can now watch it in all its silly glory on YouTube. According to Hall, the full playthrough is worth watching.
“Let’s just say,” Hall said, “there’s an epic reveal in the second half that gives your favorite real-life actors ample room to… explore the source material.”
You can see—or rather hear—both Lee Mulligan and Iyengar in their ongoing series of actual plays The Wizard, the Witch and the Wild. Bhimani also has more D&D in her future – she will soon appear in Jon Hamm’s thriller podcast based on the infamous Satanic Panic period in D&D.