An official D&D virtual tabletop system is being developed in Unreal Engine 5

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An official digital toolset and virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons & Dragons is on the way. During an event today, Wizards of the Coast showed off some in-engine footage from the toolset's pre-alpha phase. 

The software, which Wizards refers to as an «early-in-development D&D digital play experience,» will work with the existing D&D Beyond digital tools and the updated ruleset on the way (which is basically D&D 5.5 Edition).(opens in new tab) Wizards says it will «offer players and Dungeon Masters full immersion and rich 3D creation tools.»

The D&D digital play experience is being developed in Unreal Engine 5. Among other reasons, Wizards chose the engine to help «make it look dope,» according designer Kale Stutzman in a video about One D&D, which is what Wizards is calling «the next generation of Dungeons & Dragons.»

Aside from looking dope, the goal is to build an easy-to-use official virtual tabletop that will include «all the tools» needed to play a D&D adventure, and that will work together with other D&D tools developed for mobile and PC. You might buy a premade adventure on D&D Beyond, possibly bundled with a physical version, and get that playset on digital with terrain and NPCs, for example. You could then use it as-is or take it apart and reuse those digital assets and rules for custom scenarios.

The virtual playspaces are meant to look like sets for miniatures, not like real spaces.

 «The tilt-shift camera was really chosen so that people understood that this wasn't a videogame, but it is a digital experience,» said Wizards.

The isn't the first time Wizards of the Coast has attempted an online service, subscription, and digital toolset for D&D. The ill-fated D&D Insider, tools that used Microsoft