After several years, Dungeons & Dragons announces a new Actual-Play campaign. It brings together popular voices from the gaming industry under a veteran as the game master.
What kind of campaign is this? In a new video, Wizards of the Coast, the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons, announces a new Actual-Play campaign. It will be titled “Dungeon Masters” and is set to unite the following players under veteran game master Jasmine Bhullar (known from DesiQuest, Dimension 20):
- Neil Newbon (Baldur’s Gate 3) as Gnome Artificer “Professor Crem de la Crem”
- Devora Wilde (Baldur’s Gate 3) as Wood Elf Shadow Sorcerer “Zora Thornska”
- Mayanna Berrin (Dispatch, The Dungeon Run) as Drow Grave Domain Cleric “Wesley”
- Christian Navarro (13 Reasons Why, Forgotten Realms) as Wood Elf Winter Ranger “Eloin Emberleaf”
The campaign starts on April 22, 2026, on YouTube with 2 episodes that you can then watch. The episodes last about 1 hour and are easy to binge in an evening session. There will be a new episode every Thursday at 2:30 AM CET (which is Wednesday 6:30 PM PT). In total, there will be approximately 12 episodes in which the players will be sent to Ravenloft, one of the most popular settings for D&D, and you can even play along yourself.
Actual-Play as a Play-along to Participate
How can you participate? The campaign is designed to provide viewers not only with an exciting story but also an insight into the new book “Ravenloft: The Horrors Within“. It will be released on June 16, 2026, and offers a heap of new content for the setting around Ravenloft.
Almost simultaneously with Dungeon Masters, starting April 23, 2026, there will be so-called “Play-Along Packs” available, with which you can also bring the hooks and battles of the respective episode to your table. The first pack is free, allowing you to try it out if you want to see if it’s something for you.
The episodes are designed to throw you directly into the action, and to fit this into the 1 hour per episode, game master Jasmine Bhullar takes on a large part of the narration. According to Polygon, who had the opportunity to preview the first two episodes, you should not expect too in-depth dialogues between the characters as seen in Critical Role.
Nevertheless, the setting of Ravenloft offers plenty of room for dark and creepy moments and especially the potential to encounter vampires, with whom player Neil Newbon has already gathered extensive experience as Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3. What else you should know about Ravenloft and what exciting settings there are, you can read here: 7 settings from Dungeons & Dragons that are just as exciting as the Sword Coast
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