Today’s ‘D&D Live from Meltdown’ Promises Upcoming Product Reveals

Jun 1, 2016

I’ll be the first to say I would rather watch paint dry, while undergoing multiple root canals, before I’d watch a group of people roleplay online. Call me old school but I come from a generation where we actually do things (say play games for example) as opposed to parking our asses on a couch, phones inches from our faces, watching other folks doing stuff. I won’t rag too much about it; if that’s your bag of tricks so be it but I find it mind-numbingly dull, especially since most of the pseudo-celebs they roll out for these things are a whole lot less entertaining than they think they are.

Yet you might want to tune into this afternoon’s live stream from Meltdown Comics as some announcements regarding upcoming Dungeons & Dragons storylines and products should be coming our way. Granted, the payoff may not be worth the pain of sitting through D-listers playing D&D but you can find out starting today at 4pm with a preshow at 2:30pm PST.

The announcement:

Meltdown Comics is a hotbed for both veteran and emerging comedy talent in Los Angeles and we’re bringing an eclectic group of people together to play Dungeons & Dragons and one-up each other’s storytelling chops.

On June 1 starting with a pre-show at 2:30pm PT, we’ll stream D&D Live from Meltdown to unveil the new fall storyline for Dungeons & Dragons, and we’ll introduce a brand new cast of characters and the details for their new weekly D&D series produced by and airing on Nerdist and Geek & Sundry this Summer.

You might recognize some of these folks:

Actor, singer, rapper-extraordinaire, Utkarsh Ambudkar (The Mindy Project, Pitch Perfect), will be drawing on his many talents as he plays a wise-cracking scoundrel human rogue.
Ashley Johnson, known for her roles on NBC’s Blindspot and Geek & Sundry’s Critical Role, will take on a new persona as a half-orc cleric.
Comedian and writer Shelby Fero (Key & Peele) will be playing a dwarf fighter with a floating shield and a crippling fear of heights.
Brian Posehn (The Sarah Silverman Program) is a long-time D&D player who hosts his own D&D games on the Nerd Poker podcast but he won’t tell us what character he is playing in the Meltdown game.
Jonah Ray, host of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail on Comedy Central, Hidden America and the new MST3K is playing a wise old monk who has a fishing metaphor for every occasion.
Matthew Mercer, leader of Critical Role, will be keeping this crew reined in as the Dungeon Master, running the adventure he developed with Chris Perkins (principal story designer of D&D).
More special guests yet to be revealed!

More details about the adventuring party and the weekly series will be revealed June 1st at D&D Live from Meltdown.

Alison Haislip (G4, ABC’s Battlebots) will serve as host for D&D Live from Meltdown, unveiling new D&D products and corralling the shenanigans on stage including interviews with Chris Perkins, Mike Mearls, Cryptic Studio’s Rob Overmeyer (executive producer of Neverwinter MMORPG) and other D&D creators.

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Jeff McAleer

Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media for fifteen years, Jeff takes on any and all sorts of games but is especially ready to tackle roleplaying games and strategy games. He's been involved with the hobby since he was just a wee grade school lad, over four decades ago.