Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Main topic: D&D Beyond’s Staff Looks to the Future!

Brian Perry (DDB Executive Producer) and Zac Cohn (MAPS Product Manager) join Teos and Shawn to share D&D Beyond’s bold future!

Contents
00:00 State and Future of D&D Beyond
00:42 Brian Perry and Zac Cohn
06:22 How Wizards and D&D are Organized
10:29 Deciding Priorities
15:29 Rebuilding D&D Beyond
18:49 Quickbuildear and New Players
23:33 DDB as a Honda Accord
26:45 More Features vs Simplicity
28:07 New Functionality
33:35 Fully Integrating 3rd Parties?
37:50 Use of AI?
40:25 Expand the API?
41:44 Building a Walled Garden?
42:53 Goal of Shifting Play to Digital?
45:16 Physical Versions of Digital Dice?
46:26 Find Brian and Zac
48:42 Shout-Outs
52:23 What Are We Gonna Do?

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