D&D 5E Free Abridged Dragon of Icespire Peak for D20 day

WotC has made a free preview version of Dragons of Icespire Peak available for download.

For "d20 Day", we're pleased to offer further adventure material to help celebrate this holiday season.

The following download contains a special preview version of material presented in the D&D Essentials Kit, and is meant as a new group’s first Dungeons & Dragons experience. The short adventure material, characters, and other supplemental information here should get a group started on their journey!

There are two downloads. First is a short adventure from the box set with creatures and magic items and a bit about the pregens, next are the pregens themselves.

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[LordEntrails]

Thanks for posting. How complete is this? i.e. can it be run on it's own r does it leave one hanging s to speak? What is included in the Essentials box that is not in this? (adventure wise, not rules or objects wise)

 

[darjr]

Thanks for posting. How complete is this? i.e. can it be run on it's own r does it leave one hanging s to speak? What is included in the Essentials box that is not in this? (adventure wise, not rules or objects wise)

Ope! Just updated the first post.

 

[Zaukrie]

Gnomengarde is very cool. I changed it quite a bit, to make the monster more able to move around (by adding "magitech" pneumatic tubes).

Changing Gnomengarde - Mike's Thoughts

changing Gnomengarde, and why I made the changes I made. The changes to Gnomengarde were few in number, but vast in their scope.

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[J.Quondam]

Cool to see this! I've already got this in the Essentials Kit and run it once. But I might have a chance to run a one-shot to intro some nephews to D&D this New Year. I wasn't planning on using Icespire Peak for that, but Gnomengaarde might be a good one to do, after all. TBH, I really don't care for how the gnomes are presented as silly and incompetent, but that can be changed. And I'll definitely use @Zaukrie's awesome pneumatic tubes idea to add some mobility to the mimic, since that was the other main thing that bothered me about this particular quest.

I also like that there are some pregens for this, which (iirc?) the Essentials Box lacked for some unfathomable reason.

HOWEVER:
Why on earth are these smallish WotC documents so ginormous? They load and scroll sooooo slowly. Maybe it's just the background image, but there's something very weird about them (compared to other docs of similar size) that I haven't figured out how to correct for.

 

[GMMichael]

HOWEVER:
Why on earth are these smallish WotC documents so ginormous? They load and scroll sooooo slowly. Maybe it's just the background image, but there's something very weird about them (compared to other docs of similar size) that I haven't figured out how to correct for.

Because it's 16MB? That's bigger than most of my PDFs. For reference, the D&D Basic Rules are 11MB.

Is "d20 day" just because of the D in December?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Is "d20 day" just because of the D in December?

And it's the 20th.

 

[bedir than]

Having never opened my Essentials Kit before I gave it to a "have high schoolers stuck at home play games" program, I really like how the pregens are presented.

A front and back single page that includes personality AND art is wonderful. Probably good for all tier 1 characters.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Not opened it?! The Essentials kit is about the best value WotC product I own!

 

[GMMichael]

And it's the 20th.

Thanks.

Not opened it?! The Essentials kit is about the best value WotC product I own!

Mine is the Basic Rules. But Dungeonscape was worth every penny.