D&D 5E Here's Dragons of Stormwreck Isle's Table of Contents

Enterprising fans have managed to decipher the table of contents from the upcoming starter set, Dragons of Stormwreck Isle.

The ToC was posted Reddit by a user named bobbness. The boxed set comes out in July (if you're in America) or October (if you're not).

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Here is is in full!

Running the Adventure
Overview
Role of the Dungeon Master
Adventure Maps
The Forgotten Realms
Adventure Background
- Adventure Outline
Getting Started
- Number of Players

Chapter 1: Dragon's Rest
Welcome to Dragon's Rest
Drowned Sailors
Meeting the Inhabitants
Dragon's Rest Locations
Character Quests
Exploring the Island
Hot Springs House
There, There, Owlbear
Kobold Renegades
What Lies Beneath

Chapter 2: Seagrow Caves
Caves Overview
- Seagrow Caves Features
Running This Chapter
Approaching at Sea Level
Approaching from Above
Exploring the Caves
Interacting with Myconids
-Seagrow Caves Locations
Ending this Chapter
- Gain a Level

Chapter 3: The Wreck of Compass Rose
Shipwreck Overview
- Shipwreck Features
Running this Chapter
Shipwreck Locations
Harpy's _____
Ending this Chapter
- Gain a Level

Chapter 4: Clifftop Observatory
Observatory Overview
- Observatory Features
Running this Chapter
Approaching by Land
Approaching by Water
Sparkrender Kobold ______
Observatory Locations
Sparkrender’s ______
Ending the Adventure

Appendix A: Magic Items
Using a Magic Item
Item Descriptions

Appendix B: Creatures
Creature Stat Blocks
Creature Descriptions
Credits

The adventure references a location called Dragon’s Rest — which is also the name of an old Dragonlance module set in the continent of Taladas.

 

[Cruentus]

In my personal experience, experienced gamers learning a new game can prefer to make their own PCs; either to recreate their favorite type of character in the game ( and thus grasp the bare minimum needed to play) or as a challenge to see how quickly they can make a broken character from scratch.

Most new players I’ve met seem so lost they are happy to pick a pregen and learn ropes

Pretty much my experience as well.

If this doesn't include character Gen rules (ie if they haven't been changed at all from core 5e), then there is no reason for me to pick this up, and I love 'starter sets'.

 

[Morrus]

Pretty much my experience as well.

If this doesn't include character Gen rules (ie if they haven't been changed at all from core 5e), then there is no reason for me to pick this up, and I love 'starter sets'.

Starter sets aren’t designed with you in mind.
However much you may love them. You already have character creation rules: the PHB.

 

[darjr]

The essentials rules are still online at WotC. The DnDBeyond free account has rules. Then there is the basic set and the srd. I think it’ll be OK if this doesn’t have chargen rules.

 

[dumdragon]

I find it funny that the one that says "rogue" under it is armed with a quarterstaff. I have a rogue character that I've played on-and-off for twenty-five years who used to use a quarterstaff, but it's been several editions of D&D in which that has been, let's call it, very "sub-optimal".

It looks like they used the characters from the 80's cartoon and the rouge pictured is Diana the thief-acrobat

 

[grimslade]

This adventure will have big shoes to fill if it is meant to replace The Lost Mines of Phandelver. I am pleased to see that they are shrinking the scope of the adventure, 6 levels is a lot for a starter set, and 3 seem much more reasonable.

 

[Hexmage-EN]

I assumed the pregens for this would be the characters from the D&D cartoon.

 

[robus]

I see this is a Target exclusive for the first couple of months. I wonder how that deal went down? Target’s board game section seems to be a bit stagnant, but perhaps I don’t know what’s popular…

 

[Parmandur]

I see this is a Target exclusive for the first couple of months. I wonder how that deal went down? Target’s board game section seems to be a bit stagnant, but perhaps I don’t know what’s popular…

Target is often the only board game store in a town in the U.S.

I know they did this with the Essentials Kit, which was created ecause Target came to WotC offering to finance a new box set to followup their Starter Set sales.

 

[darjr]

I see this is a Target exclusive for the first couple of months. I wonder how that deal went down? Target’s board game section seems to be a bit stagnant, but perhaps I don’t know what’s popular…

The last one was a Target exclusive. I think a wotc employee said that Target put up funds for the Essentials Kit. I wonder if they did the same kind of deal here?

The Essentials Kit was sold out for a while around here.


Here is Chris Perkins talking about the box set. He calls it a Product Of Opportunity or a POO.

Oh! And one of my favorite live play's is this between Mike Shea (SlyFlourish) and Enrique Bertran (NewbieDM)

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Interesting. In many hundreds of players, I have rarely found this to be the case. I mean, I get your reasoning, and I'm sure there's some people who would enjoy that step, but they'll enjoy making their own characters just as much after they've played the game once or twice.

The key phrase here is "with some guidance". Even now there are people out there who don't have guidance and a starter set should have them in mind too.

Edit: I missread the last sentence, so my answer is in agreement of the post I quoted.