D&D 5E In a (hypothetical) Tales from the Yawning Portal 2, what are the adventures you would want updated for 5E?

[Urriak Uruk]

To be clear, this is not a news thread on a new Tales from the Yawning Portal coming out. It is not a speculation thread, or even discussion of whether there should be another such book.

But I want you to imagine: WotC announces a new book compiling adventures from older editions, much like the format of the book Tales of the Yawning Portal. When you see this announcement, what are the first adventures you think of, that you would want to see with 5E rules, new maps, updated art, the works?

I think I would pick the Keep on the Borderlands, plus the nearby Caves of Chaos. I've never played it myself, but heard so much about it that I think it may do well with 5E tratement.

What would your choices be?

 

[The Glen]

As much as Night's Dark Terror deserves all the love, you need bottle or dungeon adventures for a compilation.

Desert of Desolation
Saber River
Rahasia
Curse of Xanathon
Legacy of Blood
Kill Bargle

 

[Mistwell]

Queen of the Demonweb Pits
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
Dwellers of the Forbidden City
Castle Amber
Scourge of the Slave Lords
The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun

 

[el-remmen]

I don't care as long as the maps are more like Ghosts of Saltmarsh (clear and clean) and nothing like the ones in the first Yawning Portal (a muddled mess).

 

[Marc_C]

I think I would pick the Keep on the Borderlands, plus the nearby Caves of Chaos. I've never played it myself, but heard so much about it that I think it may do well with 5E tratement.

What would your choices be?

B2 Keep on the Borderlands has already been published for 5e by Goodman Games with WoTC's blessing. It includes B1 In Search of the Unknown:

Original Adventures Reincarnated #1: Into the Borderlands Hardcover|Goodman Games Store

goodman-games.com

 

[Marc_C]

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
Castle Amber

Goodman Games has them for 5e:

Original Adventures Reincarnated|Goodman Games Store

goodman-games.com

 

[Urriak Uruk]

B2 Keep on the Borderlands has already been published for 5e by Goodman Games with WoTC's blessing. It includes B1 In Search of the Unknown:

Original Adventures Reincarnated #1: Into the Borderlands Hardcover|Goodman Games Store

goodman-games.com

I don't really want to pay $50 for a single updated module, especially when it is the same art and design... I am specifically referring to adventures getting a full WotC remake, with updated art, text, maps, etc.

 

[Marc_C]

I don't really want to pay $50 for a single updated module, especially when it is the same art and design... I am specifically referring to adventures getting a full WotC remake, with updated art, text, maps, etc.

These books are really well made. For example my copy of B4 The Lost City contains details and maps for the underground city which was not detailed in the original module (only 48 pages). The 5e version is has new maps, arts and updated descriptions. In total 292 pages. (edit: its a mini-campaign for levels 1 to 7).

WoTC won't redo these. Best remove them from your wish list.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Rahasia is slim and definitely deserves some greater exposure. Kill Bargle, well, it sells itself.

Rahasia
Kill Bargle

For my part, in a sequel, let's call Tales from the Old Skull Inn, I'd add:

Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill
The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
D1-D3 (after Against the Giants was in the first one, it makes sense to follow up on it)

 

[Musing Mage]

Some classics that would be worth revisiting in an anthology book, I think:

Cult of the Reptile God
Dymrak Dread (from Basic D&D)
Baltron's Beacon
Secret of Bone Hill