Tales From The Yawning Portal - 7 Classic Dungeons Updated To 5E!

Coming in April is WotC's next official D&D product, Tales from the Yawning Portal. This hardcover book contains seven classic dungeons updated to 5th Edition, from adventures such as Against the Giants, Dead in Thay, Forge of Fury, Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan, Sunless Citadel, Tomb of Horrors, and White Plume Mountain. This is, presumably, the product previously codenamed Labyrinth. It's set for an April 4th release, for $49.95.

When the shadows grow long in Waterdeep and the fireplace in the taproom of the Yawning Portal dims to a deep crimson glow, adventurers from across the Sword Coast spin tales and spread rumors of lost treasures.

Within this tome are seven of the deadliest dungeons from the history of Dungeons & Dragons. Some are classics that have hosted an untold number of adventurers, while others are newer creations, boldly staking a claim to their place in the pantheon of notable adventures.

The seeds of these stories now rest in your hands. D&D’s deadliest dungeons are now part of your arsenal of adventures. Enjoy, and remember to keep a few spare character sheets handy.

For use with the fifth edition Player’s Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master’s Guide, this book provides fans with a treasure trove of adventures, all of which have been updated to the fifth edition rules. Explore seven deadly dungeons in this adventure supplement for the world’s greatest roleplaying game:

• Against the Giants
• Dead in Thay
• Forge of Fury
• Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan
• Sunless Citadel
• Tomb of Horrors
• White Plume Mountain

Find it on WotC's site here. Forbes has an interview about it here. Mearls says "We're announcing a new D&D product, a book coming out this spring. It is called Tales from the Yawning Portal(out March 24th in local game stores and April 4th everywhere else) It's a collection of seven of the most famous dungeons from Dungeons & Dragons history. They're all collected in one hardcover book. The idea behind it is not only do you want to capture some of the most famous dungeons from the game's history, but we also wanted to give a selection of adventures that you could in theory start at Level 1 with the first dungeon and play all the way up to Level 15 by playing the adventures one after another."

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Gibbering Mouther

Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan



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[Sacrosanct]

I wonder if this a way to also get these into AL play.

Ooohhhh, that's an intriguing idea.

 

[Corpsetaker]

I was going to say that, well, what do you do when there's no, "Shake you head and cry option," but that works too.

Well you do get XP every time someone "laughs with this post".

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

Six of the seven set in Greyhawk, but it sounds like they are moving all of them to Forgotten Realms.... hopefully they have at least a paragraph about Greyhawk in there somewhere.

Sunless and Forge are not set in Greyhawk?

 

[BMaC]

This is excellent news. I'm so happy we don't have to suffer through another realms-wide cataclysmic event and run around grinding rep for the Harpers. It will be very interesting to see how they expand, flesh-out the adventures, and how they redo the art and maps.

 

[TwoSix]

How come when people want more material than what we are getting it is automatically assumed they want a big release schedule like Pathfinder?

Because it's a relevant current release pattern that people are familiar with, and thus useful for making general comparisons? Not to mention there are very few publishers even releasing a steady stream of material, so it's fairly hard to come up with another well-known metric.

 

[Jer]

The lack of inclusion, while including other S-series, makes me hope that they might have bigger plans for it. I SEE YOU, VEGEPYGMIES, HANGING OUT IN MY VOLO'S GUIDE!

Yes - the inclusion of Vegepygmies in the Volo's Guide not only made me happy as a fan of old material, it made me think that maybe somewhere down the road we may get another expedition to the Barrier Peaks. Or perhaps some AP inspired by the EttBP. I'd take either - I'm not a picky man.

 

[darjr]

And it is for season 6 of AL!!! Yaaaaahooooo!

 

[alienux]

I'm excited to finally hear what Labyrinth is, and especially excited about what it is. Looking forward to this with great interest!

 

[darjr]

From Robert Adducci

The next D&D book has been announced! This will be season 6 of D&D Adventurers League, more to come about that in a future announcement.

Which of these classic 7 adventures have you played or are looking forward to playing (or DMing)?

Against the Giants
Dead in Thay
Forge of Fury
Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan
Sunless Citadel
Tomb of Horrors
White Plume Mountain

 

[darjr]

Hmmm.. I'm worried that the originals might drop off DMsGuild while this is in print. I might have to get them.