D&D 5E 5-Part Forgotten Realms Adventure Coming Next Week

From Polygon comes a report that WotC is releasing for download an anthology of five adventures for character levels 8-10 on June 29th to celebrate the Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms card set.

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, a Dungeons & Dragons-themed set of cards for Magic: The Gathering, is introducing something special — and free — for fans of D&D. A substantial role-playing adventure will be made available for download starting around June 29. Wizards made the announcement earlier this month during a private press event.

In the past, new sets of Magic cards have been heralded by some excellent digital fiction — lengthy and well-written short stories that set the mood for the coming cards. This time around, publisher Wizards of the Coast is taking a different tack. Instead of short stories, it’s releasing a module for characters level eight through 10. Meris Mullaley, world-building and narrative design manager at Wizards, said that there would be five adventures. Each will run between 15 and 20 pages in total.

That's a pretty interesting level range -- presumably to make traveling the planes at some point in the adventure easier. And at a total of between 75 and 100 pages, it's a pretty significant work.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Ellywick Tumblestrum is his annoying kid sister (adopted).

She needs to get a new Deck of Many Things if she wished to be the greatest bard in the multiverse and got the strumming skills we saw during the Legend Lore week videos.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Sure, but who is Star Planeswaljer?

The new Dutch iconic MTG character.

 

[Parmandur]

Sure, but who is Star Planeswaljer?

the star Planeswalker.

 

[Ixal]

Is that official artwork?
Since when do Dragonborn have tails?

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Is that official artwork?
Since when do Dragonborn have tails?

It is official art... maybe he's a lizardfolk?

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah, pretty sure that head looks like a Lizardfolk.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Yeah, pretty sure that head looks like a Lizardfolk.

He does look really similar to Nadaar though, and he's pretty clearly a dragonborn.

 

[Ixal]

He does look really similar to Nadaar though, and he's pretty clearly a dragonborn.

I am pretty sure that is Nadaar. Generally the legendary cards are the characters from the books/story.

Sure it says dragon knight, but probably only because dragonborn would have been too long. I doubt its a actual dragon polymorphed into an oddly coloured lizardfolk.

 

[Parmandur]

I am pretty sure that is Nadaar. Generally the legendary cards are the characters from the books/story.

Sure it says dragon knight, but probably only because dragonborn would have been too long. I doubt its a actual dragon polymorphed into an oddly coloured lizardfolk.

That's so that Dragonborn can be low level cards for Dragon Tribal decks, which may be the single best thing to ever happen to Dragon Tribal.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I am pretty sure that is Nadaar. Generally the legendary cards are the characters from the books/story.

Sure it says dragon knight, but probably only because dragonborn would have been too long. I doubt its a actual dragon polymorphed into an oddly coloured lizardfolk.

I'm listening to MTG Weekly right now, and they say outright that he's a dragonborn and that they just didn't want to make dragonborn a new creature type.

They also briefly mentioned the 5-part adventure, that is supposed to spotlight the story of this card set... essentially, the original characters for the cards are supposed to be the people standing in for the adventure.