D&D 5E Quests From The Infinite Staircase Coming July 2024

An adventure collection coming next summer with updated versions of classic adventures.

Update--WotC has taken down the promo image and replaced it with one without a release date. See more here.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There's really only one Blackmoor adventure people know. I don't know if the world is crying out for another revamp of Temple of the Frog, but maybe.

 

[OB1]

Had a weird thought when watching the video with how coy they were being with who is on the cover.

My guess - Gary Gygaxx

Would make sense to insert him as some sort of overwatch Power of the staircase, and obviously tie in with the 50th anniversary.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I wonder if it will tell some lore about the infinite staircase as transitive plane. Now the "mythology" of the backrooms is a serious influence, or source of inspiration, and the infinite staircase is the right place for a D&D version of the backrooms.

 

[bedir than]

Had a weird thought when watching the video with how coy they were being with who is on the cover.

My guess - Gary Gygaxx

Would make sense to insert him as some sort of overwatch Power of the staircase, and obviously tie in with the 50th anniversary.

Using Gary as a proto-DM/Watcher type would be fun

 

[humble minion]

So - uninformed and wild speculation about what modules they’ll be redoing for this? If Yawning Portal sets any precedent, they’ll look for a selection of classic adventures with name recognition, from all eras and edition of D&D, but probably with a bit of a lean towards more generic fantasy rather than more specialty settings like Dark Sun or Ravenloft (so no When The Black Roses Bloom, or Assassin Mountain, booo…). Maybe with a slight planar bent given the Staircase is the framing device.

Gardmore Abbey? Great Modron March? Dead Gods?

Im really struggling for options from the 3rd ed era. Yawning Portal covered a lot of that ground, then the remaining classics from the era were Red Hand Of Doon, which is an entire campaign in itself, or the APs from the Paizo Dungeon era.

A lot of the all time classics have already been 5e-ified in some form, or were tightly tied to a specific campaign setting, or will contain cultural stuff modern WotC won’t want to touch, or were in Dungeon and therefore in a dubious position re rights.

 

[Parmandur]

So - uninformed and wild speculation about what modules they’ll be redoing for this? If Yawning Portal sets any precedent, they’ll look for a selection of classic adventures with name recognition, from all eras and edition of D&D, but probably with a bit of a lean towards more generic fantasy rather than more specialty settings like Dark Sun or Ravenloft (so no When The Black Roses Bloom, or Assassin Mountain, booo…). Maybe with a slight planar bent given the Staircase is the framing device.

Gardmore Abbey? Great Modron March? Dead Gods?

Im really struggling for options from the 3rd ed era. Yawning Portal covered a lot of that ground, then the remaining classics from the era were Red Hand Of Doon, which is an entire campaign in itself, or the APs from the Paizo Dungeon era.

A lot of the all time classics have already been 5e-ified in some form, or were tightly tied to a specific campaign setting, or will contain cultural stuff modern WotC won’t want to touch, or were in Dungeon and therefore in a dubious position re rights.

The dungeon Adventures are free and clear for WotC to use, the rights issues with those have more to do with ads and comics, of all things.

Thing about the Infinite Staircase framework, that allows them to use even more Setting specific stuff.

I donthink theybwill tend towards shorter stuff, so not Red Hand of Doom probably...but I think they set themselves sup here to not have any limits.

 

[Demetrios1453]

So - uninformed and wild speculation about what modules they’ll be redoing for this? If Yawning Portal sets any precedent, they’ll look for a selection of classic adventures with name recognition, from all eras and edition of D&D, but probably with a bit of a lean towards more generic fantasy rather than more specialty settings like Dark Sun or Ravenloft (so no When The Black Roses Bloom, or Assassin Mountain, booo…). Maybe with a slight planar bent given the Staircase is the framing device.

Gardmore Abbey? Great Modron March? Dead Gods?

Im really struggling for options from the 3rd ed era. Yawning Portal covered a lot of that ground, then the remaining classics from the era were Red Hand Of Doon, which is an entire campaign in itself, or the APs from the Paizo Dungeon era.

A lot of the all time classics have already been 5e-ified in some form, or were tightly tied to a specific campaign setting, or will contain cultural stuff modern WotC won’t want to touch, or were in Dungeon and therefore in a dubious position re rights.

The Staircase can lead anywhere, so instead of limiting things tightly tied to a specific campaign setting, it would actually be likely to open that type of adventure up.

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm thinking shorter adventures than Yawning Portal, but we'll see...

 

[R_J_K75]

Is that a drow with a '70s 'stache for the cover?

I see the 70s porn stache is making a comeback, look at a lot of the players in the NHL this season, they're rockin them. I went to my doctors about two weeks ago and he had one, I said Darren what's up with the porn stache? He said or "To Catch a Predator. I was waiting for Chris Hansen and a camera crew to walk into the examine room. The best one ever, NHL great Lanny McDonald.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

So - uninformed and wild speculation about what modules they’ll be redoing for this? If Yawning Portal sets any precedent, they’ll look for a selection of classic adventures with name recognition, from all eras and edition of D&D, but probably with a bit of a lean towards more generic fantasy rather than more specialty settings like Dark Sun or Ravenloft (so no When The Black Roses Bloom, or Assassin Mountain, booo…). Maybe with a slight planar bent given the Staircase is the framing device.

Gardmore Abbey? Great Modron March? Dead Gods?

Im really struggling for options from the 3rd ed era. Yawning Portal covered a lot of that ground, then the remaining classics from the era were Red Hand Of Doon, which is an entire campaign in itself, or the APs from the Paizo Dungeon era.

A lot of the all time classics have already been 5e-ified in some form, or were tightly tied to a specific campaign setting, or will contain cultural stuff modern WotC won’t want to touch, or were in Dungeon and therefore in a dubious position re rights.

My guess is this will be largely Dungeon adventures. There just aren't that many iconic planar adventures from previous editions that aren't, frankly, too large to fit into an anthology without gobbling up a ton of pages.