D&D 5E (2014) Ben Riggs talks to Richard Baker. Phandelver in 2018 alone sold 300k copies.
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sevenbastard
Legend
Its the best adventure for D&D writen in the last 20 years, maybe since Nights Dark Terror? So I believe it.
I own 4 copies. Just to make sure I have unopened copies to give to my kids in 20 years.
The fact WOTC didn't do it justice in the hardback reissue is a tragedy.
I own 4 copies. Just to make sure I have unopened copies to give to my kids in 20 years.
The fact WOTC didn't do it justice in the hardback reissue is a tragedy.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I remain optimistic that some smart person at WotC will make a PoD version of it available for the 10th anniversary, since they're unlikely to ever give us the deluxe version we deserved, with the Essentials Kit stuff folded into it.
Remathilis
Legend
I lucked out and got the free Beyond version offered during the Pandemic. I was disappointed that both Phandelver and the Shattered Obelisk got merged together rather than Phandelver getting a logical "expansion" keeping to its vanilla, classical play and the far realm/mind fayer plot didn't get room to breathe before the mind goblins (heh) attack. I get they were trying to play catch-up to latch onto the BG3 hype by doing it, but it feels tonally disjointed.
(I actually think both parts are good separately, with a little elbow grease at least. But they don't complement each other. It really feels like you're jumping from one module to another rather than playing a narrative whole).
(I actually think both parts are good separately, with a little elbow grease at least. But they don't complement each other. It really feels like you're jumping from one module to another rather than playing a narrative whole).
Spellslinging Sellsword
Adventurer
Yeah kind of a head scratcher why the hard back didn't combine the starter and essential boxed sets into a combined campaign.
mamba
Legend
the answer might be that at that point it is entirely / mostly recycled material that many have already, reducing the number of people interested in it.
DarkCrisis
Get the cool shoeshine
Ive read it and I dont how people call it the best thing ever. What am I missing? It seemed pretty generic. We are talking about the old starter box adventure right?
The core of the module's "story" isn't anything special, really. The beauty is in how it presents a very quickly "open" set of directions and possibilities to the party with multiple options for progression and flow that don't assume a singular path (or that you do even do everything!). It layers on bits about the plot on the fly, has a lot of solid Quest Giver stuff with just enough descriptions to give the DM a starting point without endless read-aloud text, a really well put together final dungeon, etc etc.
As a first adventure to play D&D (apart from some of the goblin balance!) it's great. As an example for a DM to look at structuring further home-brew? Excellent.
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