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]

Am I the only one who thinks they should have just gone with the regular fiction? D&D has tons of adventures it could give away for free already, but not every MtG fan is going to want to play D&D just to figure out the story for this set.

I suspect they have cool stuff from the cards they want to show off with a curated tour of the Forgotten Realms.

 

[JRedmond]

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

Nah it's a Half Dragon, Half Dragons have tails but Dragonborn do not. We saw them in Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamat.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Put me in charge of WotC and I will make Dragonborn canonically have tails if the players want them to have one.

 

[bedir than]

Put me in charge of WotC and I will make Dragonborn canonically have tails if the players want them to have one.

I'll make wyvernborn, so their tales have leveling poison.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Wyvernborn?! That way lies madness! What next, Pseudodragonborn? Basiliskborn? Dragonturtleborn?

 

[bedir than]

Drakeborn
Faerie dragonborn
Ale dragonborn
wyrmborn

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

OK, but only if we can have behirborn.

 

[Dr. Bull]

OK, but only if we can have behirborn.

Behirborn sound awesome. There is competition, however...

The Half-Dracolich has been reserved by power-gamers, min-maxers, and munchkins. They called "dibs" a few years ago.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Am I the only one who thinks they should have just gone with the regular fiction? D&D has tons of adventures it could give away for free already, but not every MtG fan is going to want to play D&D just to figure out the story for this set.

I want to adventure, not to read!

 

[Urriak Uruk]

OK, but only if we can have behirborn.

Well, looks like I've found my villain's new muscle! A slimy dragonborn with 6 arms!