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.

 

[Parmandur]

So, the module cards, all lined up next to each other!

Evolving Wilds, C7: Levels 1-4
Cave of the Frost Dragon, R11: Levels 17-20
Den of the Bugbear, R12: Levels 17-20
Hive of the Eye Tyrant, R15: Levels 17-20

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So, there will be five more, and I guess the spread is total 1 Common, 1 Uncommon, and 7 Rares.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

So, the module cards, all lined up next to each other!

Evolving Wilds, C7: Levels 1-4
Cave of the Frost Dragon, R11: Levels 17-20
Den of the Bugbear, R12: Levels 17-20
Hive of the Eye Tyrant, R15: Levels 17-20

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I'll add, if these were actual adventures and you wanted to string a campaign out of them, you would probably play them in this order;

- Evolving Wilds, Den of the Bugbear, Cave of the Frost Dragon, Hive of the Beholder

The assumption being, that the white dragon is young.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I was looking at other sites with information on this 5-part adventure, and at least a couple of them are saying the parts will be released one a week for the next 5 weeks, and not all at one time. They are all for levels 8-10 and about 15-20 pages each, though one site seemed to be saying they would add together to be 15-20 pages total. But everyone is still listing today as the initial release date.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Looks like some of those websites were correct about it being released weekly, as here is part one on the Magic section of WotC's site, though 15-20 pages each was a little off, as part one is 14 pages:

In Scarlet Flames | MAGIC: THE GATHERING

This Dungeons & Dragons adventure is written to suit four to six characters of 8th level. With this text and the core D&D manuals, you have everything you need to play.

magic.wizards.com

 

[Urriak Uruk]

updated the module cards with another one;

Evolving Wilds, C7: Levels 1-4
Cave of the Frost Dragon, R11: Levels 17-20
Den of the Bugbear, R12: Levels 17-20
Dungeon Descent, R13: Levels 11-16
Hive of the Eye Tyrant, R15: Levels 17-20

 

[Parmandur]

updated the module cards with another one;

Evolving Wilds, C7: Levels 1-4
Cave of the Frost Dragon, R11: Levels 17-20
Den of the Bugbear, R12: Levels 17-20
Dungeon Descent, R13: Levels 11-16
Hive of the Eye Tyrant, R15: Levels 17-20

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We do also know that the Blue man land is a Syorm Gisnt castle, though we've only seen the standard art so far.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That must be one heck of a bugbear, for it to be a level 17-20 adventure.

 

[Birmy]

That must be one heck of a bugbear, for it to be a level 17-20 adventure.

They uploaded an incomplete image file--it's actually Den of the Bugbear...'s Tarrasque.

 

[Demetrios1453]

That must be one heck of a bugbear, for it to be a level 17-20 adventure.

The bubgear himself is unimpressive.

But the traps and monsters in his lair... woo howdy...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Looks like some of those websites were correct about it being released weekly, as here is part one on the Magic section of WotC's site, though 15-20 pages each was a little off, as part one is 14 pages:

In Scarlet Flames | MAGIC: THE GATHERING

This Dungeons & Dragons adventure is written to suit four to six characters of 8th level. With this text and the core D&D manuals, you have everything you need to play.

magic.wizards.com

Did someone make a spoiler thread for discussing these adventures? I thought I saw one but now I cant find it.