D&D 5E Call of the Netherdeep shows up in the wild!

[Parmandur]

From Reddit yesterday:

 

[Weiley31]

Heh, I was just at my local Walmart earlier too: the one time I didn't take a random trip to the book section.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Reddit!

Walmart broke street date, it's on the shelves.

Horror! There are convoys of black FBI vehicles heading for the town!

 

[Bolares]

Reddit!

Walmart broke street date, it's on the shelves.

This reminds me of how I probably was one of the first Brazillians to ever get an Eberron book translated. Rising was supposed to come out the first week of march, but last month I was in a book store in another city and found it on the shelve... score!

 

[TarionzCousin]

Thanks @darjr for all the links.

 

[darjr]

 

[darjr]

This is amazing

Deven “Matriarch of Maps” Rue on Instagram: "Of course I printed out a large version of the map of Ank’Harel that I made for @critical_role Call of the Netherdeep"

1,345 likes, 39 comments - deven_rue on March 22, 2022: "Of course I printed out a large version of the map of Ank’Harel that I made for @critical_role Call of the Netherdeep".

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[pukunui]

Justin Alexander has been doing a "Let's Read" of this book over on Twitter. I find it difficult to keep up with lengthy Twitter threads, so I'm just going to link to his main profile page: https://twitter.com/hexcrawl

He's been pointing out both good and bad. Seems like the adventure's start is fairly bad, and there are some issues with the implementation of the rivals. Hopefully it improves as it goes on.

EDIT: Here's where he starts talking about the rivals at least, and it appears to include a link back to the start of the "Let's Read":

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The main "issue" people will have with CR: CotN is the "Critical Role" in the title. It's designed to be played like Critical Role. The players need to want to engage with the storyline. If they don't, or are simply not used to that kind of game, there is no stick and very little carrot to keep them on track. If that doesn't suit the group's playstyle there is a good chance they will never get to chapter 2. I would play this with my regular group who I know like CR, but I wouldn't even attempt to run it for players I didn't know well.

With the rivals, their stat blocks make them a pushover if it comes to a fight, because they are designed as characters, not combat opponents. Which means the DM needs some degree of acting skill to differentiate them and make them interesting. They aren't essential though, and there are other things you could do with them, like use them as sidekicks in a one-on-one game.