D&D Beyond Releases Free Forgotten Realms Adventure

D&D Beyond has a new Forgotten Realms-focused adventure that focuses on battling the forces of Orcus. Today, D&D Beyond released The Tenebrous Stone, a new adventure that will appear in the upcoming Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun book. The adventure is a Level 3 "Deity Adventure" set in Helmsdale and sends players into a basalt quarry to track down an evil artifact. Players will battle several undead creatures before a final encounter at the hidden location of the artifact.

The adventure is one of many in the book and is similarly structured as the quick adventures found in the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. There's a map, three encounters, and a brief overview of the adventure, but otherwise The Tenebrous Stone is relatively light. D&D Beyond has also loaded up the adventure on its Maps VTT, complete with both maps and monsters pre-loaded for the DM.

Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun will be released on November 11th.

 

[Zaukrie]

Just ran this, and it went really fun/well against 3 PCs.....

 

[gobrooksgo]

Huh. So we need a diety adventure now? Are our characters suddenly overweight? What happened to body positivity!

(I appreciated that. Even none of these other nerds did. )

 

[mamba]

This is a Setting book, after all, not a pre-written campaign.

I was not arguing for full adventures, I was arguing against these lacking side quests. Spend those 50 pages on the setting, not some bare-bones, lackluster side quest skeletons

Remove them altogether, include the half page map and a sentence to paragraph about the scenario if you want to. That one sentence / paragraph is about as useful as the half page text. That gives you 25 pages more for the setting without losing anything of value

 

[Parmandur]

I was not arguing for full adventures, I was arguing against these lacking side quests. Spend those 50 pages on the setting, not some bare-bones, lackluster side quest skeletons

Remove them altogether, include the half page map and a sentence to paragraph about the scenario if you want to. That one sentence / paragraph is about as useful as the half page text. That gives you 25 pages more for the setting without losing anything of value

But then they would require more prep work, these are puck up and go.