D&D 5E D&D Beyond Shares Free 'Phandalin Post' Player Handout

With Phandelver & Below: The Shattered Obelisk less than two weeks away, WotC has provided a free player handout in the form of a page of the Phandalin Post, an in-game newspaper. It is designed to be given to the players before they begin the adventure. Click on the image below to jump there!

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[aco175]

It is cute and you do not need a subscription or account to look at it. I like how they have a photo of the goblin ambush, Jimmy Olsen the NPC newsboy is on the case.

 

[MockingBird]

Surely these will be in the Beadles and Grimm set?

 

[doctorhook]

I thought newspapers were an Eberron thing for flavour. We got printing presses in every little town in Faerûn now too??

 

[grimslade]

I thought newspapers were an Eberron thing for flavour. We got printing presses in every little town in Faerûn now too??

Summoned Scribes from Mechanus. Plus the population is so small you only need to run under 20 copies. How many miners can read anyways?

I like how they have a photo of the goblin ambush, Jimmy Olsen the NPC newsboy is on the case.

I believe this is an artists recreation of the scene. Starving artists need work too. Jimmy Olsen the court sketch artist maybe?

 

[bedir than]

I thought newspapers were an Eberron thing for flavour. We got printing presses in every little town in Faerûn now too??

Printing Presses first appeared in Faerûn all the way back in real world year 1993, realms year 1362. It's been over a century since then in game terms.

Printing press

A printing press was a mechanical device for applying ink to a surface such as paper. In Shou Lung, the printing press fell in and out of use, being invented and reinvented at least five times since the time of the Li Dynasty (−1029 DR to −670 DR). Each time, it was used to reprint copies of...

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[Parmandur]

I thought newspapers were an Eberron thing for flavour. We got printing presses in every little town in Faerûn now too??

Printing in Faerun is already an established thing.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Printing Presses first appeared in Faerûn all the way back in real world year 1993, realms year 1362. It's been over a century since then in game terms.

Printing press

A printing press was a mechanical device for applying ink to a surface such as paper. In Shou Lung, the printing press fell in and out of use, being invented and reinvented at least five times since the time of the Li Dynasty (−1029 DR to −670 DR). Each time, it was used to reprint copies of...

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Which increased the need for paper. Which increased the need for logging. Which increased the amount of forests being cut down. Which increases the absolute RAGE of the elves and druids. Which increase the need for WAR! Emerald Enclave rally to me! We will feed the earth the blood of these so call civilized humans and their need for printed on paper! Rraaaaaa!

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Printing in Faerun is already an established thing.

Yeah!? So why do my Wizard wastes his time copying spells by hand? Nobody told me we could have special arcane ink printing machine for mass producing generic spellbooks and scrolls! I feel cheated.

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah!? So why do my Wizard wastes his time copying spells by hand? Nobody told me we could have special arcane ink printing machine for mass producing generic spellbooks and scrolls! I feel cheated.

Printing isn't sufficiently magical, obviously.

 

[Reynard]

Which increased the need for paper. Which increased the need for logging. Which increased the amount of forests being cut down. Which increases the absolute RAGE of the elves and druids. Which increase the need for WAR! Emerald Enclave rally to me! We will feed the earth the blood of these so call civilized humans and their need for printed on paper! Rraaaaaa!

I didn't know I needed a Forgotten Realm campaign seed, but now I have one.

Yeah!? So why do my Wizard wastes his time copying spells by hand? Nobody told me we could have special arcane ink printing machine for mass producing generic spellbooks and scrolls! I feel cheated.

Aaaand there's another one.

 

[bedir than]

Yeah!? So why do my Wizard wastes his time copying spells by hand? Nobody told me we could have special arcane ink printing machine for mass producing generic spellbooks and scrolls! I feel cheated.

New interesting Wizard subclass just dropped

 

[aco175]

New interesting Wizard subclass just dropped

I think it is called- Xerox, but that may just be the mage the subclass is named for.

 

[sevenbastard]

I want the next issue to be all pro the redbrands. Show that they got to the printer.

Seriously how dumb our they to print anti Redbrand stuff when they clearly make people disappear.

 

[Von Ether]

The real secret is the cabal that keeps hiding the existence of gunpowder. FR has be pseudo-Renaissance for ages now.

 

[pukunui]

The real secret is the cabal that keeps hiding the existence of gunpowder. FR has be pseudo-Renaissance for ages now.

There is no gunpowder. There's just the magical smokepowder featured in Dragon Heist.

 

[Lidgar]

I think it is called- Xerox, but that may just be the mage the subclass is named for.

That subclass even has it's own specialty cantrip:

 

[Chromie]

I thought newspapers were an Eberron thing for flavour. We got printing presses in every little town in Faerûn now too??

People really complain about anything lmao

 

[Stormonu]

No one has heard of the spell copy? It's at least from 2E (the text below is from the Wizard's Spell Compendium, volume 1), if not before. I swear I remember it being from a FR supplement, perhaps even the 1E FR boxed set.

Copy
Evocation
Level: 1
Range: Special
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 rd.
Duration: Instantaneous
Area of Effect: 1 page or book
Saving Throw: Special

The copy spell enables the caster to make a perfect copy of a map, letter or other written or drawn document. The caster must have blank parchment or a book with blank pages of sufficient size to hold the copy. The caster holds the blank object over the object to be copied, then casts the spell; the copy appears on the formerly blank object. The length of the text is limited to 10 pages of standard size (roughly 9 inches by 12 inches).
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[Von Ether]

There is no gunpowder. There's just the magical smokepowder featured in Dragon Heist.

That's what a cabalist would say!