D&D 5E Descent Into The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth Is The First Of Several Single Session D&D Events

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Wizards of the Coast, in The Year of the Dragon, will have several events to celebrate play, including short adventures meant for a single game session--starting with Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.

The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth was a 1982 adventure by Gary Gygax for AD&D 1E, and was set in the Greyhawk campaign setting. It featured a wilderness journey and two-level dungeon, at the end of which the PCs would face the vampire Drelnza, who was the daughter of the archmage Iggwilv.

No news yet about any others or how many there will be.

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[Zaukrie]

I forgot they said they would make more of these....they also said the bday celebration will go into 2025, wonder what that means?

 

[darjr]

https://x.com/d20play/status/1730703176053969076?s=20

 

[Parmandur]

This was actually one of the more interesting and exciting announcements for me.

Sounds like it could be mixing the best parts of old OD&D or AD&D tournaments with the best parts of 4E/Next Encoutners programs...and Beyond would be a pretty great way to distribute material to stores and homes, and gather "results" in after action reports.

 

[darjr]

It’s also event based. I wonder if it’s a kind of the old Wednesday adventure thing they used to do?

 

[Parmandur]

It’s also event based. I wonder if it’s a kind of the old Wednesday adventure thing they used to do?

Probably analogous! Maybe a but more loose and adaptable on the scheduling, particularly if home participants get included.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The original Tsojcanth is not a single session adventure for the vast majority of modern groups. I wonder how they'll do this.

 

[Parmandur]

The original Tsojcanth is not a single session adventure for the vast majority of modern groups. I wonder how they'll do this.

The original published Tsojcsnth isn't...but the 1976 Tournament was, and it was smaller. So they could be going back to that for this initaitve, since they seemed to be hearkening to 70's/80's tournaments here.

 

[sevenbastard]

Maybe it's just three hours of debating how to pronounce it?

 

[Parmandur]

OK, double checking, S4 was 2 32 page booklets (Adventure and Beatiary, while the 1976 Tournament Loat Caverns was...8 pages in a ziploc baggie. And was a single session mini-dungeon in comparison.

An adaptation of the 1986 Tournament would be a good fit for what they are laying down.