Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall, New Adventure Book Featuring Red Wizards of Thay

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Whoop! Called it!

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Will buy.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I have been enjoying Eve of Ruin in actual play so far. But I don't think one will necessarily reflect on the other due to the large number of different writers.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Im 100% ok with a shorter more focused adventure.

Short and focussed is fine. But 10 levels and a whole country map sounds anything but focused.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Hopefully you're able to salvage a good experience for your players.
Honestly, I've had more bad experiences than good with official 5E adventures.

The adventure had a couple of good bits, but the last two chapters feel like they just gave up at the end.

 

[THEMNGMNT]

The Red Wizards are one of the major big bads in the Forgotten Realms. Taking them on in Thay is the stuff high level campaigns are made of. If this was a low level adventure I'd be disappointed.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

The Red Wizards are one of the major big bads in the Forgotten Realms. Taking them on in Thay is the stuff high level campaigns are made of. If this was a low level adventure I'd be disappointed.

Agree.

I'll be interested to read the hooks they suggest to get the players connected to this. Hopefully they'l have a few or more of suggested "foreshadowing" events that you can sprinkle in during your party's 1-10 levels to then deliver them to the start of this adventure.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The Red Wizards are one of the major big bads in the Forgotten Realms. Taking them on in Thay is the stuff high level campaigns are made of. If this was a low level adventure I'd be disappointed.

I guess that’s why I don’t find it interesting. It’s too bleeding obvious. I prefer a campaign with twists and surprises.

 

[Maxperson]

The Red Wizards are one of the major big bads in the Forgotten Realms. Taking them on in Thay is the stuff high level campaigns are made of. If this was a low level adventure I'd be disappointed.

The low level version is against the Red Lizards of Thay.

 

[tetrasodium]

The Red Wizards are one of the major big bads in the Forgotten Realms. Taking them on in Thay is the stuff high level campaigns are made of. If this was a low level adventure I'd be disappointed.

Going to agree with @Paul Farquhar

I think that they are more complicated. Some of them are yes, but as an organization they are tasked with things like keeping the peace for (near edo style) travel restricted thayan citizens in a world where the entire world is run by might makes right warlords bands of roaming mercenaries called adventures for hire and many regional warlords ruling over uneducated dirt farmers. I'm not in a place where I could check the text here at the gym but I'm pretty sure that the red wizards are also heavily involved in managing/running the public education that happens in thay.