D&D 5E Free Abridged Dragon of Icespire Peak for D20 day

WotC has made a free preview version of Dragons of Icespire Peak available for download.

For "d20 Day", we're pleased to offer further adventure material to help celebrate this holiday season.

The following download contains a special preview version of material presented in the D&D Essentials Kit, and is meant as a new group’s first Dungeons & Dragons experience. The short adventure material, characters, and other supplemental information here should get a group started on their journey!

There are two downloads. First is a short adventure from the box set with creatures and magic items and a bit about the pregens, next are the pregens themselves.

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[J.Quondam]

Because it's 16MB? That's bigger than most of my PDFs. For reference, the D&D Basic Rules are 11MB.

Yeah, that's what I mean. This little adventure is only 20 pages, yet it's 16MB on disk. Moreover, I've got plenty of other much larger PDFs-- including image-heavy ones-- that load and scroll much faster than these WotC docs. I've seen reports of the same issue for other WotC docs, too (eg the Domains of Delight pdf a few months ago).
It's very strange, like WotC needs to do some sort of clean up on their pdfs before releasing them. A little aggravating, tbh.

Still it's nice they're releasing this!

 

[darjr]

Makes me wonder what else might be inside it.

 

[aco175]

It is nice that they are giving out something. I did find the Gnomengarde quest the most silly and skipped it with my group. I do like the layout of PCs with the skills listed under the appropriate stat.

The essential box you can purchase has 10-12 quests and takes PCs from 1-7ish level where the fight a dragon at the end. There is some stuff on Phandalin town, but not like the first box set. It includes the basic rules, if you need them. A few gimiky things like maps and condition cards are included as well.

 

[Lyxen]

I did find the Gnomengarde quest the most silly and skipped it with my group.

Gnomengarde is a fantastic adventure actually, if played in the right spirit, I ran it with a "the thing" vibe combined with sill gnome inventions and the players loved it.

 

[CharlesWallace]

Gnomengarde is very cool. I changed it quite a bit, to make the monster more able to move around (by adding "magitech" pneumatic tubes).

Changing Gnomengarde - Mike's Thoughts

changing Gnomengarde, and why I made the changes I made. The changes to Gnomengarde were few in number, but vast in their scope.

mikesixel.com

Wow- that's a great idea and a great writeup!

 

[Zaukrie]

Wow- that's a great idea and a great writeup!

Thank you.