An adventure collection coming next summer with updated versions of classic adventures.
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Why would they be limited to planar adventures? The whole point of the Staircase is that its doors can lead to anywhere, so any and all setting (and setting agnostic) adventures are possibilities.My guess is this will be largely Dungeon adventures. There just aren't that many iconic planar adventures from previous editions that aren't, frankly, too large to fit into an anthology without gobbling up a ton of pages.
Because "hey, here's a bunch of random adventures" isn't the way they've been doing it in the past. Everything so far has been themed. At the moment, the only apparent theme is the planes.Why would they be limited to planar adventures? The whole point of the Staircase is that its doors can lead to anywhere, so any and all setting (and setting agnostic) adventures are possibilities.
I don’t quite know about that, Tales from the Yawning Portal was basically “popular blasts from the past”.Because "hey, here's a bunch of random adventures" isn't the way they've been doing it in the past. Everything so far has been themed. At the moment, the only apparent theme is the planes.
They burned through most of the classics in that book. Even if they decided to issue their versions of the OAR books, now that Goodman has apparently lost the rights, that only gets us six adventures. It's not impossible, but I doubt this is meant to be Yawning Portal II. For one thing, I'd expect them to name it in such a way to tell the people who liked Yawning Portal that this is more of the same.I don’t quite know about that, Tales from the Yawning Portal was basically “popular blasts from the past”.
Mud Sorcerer's Tomb is legendary and I've never laid eyes on it. If that's in this book, that would make this an insta-buy for me.My guess is it will be a mix, 1E to 3E adventures, and a couple Dungeon adventures. I’m kinda hoping to see The Mud Sorcerer’s Tomb, the multi-dimensional library from Dungeon (I forget the adventure’s name - it had abishai in it), The Crystal Cave, Ghost Tower of Inverness, and maybe any other adventure that involves travel to reach, a remote location or extra dimensional space might be select - somewhere between 5-7 adventures.
I’d really laugh (and enjoy it) if Chis Perkins convinced the team to include Beyond the Magic Mirror (he seems to be the one in love with whimsy).
I mean, they did name check Yawning Portal in the event, and there are more than enough older Edition Adventures to put 7 in abook.They burned through most of the classics in that book. Even if they decided to issue their versions of the OAR books, now that Goodman has apparently lost the rights, that only gets us six adventures. It's not impossible, but I doubt this is meant to be Yawning Portal II. For one thing, I'd expect them to name it in such a way to tell the people who liked Yawning Portal that this is more of the same.
Mud Sorcerer's Tomb is legendary and I've never laid eyes on it. If that's in this book, that would make this an insta-buy for me.
And Dungeonland/The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror are great candidates for Domains of Delight in the Feywild and would be great, whether the theme is planar or classic adventures.