D&D 5E Quests From The Infinite Staircase

[MonsterEnvy]

I have the Goodman Games version of Lost City, but it always felt too clunky to use at the table. (Also I think they made Zargon too powerful) So I am curious about the differences. I don't have much experience with any of the others.

 

[Parmandur]

I have the Goodman Games version of Lost City, but it always felt too clunky to use at the table. (Also I think they made Zargon too powerful) So I am curious about the differences. I don't have much experience with any of the others.

The OAR books aren't very wields for use out of the book at table, but good material for careful prep.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

it's not a "planar" adventure as we'd understand it today

These are all pre-Planescape. At the time of publication a planar adventure was hopping over to Gamma World or Boot Hill, not galivanting around the Great Wheel cosmology. Much more like the Marvel multiverse that is familiar to modern D&D players.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The fact that the list was all TSR material (other than the justly lauded Dark Tower) always made it pretty suspect, IMO.

I suspect a selection effect- the TSR adventures reached a wider audience. And I’m not sure how the “UK” series sold outside the UK - I think I had pretty much all of them at one time.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Stringing all 6 of these into one campaign would be...decidedly odd. These are all fairly off the wall, quirky products for D&D.

Watch a season of (old) Doctor Who.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

but the other 3 seem to have the reputation of being the harbingers of what would become the norm after Ravenloft

Yes, Pharaoh and Ravenloft belong together, as movie/literature pastiches (you could stick Dungeonland/Magic Mirror in with them). Aside from the usual mummies, Pharaoh isn't particularly horror-ish, but, shorn of what came later, neither was Ravenloft.

 

[KoolMoDaddy-O]

Weeeeell, I guess under today's cosmology, Crystal Cave counts as planar travel to the Feywild. But it's really just going to a small pocket dimension that contains the dungeon, which is kind of a fairy tale out of time.

When Beyond the Crystal Cave was updated to 4e it was explicitly set in the Feywild, which makes me think this version will consolidate both previous renditions.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Full article from D&D Beyond on this

Quests from the Infinite Staircase: Six Remastered Adventures from D&D's First Edition

Gather your party and set out on six of the most beloved Dungeons & Dragons adventures of all time, updated for fifth edition!

www.dndbeyond.com

Front and back cover too

 

[Parmandur]

So, they have put our the preview for Lost Caverns now, with Mike Schley cartography and tournament scoring. Thst Mike Schley cartography for these Adventures will be awesome.

Claim Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth now! - D&D Beyond

www.dndbeyond.com

 

[TravDoc42]

The video says that the worker robots from Expedition to Barrier Peaks made the cut! I hope they look similar to the original designs, like this from Erol Otus!