D&D 5E (2014) Quests From The Infinite Staircase

[Parmandur]

So early access should be out for this in stores and Beyond. Anyone got it?

Waiting for pick up at my FLGS, will gran it after work.

Happy to answer any questions later this evening, if anyone wants to put thst here.

 

[Lidgar]

Waiting for pick up at my FLGS, will gran it after work.

Happy to answer any questions later this evening, if anyone wants to put thst here.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on the maps - good, bad and ugly. Also, Lost Caverns...does it touch on Tharizdun? I might have more, but there's a start...

 

[Parmandur]

I'd like to hear your thoughts on the maps - good, bad and ugly. Also, Lost Caverns...does it touch on Tharizdun? I might have more, but there's a start...

I shall look and report back latter.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I'm curious about the stats for gibberlings and leprechaun to see how they've been updated to 5e.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I'd like to hear your thoughts on the maps - good, bad and ugly. Also, Lost Caverns...does it touch on Tharizdun? I might have more, but there's a start...

I don't remember Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth mentioning Tharizdun.

 

[Lidgar]

I don't remember Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth mentioning Tharizdun.

It didn't directly, but it's loosely connected to the adventure. Some references (spoilers):

Spoiler

The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth - Wikipedia
The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun - Wikipedia

This adventure starts with an incident from The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.[2] The player characters (PCs) discover the temple while trailing a gang of norkers from the caverns.[3] The PCs search hazardous mountain passes to find the lair of the monsters inside the temple.[1] The adventurers are drawn into the story by a gnomish community and travel to the temple. After battling their way in, the PCs explore the temple chambers, which contain mundane creatures and new monsters from the Fiend Folio supplement.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forgotten_Temple_of_Tharizdun

Lawrence Schick later suggested that "there's evidence that Gary considered Tsojcanth part of a longer Greyhawk campaign, placing the adventure between T1–T4 The Temple of Elemental Evil and WG4 The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun. (By this reckoning, The Village of Hommlet, The Temple of Elemental Evil, and Tsojcanth are thus the "lost" WG1 through WG3 modules.) So, Tsojcanth was published in the S series because it got completed out of order, but was too good to delay."[7]

 

[Paul Farquhar]

It didn't directly, but it's loosely connected to the adventure. Some references (spoilers):

Spoiler

The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth - Wikipedia
The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun - Wikipedia

The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun - Wikipedia

Only by geography, there is no narrative link (have you read them both?)

 

[Parmandur]

I don't remember Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth mentioning Tharizdun.

S4 and WG4 connect directly together. In fact, there is evidence that at one point S4 was going to be republished as WG3, with T1 being republished as WG1, a new Temple of Elemental Evil module (not what eventually got published) being WG2, forming a more or less coherent path written by Gygax.

 

[Lidgar]

Only by geography, there is no narrative link (have you read them both?)

Yes, several times (and DM'ed them too). Just would be a nice Easter Egg for them to include a reference to the Forgotten Temple.

 

[TravDoc42]

I picked a copy from my FLGS, and while I'm still flipping through, I'm impressed that they kept reference to the

Spoiler: spoiler

Iron Shadow from the 2e Tales from the Infinite Staircase adventure!