Tales From The Yawning Portal - 7 Classic Dungeons Updated To 5E!

Coming in April is WotC's next official D&D product, Tales from the Yawning Portal. This hardcover book contains seven classic dungeons updated to 5th Edition, from adventures such as Against the Giants, Dead in Thay, Forge of Fury, Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan, Sunless Citadel, Tomb of Horrors, and White Plume Mountain. This is, presumably, the product previously codenamed Labyrinth. It's set for an April 4th release, for $49.95.

Coming in April is WotC's next official D&D product, Tales from the Yawning Portal. This hardcover book contains seven classic dungeons updated to 5th Edition, from adventures such as Against the Giants, Dead in Thay, Forge of Fury, Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan, Sunless Citadel, Tomb of Horrors, and White Plume Mountain. This is, presumably, the product previously codenamed Labyrinth. It's set for an April 4th release, for $49.95.



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When the shadows grow long in Waterdeep and the fireplace in the taproom of the Yawning Portal dims to a deep crimson glow, adventurers from across the Sword Coast spin tales and spread rumors of lost treasures.

Within this tome are seven of the deadliest dungeons from the history of Dungeons & Dragons. Some are classics that have hosted an untold number of adventurers, while others are newer creations, boldly staking a claim to their place in the pantheon of notable adventures.

The seeds of these stories now rest in your hands. D&D’s deadliest dungeons are now part of your arsenal of adventures. Enjoy, and remember to keep a few spare character sheets handy.

For use with the fifth edition Player’s Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master’s Guide, this book provides fans with a treasure trove of adventures, all of which have been updated to the fifth edition rules. Explore seven deadly dungeons in this adventure supplement for the world’s greatest roleplaying game:

  • Against the Giants
  • Dead in Thay
  • Forge of Fury
  • Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan
  • Sunless Citadel
  • Tomb of Horrors
  • White Plume Mountain

Find it on WotC's site here. Forbes has an interview about it here. Mearls says "We're announcing a new D&D product, a book coming out this spring. It is called Tales from the Yawning Portal(out March 24th in local game stores and April 4th everywhere else) It's a collection of seven of the most famous dungeons from Dungeons & Dragons history. They're all collected in one hardcover book. The idea behind it is not only do you want to capture some of the most famous dungeons from the game's history, but we also wanted to give a selection of adventures that you could in theory start at Level 1 with the first dungeon and play all the way up to Level 15 by playing the adventures one after another."

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Gibbering Mouther

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Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan



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pming

Legend
Hiya!

Well great googley-moogely (in a good way!). This may actually be the very first 5e product that wasn't PHB, MM, or DMG that I want to buy. :) Of course, now I have to save up the $65 it's gonna cost me up here...

^_^

Paul L. Ming
 

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pkt77242

Explorer
Some people just can't be pleased.

"I am tired of APs, I want shorter adventures."
WoTC: "Here is a book of 7 shorter adventures."
"I didn't mean those shorter adventures."
 



Osgood

Adventurer
I'm pretty pleased with this news. I've wanted shorter adventures for a long time, but didn't see how they could fit into the current publishing model they are using. Sure, I'd rather they resurrect Dungeon magazine, but this seems like a good solution. I've run about half these adventures at some point, and I'm familiar with all except the Thay one (Not a Realms fan). I can see myself actually using this for more than pillaging statblocks and ideas.
 

Istbor

Dances with Gnolls
While I have been playing this game for a good amount of years, I have only just now with this edition dipped my toes into the pool that is APs. I am pretty interested to see what some of the classics are like. Even if they are a bit 'remastered'.
 

Parmandur

Book-Friend
Actually think this would have been better if they did the whole 3E original "adventure path" collected together, without earlier wd and Thay stuff: 3E conversions are a pain, and those haven't been collected.
 

Staffan

Legend
I like the list (and assume I'll find a way to incorporate Against the Giants into SKT when I run it), except for Sunless Citadel, which I recall as completely unremarkable.

Sunless Citadel was good for showing off the low-level aspects of the new D&D. It had numerous skill checks for various things, several NPCs with class levels (combined with monstrous traits), and a boss fight where one of the opponents was particularly good at breaking weapons (showing off that sub-system as well). You also had a dungeon with two factions in it, which was kind of cool. Oh, and Meepo.

Sunless and Forge are not set in Greyhawk?

Not really, no. Neither has any Greyhawk references beyond things like "one of the missing people was a paladin of Pelor."

The proof will be in the pudding.

The ELF pudding!
 


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