D&D 5E The New D&D Book: Candlekeep Mysteries: 17 Mystery Adventures [UPDATED!]

The cover of the upcoming D&D book has been revealed! Candlekeep Mysteries is an anthology of 17 mystery-themed adventures for character levels 1-16. The image has appeared on Penguin Random House's product page for the book. UPDATE! Penguin's product page appears to have now vanished, but we now have the product description! Thanks to @Fezzwick for spotting that! An anthology of...

The cover of the upcoming D&D book has been revealed! Candlekeep Mysteries is an anthology of 17 mystery-themed adventures for character levels 1-16.

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The image has appeared on Penguin Random House's product page for the book.



UPDATE! Penguin's product page appears to have now vanished, but we now have the product description! Thanks to @Fezzwick for spotting that!

An anthology of seventeen mystery-themed adventures for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.

Candlekeep attracts scholars like a flame attracts moths. Historians, sages, and others who crave knowledge flock to this library fortress to peruse its vast collection of books, scribbled into which are the answers to the mysteries that bedevil them. Many of these books contain their own mysteries ̶—each one a doorway to adventure. Dare you cross that threshold?

· 17 mystery-themed D&D adventures, each tied to a book discovered in the famed library fortress of Candlekeep
· Easy to run as stand-alone mini adventures or to drop into your home campaign
· Adventures span play from levels 1 to 16
· Includes a full poster map of Candlekeep, plus detailed descriptions of the various locations, characters, and creatures that reside within it
· Introduces a variety of Dungeons & Dragons monsters, items, and non-player characters (NPCs)

Candlekeep Mysteries is a collection of seventeen short, stand-alone D&D adventures designed for characters of levels 1–16. Each adventure begins with the discovery of a book, and each book is the key to a door behind which danger and glory await. These adventures can be run as one-shot games, plugged into an existing Forgotten Realms campaign, or adapted for other campaign settings. This book also includes a poster map of the library fortress and detailed descriptions of Candlekeep and its inhabitants.


There have been mentions of an upcoming adventure anthology since 2019, with Kate Welch's name attached, along with other celebrity adventure writers including Critical Role's Marisha Ray, and actor Deborah Ann Woll. There were also suggestions that the authors might all be women. I guess we’ll find out tomorrow!

 

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Urriak Uruk

Gaming is fun, and fun is for everyone
So, yes, there will be alternate cover, and, no, this doesn’t seem to be Kate Welshman, Marisha Rey, and Deborah Ann Wohl’s book.


“Introducing #Candlekeep Mysteries, the latest adventure anthology in the Forgotten Realms setting! Explore this collection of new mysteries by up-and-coming D&D designers from across our community. These short adventures arrive March 16!

Pre-order now: Candlekeep Mysteries | Dungeons & Dragons

Covers by Clint Cearley (Standard) and Simen Meyer (Alt).

Designers include:
• Graeme Barber
• Toni Winslow-Brill
• Kelly Lynne D’angelo
• Alison Huang
• Mark Hulmes
• Jennifer Kretchmer
• Daniel Kwan
• Adam Lee
• Ari Levitch
• Amy Vorpahl
• Sarah Madsen
• Brades Stoddard
• Michael Polkinghorn
• Kienna Shaw
• Hannah Rose
• Derek Ruiz
• Taymoor Rehman
• Christopher Perkins
• Chris Lindsay”

No this is definitely Welch's book (she just oversaw the beginning of this, she doesn't write adventures). When she first mentioned it almost two years ago, she mentioned they had taken submissions from folks including Marisha and DAW. What likely happened is they went through all the submissions, and kept the best quality ones (or the ones that are distinct from each other). And Marisha/DAW didn't make the cut. For example, Amy Vorpahl is better known as an actor/DM than a designer/writer, and appeared on the Dimension 20 show.

 

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Parmandur

Book-Friend
Actually, some of the people who most forcefully critical of WotC last year during a lot of the social media drama are writers in this book: glad to see that some progress has been made on working together with the community, very positive all around.
 

Charlaquin

Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Speculation seems to be all the adventures start in Candlekeep.
That seems like a pretty big assumption to me, as it would clash with the claim in the product description that the adventures are easy to drop into an ongoing campaign (unless that campaign happened to take place near Candlekeep). My bet would be that Candlekeep is just the framing device for the adventures, same as the Yawning Portal was for the dungeons in TftYP.
 


Waller

Legend
Actually, some of the people who most forcefully critical of WotC last year during a lot of the social media drama are writers in this book: glad to see that some progress has been made on working together with the community, very positive all around.
Well that's one way to quell criticism.
 

Charlaquin

Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
That seems like a pretty big assumption to me, as it would clash with the claim in the product description that the adventures are easy to drop into an ongoing campaign (unless that campaign happened to take place near Candlekeep). My bet would be that Candlekeep is just the framing device for the adventures, same as the Yawning Portal was for the dungeons in TftYP.
Well, I’m wrong. Confirmed in a couple places, they do all start in Candlekeep :/
 



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