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| Rules required | Dungeons & Dragons, 5th edition |
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| Character levels | The Sunless Citadel: 1, The Forge of Fury: 3, Contents |
| Campaign setting | Varies |
| First published | 2017 |
| ISBN | 978-0-7869-6609-7 |
Tales from the Yawning Portal is an adventure module anthology for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
Tales from the Yawning Portal is an anthology of updated modules and adventures from previous editions. [1] The modules are modified to use the fifth edition rules, and adjusted to match differing levels of player characters, [2] so that the adventures can be played in the order they are presented in the book, or dropped into a home campaign. The adventures included, in the order of presentation and including original publication year, are:
Tales from the Yawning Portal was released on March 24, 2017, in local game stores and was later released through other retailers on April 4, 2017. [3] [4] [5]
In Publishers Weekly's "Best-selling Books Week Ending April 17, 2017", Tales from the Yawning Portal was #6 in "Hardcover Nonfiction" and sold 10,348 units. [6] Tales from the Yawning Portal was one of the Judges' Spotlight Winners at the 2017 ENnie Awards. [7]
Destructoid, Bleeding Cool, and Paste Magazine all highlighted the module nature of this book unlike the more linear structure of Storm King's Thunder . [8] [9] [10] In Paste Magazine's review, Cameron Kunzelman wrote that "Tales from the Yawning Portal rides the line between nostalgia and ease of access for new players" and that it "has a little something for every kind of D&D player or DM". [10]
In Polygon's review of the updated Tomb of Horrors, Charlie Hall wrote that "the Tomb of Horrors as published in this new edition is excellently annotated. You should have no trouble moving players along from room to room. What may trip you up, however, are descriptions of the rooms themselves. This new version is conspicuously light on art, and Gygax’s descriptions can feel a bit dated to modern ears". [11]
Ravenloft is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. It is an alternate time-space existence known as a pocket dimension or demiplane, called the Demiplane of Dread, which consists of a collection of land pieces called "domains", brought together by a mysterious force known only as the Dark Powers. Each domain is tailored to and mystically ruled by a being called a Darklord who is forever trapped and surrounded by magical mists surrounding the domain. Strahd von Zarovich, a vampire in the original AD&DRavenloft I6 module released in 1983, became the first Darklord, both ruler and prisoner of his own personal domain of Barovia. The story of how Count von Zarovich became Darklord of Barovia was detailed in the 1993 novel I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire. As originally established in the Ravenloft: Realm of Terror boxed set known as "the Black Box" released in 1990, the Ravenloft campaign setting was located in the Ethereal Plane. As a physical manifestation of that plane, lands, monsters and even people were created out of the mysterious mists, and the realm acted as a prison where one could enter or be transported, but means of escape were few. Other Ravenloft Domains and Darklords were eventually added in various AD&D 2nd edition products establishing a core continent attached around Barovia which could be traveled to by others if their respective lords allowed entering or leaving their borders; while some Domains remained isolated in the mists and were referred to as Islands.
Tomb of Horrors is an adventure module written by Gary Gygax for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game. It was originally written for and used at the 1975 Origins 1 convention. Gygax designed the adventure both to challenge the skill of expert players in his own campaign and to test players who boasted of having mighty player characters able to best any challenge. The module, coded S1, was the first in the S-series, or special series of modules. Several versions of the adventure have been published, the first in 1978, and the most recent, for the fifth edition of D&D, in 2017 as one of the included adventures in Tales from the Yawning Portal. The module also served as the basis for a novel published in 2002.
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{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)Look for Tales from the Yawning Portal in your local game store on March 24th! Otherwise, you can pick it up on April 4th