wotc d&d module pdf tales from the yawning portal

I would also prefer they excluded the seminal ‘Against the Giants’ adventure, and released it with ‘Descent into the Depths’ and ‘Queen of the Demonweb Pits’, all together, the way it should have been. And I wish they’d left the Yawning Portal tavern out of it.

But after so many great campaign releases, overall this was a bit of a let down. In summary, I was a little disappointed by this offering. When I’m running an adventure I don’t want to have to drill through loads of text to get the information I need. I know WoTC wants to sell more ‘Monster Manuals’, but shortened monster stat blocks are used by other companies producing 5e adventures, so why can’t they? And like all WoTC’s offerings, the text entries for each room are always too wordy. I still dislike not having monster stat blocks in the room descriptions. In WoTC’s defence: the adventures have been converted well. There are heaps of monsters included in the back, many of them from ‘Volo’s Guide’ (I guess it didn’t sell as well as they expected). And there are no real reasons for linking them as a campaign, except for the first two adventures (which followed each other in D&D 3e), other than the fact your PCs should be at the required level by the next chapter.Īnd why make some of the maps so small? Would a map to a page for some of the earlier dungeons be such a big ask (some of the later dungeons have maps to a page). But why bother? In the same line WoTC suggests using them any way you like, as fillers.

Supposedly the adventures were selected so that you could play the book as a campaign. ‘The Forge of Fury’ and ‘White Plume Mountain’ are great. I love some of the old modules (I own the AD&D (1e) ones featured), but come on! A dungeon crawl is a dungeon crawl – but seven of them?Īnd ‘The Sunless Citadel’ is boring (sorry, all you people who loved D&D 3e). They are all dungeons, with no wilderness, urban or role playing components (okay, ‘the Forge of Fury’ has a tiny bit of wilderness). One small problem: they are all dungeon crawls. These adventures were some of the best, and most dangerous, of all time. It’s fantastic that the Undermountain dungeon (Which adventurers can access via the tavern) is mentioned so many times in those two pages, but it’s NOT IN THE BOOK. Maybe it’s a plug for a future Yawning Portal adventure. But guess what? It’s not! It’s just…there. Why bother with it at all? It’s supposed to be a linking device for the adventures. ‘Tales of the Yawning Portal’? They couldn’t come up with a more inspiring title? And the titular tavern is featured in TWO pages of the book. And all I can say is – WTF WoTC?! Let me explain. Well, I’ve been reading it for a few days now. I’d heard that Wizards of the Coast (WoTC) were updating some of its best known modules to 5e, and was looking forward to it. I received ‘Tales of the Yawning Portal’ the other day, after ordering it from the Book Depository.

Wotc d&d module pdf tales from the yawning portal