This trap-heavy, puzzle-oriented stepped pyramid setting, first appearing in 1979, seemed very much like it was inspired by the opening scenes to Raiders of the Lost Ark except that didn’t come out until 1981. This makes a pretty good follow-up to the Sunless Citadel adventure. Players explore the five levels of ruins for legendary weapons forged by the great dwarven smith Durgeddin the Black. It’s a full, rich story with a variety of types of monster encounters and other challenges.Ī dungeon crawler adventure also originally published in 2000 for 3rd edition, Forge of Fury introduced the dwarven stronghold of Khundrukar which had been taken over by orcs, trolls, goblins, and the like. In this adventure, players explore a sunken citadel, mysterious groves, cursed trees and deal with a mad druid and a whole mess of bizarre creatures. This was a 2000 release and one of the most popular for 3rd edition–particularly as an introductory module. It’s just set up as a base location the adventures themselves are all suitable for individual play or insertion into another campaign. The book starts out with a few pages introducing The Yawning Portal, an inn located in Waterdeep in the Forgotten Realms. After 40 years for at least one of these adventures, that’s a pretty impressive feat.
All have been updated to 5th Edition rules, mechanics, and combat, but still faithfully hold the flavor of the originals. Tales from the Yawning Portal takes seven (or nine depending on how you count them) modules from the late 70s and early 80s era of AD&D–the version I cut my teeth on, two from 3rd edition D&D, and the play test module for D&D Next (which became 5th edition).
When I heard that Wizards of the Coast was releasing Tales from the Yawning Portal, a collection of mostly classic Dungeons & Dragons modules, I was, at first, surprised this was coming so close on the heels of the blitz that was the release of Storm King’s Thunder, but then I saw exactly what some of those classic modules were and I was ecstatic.
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