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Tales from the Yawning Portal<\/strong> Learn more about Tales from the Yawning Portal here<\/a> This review is being done in two parts. Part 1 is a “captive” review from the standpoint of “Is this book right for me?” Part 2, which will be posted at a later time, is a DM’s review of one of the adventures after running it to get into the “meat” of the book.<\/p>\n Tales from the Yawning Portal<\/em> is a compilation of previously published adventures (each one is listed below). The adventures have been updated for use with 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons<\/strong>. The “Yawning Portal” is the tavern in which the PCs can learn of these adventures before partaking in them.<\/p>\n Seven adventures are presented therein. They are designed to follow the experience progression of the PCs starting at Level 1 and ending with “High-Level Characters”. Not a very definitive character level, but you get it (if you’re already into D&D that is). Each adventure hearkens back to the traditional concepts of Dungeons & Dragons, i.e. dungeon delving. Although not everyone of the adventures is a dungeon per se, they are either a dungeon or something very similar to a dungeon. There is no backstory running throughout; there is no major plot point related to some grand setting; there is nothing to tie one adventure to another. They are simply a collection of dungeon delving adventures that can be linked due to PC experience progression.<\/p>\n One of the benefits of Tales from the Yawning Portal<\/em> is that you get these known adventures of old in a new format, already converted over with everything you need to run them (other than what the DM always needs to run adventures). If you run them as-is, with no overarching storyline, then you’ll likely end up with a very OSR experience. But you don’t have to run them that way; you can run them any way you want. You can cherry-pick from each adventure; each one is described as a location with a look at what’s inside each room, hallway, doorway, etc. You can use it only as a location and place Ms. McGuffin in one room, forcing the PCs to seek it out. You could use it as a base of operations for a much larger encounter. You can even use it as a link within a much larger story arch. That’s the best part of the book; it doesn’t force you into using it one way or another. It just presents the adventures as giant locations filled with potential encounters and intrigue.<\/p>\n There’s little much else to say about the book as a whole. The following is a list of the included adventures and a note about them.<\/p>\n Watch for Part 2 to get a glimpse of one of the included adventures (warning, it will likely contain many spoilers!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tales from the Yawning Portal Tales from the Yawning Portal is an epic fantasy adventure compilation for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, compiled by Kim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1935,169],"tags":[55,336,3521,56],"class_list":["post-48495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-reviews","tag-dungeons-dragons","tag-epic-fantasy","tag-headline","tag-wizards-of-the-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTales from the Yawning Portal is an epic fantasy adventure compilation for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, compiled by Kim Mohan and Mike Mearls and published by Wizards of the Coast.
\nBy Aaron T. Huss<\/em>
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