These seven stories have been told over the last 39 years, from the Tomb of Horros created in 1978 by Gary Gygax to Dead in Thay written for the 2014 playtesting that led to 5e as we know it, these stories are both classics and fresh. The adventures in Tales From the Yawning Portal aren’t brand-new content, which is great-in this case. ‘The Sunless Citadel’ is one of the seven great adventures included.Ħ. Lakes, shrines, dungeons, keeps, strongholds, prisons, and more await your excuse to use them, each detailed with dynamic details that react to how your players behave, true to the 5e standard. There are dozens of maps waiting in the pages of Tales From the Yawning Portal, most designed for DMs’ eyes only, and some for players to look over. Image: Rory BristolĪnyone who has drawn up an entire dungeon can sympathize with the hours it takes to create a map-and you might only use it once! Once again, we are saved by the book. If your player can’t find the story here, they won’t find it anywhere. This fantastic inn is built over a dungeon, owned by a seasoned adventurer, and begs for stories to be told. The Yawning Portal (after which the book is named) is the ideal starting place for thousands of stories by nature of being what (and where) it is. The hard part, though, is making something unique. If your players really want to chase the story, they will. Creating a good story hook is critical for preventing this. It can be frustrating to set up a dungeon crawl, just to have a headstrong character run the other direction. Image: Rory BristolĮven seasoned DMs run into trouble sometimes with generating a plot hook for their players.
That’s one of the key parts of good storytelling. When you can surprise those players, it feels like a win. This is really good for players who meta-game (using information their character wouldn’t know), breaking the mood. Tales From the Yawning Portal introduces dozens unique items, monsters, and NPCs which allows the DM to slip some tricks up their sleeve. When your players know what every monster, magic item, and trap is made of, it’s hard to challenge them with something new and bewildering. Many DMs, including myself, are faced with the challenge of their players having all the resources. We want to challenge (and surprise!) our players. Add in the quirks of your world as you go-and it will be easier to bring your world to life, because the dungeons are already set up for you to start.ģ. Using the book gives your world a story to start with. Okay, I just made that last one up for effect, but my point remains.
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Tales From the Yawning Portal includes seven full adventures which can be set in any world-even the Plane of Bizorxiccs, Land of Cotton Candy. The challenge is in balancing the world with fun for your players. We don’t put hours into our world for nothing-we want to bring that world to life. Many new DMs want to put their extraordinary worlds on display. DMs shouldn’t have to reinvent the world to have a great game. Tales From the Yawning Portal starts at ground zero and helps you tell your story from the beginning.Ģ. The seeds of an infinite number of worlds are at your hands, but there’s no sapling.
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The Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual are full-up on theory, but lack story.
New DMs start with very little story guidance. Durnan is the proprietor of The Yawning Portal.
There are 10 reasons the newly-released Tales From the Yawning Portal is perfect for new DMs who wish to avoid some of the classic mistakes that sometimes destroy their first campaign. But it doesn’t have to be that way, does it? Now that I’m on the “parent” side, I prefer to give new DMs somewhere to start, a nudge in the right direction. My first campaign ended in literal tears with an accidental total party death, because I focused on all the wrong things. For most of us, it’s a matter of fumbling our way through things and making a lot of mistakes.
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