D&D 5E Quests From The Infinite Staircase

[Paul Farquhar]

Read up on the Suez Crisis. It was a completely crazy plan that collpased into an ugly mess. When you have both the US and the USSR condemning you, you know you've messed up badly!

It's been on my mind lately because of a certain political figure wanting to reintroduce conscription. A lot of the British troops sent to Egypt where conscripts, and, had he not failed his medical, my dad would have been amongst them.

 

[Parmandur]

Question the Dracolisk is not a monster in this adventure Book, what's in it's place?

Should be in this room in Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.

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An Adult Black Dragon named Calamnus.

 

[Lieslo]

Interested to see what they do with Sion given that there is no Shade in 5e (that I'm aware of)

 

[Parmandur]

Interested to see what they do with Sion given that there is no Shade in 5e (that I'm aware of)

He has a atat block:

 

[Lieslo]

He has a atat block:

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Cool. Glad they kept the dog and raven in also. Thanks for posting

 

[Queer Venger]

Im super excited to run many of these adventures; Im already modding this for our spelljammer campaign

 

[Stormonu]

Just got my copy today. I like the changes made to Barrier Peaks that I've seen so far (the E.G.G. is even still on the map!). Lost City is a gem. A little disappointed with what was done with Pharaoh, but it had some issues that had to be addressed.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

I really only buy the short adventure compilations from WoTC - the big campaign books are of no interest to me, too tied to WotC ideas and very badly structured. I especially enjoyed Yawning Portal and Saltmarsh as conversions of the older adventures, saving me a lot of work.

For the most part, Infinite Staircase is fine - and it has some great art. But oh, geez, the "updating for a new audience" phrase that always hangs over products now like some sort of eldritch harbinger....

Are modern D&D authors allergic to any sort of flavour at all? Reading through the "update"" of Lost City, the awesome pulp-inspired subterranean city of drug-addicted albinos whose only salvation is 3 sex-segregated cults has been turned into a standard D&D city (all D&D races are now in Cynidicea apparently lol) who aren't albino and instead of imbiding the elixir of fantasy merely "have an alliance with myconids"). Instead of the complicated labyrinths below the ziggurat we have a linear series of rooms leading to Zargon.

Alexander and Zenobia's names are changed because for some reason D&D writers have an allergy to real-world names and prefer ones that make no sense etymologically (but for some reason Darius and Demetrius remain, lol)

Luckily I have the Goodman Games version but I pity any new fan for who this is their only experience of Lost City.

I haven't looked through the others in depth, but I am amused of Amun-Ra in the Pharaoh adventure becoming "Amun-Sa", presumably because he was named for an ancient egyptian god... but he retains the god's name "Amun" in his name and "Sa" is another name for "Ptah"! What was the point of that change? I guess I should be grateful he wasn't "Bamun-Sa" or some nonsense.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I really only buy the short adventure compilations from WoTC - the big campaign books are of no interest to me, too tied to WotC ideas and very badly structured. I especially enjoyed Yawning Portal and Saltmarsh as conversions of the older adventures, saving me a lot of work.

For the most part, Infinite Staircase is fine - and it has some great art. But oh, geez, the "updating for a new audience" phrase that always hangs over products now like some sort of eldritch harbinger....

Are modern D&D authors allergic to any sort of flavour at all? Reading through the "update"" of Lost City, the awesome pulp-inspired subterranean city of drug-addicted albinos whose only salvated is 3 sex-segregated cults has been turned into a standard D&D city (all D&D races are now in Cynidicea apparently lol) who aren't albino and instead of imbiding the elixir of fantasy merely "have an alliance with myconids"). Instead of the complicated labyrinths below the ziggurat we have a linear series of rooms leading to Zargon.

Alexander and Zenobia's names are changed because for some reason D&D writers have an allergy to real-world names and prefer ones that make no sense etymologically (but for some reason Darius and Demetrius remain, lol)

Luckily I have the Goodman Old Games version but I pity any new fan for who this is their only experience of Lost City.

I haven't looked through the others in depth, but I am amused of Amun-Ra in the Pharaoh adventure becoming "Amun-Sa", presumably because he was named for an ancient egyptian god... but he retains the god's name "Amun" in his name and "Sa" is another name for "Ptah"! What was the point of that change? I guess I should be grateful he wasn't "Bamun-Sa" or some nonsense.

Nah the new lost City seems better to play from someone who also has the Goodman version.

Amun-Sa we already discussed. His name means something close to heavenly protection. Amun-Ra was the name of a god. Pharaoh’s frequently had parts of the gods names in their names.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Nah the new lost City seems better to play from someone who also has the Goodman version.

Glad "someone" decided that, because I have the Goodman version and I disagree.

Amun-Sa we already discussed. His name means something close to heavenly protection. Amun-Ra was the name of a god. Pharaoh’s frequently had parts of the gods names in their names.

"Amun-Sa" means something, sure, so does "Amun-Ra" or "Amen-Re" or the many different variations. To the shock of no one who understands how language works, most Ancient Egyptian god names are also etymologically derived from words that mean things like "heaven" or "protection". Again, fairly meaningless and pointless change.