The background of the adventure is that a vampire was once staked with a still-living sapling, which then grew into an evil, magical tree! That alone sells it for me it’s such a wonderfully wicked and new idea (at the time when it was published, anyway).
Why The Sunless Citadel is an exceptional D&D adventure, in my opinion (spoilers for a 20 year old adventure!): I have a lesser opinion of the follow-up, The Forge of Fury, which is also in Tales and is more by-the-numbers in nature. A Good Place to StartĪs it happened, I had already been looking into adapting the 3e adventure to 5e before I discovered that Wizard of the Coast had already done so! (I am a latecomer to 5e, having been tied up in a Pathfinder campaign for many years) The Sunless Citadel is a good introductory adventure in my mind, and well-designed adventure in general. Antony (the clerics’ player) and Dante (Aakif’s player) had not played through the Citadel before. As an added treat, Drew had purchased the assets for the adventure in, a virtual tabletop website, so we would be able to play with some visual aids.īill (Orseen’s player) and I were familiar with the adventure, but resolved to not let that knowledge intrude upon the game. With the Kingmaker campaign concluded, I decided to take a well-deserved but hopefully brief break from GMing, and Drew (Satampra’s player in the Kingmaker game) took over to run the 5e conversion of The Sunless Citadel found in Tales from the Yawning Portal, a collection of 5e adaptations of adventures from earlier editions. That game ended up running weekly for a couple of years, ending with the PCs at 21st level, and was my first actual successful experience DMing a long-running campaign.
#D&d 5e tales from the yawning portal series
I had started that one off with The Sunless Citadel, the 1st “official” published adventure for 3E and part of a loose proto-“adventure path” that went from 1st to 20th level (I also made use of The Speaker in Dreams and Heart of Nightfang Spire from the same series of adventures in that campaign). Before my Kingmaker campaign, the longest campaign that I had ever GM’d (D&D or otherwise) was a 3rd edition D&D game set in Eberron.
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