Some of the cursed items are at a level of evil that only Gary Gygax could muster, the Stone of Ill Luck is pure genius! There are 15 new magic items and 39 new creatures/characters for DMs to use. These adventures can be used as one shots or side quests for your campaign, you could even run them back-to-back and use Durnan as a quest giving node.

The book gives you the background of the Undermountain, Durnan and his bar: The Yawning Portal. There are recommended level ranges for each of the adventures which gives you an idea of how you can use them. They have all been converted to the 5th Edition rules so we can take a shot at some of the most iconic, deadly or famous dungeons in the history of D&D. This book contains: The Sunless Citadel, The Forge of Fury, The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan, White Plume Mountain, Dead in Thay, Against the Giants and Tomb of Horrors. However, TftYP is the deadliest dungeons in history, so it’s already going to be a bit weird for a new group to try to play through.Coming in at 248 pages, with 7 classic adventures from as early as 1975, an adventure node, Forgotten Realms lore and a host of new enemies and magical items there's a lot to break down here! The only problem with that last method is that if the group is new to D&D, it’s going to be a bit weird, since it’s not a conventional campaign structure. That way, you really capture that these are “tales from the Yawning Portal.” “Oh, did you hear the story about when they went to the Sunless Citadel?” (play the adventure) “Sure, that’s a good one, but I heard they were the ones that cleared out Khundrukar, the Forge of Fury.” (play the adventure) and so on and so forth. Have some people sitting around in the Yawning Portal telling stories they heard about the adventurers. Instead of having the adventurers go off and explore, instead have the adventurers be tall tales or legends.

Run it together, but with a cheat way to link them.Plus, the whole gimmick is that they’re the deadliest dungeons in D&D’s history, so that might not make for a great campaign. It’s also not necessarily the best idea, since some of them have their own little plots, and they don’t really link well at all. Try to link it together into one adventure.I’ve devised three different ways to run it:

Running tales from the yawning portal