That being said, it gets a few things wrong. The maps, oh my god the maps, I can’t talk enough how I love the maps! A big kudo to the art department, from the looks of the monsters, to the maps, great job. WOTC knocked it out of the park once again, with the artwork. The book gets so much right, the ‘About the Original’ blocks, listing maps in the table of contents, and including the magic items and creatures in the appendices.
You are free to do pretty much whatever you would like, use 1 dungeon, or use them all. As I said, before you can place them in your current campaign, or you could if you wanted to start with a new character and just have a great old fashioned dungeon crawl over several weeks, and run them 1 by 1. This is not a story driven book at all, so if you’re looking for that, you should move along, these are just the dungeons. The encounters are balanced, the adventures are all wonderful examples of various kinds of dungeon crawls I think they did a great job with the book. They did a good job of keeping the “feel” of the old-school dungeons here, but still updating them to 5E. I did like there is a good spread of the different types of dungeon’s here, from the introductory dungeon crawl of The Sunless Citadel, to the fun house dungeon and all of the craziness that is White Plume Mountain, to the killer dungeons of Dead in Thay and the Tomb of Horrors, that let’s be honest are just there to provide with that ever so satisfying TPK. 5E has defaulted to the Forgotten Realms as its main setting, each adventure has notes for placing it in various well known settings: They give you tips on how you can do this in the book, where to place, how to place those types of things. This is a great book if you want to run some “one shots” or maybe you want to interject some of these dungeons into your current campaign, be it homebrew, or if you’re playing one of the current story lines.
you can think of it as a “Greatest Hits” collection. Tales from the Yawning Portal is Wizard’s latest release for 5th Edition, a 248-page full color hardcover book featuring four adventures from 1st Edition and two from 3rd Edition that have been updated to 5th Edition, along with one adventure from the D&D Next playtest.
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