Quests from the Infinite Staircase
| Quests from the Infinite Staircase | |
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 The cover—art by Syd Miller. | |
| General information | |
| Type: | Adventure anthology |
| Code/Abbr.: | QftIS |
| Edition: | Fifth edition |
| Creators | |
| Author: | Justice Ramin Arman |
| Editor(s): | Judy Bauer, Eytan Bernstein, Michele Carter, Janica Carter, Laura Hirsbrunner, Sadie Lowry, Patrick Renie |
| Cover artist: | Syd Miller, Alt cover:John Patrick Gañas |
| Interior artist(s): | Hazem Ameen, Luca Bancone, Mark Behm, Eric Belisle, Olivier Bernard, Zoltan Boros, Zezhou Chen, Daniel Corona, CoupleOfKooks, Axel Defois, Julie Dillon, Olga Drebas, Tomas Duchek, Craig Elliott, Victor Ferraz, Jaqueline Florencio, Jessica Fong, Michele Giorgi, Kevin Glint, Alexandre Honoré, Adrián Ibarra Lugo, Dario Jelusic, Jane Katsubo, Katerina Ladon, Yuliya Litvinova, Titus Lunter, Marie Magny, Dave Melvin, Martin Mottet, Irina Nordsol, One Pixel Brush, Hinchel Or, Alejandro Pacheco, PINDURSKI, Andrea Piparo, Arash Radkia, Noor Rahman, Tooba Rezaei, Cyprien Rousson, Taras Susak, Kamila Szutenberg, Matias Tapia, Brian Valeza, Zuzanna Wuzyk |
| Publishing info | |
| Publisher: | WotC |
| Publish date: | 16 July 2024 |
| Misc | |
| Pages: | 256 |
| ISBN: | 0-7869-6949-0 |
| Class: | Officially published material |
Quests from the Infinite Staircase is an adventure anthology for fifth edition, published in July 2024. It updates and adapts six well-known adventurers from earlier editions: The Lost City, When a Star Falls, Beyond the Crystal Cave, Pharaoh, The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, and Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, suiting player-characters of levels 1 to 13. These use the Infinite Staircase (a famous feature linking various planes) to tie the stories together.
Cover blurb
[edit | edit source]The back cover description—
"Step through a Door to Adventure
The Infinite Staircase spirals in a dreamlike expanse, with doors leading to fantastic realms. It's home to the noble genie Nafas, who hears wishes made throughout the multiverse and recruits heroes to fulfill them. These pleas summon adventurers to lost caverns suffused with planar energy, fairytale gardens in the Feywild, futuristic spaceships, and other wondrous locales.
This anthology weaves together six classic Dungeons & Dragons® adventures while updating them for the game's fifth edition. You can run these quests individually or as a campaign that takes characters from level 1 to level 13."
Contents
[edit | edit source]This anthology takes adventurers across multiple planes, via a demiplane which spans the multiverse, touching every other plane of existence.[1]
- Ch.1—The Infinite Staircase
The six classic adventures included in this source, updated for fifth edition, are:
- Ch.2—The Lost City
- Ch.3—When a Star Falls
- Ch.4—Beyond the Crystal Cave
- Ch.5—Pharaoh
- Ch.6—The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
- Ch.7—Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
Plot summary
[edit | edit source]"A cosmic thread pervades these tales, whose stories involve falling stars, archmages of multiversal renown, and the remnants of futuristic societies.
This book provides a means of traveling between these and other adventures: the Infinite Staircase. Unlike spells such as Plane Shift, the staircase can be accessed by characters of any class or level. It merely requires happening on the right door.
The adventures in Quests from the Infinite Staircase can be worked into ongoing campaigns. Additionally, these adventures complement those in other D&D anthologies [...] —you can use the staircase to ferry the characters between the worlds in which those quests take place."[2]
Publishing history
[edit | edit source]The digital version of Quests from the Infinite Staircase released on DnDBeyond on 2 July 2024, and the physical book was released 16 July 2024.[3]
Reception
[edit | edit source]A review for Screen Rant noted the modular structure of the adventures and their futuristic tone. The adventures are described as short and suited for dungeon crawling. The review praised the art work but ranked the anthology below Keys from the Golden Vault.[4]
A review for Wargamer similarly described the adventures as "vintage 1980s dungeon crawls" heavy on combat, however it also noted that the modifications improved balance and storytelling. It notes that Beyond the Crystal Cave can be completed without combat. The reviewer states that the adventures and the motivation for players to act can feel erratic.[5]
References
[edit | edit source]Notes
[edit | edit source]Citations
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Quests from the Infinite Staircase (2024), p.7.
- ↑ Quests from the Infinite Staircase (2024), Introduction:Using This Book.
- ↑ Delano, Ollie (8 July 2024). Quests from the Infinite Staircase: DnD Anthology (Deep Dive). DungeonsAndDragonsFanatics.com. Retrieved on 2 August 2024.
- ↑ King, Austin (2024-07-16). D&D: Quests From The Infinite Staircase Review. Screen Rant.
- ↑ Russell, Mollie (2024-07-11). Quests from the Infinite Staircase review - a worthwhile climb. Wargamer.
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- * Armin, Justice Ramin . Quests from the Infinite Staircase. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2024. ISBN 0-7869-6949-0
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