Dungeons & Dragonsis seeing a beautiful resurgence of bringing classic titles back to life with its fifth edition. Before this,Vecna: Eve of Ruin added the ability for players to revisit classic D&D locationsand bosses in a fiftieth-anniversary celebration. Quests From The Infinite Staircase follows this logic, providing characters and dungeon masters a new look at some classic adventures all the way back from the first edition of Dungeons & Dragons.

These updated adventures allow classic players to experience updated gameplay and those who have just joined with the fifth edition to experience what classic D&D was like. So, what exactly is Quests From The Infinite Staircase? Let’s find out.

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What Is Quests From The Infinite Staircase About?

Quests From the Infinite Staircase is acollection of six classic D&D adventures revived for fifth editionDungeons & Dragons. It’s ananthology of some classic adventureschosen for their unique and iconic features, including monsters, locations, and more.

Adventures are pulledfrom as far back as 1982, with some pulled straightfrom the Dungeons & Dragons Base Setof the time. Players will be transported to the iconic locations through the use of the Infinite Staircase. Each adventure will end with the characters finding a door to the Infinite Staircase, transporting them to the next adventure.

Derro raiders and Zombie Thralls work to clear a pile of stony rubble inside Derro’s lair in DND.

All six adventures are separate; theycan be combined into one campaignor used individually to supplement other campaigns, including your own adventures.

These adventures are also said tocomplement other anthology adventure bookssuch asKeys From the Golden Vaultand Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel. With the Infinite Staircase providing easy transportation to the next world and adventure.

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What Classic Adventures Are Included?

D&D history buffs will be excited to relive the following adventures from the Infinite Staircase.

Description

The Lost City

From the 1982 D&D Base Set, this adventure notes the first appearance of Zargon. A romp through desert ruins brings characters to thesunken city of Cynidicea, where its citizens don masks and devote their lives to ancient gods. Your players will need to survive deadly challenges to oust the ageless evil entombed beneath.

When A Star Falls

Produced in the United Kingdom, this adventure from 1984, featuring the Union Jack flag on the cover, will have the players exploring and investigatingThe Tower of Heavens, where prophecies are foretold. A memory web, a fallen star, and some dangerous groups await them.

Beyond The Crystal Cave

From 1983, this adventure was lauded for its adventureinspired by William Shakespeare. A staple for suggestingnon-combat solutions and exploring the limitless Feywild, where players are recruited for an important rescue mission.

Pharaoh

The first of a three-part series from 1982, your players will need to break the curse of a Pharaoh, whose soul still wanders the desert due to a curse. They’ll need to delve into his tomb to set things straight while keeping their own lives intact. This is the first in theDesert of Desolation seriesfrom the time.

The Lost Caverns Of Tsojcanth

From 1976, this adventure will send players on a quest to find the horde of a ridiculously powerful witch queen before it falls into the wrong hands. Are the wealth, power, and knowledge worth the danger?

Expedition To The Barrier Peaks

From 1976, this adventures throws players in a unique setting as it’s a technologically advanced journey used to introduce thesci-fi game Metamorphosis Alpha. This classic title will have players fighting dangerous robots with malfunctioning AI on a spaceship.

All the adventures have advice for placing them into the major settings of The Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Eberron, and Greyhawk where applicable.

Zargon the Returner growling and covered in slime for DND Quests from the Infinite Staircase.

What Level Is Quest From The Infinite Staircase?

These anthology adventures are meant to take playersfrom level one to level eleven. If the adventures are done together as one short campaign, they each provide enough experience at the end to have player characters appropriately leveled for the next adventure.

1-3

Characters walking up the spiraling set of grand stairs known as the Infinite Staircase in Dungeons & Dragons.

4-5

6

7-8

9-10

11-13

Options for experience are up to the DM, as enough experience is included for players to level up enough for the next adventure, butnarrative milestone story based level advancement optionsare also available.

What Is The Infinite Staircase?

The Infinite Staircase is exactly as it sounds: a magical staircase that can beaccessed by characters as early as level one.

Unlike other magical means of transportation, the Infinite Staircasedoes not require any special spell or magical item to use, and there are no deities, monsters, or otherwise guarding its usage.

The staircase featuresendless doors that lead throughout the multiverse. These doors act as planar portals that players can use to get wherever they need to go. It’s a great tool for connecting separate adventures into a campaign when the locations are in different planes or realms.

This book provides a more in-depth explanation of the Infinite Staircase mentioned in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Several features, includinggravity, weather, and how traversing the stairs works, are all included in Quests From the Infinite Staircase.