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System: Dungeons and Dragons 5e
Levels: 1 – 13 
Author: Wizards RPG Team 
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast 
Publication Date: 2024-07-15 
Format: Hardcover 
Page Count: 224 
ISBN-13: 978-0-7869-6949-4 
Price: $49.95
 
Product Blurb
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 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.

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Adventures

Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Adventurer Levels 1-13
Adventure Tier 1, 2, 3
Summary: All quests in the book

Creatures in Quests from the Infinite Staircase

344 creature in Quests from the Infinite Staircase.


The Lost City

The Lost City
Adventurer Levels 1-4
Adventure Tier 1
Summary: A dungeon delve with a dose of intrigue. While in the desert, the characters discover a ruined ziggurat peeking over the dunes. Inside the monument, they encounter three bickering factions of Cynidiceans who seek to reinstate their once-proud kingdom. Characters can align with one or more factions, reaping the rewards of membership at the risk of ostracizing rival groups.

Original: The Lost City (1e) (1982) by Tomm Moldvay.

Creatures in The Lost City

72 creature in The Lost City.

When a Star Falls

When a Star Falls
Adventurer Levels 4-6
Adventure Tier 1, 2
Summary: For centuries, the Tower of the Heavens has stood silhouetted against the glittering night sky. The tower is a bastion of destiny where gifted sages peer into the future, doling out prophecies to visitors. When one such sage foresees a falling star, it sets in motion a series of events that threatens to put the power of prophecy into dangerous hands.

Original: When a Star Falls (1984) by Graeme Morris.

Creatures in When a Star Falls

70 creature in When a Star Falls.

Beyond the Crystal Cave

Pharaoh

Pharaoh
Adventurer Levels 7-9
Adventure Tier 2
Summary:

Original

[  Quests from the Infinite Staircase]
 
System: Dungeons and Dragons 1e
Levels: 5 – 7 
Author: Tracy Hickman, Laura Hickman 
Publisher: TSR 
Item Code: 9052 
Publication Date: 1982 
Format: Paperback 
Page Count: 32 
ISBN-10: 0-88038-007-1
 
Product Blurb
Your skin was blistered all day before the hot desert sun sank slowly below the horizon. Now, the deep blue mists of the desert night swirl about you in the lazy wind. The cool night air seems to soak up the heat of the endless desert sands. You shiver as you and your friends huddle around your campfire, glancing nervously at the giant pyramid in the distance. There is an eerie and mysterious feeling about that place. Gradually, the winds change direction, carrying a thin streak of white mist that swirls into the shape of a faceless man dressed in ancient robes. The moonlight seems to shine through him as he raises his arms toward the pyramid and speaks. "I am the Pharoah Amun-re, son of Takosh-re of the House of Mo-pelar. I am now only a shadow who has walked these sands for a thousand years in search of wise and mighty warriors to break into my pyramid and plunder my tomb." The winds shift again; his robes begin to swirl about him and he fades back into the mists and winds. Why does this desert spirit want you to plunder his tomb? Can you survive the challenges of a pyramid that has stood for a thousand years? Or are you being led into a trap?
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Plot Summary

The original Daystar West edition of the scenario involves a tomb which is rumored to be theft-proof. At the start of the adventure, the player characters are confronted by the ghost of a long-dead Pharaoh, cursed to wander the sands of his now-deserted land for time on end, in search of the ones who can break the curse and free him from this world. The characters soon find themselves searching for items which will end the curse and bring them wealth and power. There are five levels to explore in the pyramid, and a large exterior temple. The TSR version of Pharaoh is an Egyptian-styled adventure that includes a pyramid map and a trap-filled maze. In Pharaoh, the player characters (PCs) are driven into the desert for a crime they did not commit. The characters journey to the sunken city of Pazar and from there must travel to the haunted tomb of an ancient pharaoh. While in the desert, the characters encounter the spirit of Amun-Re, a pharaoh cursed to wander the desert until his tomb is robbed. Amun-Re begs the PCs to remove his staff of ruling and Star Gem from his tomb to break his curse. The tomb was built to be thief-proof and has so far lived up to its reputation. While in Amun-Re's pyramid, the characters can use an item called the dome of flight to control or reverse gravity; carelessness can cause them to fall upwards. The palm trees in this room bear exploding fruit. The characters also encounter a maze with numerous traps. The module contains wilderness maps, and a number of smaller adventures as well.

Publication History

In 1977, Tracy Hickman (co-creator of the Dragonlance campaign setting) and Laura Hickman were married. Soon after, while living in Provo, Utah, they wrote the adventures Pharaoh and Ravenloft. The Hickmans decided to privately publish the first two adventures they had designed together, Rahasia and Pharaoh, which earned them a reputation on a local level. Pharaoh was published as part of the "Night Ventures" line of scenarios in 1980, by DayStar West Media Productions, as a sixty-eight-page book. The module was designed to be played and completed with a satisfactory conclusion with a couple of sessions of playing time. However, disaster struck when Tracy went into business with an associate who went bad, leaving the Hickmans to cover thirty-thousand dollars in bad checks. They were driven into bankruptcy, and Tracy Hickman decided to sell their modules to TSR, "literally so that I could buy shoes for my children". TSR decided not only to buy the modules, but hire Tracy as a game designer: "They said it would be easier to publish my adventures if I was part of the company. So, we made the move from Utah to Wisconsin." In 1982, TSR published Pharaoh as a thirty-two-page booklet with two outer folders, for the first edition of AD&D. It was designed for 6-8 player characters of levels 5-7 and formed the first of the three-part Desert of Desolation module series. The cover art for Pharaoh was provided by Jim Holloway. Tracy Hickman noted that the module Pharaoh can teach positive lessons about the concepts of good to youth, saying of the eponymous Pharaoh character, the "apparent misery to which this figure was condemned by his own lust for wealth continues to teach the value of deeds over possessions to all who play that game today.


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Creatures in Pharaoh

52 creature in Pharaoh.

The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
Adventurer Levels 11-13
Adventure Tier 3
Summary: In this cross-genre adventure, the characters arrive at the site of the crashed spaceship. They explore the wreckage; contend with its occupants; and meet the ship’s integrated intelligence, an initially friendly but ultimately evil supercomputer named Aphelion

Original: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks (1980) by Gary Gygax.

Creatures in Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

63 creature in Expedition to the Barrier Peaks.

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