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Dungeons, dragons, bright swords, the chiming of mail hauberks, and the hewing of Orcs.

Brown ink on parchment pages, cloth maps and pewter charms, iron rations and gathered reagents for spell components. Hirelings and sages; rumors over mulled wine and thick brown ale with hard cheese and sausage on a wooden trencher. Foggy forests dripping with tree rain and yellow-gold leaves and pine needles trod into the rich soil.

Ultima III, IV and V; Ultima Underground; Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II.

Looking for 4-5 characters of 1st level. This adventure is designed to take player characters up to 5th level by its completion. Nominally set in the Forgotten Realms, I've decided to place it in (1357 DR, the timeframe of the 1st Edition Grey Box / the World of Greyhawk). I haven't read the novels or anything like that, so I can't promise to cleave rigidly to established canon; I reserve the right to modify or ignore stuff.

That also pertains to the module itself. I'm running the introductory adventure from the D&D 5e Starter Set, but I'll be making tweaks and adjustments here and there, to suit my tastes and to adapt clever ideas that others have suggested on blogs and the like.

I'm still fairly new to D&D 5e, and this will be my first time DMing it. Judging by my experiences in D&D Adventurers League, I would say that 5th Edition has a bit of an old school feel when it comes to character mortality; it's pretty easy for a 1st-level character to die, so I advise caution. Some of this is mitigated by Inspiration, which you can earn by acting in accordance with your character's Ideals, Bonds and Flaws. I encourage you to do so, and if you think one of your fellow players played to their traits with particular aplomb or dramatic appropriateness in a particular scene, nominate them for Inspiration!

The adventure begins with the assumption that you are all associates (in some way) of a Dwarf named Gundren Rockseeker, who has hired you to convey a wagon full of goods on his behalf from the city of Neverwinter to the frontier town of Phandalin.