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Writing a Latest releases entry
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 * AUTHOR: The author(s) of the source.
 * Text summary: Enter a brief summary describing the source. The source's blurb or information from the publisher may be used here.

Current Latest releases
Tomb of Annihilation is an adventure module for 5th-edition Dungeons & Dragons set in the Forgotten Realms. It sees the players explore Chult and pits them against the infamous archlich Acererak. "Dare to defy death in this adventure for the world's greatest roleplaying game.

The talk of the streets and taverns has all been about the so-called death curse: a wasting disease afflicting everyone who's ever been raised from the dead. Victims grow thinner and weaker each day, slowly but steadily sliding toward the death they once denied.

When they finally succumb, they can't be raised—and neither can anyone else, regardless of whether they’ve ever received that miracle in the past. Temples and scholars of divine magic are at a loss to explain a curse that has affected the entire region, and possibly the entire world.

The cause is a necromantic artifact called the Soulmonger, which is located somewhere in Chult, a mysterious peninsula far to the south, ringed with mountains and choked with rainforests."

(Read more...) Dragon+ #15 was released on August 31, 2017.

The issue presents more previews to the just-released adventure Tomb of Annihilation, as well as to the associated board game, the Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation video game, and module for the Neverwinter video game. It even includes maps and travel posts for Chult.

It also gives a sample of the Frost Giant's Fury #4 comic and the first part of the short story "Qawasha & Kupalue" by Adam Lee. (Read more...)