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Descent into the Depths of the Earth

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Descent Into the Depths of the Earth[2] is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy roleplaying game coded D1–2. It was written by Gary Gygax, and combines two previously published modules from 1978, the original Descent into the Depths of the Earth and Shrine of the Kuo-Toa. A sequel to the first two modules, Vault of the Drow, was also published in 1978. All of these D-series modules were produced for use with the 1st edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) rules.

Descent into the Depths of the Earth
The cover of the 1981 Descent into the Depths of the Earth compilation module, with art by Jim Roslof. The artwork depicts a party of adventurers fighting a band of kuo-toa.
CodeD1–2, D3
TSR product code9059, 9021
Rules requiredAdvanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition
Character levels9–14,[1] 10–14
Campaign settingGreyhawk
AuthorsGary Gygax
First published1978
Linked modules
G1 G2 G3 D1 D2 D3 Q1

The D-series itself is part of a larger overall campaign of adventures set in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting. The overall campaign begins with the three modules in the Against the Giants series, continues through the D-series, and concludes with module Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits. The latter segments of the campaign, including the D-series and module Q1, are set in a vast network of caverns and tunnels called the Underdark.

Plot summary Edit

The plot of the original modules Descent Into the Depths of the Earth and Shrine of the Kuo-Toa places a party of player characters (PCs) on the trail of the drow priestess Eclavdra through the Underdark,[3] a vast subterranean network of interconnected caverns and tunnels,[4] battling various creatures on their journey.

In the last module in the preceding G-series, Hall of the Fire Giant King, the PCs were supposed to have discovered that the drow had instigated the alliance between the races of giants and their attacks on neighboring humans. The drow that survived the party's incursion have fled into tunnels leading deep into the earth.[5] The adventurers will have arrived at the bottom of the dungeon below the cave-castle of King Snurre.[6] In D1 Descent Into the Depths of the Earth, the PCs seek the home of the drow by traveling through an underground world of caves and passages.[7] In the tunnels, the adventurers first fight a tough drow patrol, and the next major fight is with a raiding party of mind flayers and wererats, who have halted their patrol long enough to torture their drow prisoner.[6] The characters also find a grand cavern containing drow soldiers, purple worms, a lich, a clutch of undead, a giant slug, sphinxes, trolls, bugbears, troglodytes, wyverns, and fungi.[6]

D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa picks up with the party continuing to pursue the drow. The party encounters a kuo-toan rogue monitor who helps them cross a large river for a fee. A party of Svirfneblin (or deep gnomes) approaches the player characters on the other side, and the party has a chance to convince them to help them fight against the drow. As the party travels, signs of the drow are all around; the drow are allowed to pass through these subterranean areas, even though they are hated and feared by the other local intelligent races. The party then moves through kuo-toa territory, ruled by the Priest-Prince Va-Guulgh. If the PCs appease the kuo-toa and respect their customs, the evil kuo-toa are not openly hostile to the party, but will attack if the party gives them a reason. The party learns that the drow and kuo-toa trade with each other openly, but the kuo-toa hate and fear the drow, resulting in frequent skirmishes between the two peoples.

D3 Vault of the Drow is set in Erelhei-Cinlu, an underground stronghold of the drow, and the Fane of Lolth, their evil spider-goddess.[7] After traveling for league after league into the Underdark, the adventurers come upon Erelhei-Cinlu, the vast subterranean city of the drow. The adventure is written in a very open-ended fashion, giving the Dungeon Master (DM) free rein to script any number of mini-campaigns or adventures taking place inside the drow capital. An extensive overview of the drow power structure is given for just this purpose. Eventually, the players may discover an astral gate leading to the plane of the Abyss, leading into the Q1 module.[8]

Publication history Edit

The original modules Descent Into the Depths of the Earth and Shrine of the Kuo-Toa were both written by Gary Gygax and published by TSR, Inc. in 1978.[5][9] Gygax had recently finished the Player's Handbook (1978), and according to Gygax, he authored the D series "as sort of a relaxation to get away from writing rules".[10] Descent Into the Depths of the Earth, the first module of the D-series, was printed as a sixteen-page booklet, and Shrine of the Kuo-Toa, second of the three-part D-series was twenty pages; both featured an outer folder.[7] Both modules were released before the Dungeon Masters Guide and Players Handbook.[6] Both modules were reprinted in the omnibus collection D1-2 Descent Into the Depths in 1981, as a 32-page booklet with an outer folder.[6][7] The original versions of the D1 and D2 modules both featured monochrome cover artwork by David C. Sutherland III, but the 1981 compilation was released with a color cover illustrated by Jim Roslof. Sutherland's interior artwork from the original two publications was included in the compilation, as was that of David A. Trampier. Other artists whose work appears inside the compilation include Jeff Dee, Erol Otus, David S. LaForce, Bill Willingham and Roslof.[2][5][9]

Vault of the Drow, also by Gygax and the last of the D-series, was also originally published in 1978 as a 32-page booklet with a two-color outer cover.[7] The original printing featured monochrome cover artwork by David C. Sutherland III.[citation needed] In 1981, TSR re-issued the adventure with a new color cover.[7] D3 was re-released to coincide with the release of the D1-2 compilation Descent into the Depths of the Earth. Since the D1-2 compilation featured color cover artwork, Erol Otus was tasked with creating a new color cover for D3 as well. Sutherland's interior artwork was retained, and other interior artists for the module include Jeff Dee, David S. LaForce, David A. Trampier, and Otus. The entire campaign was eventually combined into a supermodule GDQ1-7 - Queen of the Spiders.[7][8][11]

The modules were designed as a sequel to the G-series of modules.[1] At the time these modules were released, each Dungeons & Dragons module was marked with an alphanumeric code indicating the series to which it belonged.[12] The D in the module code represents the first letter in the word Drow.[13] According to a Wired.com article, the D-series "introduced the world to the concept of the dark elves."[14] Game statistics for the Drow first appear in the module,[3] although the 1977 edition of the Monster Manual does mention the Drow.[15]

The D-series is part of a larger overall campaign of adventures set in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting. The overall campaign begins with the three modules in the G1–3 Against the Giants series, continues through the D-series, and concludes with module Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits.[16] The latter segments of the campaign, including the D-series and module Q1, are set in a vast network of caverns and tunnels called the Underdark. The entire campaign was eventually combined into a supermodule GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders. Descent into the Depths of the Earth was the basis for a 2000 novel of the same title by Paul Kidd.[17]

The original TSR product codes for modules D1, D2, and D3 are 9019, 9020, and 9021 respectively (9021 being reused for the new Erol Otus cover with the blue background).

Reception Edit

When combined with the G-series and Q module as the Queen of the Spiders, the D-series was voted the single greatest adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004.[3] Reviewer Alan Kohler said, "The Underdark has become a classic place to set adventures... This is where it all got started."[3] According to the editors, Vault of the Drow would have made the top five if it had been considered as a single module. They felt the Drow city detailed in the module offered "more intrigue" than any module previously. Judge Clark Peterson compared it favorably to City State of the Invincible Overlord, which also had a complicated city environment, saying "this was an underground city of evil monsters—the Drow, who, then, were new and mysterious as opposed to tired and overused as they are today."[3] Dungeon Master for Dummies lists Descent into the Depths of the Earth as one of the ten best classic adventures, noting that it takes "the player characters into the underground world of the Drow—the wildly popular dark elves of D&D lore."[1]

The series has received considerable praise. It was reviewed by Don Turnbull in British RPG magazine White Dwarf No. 11, who gave it 10 out of 10. He compared the series favorably to the G series of modules, which he also liked. Turnbull commented that the scope was large, and that the modules were of good value. Although D3 can be played by itself, he speculated that the party of characters may need the magic items that can be acquired in the first two to not be put at a disadvantage. Turnbull did lament that the series was designed for parties of a high level, making it difficult to use with a group of lower level characters. He concluded the review by saying "don't be surprised if they eclipse in quality most of the material you already have."[18] All three modules are also profiled in Heroic Worlds, Lawrence Schick's 1991 guide to role-playing games.[7]

The D-series of modules was also given an extensive overview review by Turnbull in issue No. 15 of White Dwarf, wherein he cautioned DMs that running these modules was unlike any they had run before. He commented that the adventure would be too difficult for most groups of player characters, and speculated that buyers wouldn't actually play the modules because it would take a lot of sessions to finish. He did run the adventure himself, though. He recommended using miniatures on a grid, because some of the battles involved so many characters and monsters. He also recommended rolling the dice for various encounters in advance. Although some such work would be wasted when the players chose one route over another, "it will be worth the effort." He also thought that planning enemy tactics in advance was a good idea, providing an example of how to do so using the Drow outpost from D1, as well as other encounters.[19]

He noted that while some DMs may ban psionics in their games, if they don't allow the creatures in section M12 of D1 to use them, the game will be unbalanced in favor of the players. Although he hadn't run D3 at the time of writing the article, he wrote that the thought of planning some of its encounters "brings me out in perspiration." The power levels of his regular players' characters were insufficient for the adventure, so he gave them pre-generated ones. Although he felt the magical weapons he gave these characters were too powerful, he warned that giving weapons that are too weak would be a bigger problem. He also recommended many healing spells and potions.[19]

Overall, he enjoyed playing the modules, despite wishing he had prepared more, and thought that his players also enjoyed the experience. He hoped that people would not be scared to use the modules because of their difficulty. In summary, he said "I can give no higher praise to these designs than to say they are as good as anyone is likely to meet, and better than almost everything else I've seen."[19]

Reviewer Anders Swenson reviewed the D1–2 Descent into the Depths of the Earth compilation in 1982 for Different Worlds #21. Swenson noted that purchasers of adventure publications had come to expect longer texts for the given price, so that the two adventures had been combined into one format; redundant text was eliminated, and new illustrations were added to fill the resultant gaps in layout. He was perplexed by all of the creatures found in the grand cavern area originally found in module D1: "All these creatures are apparently expected to do nothing but sit in their caves and wait to be attacked, for they would certainly defeat any moderately tough adventurer party specified by the author if they all tried a massed and well-coordinated attack."[6] He also wondered about the placement of the kuo-toan shrine: "There is great hostility between the Kuo Toa and the Drow, so it is surprising to find the main Kuo Toa stronghold in the middle of a thoroughfare used by the Drow as a main route. It is also surprising to find the Kuo Toa still in business, given the seeming superior military power of the Drow, but who knows?"[6] Anders felt that the adventures contained a great deal of imaginative material, "but while the writing style is by no means poor, the combination of florid prose and new ideas makes a text which is relatively difficult to read. Gygax does not make a regular practice of organizing his text to help the poor GM pick out the important information quickly."[6] However, Swenson concluded that this is overall a worthwhile adventure. "The plot is interesting, and everything is well detailed. Aside from the problems I have already noted, the adventures are interesting and generally of superior quality."[6]

References Edit

  1. ^ a b c Slavicsek, Bill; Baker, Rich; Grubb, Jeff (2006). Dungeon Master For Dummies. For Dummies. p. 320. ISBN 978-0-471-78330-5. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
  2. ^ a b Gygax, Gary (1981). Descent into the Depths of the Earth. TSR, Inc. ISBN 0-935696-60-1. 9059.
  3. ^ a b c d e Mona, Erik; Jacobs, James; et al. (November 2004). "The 30 Greatest D&D Adventures of All Time". Dungeon. Paizo Publishing (116): 72. ISSN 0265-8712.
  4. ^ Jacobs, James. . Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on August 22, 2004. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
  5. ^ a b c Gygax, Gary (1978). Descent into the Depths of the Earth. TSR, Inc. 9019.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i Swenson, Anders (June 1982). "Reviews". Different Worlds. Chaosium (21): 38–39.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 89. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
  8. ^ a b Gygax, Gary (1978). Vault of the Drow. TSR, Inc. p. 32. ISBN 0-935696-07-5. 9021.
  9. ^ a b Gygax, Gary (1978). Shrine of the Kuo-Toa. TSR, Inc. ISBN 0-935696-06-7. 9020.
  10. ^ Rausch, Allen (2004-08-16). "Gary Gygax Interview-Part 2". GameSpy. Retrieved 2007-04-03.
  11. ^ Gygax, Gary (1980). Vault of the Drow. TSR. ISBN 978-0-394-51182-5.
  12. ^ . Wizards of the Coast. 2003. Archived from the original on August 18, 2000. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
  13. ^ . wizards.com. Archived from the original on April 29, 2001. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
  14. ^ Denmead, Ken (January 4, 2008). . Wired. Archived from the original on July 20, 2009. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
  15. ^ Gygax, Gary (1977,1978). Advanced D&D Monster Manual. TSR. p.39. ISBN 0-935696-00-8.
  16. ^ Baur, Wolfgang; Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel (2007). . Wizards of the Coast. p. Introduction. ISBN 978-0-7869-4038-7. Archived from the original on April 15, 2007.
  17. ^ Kidd, Paul (2000). Descent into the Depths of the Earth. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-1635-4.
  18. ^ Turnbull, Don (Feb–Mar 1979). "Open Box: Dungeon Modules". White Dwarf. Games Workshop (11): 20. ISSN 0265-8712.
  19. ^ a b c Turnbull, Don (October–November 1979). "Descent into the Depths of the Earth: Running the new TSR D modules". White Dwarf. Games Workshop (15): 19. ISSN 0265-8712.

External links Edit

  • Drow Series at Acaeum.com
  • at the Pen & Paper RPG Database
  • at the Pen & Paper RPG Database
  • at the Pen & Paper RPG Database
  • RPG.net review of D1 Descent into the Depths of the Earth
  • RPG.net review of D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa

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Descent Into the Depths of the Earth 2 is an adventure module for the Dungeons amp Dragons D amp D fantasy roleplaying game coded D1 2 It was written by Gary Gygax and combines two previously published modules from 1978 the original Descent into the Depths of the Earth and Shrine of the Kuo Toa A sequel to the first two modules Vault of the Drow was also published in 1978 All of these D series modules were produced for use with the 1st edition Advanced Dungeons amp Dragons AD amp D rules Descent into the Depths of the EarthThe cover of the 1981 Descent into the Depths of the Earth compilation module with art by Jim Roslof The artwork depicts a party of adventurers fighting a band of kuo toa CodeD1 2 D3TSR product code9059 9021Rules requiredAdvanced Dungeons amp Dragons 1st editionCharacter levels9 14 1 10 14Campaign settingGreyhawkAuthorsGary GygaxFirst published1978Linked modulesG1 G2 G3 D1 D2 D3 Q1The D series itself is part of a larger overall campaign of adventures set in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting The overall campaign begins with the three modules in the Against the Giants series continues through the D series and concludes with module Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits The latter segments of the campaign including the D series and module Q1 are set in a vast network of caverns and tunnels called the Underdark Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Publication history 3 Reception 4 References 5 External linksPlot summary EditThe plot of the original modules Descent Into the Depths of the Earth and Shrine of the Kuo Toa places a party of player characters PCs on the trail of the drow priestess Eclavdra through the Underdark 3 a vast subterranean network of interconnected caverns and tunnels 4 battling various creatures on their journey In the last module in the preceding G series Hall of the Fire Giant King the PCs were supposed to have discovered that the drow had instigated the alliance between the races of giants and their attacks on neighboring humans The drow that survived the party s incursion have fled into tunnels leading deep into the earth 5 The adventurers will have arrived at the bottom of the dungeon below the cave castle of King Snurre 6 In D1 Descent Into the Depths of the Earth the PCs seek the home of the drow by traveling through an underground world of caves and passages 7 In the tunnels the adventurers first fight a tough drow patrol and the next major fight is with a raiding party of mind flayers and wererats who have halted their patrol long enough to torture their drow prisoner 6 The characters also find a grand cavern containing drow soldiers purple worms a lich a clutch of undead a giant slug sphinxes trolls bugbears troglodytes wyverns and fungi 6 D2 Shrine of the Kuo Toa picks up with the party continuing to pursue the drow The party encounters a kuo toan rogue monitor who helps them cross a large river for a fee A party of Svirfneblin or deep gnomes approaches the player characters on the other side and the party has a chance to convince them to help them fight against the drow As the party travels signs of the drow are all around the drow are allowed to pass through these subterranean areas even though they are hated and feared by the other local intelligent races The party then moves through kuo toa territory ruled by the Priest Prince Va Guulgh If the PCs appease the kuo toa and respect their customs the evil kuo toa are not openly hostile to the party but will attack if the party gives them a reason The party learns that the drow and kuo toa trade with each other openly but the kuo toa hate and fear the drow resulting in frequent skirmishes between the two peoples D3 Vault of the Drow is set in Erelhei Cinlu an underground stronghold of the drow and the Fane of Lolth their evil spider goddess 7 After traveling for league after league into the Underdark the adventurers come upon Erelhei Cinlu the vast subterranean city of the drow The adventure is written in a very open ended fashion giving the Dungeon Master DM free rein to script any number of mini campaigns or adventures taking place inside the drow capital An extensive overview of the drow power structure is given for just this purpose Eventually the players may discover an astral gate leading to the plane of the Abyss leading into the Q1 module 8 Publication history EditThe original modules Descent Into the Depths of the Earth and Shrine of the Kuo Toa were both written by Gary Gygax and published by TSR Inc in 1978 5 9 Gygax had recently finished the Player s Handbook 1978 and according to Gygax he authored the D series as sort of a relaxation to get away from writing rules 10 Descent Into the Depths of the Earth the first module of the D series was printed as a sixteen page booklet and Shrine of the Kuo Toa second of the three part D series was twenty pages both featured an outer folder 7 Both modules were released before the Dungeon Masters Guide and Players Handbook 6 Both modules were reprinted in the omnibus collection D1 2 Descent Into the Depths in 1981 as a 32 page booklet with an outer folder 6 7 The original versions of the D1 and D2 modules both featured monochrome cover artwork by David C Sutherland III but the 1981 compilation was released with a color cover illustrated by Jim Roslof Sutherland s interior artwork from the original two publications was included in the compilation as was that of David A Trampier Other artists whose work appears inside the compilation include Jeff Dee Erol Otus David S LaForce Bill Willingham and Roslof 2 5 9 Vault of the Drow also by Gygax and the last of the D series was also originally published in 1978 as a 32 page booklet with a two color outer cover 7 The original printing featured monochrome cover artwork by David C Sutherland III citation needed In 1981 TSR re issued the adventure with a new color cover 7 D3 was re released to coincide with the release of the D1 2 compilation Descent into the Depths of the Earth Since the D1 2 compilation featured color cover artwork Erol Otus was tasked with creating a new color cover for D3 as well Sutherland s interior artwork was retained and other interior artists for the module include Jeff Dee David S LaForce David A Trampier and Otus The entire campaign was eventually combined into a supermodule GDQ1 7 Queen of the Spiders 7 8 11 The modules were designed as a sequel to the G series of modules 1 At the time these modules were released each Dungeons amp Dragons module was marked with an alphanumeric code indicating the series to which it belonged 12 The D in the module code represents the first letter in the word Drow 13 According to a Wired com article the D series introduced the world to the concept of the dark elves 14 Game statistics for the Drow first appear in the module 3 although the 1977 edition of the Monster Manual does mention the Drow 15 The D series is part of a larger overall campaign of adventures set in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting The overall campaign begins with the three modules in the G1 3 Against the Giants series continues through the D series and concludes with module Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits 16 The latter segments of the campaign including the D series and module Q1 are set in a vast network of caverns and tunnels called the Underdark The entire campaign was eventually combined into a supermodule GDQ1 7 Queen of the Spiders Descent into the Depths of the Earth was the basis for a 2000 novel of the same title by Paul Kidd 17 The original TSR product codes for modules D1 D2 and D3 are 9019 9020 and 9021 respectively 9021 being reused for the new Erol Otus cover with the blue background Reception EditWhen combined with the G series and Q module as the Queen of the Spiders the D series was voted the single greatest adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004 3 Reviewer Alan Kohler said The Underdark has become a classic place to set adventures This is where it all got started 3 According to the editors Vault of the Drow would have made the top five if it had been considered as a single module They felt the Drow city detailed in the module offered more intrigue than any module previously Judge Clark Peterson compared it favorably to City State of the Invincible Overlord which also had a complicated city environment saying this was an underground city of evil monsters the Drow who then were new and mysterious as opposed to tired and overused as they are today 3 Dungeon Master for Dummies lists Descent into the Depths of the Earth as one of the ten best classic adventures noting that it takes the player characters into the underground world of the Drow the wildly popular dark elves of D amp D lore 1 The series has received considerable praise It was reviewed by Don Turnbull in British RPG magazine White Dwarf No 11 who gave it 10 out of 10 He compared the series favorably to the G series of modules which he also liked Turnbull commented that the scope was large and that the modules were of good value Although D3 can be played by itself he speculated that the party of characters may need the magic items that can be acquired in the first two to not be put at a disadvantage Turnbull did lament that the series was designed for parties of a high level making it difficult to use with a group of lower level characters He concluded the review by saying don t be surprised if they eclipse in quality most of the material you already have 18 All three modules are also profiled in Heroic Worlds Lawrence Schick s 1991 guide to role playing games 7 The D series of modules was also given an extensive overview review by Turnbull in issue No 15 of White Dwarf wherein he cautioned DMs that running these modules was unlike any they had run before He commented that the adventure would be too difficult for most groups of player characters and speculated that buyers wouldn t actually play the modules because it would take a lot of sessions to finish He did run the adventure himself though He recommended using miniatures on a grid because some of the battles involved so many characters and monsters He also recommended rolling the dice for various encounters in advance Although some such work would be wasted when the players chose one route over another it will be worth the effort He also thought that planning enemy tactics in advance was a good idea providing an example of how to do so using the Drow outpost from D1 as well as other encounters 19 He noted that while some DMs may ban psionics in their games if they don t allow the creatures in section M12 of D1 to use them the game will be unbalanced in favor of the players Although he hadn t run D3 at the time of writing the article he wrote that the thought of planning some of its encounters brings me out in perspiration The power levels of his regular players characters were insufficient for the adventure so he gave them pre generated ones Although he felt the magical weapons he gave these characters were too powerful he warned that giving weapons that are too weak would be a bigger problem He also recommended many healing spells and potions 19 Overall he enjoyed playing the modules despite wishing he had prepared more and thought that his players also enjoyed the experience He hoped that people would not be scared to use the modules because of their difficulty In summary he said I can give no higher praise to these designs than to say they are as good as anyone is likely to meet and better than almost everything else I ve seen 19 Reviewer Anders Swenson reviewed the D1 2 Descent into the Depths of the Earth compilation in 1982 for Different Worlds 21 Swenson noted that purchasers of adventure publications had come to expect longer texts for the given price so that the two adventures had been combined into one format redundant text was eliminated and new illustrations were added to fill the resultant gaps in layout He was perplexed by all of the creatures found in the grand cavern area originally found in module D1 All these creatures are apparently expected to do nothing but sit in their caves and wait to be attacked for they would certainly defeat any moderately tough adventurer party specified by the author if they all tried a massed and well coordinated attack 6 He also wondered about the placement of the kuo toan shrine There is great hostility between the Kuo Toa and the Drow so it is surprising to find the main Kuo Toa stronghold in the middle of a thoroughfare used by the Drow as a main route It is also surprising to find the Kuo Toa still in business given the seeming superior military power of the Drow but who knows 6 Anders felt that the adventures contained a great deal of imaginative material but while the writing style is by no means poor the combination of florid prose and new ideas makes a text which is relatively difficult to read Gygax does not make a regular practice of organizing his text to help the poor GM pick out the important information quickly 6 However Swenson concluded that this is overall a worthwhile adventure The plot is interesting and everything is well detailed Aside from the problems I have already noted the adventures are interesting and generally of superior quality 6 References Edit a b c Slavicsek Bill Baker Rich Grubb Jeff 2006 Dungeon Master For Dummies For Dummies p 320 ISBN 978 0 471 78330 5 Retrieved 2009 02 12 a b Gygax Gary 1981 Descent into the Depths of the Earth TSR Inc ISBN 0 935696 60 1 9059 a b c d e Mona Erik Jacobs James et al November 2004 The 30 Greatest D amp D Adventures of All Time Dungeon Paizo Publishing 116 72 ISSN 0265 8712 Jacobs James The Hidden Depths Below Spells of the Deep Underdark Wizards of the Coast Archived from the original on August 22 2004 Retrieved 2009 09 02 a b c Gygax Gary 1978 Descent into the Depths of the Earth TSR Inc 9019 a b c d e f g h i Swenson Anders June 1982 Reviews Different Worlds Chaosium 21 38 39 a b c d e f g h Schick Lawrence 1991 Heroic Worlds A History and Guide to Role Playing Games Prometheus Books p 89 ISBN 0 87975 653 5 a b Gygax Gary 1978 Vault of the Drow TSR Inc p 32 ISBN 0 935696 07 5 9021 a b Gygax Gary 1978 Shrine of the Kuo Toa TSR Inc ISBN 0 935696 06 7 9020 Rausch Allen 2004 08 16 Gary Gygax Interview Part 2 GameSpy Retrieved 2007 04 03 Gygax Gary 1980 Vault of the Drow TSR ISBN 978 0 394 51182 5 Dungeons amp Dragons FAQ Wizards of the Coast 2003 Archived from the original on August 18 2000 Retrieved February 9 2009 Dungeons amp Dragons FAQ wizards com Archived from the original on April 29 2001 Retrieved 2007 03 29 Denmead Ken January 4 2008 Top 10 D amp D Modules I Found in Storage This Weekend Wired Archived from the original on July 20 2009 Retrieved August 20 2009 Gygax Gary 1977 1978 Advanced D amp D Monster Manual TSR p 39 ISBN 0 935696 00 8 Baur Wolfgang Gwendolyn F M Kestrel 2007 Expedition to the Demonweb Pits Wizards of the Coast p Introduction ISBN 978 0 7869 4038 7 Archived from the original on April 15 2007 Kidd Paul 2000 Descent into the Depths of the Earth Wizards of the Coast ISBN 0 7869 1635 4 Turnbull Don Feb Mar 1979 Open Box Dungeon Modules White Dwarf Games Workshop 11 20 ISSN 0265 8712 a b c Turnbull Don October November 1979 Descent into the Depths of the Earth Running the new TSR D modules White Dwarf Games Workshop 15 19 ISSN 0265 8712 External links EditDrow Series at Acaeum com Descent into the Depths of the Earth 1981 at the Pen amp Paper RPG Database Descent into the Depths of the Earth 1978 at the Pen amp Paper RPG Database Shrine of the Kuo Toa 1978 at the Pen amp Paper RPG Database RPG net review of D1 Descent into the Depths of the Earth RPG net review of D2 Shrine of the Kuo Toa Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Descent into the Depths of the Earth amp oldid 1169837237, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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