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Over the next few years, he would report on more than one occasion that work on T2 was beginning again, but the long-awaited temple adventure never appeared. There, Gygax talked about how his administrative duties at TSR were keeping him from game design. The problem had previously been discussed in Dragon 35 (March 1980). However, the follow-up adventure still hadn’t appeared.

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Two years later in 1981, TSR showed its continued commitment to the series by upgrading the original to a full-color cover. For more information, DMs were directed to a soon-to-appear follow-up module coded T2, The Temple of Elemental Evil.Īs one of the earliest D&D adventures, The Village of Hommlet was published with a monochrome cover.

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The moathouse was an outpost for a nearby Temple of Elemental Evil-a “walled fortress” that had long before been sealed by the forces of good fighting the machinations of a “terrible demon.” Many of the nonplayer characters in The Village of Hommlet had their own interests in the temple-for good or ill-and the adventure’s status as a lead-in to further adventures at the temple can be seen in its module code of T1. There was also adventure to be found in a moathouse at the edge of town-and hints of even greater challenges to come. However, Hommlet wasn’t all about talking to farmers and weavers. Written by Gary Gygax, the adventure was a milestone for D&D, marking TSR’s first in-depth depiction of a fully stocked village that adventurers could explore and use as a base of operations. The Origins of the Temple: 1979–1986Īt GenCon XII in 1979, TSR released a 16-page Greyhawk adventure called The Village of Hommlet. Its origins go back to some of the earliest D&D lore-most of it focusing on a ruined temple and a small village that had the misfortune to lie near it. Elemental Evil makes a big return this year, building on its long history as part of the Dungeons & Dragons game.Īppearing in the Princes of the Apocalypse adventure and a new Temple of Elemental Evil board game (not to mention our most recent walkthrough map ), Elemental Evil is the heart of D&D’s newest storyline.

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