Post by Stingray888 on Aug 11, 2013 2:18:24 GMT
L3 Deep Dwarven Delve
Levels: 3-6
Location of Quest Giver: Tesh
Dungeon Location: Hemeron's Gauntlet
Estimated time to complete: 1 night
Your party of stalwart heroes must venture into a lost dwarven mining complex, fighting terrible monsters, bypassing deadly traps and exploring chambers heavy with the dust of ages. Somewhere deep below the surface lies the heart of darkness - a corrupting evil that must be stopped before its influence can spread!
L3: 'Deep Dwarven Delve' (1999) is the third adventure in Len Lakofka's Lendore Isle Trilogy. It was also the final official adventure for first edition AD&D, released a decade after the line ended. It was published in August 1999 as part of the Silver Anniversary Collector's Edition Boxed Set.
The Silver Anniversary Collector's Edition Boxed Set. The Silver Anniversary set celebrated the 25th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons (1974). It was printed in 5000 copies and sold for $59.95 (about $80 in contemporary dollars). Most of the contents were reprints, including the J. Eric Holmes Basic Rulebook (1977); B2: Keep on the Borderlands (1979); the three G-series modules: G1: Steading of the Hill Giant Chief (1978), G2: Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl (1978) and G3: Hall of the Fire Giant King (1978); I6: Ravenloft (1983); and S2: White Plume Mountain (1979).
The boxed set also contained two new books: A history of TSR and a 'lost' adventure: 'Deep Dwarven Delve'.
The Lost Adventure: L3 was originally commissioned by TSR around 1979 as part of a three-adventure trilogy. It was submitted by Lakofka to TSR alongside L1: 'The Secret of Bone Hill' (1981) and L2: 'The Assassin's Knot' (1983), around 1980. And then it sat around for 19 years.
The problem was reportedly the changing political tides at TSR. Following the 1985 departure of Gary Gygax, Lorraine Williams is said to have purposefully cut out Gygax's friends and supporters. Thus Dave Arneson's Blackmoor Adventures came to an end and the third Lendore Isle adventure was never published by TSR.
The Found Adventure: Though the book itself reports that the adventure had 'lain unseen and forgotten in the TSR design vault', in July 1999 Sean K. Reynolds reported a different story. He said that all of TSR's copies of the adventure had been 'lost or destroyed' over the years. The adventure (apparently) resurfaced only when Lakofka found a copy around his house and sent it to Roger E. Moore in 1997 - possibly due to the changing political tides at TSR, for Wizards of the Coast was at that time involved in buying out Lorraine Williams. Moore then passed the adventure on to Reynolds in 1998.
Levels: 3-6
Location of Quest Giver: Tesh
Dungeon Location: Hemeron's Gauntlet
Estimated time to complete: 1 night
Your party of stalwart heroes must venture into a lost dwarven mining complex, fighting terrible monsters, bypassing deadly traps and exploring chambers heavy with the dust of ages. Somewhere deep below the surface lies the heart of darkness - a corrupting evil that must be stopped before its influence can spread!
L3: 'Deep Dwarven Delve' (1999) is the third adventure in Len Lakofka's Lendore Isle Trilogy. It was also the final official adventure for first edition AD&D, released a decade after the line ended. It was published in August 1999 as part of the Silver Anniversary Collector's Edition Boxed Set.
The Silver Anniversary Collector's Edition Boxed Set. The Silver Anniversary set celebrated the 25th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons (1974). It was printed in 5000 copies and sold for $59.95 (about $80 in contemporary dollars). Most of the contents were reprints, including the J. Eric Holmes Basic Rulebook (1977); B2: Keep on the Borderlands (1979); the three G-series modules: G1: Steading of the Hill Giant Chief (1978), G2: Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl (1978) and G3: Hall of the Fire Giant King (1978); I6: Ravenloft (1983); and S2: White Plume Mountain (1979).
The boxed set also contained two new books: A history of TSR and a 'lost' adventure: 'Deep Dwarven Delve'.
The Lost Adventure: L3 was originally commissioned by TSR around 1979 as part of a three-adventure trilogy. It was submitted by Lakofka to TSR alongside L1: 'The Secret of Bone Hill' (1981) and L2: 'The Assassin's Knot' (1983), around 1980. And then it sat around for 19 years.
The problem was reportedly the changing political tides at TSR. Following the 1985 departure of Gary Gygax, Lorraine Williams is said to have purposefully cut out Gygax's friends and supporters. Thus Dave Arneson's Blackmoor Adventures came to an end and the third Lendore Isle adventure was never published by TSR.
The Found Adventure: Though the book itself reports that the adventure had 'lain unseen and forgotten in the TSR design vault', in July 1999 Sean K. Reynolds reported a different story. He said that all of TSR's copies of the adventure had been 'lost or destroyed' over the years. The adventure (apparently) resurfaced only when Lakofka found a copy around his house and sent it to Roger E. Moore in 1997 - possibly due to the changing political tides at TSR, for Wizards of the Coast was at that time involved in buying out Lorraine Williams. Moore then passed the adventure on to Reynolds in 1998.
