Now, Goodman Games has released their version of the Temple of Elemental Evil. Gradual escalation of foes until you face a being of almost deific power? – It’s all right here.īy the time you get to the end of the Temple of Elemental Evil you’ll face off against a demon queen!.Sprawling dungeon inexplicably nearby? – Yup.Humble origins in a peaceful village beset by nearby marauders? – Check.It checks all the standard fantasy boxes: And the Temple of Elemental Evil is about as D&D as D&D gets. The adventures that present such an archetypal form that you can still feel their echoes today. Then there are the adventures that are upheld as genuine classics. But if you try telling anyone that adventures used to drop tapestries that would instantly turn you into slime and then kill you with no saving throw nowadays, they won’t believe you. Sometimes they were both–the early 1st Edition adventures are littered with gotcha! traps that hose over parties, but it’s one of those “things were tough back then, not like today” kind of things where everyone that it happened to actually enjoyed waking up at 10pm half an hour before they went to bed, being made to eat a lump of freezing cold poison and then paying to work down ‘t mill. The D&D adventures that stick out in our minds tend to do so for one of two reasons: either they were extremely good or extremely unfair. One of the most iconic D&D adventures from the days of yore is here once more with the official release of the Temple of Elemental Evil for 5th Edition.

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