Publication:The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun

[  The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun]

	System: Dungeons and Dragons 1e Levels: 5 – 10  Author: Gary Gygax  Publisher: TSR  Item Code: 9065  Publication Date: 1982  Format: Paperback  Page Count: 32  ISBN-10: 0-88038-002-0
Product Blurb This special adventure is a combined wilderness and dungeon adventure scenario. It contains background information referee's notes, encounter keys, outdoor and dungeon level maps, and new monsters and treasures. This text is quoted from promotion material. Text and images are copyrighted by the original publisher.

Plot Summary

The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun is set in the World of Greyhawk. This adventure starts with an incident from The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. The player characters (PCs) follow a band of marauding norkers from the caverns, discovering the temple along the way. They must search through the dangerous mountain passes to find the norker lair inside the temple. The adventurers are drawn into the story by a gnomish community and travel to the temple. After battling their way in, the PCs explore the temple chambers, which contain mundane creatures and new monsters from the Fiend Folio supplement. During their exploration, the characters may reach chambers of the temple in which religious rituals were performed, and risk insanity and death as they encounter remnants of worshipers of the imprisoned god Tharizdun. To progress further, the characters must enact portions of the rituals of worship of Tharizdun, traveling into an underground sub-temple, and magically opening an inner sanctum called the Black Cyst. Having advanced this far, the characters are likely to be driven insane, killed outright, or permanently trapped within the underground temple.

Publication History

WG4 The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun was written by Gary Gygax and published by TSR in 1982 as a thirty-two page booklet with two outer folders; there are no modules with the codes WG1-WG3. The module featured artwork by Karen Nelson. The adventure is a loosely connected sequel to module S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, and can be used with or without it. It is a combined wilderness and dungeon adventure set in the Southern Yatil Mountains, focused on a temple dedicated to the evil and insane Greyhawk god Tharizdun. A future work was promised to develop the plot from this adventure further.

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