Talk:Against the Cult of the Reptile God

Publication history

Improperly sourced, and thus removed:

This module had an unusual development history. The concept came about as a result of a re-edit of the original manuscript for The Secret of Bone Hill by Len Lakofka, which had been deemed “unsuitable” as submitted. Kevin Hendryx was assigned the task of editing and made a very extensive rewrite, which also included an expansion upon the original scenario by adding a new dungeon inhabited by an evil cleric and his lizard men minions. When Len heard about the rewrite, however, he contacted Gary Gygax who in turn ordered the design department to simply edit the original submission. Thus, Kevin’s rewritten material was discarded. So as not to waste all of this effort, however, Kevin resubmitted the dungeon and plot as a separate module, Against the Cult of the Reptile God.

When Kevin resigned from TSR and went back to Metagaming, he took this proposal with him, reworking it and renaming it to The Kanirvan Conspiracy. But somewhat soon afterwards, Howard Thompson decided to eliminate his design staff, and by early 1983 Metagaming folded, and this proposal was never realized.

TSR had not forgotten about the concept, and assigned it to Douglas Niles and in late 1982 the published it as module N1.

Reviews: Fantasy Gamer #1 (1983) Footprints #1 (2004) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.175.176.178 (talk) 06:56, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

References

Plot

Added resolution of the story to the end of the plot section Karcherrk (talk) 16:31, 1 March 2021 (UTC)