If you read the comments on/from the old vault and saw the low ratings this module got you may have been put off playing it. On the IGN Vault, this module received a score of 5.38 based on 4 votes. Either method of completing 'Spies among us' now correctly mark the quest as completed.Fixed dialog bugs with Rufus and Canoness Y'dey convos.The Hag in the troll fens now drops her eye on death.Please give the module a try anyway you might find something you like. To those people, I'd just like to say that I understand. There are also a number of things that I've changed from the original module (and by extension from Troika's very faithful remake), some of these are minor (It's set in Forgotten Realms, not Greyhawk, the geography of the temple has changed), some aren't (Lareth and Lolth) and I'm certain that many loyal fans aren't going to like the changes (particularly since Gary Gygax died yesterday, I'm writing this on 3/5/08). The three basic principles that I tried to keep in mind in design were to keep try to design encounters that would take advantage of the ruleset, to allow choices about the progression of the plot and to make the player feel involved in the story of the temple, both in terms of exposition and background and in terms of some connection to the PC. There are a lot of different elements that I had to weigh to try to make all of this happen, but I'm pleased with the final result. The Temple of Elemental Evil Revisited is my own little attempt to create a game with the basic ToEE set-up that a) gives the player choices about how he/she wants to deal with the temple, b) has an enjoyable story without railroading the player into it and c) has gameplay that people enjoy. As much as I enjoyed the combat system, I found the actual encounters simplistic and repetitive and as much as I liked the idea of a huge, balkanized pentagon-sized fortress filled with bugbears, the lack of storytelling left me cold. There aren't many games were I was so bitterly divided between the things I liked about the game and the things I disliked. It's impossible to imagine the mod being produced without Troika's The Temple of Elemental Evil. The Temple of Elemental Evil Revisited is my own take on Gygax's classic pen and paper module.
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