Egg of the Phoenix

Intermediate #I12

by Frank Mentzer, Paul Jaquays

In the lonely town of Northending, the Council of Five has called the famous Paladin Athelstan to their aid. The fabulous artifact known as the Egg of the Phoenix has disappeared. It was stolen by evil beings and hidden far away—in the Negative Material Plane itself, guarded by a real Phoenix!

This is the third of the RPGA series of AD&D modules. Each RPGA module has been used at an official Gen Con tournament, and has been designed to provide maximum entertainment. The Egg of the Phoenix is usable in campaign or tournament play (using the unique RPGA Tournament System, included herein), and is designed for a balanced party of 5–8 characters of levels 5–9. The original 6 tournament characters are provided, along with detail and overview maps, scenario and character background information, and detailed encounter descriptions for the Dungeon Master.

Genres: Dungeons and Dragons, Role Playing Games, Fantasy

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[Louis Norton · Rating 3 out of 5]

The premise of this module is more interesting than the other tournament modules, with a stolen artifact and a planar journey involved. There are some interesting puzzles and encounters, but overall I felt that this tournament module isn't really usable in most campaigns; the degree of difficulty is quite high with a lot of chances for instakills and no-save deaths with few clues. It's possible for a party to make it through to the end, but probably more than half wouldn't.

[Ted]

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons,TSR,1st edition

[Sami Koskinen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Our DM put us to this torture year after year until all levels and magic items were lost.