The Temple of Elemental Evil was D&D as a beer-and-pretzels game, one where a party of adventurers face danger, fight ridiculous monsters, return to town to sell all the loot and head to the inn.
. My half-orc barbarian has the most hit points and the least intelligence, which probably makes him qualified for entry. Half a dozen locals and guests join in, and every time the innkeeper shouts"Drink!" they knock back an ale and drop a bunch of HP . In the end it comes down to the barbarian and a traveler named Kobort, who eventually topples to join the rest of the competitors sleeping on the floor.
Most sessions of D&D, fun as they are, tend to be more straightforward and less philosophical. It's often a beer-and-pretzels game, one where a party of adventurers face danger, fight ridiculous monsters like oozes and bugbears, return to town to sell all the loot and head to the inn. Then they get into a fist fight or a drinking competition or both, and after enough sleep for the magic users to get their spells back, they do it again.
The videogame builds on that adventure with a literal translation of D&D's then-current 3.5 edition, the ruleset with all its quirks plunked down wholesale, with turn-based combat. Do you know what attacks of opportunity are? Why five-foot steps are important? Trip attacks? You will learn, because The Temple of Elemental Evil uses all those things. It has a manual that's over 150 pages long, including a couple of pages to note where it differs from the official rules by necessity .
As well as the rules, The Temple of Elemental Evil recreates the feel of a typical D&D game. It's set in the world of Greyhawk, one of the first D&D settings and the default for several years. Surprisingly this is the only time Greyhawk ever showed up in a videogame, perhaps because it's so generic . It has everything you expect: gnolls, gnomes, giant frogs and characters with unpronounceable names like Zuggtmoy and Spugnoir.
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