In the adventure's introduction, it is explained that the Grand Duchy of Geoff is under constant attack by a succession of monsters that have been emerging from a cave in the mountains.
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The other adventures in the S series include S1 Tomb of Horrors, S2 White Plume Mountain, and S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.Įxpedition to the Barrier Peaks takes place on a spaceship in the Barrier Peaks mountain range of the World of Greyhawk campaign setting. It was ranked the fifth-best Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004, and received positive reviews from White Dwarf and The Space Gamer magazines.
The adventure is an old-time favorite of many Dungeons & Dragons fans, including Stephen Colbert.
It included a separate booklet of illustrations, in both color and black and white. The adventure was not updated for later rules systems, but a article did provide a conversion to Future Tech. In 1980, TSR published the adventure, updated for first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules. The player characters fight monsters and robots, and gather the futuristic weapons and colored access cards that are necessary for advancing the story.Įxpedition to the Barrier Peaks was first played at the Origins II convention in 1976, where it was used to introduce Dungeons & Dragons players to the science fiction game Metamorphosis Alpha. It takes place on a downed spaceship the ship's crew has died of an unspecified disease, but functioning robots and strange creatures still inhabit the ship. While Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D) is typically a fantasy game, the adventure includes elements of science fiction, and thus belongs to the science fantasy genre. Expedition to the Barrier Peaks is a 1980 adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game written by Gary Gygax.
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