Dwellers of the Forbidden City

Dwellers of the Forbidden City

Code	I1
Rules required	1st Ed AD&D
Character levels	4 - 7
Campaign setting	Greyhawk
Authors	David Cook
First published	1980

Dwellers of the Forbidden City is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, set in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting. The module was published in 1981 by TSR, Inc. for the first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules.

Dwellers of the Forbidden City was written by David Cook with cover art by Erol Otus and interior art by James Holloway, Jim Roslof, Harry Quinn and Stephen D. Sullivan. The adventure was first used as a tournament module at the Origins Game Fair in 1980.

The module was originally intended to bear code S4, but this code was re-assigned to Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth before Dwellers was published. As published, the adventure bears the code I1 and is the first in the I (Intermediate) series of modules, a group of mostly unrelated adventures.

Reception

Dwellers of the Forbidden City was ranked the 13th greatest Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004, on the 30th anniversary of the Dungeons & Dragons game.

Table of Contents

• note there was no actual table of contents printed in the module.

Chapter	Page
Background	2
Notes for the DM	2
Notes for tournament play	3
Start	4
The Forbidden City	11
Lair of the Treemen	13
Court of the Master	14
Bugbear Brigands	17
Ruins of the Mongrelmen	18
The Bullywug Stockade	20
The God of the Bullywugs	21
The Swamp Horrors	22
New Monsters	24

Credits

Design: David Cook
Development: Harold Johnson, Lawrence Schick
Able Assistance: Jon Pickens, Mike Price, Jean Wells
Editing: Harold Johnson, Allen Hammack, Roberta ReilLey, Edward G. Sollers, Steve Winter
Cover Art: Erol Otus

Interior Art: James Holloway, Jim Roslos off, Erol Otus, Harry Quinn, Stephen D. Sullivan
Playtesters: Helen Cook, Allen Hammack, Harold Johnson, Jeff Klinzman, Tom Moldvay, Lawrence Schick, Jean Wells, Skip Williams
Typesetting: Dianne J. Burke Key line: Joyce A. Kress, Laura Roslos , Mary Hendryx photography: Joyce A. Kress

Distributed to the book trade in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Canada by Random House of Canada, Ltd. Distributed to the toy and hobby trade by regional distributors.

product number 9046 394_51424-6TSR0550 ISBN 0-935696-33-4

Cover reads

Somewhere in the heart of the steaming jungle lies the answer to the whispered tales - rumors of a magnificent city and foul, horrid rituals! Here a brave party might find riches and wonders - or death! Is your party brave enough to face the terrors of the unknown and find - the Forbidden City!

Parts of this module were used in 1980 for a major East Coast convention tournament. Information is presented here to reconstruct this exciting tournament and even more has been given to expand play. Here characters may adventure several times in a unique and interesting mini-campaign. Included in this module are background and tournament notes, referee's keys, new monsters, pre- generated characters, and eight different maps.

Notable nonplayer characters

New monsters

• Aboleth
• mongrelman
• Pan Lung
• Tasloi
• yellow musk creeper
• Yuan-ti

See also

• List of Dungeons & Dragons modules

References

• Mona, Erik, James Jacobs, and the Dungeon Design Panel. "The 30 Greatest D&D Adventures of All Time." Dungeon #116 (Paizo Publishing, November 2004).

External links

• Intermediate Series (I1 - I14) at The Acaeum
• Dwellers of the Forbidden City at the TSR Archive