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Dungeons & Dragons: Module #X1 The Isle of Dread (Basic) Witnessed Signatures: Dave "Zeb" Cook, David S. "...
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Dungeons & Dragons: Module #X1 The Isle of Dread (Basic) Witnessed Signatures: Dave "Zeb" Cook, David S. "Diesel" LaForce, and Jeff Dee (TSR Hobbies Inc., 1980) CBCS VG/FN 5.0 White pages. Single booklet distributed unattached to cover. Written by David Cook and Tom Moldvay. Cover by Jeff Dee. Art by Tim Truman.A popular and influential module and one of the most widely circulated Dungeons & Dragons adventures due to its inclusion as part of the D&D Expert Set. Loosely inspired by King Kong and its Skull Island setting, writers Cook and Moldvay dug deep into their love of pulp fiction to create a "lost world" island teeming with pirates dinosaurs, exotic monsters, treasure maps, and primitive civilizations.
The Isle of Dread was also the first to focus on what is now a common element of the game -- wilderness exploration -- replacing dungeon crawling with a wide-open wilderness delineated by then-innovative hexagon map and a "sandbox"-style adventure.
Dungeon magazine ranked The Isle of Dread the 16th greatest Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all time in 2004; Jeff Dee's cover, the first full-color cover art for a D&D module, was ranked #4 in the article " Art of the Genre: The Top 10 TSR Cover Paintings of All Time" by Black Gate magazine in 2014.
As with many classic D&D adventures, The Isle of Dread continues to thrive, appearing in video game form in 2022, in updates and features in Dragon magazine, and in supplements for D&D's fourth and fifth editions. In 2018, Goodman Games published the massive 300+ page Original Adventures Reincarnated #2: The Isle of Dread, featuring the 1981 and 1983 editions of the module alongside a version converted to 5e.
This copy is signed by one of the modules authors and two of its artists, all of whom were major contributors to the early days of D&D and roleplaying games in general. CBCS notes, "Witnessed Signatures: David 'Zeb' Cook, "Diesel", and Jeff Dee on 6/6/2024."
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