Editing GDQ1-7: Queen of the Spiders

[[File:Queen of the Spiders.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The 1980s, right. Amazing this wasn't sold in a brown paper bag or a trashy metal music store. That white mist is probably cocaine.]]
'''Queen of the Spiders''' is the super-omnibus format for the [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition [[Adventure Path]], spanning a set of seven individual adventures that collectively make up a mega-campaign; [[Against the Giants]] (G), the [[Drow Trilogy]] (D), and [[Queen of the Demonweb Pits]] (Q).

First, let's ''not'' discuss That Cover.

There's a new prologue. The lead-in is from ''[[Scourge of the Slavelords]]'', wherein the surviving slavers are gaslighting the PCs. This part is artificial and contrived. Then there's an overview of giant-occupied Sterich. This bit is... pretty good. Carl Sargent's 2e ''[[From the Ashes]]'' Greyhawk revamp uses that for its Sterich, and it further inspired the "liberation of Geoff" arc in the [[Against the Giants]] expansion.

The main text of GDQ went hardly touched. Its narrative mistakes, like D1 revealing to players that big ghoul cave too late in the adventure to matter, are still here. D1's missing southwest and northeast pathways are still NOT here. The editors ''did'' take the icons away from the Player's Map, which was damn lame. The largest change was to the wandering-monsters which take on Monster Manual II additions like the marlgoyle. And this one's still got gnomes stranded in D3's tertiaries too.

Also there's an appendix in case anyone wanted to visit elsewhere in this [[underdark]], or to other planes from the [[Demonweb Pits]]. For the former, perhaps to justify the hippie [[illithid]] on That Cover, is introduced Dra-Mur-Shou, their city. Which is... ''too'' powerful; it's easily a rival for the Vault itself. All it did was to demonstrate what a narrative-breaker D1's hex M12 was. The fans at the Dragonsfoot forum have accordingly ruled Dra-Mur-Shou off-map.

As for the Demonweb's extra planes, let's just say it was raining on Mongo that morning... raining ''a deluge of lazy and stupid''. Tundra planet! Grassland planet!

It's no ''Slavelords'', that's for sure. This was worth buying back when the baseline modules were out of print.

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