Publication:Quest for the Heartstone

[ Quagmire Quest for the Heartstone]

System: Dungeons and Dragons 1e Levels: 5 – 10  Author: Michael L. Gray  Publisher: TSR  Publication Date: 1984  Format: Paperback  Page Count: 32

Product Blurb The king is dead. And the queen is in trouble. She has chosen you to find the fabled heartstone, which is buried somewhere deep in the Mountains of Ice. Is the gem in the hands of the corrupt Master Thief? Has he harnessed its powers for his own vile purposes? Or does it lie unguarded in the frozen ranges to the north, which teem with horrible creatures? This is your kind of quest! Will the heartstone be the key to peace in the kingdom? By Her Majesty's request... it's up to you to find out! "Quest for the Heartstone" is a combined wilderness/dungeon adventure designed to be compatible with the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Action Toys form LJN Toys, Ltd. and the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Adventure Figures. The adventure also includes complete maps, new monsters, and players' illustrations. This text is quoted from promotion material. Text and images are copyrighted by the original publisher.

Plot Summary

Quest for the Heartstone is a wilderness and dungeon scenario, and includes a frost giant lair, with four pages of illustrations to show the players.

Publication History

XL1: "Quest for the Heartstone" (1984), by Michael L. Gray, was the first and only adventure in the "XL" series for Expert D&D. It was published in 1984.

A New X Series. Following the Mentzer-led revisions of the Basic D&D game (1983), TSR experimented with a variety of Basic D&D lines other than the traditional B- and X-series adventures. Among them were the "AC" accessories, the "M" (magic marker) adventures, and the "O" (one-one-one) adventures. Thus, the XL series - an abbreviation for "Expert Licensed" - was just another series among many now available for the Basic D&D game.

In fact, it was probably less distant from the norm than many of the other Basic D&D series, since it offered up an expert adventure with just one minor twist...

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