As a note, Greyhawk Ruins was an absolutely AWESOME dungeon crawl. :)
"<quote>
Despite being intended in fun, the unrelenting mayhem of
Dungeonland and The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror creates a sense
of bedlam, and the parody element opened the door for the later
WG7, Castle Greyhawk (1988) -- thought by some at the time to be a
deliberate attempt by TSR to destroy Gygax�s reputation in the
wake of his departure from the company. The truth, especially
given the freelance talent involved, is more likely to be that
someone thought it a good idea at the time. They were wrong.
Castle Greyhawk�s assortment of villains -- Col. Sanders, the
Pillsbury Doughboy, the cast of Star Trek, and others -- would be
more in keeping with a bad episode of Scooby Doo than a dungeon
crawl. Unfortunately, the Castle Greyhawk collection of
unconnected parody adventures tainted the mystique of D&D�s
original dungeon so badly that not even the astonishingly deadly
killer dungeon presented slightly later in WGR1. Greyhawk Ruins
(1990) could reclaim its lost prestige, and the site has remained
abandoned as far as publication is concerned ever since.
</quote>"
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