 Cover of the 2004 Different Worlds Publications edition | |
| Character levels | 9-12 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert J. Kuntz |
| First published | 1987 |
| ISBN | 978-0975399910 |
| Linked modules | |
| "Maze of Zayene" | |
The Eight Kings is a fantasy role-playing game adventure module.
| Cover of the 2004 Different Worlds Publications edition | |
| Character levels | 9-12 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert J. Kuntz |
| First published | 1987 |
| ISBN | 978-0975399910 |
| Linked modules | |
| "Maze of Zayene" | |
The Eight Kings is a fantasy role-playing game adventure module.
The Eight Kings is a scenario for character levels 9-12, fourth and last in the "Maze of Zayene" series, the sequel to Tower Chaos . The heroes discover there are actually eight King Orrs, all created and re-created by the Zayene. [1]
The Eight Kings was written by Robert Kuntz, and was published by Creations Unlimited, Inc., in 1987 as a 32-page book. [1]
This adventure was part of the Maze of Zayene series, a set of four linked adventures set in the World of Kalibruhn; Kuntz began to work on them in 1986, and they were all published in 1987. Prisoners of the Maze and Dimensions of Flight were based on adventures that Kuntz had created while he was in college and that had been run in 1983 at EastCon. [2] : 241
When Kuntz partnered with Necromancer Games years later, he was considering his unpublished City of Brass but decided it would be easier to begin the Maze of Zayene. However, there was a publication delay of several month between the first two Zayene adventures. [2] : 242 While the first three Maze of Zayene adventures were published by Necromancer in 2001, the final fourth adventure was ultimately published by Different Worlds in 2004. [2] : 367
According to Shannon Appelcline, although the adventures of the Maze of Zayene series "were unforgiving 'gauntlets' of the type that Kuntz enjoyed, they were somewhat unusual for the time because they had a political veneer laid out upon them – centring on a plot to assassinate a king. They also feature the evil wizard Zayene, who Kuntz intended to be a recurring villain, constantly returning to bedevil players." [2] : 241
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