Queen of The Demonweb Pits - Publication History

Publication History

After the publication of the first six modules in the series, there was a delay in this module's development and release. Gary Gygax reported he had found it difficult to conceptualize how to write it. David C. Sutherland proposed an outline which impressed Gygax so much he decided to use it.

Queen of the Demonweb Pits was the tournament dungeon for the Origins '79 game convention. David C. Sutherland III and Gary Gygax designed the module, which was then published in 1980 as a 32-page booklet with a folder of maps. The module featured two outer folders with a cover by Jim Roslof and interior illustrations by Erol Otus and Jeff Dee. Queen of the Demonweb Pits was intended to be the final adventure in a series of seven by Gygax.

The module was the sequel for the D-series, and was later republished as part of the Queen of the Spiders supermodule (coded GDQ1-7), containing the entire saga. Queen of the Demonweb Pits was made into a novel of the same name by Paul Kidd for the Greyhawk Classics series. The novel was published by Wizards of the Coast in 2001. In 2007, the module's setting was revisited in the Wizards of the Coast adventure module, Expedition to the Demonweb Pits.

At the time the module was released, each Dungeons & Dragons module was marked with an alphanumeric code indicating the series to which it belonged. The "Q" in the module code represents the first letter in the word "queen".