Reception
Elisabeth Barrington reviewed Queen of the Demonweb Pits as part of a review in The Space Gamer #35 in 1981. She noted that players and the Dungeon Master need to be fairly experienced, particularly because some spell effects have been altered: "It takes skill, courage, and ingenuity to make your way into (and possibly, if you're lucky, out of) the pits. A good challenge for experienced players." Barrington did complain that some of the spell alterations felt unnecessary, as some of the spells which were really useful under ordinary circumstances became almost useless given the alterations. She did note that the book contained "many excellent ideas", and that the artwork was "up to TSR's usual neatness and simplicity", but that overall the module was "Not one of TSR's best efforts, but a worthy try."
Dungeon Master for Dummies lists Queen of the Demonweb Pits as one of the ten best classic adventures.
Ken Denmead of Wired listed the module as one of the "Top 10 D&D Modules I Found in Storage This Weekend". The module is intended for levels 10–14, but he commented that the module was published "before level-inflation had taken its toll on a weary nation. In year 2007 levels, that’s like 100!" He felt a number of aspects of the Abyss were psychedelic, describing the web's doors as similar to the "loony corridor scene from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band." According to Denmead, "This is one big, bad module, and if you make it to the end, well, there’s just one last monster to take care of. You are, in effect, trying to take out a goddess. Good luck with that."
When combined as a single adventure with the rest of GDQ series, this module was voted the single greatest adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004, on the 30th anniversary of the Dungeons & Dragons game.
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