After TSR
Lakofka's third adventure, L3 Deep Dwarven Delve was scheduled to be released in 1986, and Lakofka planned to write two more "L" series adventures. However, in a power struggle at TSR at the end of 1985, Lakofka's long-time friend Gary Gygax was ousted from the company. The new company management did not want to do business with friends of Gygax, and plans to publish Lakofka's third adventure were shelved. Lakofka also stopped writing his Leomund's Tiny Hut column for Dragon; his final column was published in April 1986 (Issue #108).
After this, Lakofka moved from Chicago to California, and wrote no more AD&D material for TSR. It was not until TSR was taken over by Wizards of the Coast in 1997 and the World of Greyhawk setting was revived that Lakofka was approached about finally publishing Deep Dwarven Delve as part of the 25th Anniversary Collector's Boxed Set. Because of changes to the D&D rules over the intervening decade, Lakofka worked with WotC staff to update the adventure. Lakofka states that WotC lost his final rewrite before publication but rather than telling him, someone at WotC inserted new material into an older manuscript before it was published. Lakofka claims as a result that about 20% of the final product is not his own work.
Lakofka continued to work on further adventures in the series, and in 2009, the fourth installment of the Lendore Isles series, "Devilspawn", was released by Dragonsfoot.org as a free download. Lakofka plans to release a fifth module in the series through Dragonsfoot, and has mused about writing up to 4 more installments after that.
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