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Tomb of Horrors
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<p><i>Tomb of Horrors</i> is an <a href="/facts/Adventure_(Dungeons_%2526_Dragons)/2sTDQR6d">adventure module</a> written by <a href="/facts/Gary_Gygax/wux6kfJj">Gary Gygax</a> for the <i><a href="/facts/Dungeons_%2526_Dragons/1FQKcQSL">Dungeons & Dragons</a></i> (<i>D&D</i>) <a href="/facts/Role-playing_game/bN0QjhPs">role-playing game</a>. It was originally written for and used at the 1975 <a href="/facts/Origins_Game_Fair/xjz6kmE4">Origins 1</a> convention. Gygax designed the adventure both to challenge the skill of expert players in his own campaign and to test players who boasted of having mighty <a href="/facts/Player_character/YAfuo6f2">player characters</a> able to best any challenge. The module, coded S1, was the first in the S-series, or <i>special</i> series of modules. Several versions of the adventure have been published, the first in 1978, and the most recent, for the fifth edition of <i>D&D</i>, in 2017 as one of the included adventures in <i><a href="/facts/Tales_from_the_Yawning_Portal/3wc6Gtx7">Tales from the Yawning Portal</a></i>. The module also served as the basis for a novel published in 2002. </p><p>The module's plot revolves around the tomb of the <a href="/facts/Demilich_(Dungeons_%2526_Dragons)/pd437f3X">demilich</a> <a href="/facts/Acererak/A74sGQjt">Acererak</a>. The <a href="/facts/Player_character/YAfuo6f2">player characters</a> must battle their way past a variety of monsters and traps, with the ultimate goal of destroying Acererak. <i>Tomb of Horrors</i> was considered the third greatest <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> adventure of all time by the staff of <i><a href="/facts/Dungeon_(magazine)/R4AQATkR">Dungeon</a></i> in 2004. The module has influenced later <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> products, and was followed by three other (unrelated) modules in the S-series: <a href="/facts/White_Plume_Mountain/hJsw0rDp">S2 <i>White Plume Mountain</i></a>, <a href="/facts/Expedition_to_the_Barrier_Peaks/DcqkEuT1">S3 <i>Expedition to the Barrier Peaks</i></a>, and <a href="/facts/The_Lost_Caverns_of_Tsojcanth/xl0cekTJ">S4 <i>The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth</i></a>. </p>