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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Echohawk" data-source="post: 6090099" data-attributes="member: 9849">According to the product history for L3 at <a href="http://www.dndclassics.com/product/111269" target="_blank">DNDClassics</a>:The Lost Adventure. L3 was originally commissioned by TSR around 1979 as part of a three-adventure trilogy. It was submitted by Lakofka to TSR alongside L1: "The Secret of Bone Hill" (1981) and L2: "The Assassin's Knot" (1983), around 1980. And then it sat around for 19 years. The problem was reportedly the changing political tides at TSR. Following the 1985 departure of Gary Gygax, Lorraine Williams is said to have purposefully cut out Gygax's friends and supporters. Thus Dave Arneson's Blackmoor adventures came to an end, and the third Lendore Isle adventure was never published by TSR. The Found Adventure. Sometime prior to the publication of the Silver Anniversary Collector's Edition, someone at Wizards of the Coast found L3 in the "TSR Design Vault" (which probably meant a folder in some file cabinet). WotC decided to publish "Delve," but the editors thought it needed "depth and clarification" to bring it up to modern AD&D standards. Lakofka was happy to oblige and produced a new version of his adventure… which WotC then also lost. Lakofka says that that he didn't hear about the loss until after L3 was published, by which time a number of WotC developers had stepped in to do that required expansion for the adventure. In the end, Lakofka says, the L3 that we have here is about 80% comprised of material he'd turned in two decades before its release.</blockquote>

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