The Temple of Elemental Evil: Difference between revisions

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: It's extremely difficult to do, but the module notes that the player characters conceivably ''could'' defeat Zuggtmoy in direct combat. If that happens, she'll be banished back to the Abyss like any other demon lord, but the Elemental Nodes will also be destroyed, the Goldenskull will be useless, and the Temple will have effectively been defeated once and for all.

* [[The Dragon]]: Hedrack, to the demigod Iuz

* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Hoo boy. Just ''existing'' in the Elemental Nodes is enough to kill you by degrees... and that's if you manage to not run into the numerous dragons and other nasty creatures populating each node.

* [[Fighting a Shadow]]: Subverted with Zuggtmoy. Reducing her [[Hit Points]] to zero isn't enough to permanently kill, but it does banish her to the Abyss for several decades, destroys the Elemental Nodes, makes the Goldenskull useless, and effectively ends the threat of the Temple once and for all. Destroy the Orb first, however, and then [[Deader Than Dead|defeat her within 4 days....]]

** Nulb: Otis, Mother Screng (Canoness Y'Day) and Hruda (Murfles)

** The Temple: Kella the druid, Smigmal and various monsters (jackalweres, a lamia and two werewolves)

* [[Killer Game Master]]: This module would turn even Gandhi into one. Seriously. This module raises complaints, warranted and unwarranted, of [[The GM Is a Cheating Bastard]]. Particularly when {{spoiler|the Temple's assassins start to come after you...}}

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Jaroo Ashstaff decided only to have the top level of the temple cleared the first time.

** When [[Gary Gygax]] ran this module for the first time with his original group, Rob Kuntz decided to run his character, Sir Robilar through the dungeons solo. He defeated the dungeon (a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in itself), but Gary, annoyed that Kuntz had run so rampant through the Temple, decided to bring down the long arm of the law to tear his castle down to its component bricks.

* [[Title Confusion]]: Just about everyone (Even this article) leave off the "The" at the start of the title. The smaller font for it kinda encourages it. So does the infamous "check toee" [[Manual Misprint|misprint]] in the ''Complete Divine'' handbook, which was later recognized to mean "check ''ToEE''".

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: several.

'''Tropes exclusive to Troika's adaptation'''