City of the Gods is a 1987 adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons

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role-playing game

Role-playing game

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. Its module code is "DA3" and its TSR product code is "TSR 9191".

Plot summary

In this scenario, the leaders of Blackmoor send the player character

Player character

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s to the City of the Gods to acquire some divine magic, either by bargaining for it or by stealing it. The module includes new alien technological devices.

Publication history

DA3 City of the Gods was written by Dave L. Arneson

Dave Arneson

David Lance "Dave" Arneson was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game , Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s...

 and David J. Ritchie, with a cover by Doug Chaffee and interior illustrations by Jim Holloway

Jim Holloway (artist)

-Background:Jim Holloway was self taught in illustration, although he was able to study some oil paintings by his father.-Works:Jim Holloway has continued to produce interior illustrations for many Dungeons & Dragons books and Dragon magazine since 1981, as well as cover art for The Land Beyond the...

, and was published by TSR in 1987 as a 48-page booklet with a large color map and an outer folder.

Credits

• Design: Dave L. Arneson
  Dave Arneson
  David Lance "Dave" Arneson was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game , Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s...
  
   and David J. Ritchie
• Editing: Deborah Campbell Ritchie
• Cover Art: Doug Chaffee
• Interior Art: Jim Holloway
  Jim Holloway (artist)
  -Background:Jim Holloway was self taught in illustration, although he was able to study some oil paintings by his father.-Works:Jim Holloway has continued to produce interior illustrations for many Dungeons & Dragons books and Dragon magazine since 1981, as well as cover art for The Land Beyond the...
  
  
• Cartography: Dennis Kauth and David C. Sutherland III
  David C. Sutherland III
  David C. Sutherland III was an early Dungeons & Dragons artist. Sutherland was a prolific artist and his work heavily influenced the early development of Dungeons & Dragons.-Early life and inspiration:...
  
  
• Typesetting: Kim N. Lindau

External links

• The DA series from The Acaeum