Reception
Peter Green reviewed Queen of the Spiders for White Dwarf #85. Green lamented that "roleplaying has now come full circle. Death and gore are again the order of the day, and talking to NPCs is a thing of the past." Green felt that players looking for "the mindless mayhem of high level slaughter" would not be disappointed, although players looking for "a chance to interact meaningfully with creatures will be". Green found the new beginning intriguing, getting the adventure off to a good start, but felt let down by the outdated adventures which follow. He felt that, while in their day these adventures were excellent and deserved acclaim, dungeons had become old hat compared to more sophisticated adventures available for AD&D. He cited the example of the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide, which added greatly to the realms below the earth, none of which was incorporated into Queen of the Spiders. He further expressed his disappointment, "What Queen of the Spiders gives you is slaughter on a grand scale. There are supposed to be various power struggles in progress in the depths, but the players never really get to see any of this." Green summed up his feelings in his conclusion to the review, "TSR have proven over the years that they are capable of better products than this. Instead of wasting time with old material, they should concentrate on presenting new roleplaying ideas."
Queen of the Spiders was ranked as the single greatest Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004, on the 30th anniversary of the Dungeons & Dragons game.
Read more about this topic: Queen Of The Spiders
Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)