Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Adventure Pack
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Adventure Pack is an adventure published by TSR in 1984 for the action-adventure role-playing game The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game, itself based on the Indiana Jones movie franchise.
Description
[edit]This role-playing adventure recreates the events of the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.[1] Players are expected to use pre-generated characters that are based on the characters from the movie.[2]
Publication history
[edit]In 1984, TSR gained the license to make a role-playing game based on Indiana Jones,[3] and released The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game the same year. Over the next two years, TSR supported the game with six adventures, the first being IJ1 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Adventure Pack, a 32-page softcover book with a large map and outer folder written by Tracy Hickman and Michael Dobson.[4] Photographs from the movie were taken by Keith Hampshire and Ralph Nelson, and cartography was by David S. "Diesel" LaForce
The Indiana Jones role-playing game did not sell well, and TSR eventually ceased publication and allowed the license to expire. In 1994, West End Games acquired the rights to publish their own version of a role-playing game, The World of Indiana Jones.
Reception
[edit]In Issue 22 of Imagine, Paul Mason reviewed the first two adventures in the series, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Adventure Pack and Raiders of the Lost Ark Adventure Pack, and felt the adventures should have branched out away from the movie storylines, saying, "My major gripe is that they both stick too closely to the films apart from the odd occasion here and there, the modules attempt to steer the characters into replaying the exact events of the films. Given that anyone playing In these scenarios has almost certainly seen the films, I'd anticipate the game being somewhat spoiled by such rigid adherence to the films' plots."[1]
Other reviews
[edit]- Different Worlds #39 (May/June, 1985)[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Mason, Paul (January 1985). "Game Reviews". Imagine (review). No. 22. TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. p. 40.
- ^ "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". Guide du Rôliste Galactique (in French). 2009-05-08. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
- ^ "The History of TSR". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2008-09-24. Retrieved 2005-08-20.
- ^ Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 269. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
- ^ "Different Worlds #39". 1985.