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The Star Cairns
File:The Star Cairns.jpg
Rules required2nd Ed AD&D
Character levels5 - 8
Campaign settingGreyhawk
AuthorsSean K. Reynolds
First published1998
Linked modules
The Star Cairns
Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad
The Doomgrinder

The Star Cairns[1] is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, set in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting.

Plot summary

The adventure concerns the Star Cairns, a series of stone warrens located near the Free City of Greyhawk that were used in antiquity by Suloise mages as magical research centers.

Publication history

The module was published by Wizards of the Coast in 1998 under its recently acquired TSR imprint for the second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules. It is the first of three adventures in the "Lost Tombs" series for the Greyhawk setting and was followed in the same year by Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad and The Doomgrinder.

Credits

Design: Sean “Vegepygmy” Reynolds
Editing: Kij “Troll Child” Johnson
Brand Manager Lisa “Queen of the Spiders” Stevens
Cover Art: Kevin McCann
Interior Art: Scott James & Tom Kyffin
Cartography: Sean Glenn
Typesetting: Eric Haddock
Art Direction: Ellen Buck
Electronic Prepress Coordination: Larry Weiner
Greyhawk Sages: Erik Mona and Steven Wilson
Playtesters: Adam Conus, Chris Paine, Ed Stark, Jonathan Tweet & Anthony Valterra

Distributed to the book trade in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Canada by Random House of Canada, Ltd. Distributed to the toy and hobby trade by regional distributors. Distributed in the United Kingdom by TSR UK Ltd.

product number
ISBN 0-7869-1250-2

Reception

Reviews

  • Backstab #12[2]

References

  1. ^ Reynolds, Sean K. (1998). The Star Cairns. World of Greyhawk: Wizards of the Coast. p. 48. ISBN 0-7869-1250-2. 9579.
  2. ^ https://archive.org/details/backstab-magazine-french-12/page/n55/mode/2up