''Doc's Island'' is an

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published in 1983 for the ''

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Plot summary

''Doc's Island'' is an adventure in which the

player character A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game. The characters that are not control ...

s must deliver the ''Egg of the Phoenix'' to the unusual Doc's Island.

Publication history

R-4 ''Doc's Island'' was written by

Frank Mentzer Jacob Franklin Mentzer III is an American fantasy author and game designer who worked on early materials for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (D&D) fantasy role-playing game. He was an employee of TSR, Inc. from 1980 to 1986, spending part of that time ...

, with art by Bob Walters, and published by TSR/RPGA in 1983 as a 16-page booklet with an outer folder. The module was a limited edition, sold only to members of the

RPGA The RPGA (also called the Role Playing Game Association and the RPGA Network at various times), was initially part of the organized play arm of TSR, Inc and later of Wizards of the Coast. From 1980 to 2014, it organized and sanctioned role-playing ...

. It was later rewritten, and collected with the other modules from the R-series in I12 ''

Egg of the Phoenix ''Egg of the Phoenix'' is an adventure module published in 1987 for the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. Plot summary ''Egg of the Phoenix'' is an adventure in which the player characters (PCs) investigate a slaver ...

''.

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Dungeons & Dragons modules Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1983 {{D&D-stub