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released in 1999 by

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under its then recently acquired "TSR" imprint. It is set in the ''

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and is a sequel to

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's 1979 module ''

White Plume Mountain ''White Plume Mountain'' is an adventure module for the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game, written by Lawrence Schick and published by TSR in 1979. The 16-page adventure bears the code "S2" ("S" for "special"). The adv ...

''. The 64-page book was written by Bruce R. Cordell and updates the legend of the eponymous mountain and its previous inhabitant, the sorcerer Keraptis. In the Greyhawk timeline, the events in the module are assumed to occur 20 years after the events described in the original S2 - ''White Plume Mountain'' adventure.

Cover text

In ancient times, a sorcerer named Keraptis searched for eternal life. Within the magma domes and steam vents of an active volcano, he conducted his arcane experiments. Eventually he faded into legend, and the world heard no more of Keraptis for more than a millennium.

Two decades ago, however, Keraptis reappeared in White Plume. The mountain and its insane lord proved too much for most, but eventually courage and justice triumphed. Keraptis was finally dead or so the world thought.

Now, twenty years later, a face has appeared in the volcano's smoke—the face of Keraptis himself, say those who should know. Is the vile wizard immortal after all? Or is there an even greater threat building beneath White Plume Mountain?

Publication history

Several supplements were released in 1999 to update some of the most popular of TSR's ''Dungeons & Dragons'' adventures, including '' Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff'' (1999), '' Dragonlance Classics 15th Anniversary Edition'' (1999), ''

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'' (1999), '' Return to the Keep on the Borderlands'' (1999) and ''Return to White Plume Mountain'' (1999).

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References

External links

Return to White Plume Mountain
at the TSR Archive
Return to White Plume Mountain Backstory Synopsis
from Canonfire! Greyhawk modules Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1999 {{Greyhawk-stub