Pillars of Pentegarn by Rose Estes

A Dungeons & Dragons Endless Quest Book #3

Published by TSR

Second Printing, July 1982

Paperback

Very Good vintage condition. The book is clean, covers attached, secure binding, uncreased spine, unmarked, no writing, no highlighting, crisp inner pages, no fading, no ripped pages, no edge chipping, no creased pages, no remainder marks, not ex-library. Some light surface and edge wear from age, use, storage and handling. Corner crease mark on the front cover. Full length crease mark across the rear cover. Please review pictures for greater details. 

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These books were one of the most successful American series to follow in the footsteps of  Choose Your Own Adventure  and were the first of many interactive book offerings to be published by TSR. Each adventure is based on one of TSR's role-playing games or other licenses, with most taking place in one of the worlds of  Dungeons & Dragons  but others using the settings of  Gamma World,  Star Frontiers,  Top Secret  or even the worlds of familiar pulp literary characters Conan and Tarzan. Despite their role-playing origins, the books completely avoid game mechanics, with no dice-rolling or character statistics to be found. There is, however, a certain touch of role-playing to be found in the fact that each book casts the reader as a specific character with a defined past rather than following the more common gamebook tradition of attempting to keep reader identity as generic as possible. More complex gameplay was later introduced in the  Super Endless Quest  books (which were quickly renamed the  Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Gamebooks) while simplified stories for younger readers were released in the  Fantasy Forest  line. The  Endless Quest  books were released in four distinct series; the first thirty-six books were released by TSR during the eighties and featured fairly large type and a format identical to that of the  Choose Your Own Adventure  books. This format was carried over to two spin-offs (the gimmicky  Endless Quest Books: Crimson Crystal Adventures  and the romance-oriented  HeartQuest  books) as well as the  Lazer Tag Adventures  series.

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Dungeons & Dragons  (commonly abbreviated as  D&D  or  DnD)  is a  fantasy  tabletop role-playing game  (RPG) originally designed by  Gary Gygax  and  Dave Arneson.  It was first published in 1974 by  Tactical Studies Rules, Inc.  (TSR).  The game has been published by  Wizards of the Coast  (now a subsidiary of  Hasbro) since 1997. It was derived from  miniature wargames, with a variation of the 1971 game  Chainmail  serving as the initial rule system.[  D&D's  publication is commonly recognized as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry.

D&D  departs from traditional  wargaming  by allowing each player to create their own  character  to play instead of a  military formation. These characters embark upon imaginary adventures within a fantasy setting. A  Dungeon Master  (DM) serves as the game's referee and storyteller, while maintaining the setting in which the adventures occur, and playing the role of the inhabitants of the game world. The characters form a party and they interact with the setting's inhabitants and each other. Together they solve dilemmas, engage in battles, explore, and gather treasure and knowledge. In the process, the characters earn  experience points  (XP) in order to rise in levels, and become increasingly powerful over a series of separate gaming sessions.

The early success of  D&D  led to a proliferation of similar game systems. Despite the competition,  D&D  has remained as the market leader in the role-playing game industry.  In 1977, the game was split into two branches: the relatively rules-light game system of  basic  Dungeons & Dragons, and the more structured, rules-heavy game system of  Advanced Dungeons & Dragons  (abbreviated as  AD&D).  AD&D  2nd Edition was published in 1989. In 2000, a new system was released as  D&D  3rd edition, continuing the edition numbering from  AD&D; a revised version 3.5 was released in June 2003. These 3rd edition rules formed the basis of the  d20 System, which is available under the  Open Game License  (OGL) for use by other publishers.  D&D  4th edition was released in June 2008.  The 5th edition of  D&D, the most recent, was released during the second half of 2014.

In 2004,  D&D  remained the best-known,  and best-selling, role-playing game in the US, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game, and more than US$1 billion in book and equipment sales worldwide.  The year 2017 had "the most number of players in its history—12 million to 15 million in North America alone".  D&D 5th edition  sales "were up 41 percent in 2017 from the year before, and soared another 52 percent in 2018, the game's biggest sales year yet". The game has been supplemented by many pre-made  adventures, as well as commercial  campaign settings  suitable for use by regular gaming groups.  D&D  is known beyond the game itself for other  D&D-branded products,  references in popular culture, and some of the  controversies  that have surrounded it, particularly a  moral panic  in the 1980s falsely linking it to  Satanism  and  suicide.  The game has won multiple awards and has been translated into many languages.

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Gamebooks

Original Series

1.  Dungeon of Dread
2.  Mountain of Mirrors
3.  Pillars of Pentegarn
4.  Return to Brookmere
5.  Revolt of the Dwarves
6.  Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons
7.  Hero of Washington Square
8.  Villains of Volturnus
9.  Robbers and Robots
10.  Circus of Fear
11.  Spell of the Winter Wizard
12.  Light on Quests Mountain
13.  Dragon of Doom
14.  Raid on Nightmare Castle
15.  Under Dragon's Wing
16.  The Dragon's Ransom
17.  Captive Planet
18.  King's Quest
19.  Conan the Undaunted
20.  Conan and the Prophecy
21.  Duel of the Masters
22.  The Endless Catacombs
23.  Blade of the Young Samurai
24.  Trouble on Artule
25.  Conan the Outlaw
26.  Tarzan and the Well of Slaves
27.  Lair of the Lich
28.  Mystery of the Ancients
29.  Tower of Darkness
30.  The Fireseed
31.  Tarzan and the Tower of Diamonds
32.  Prisoner of Elderwood
33.  Knight of Illusion
34.  Claw of the Dragon
35.  Vision of Doom
36.  Song of the Dark Druid

Rebooted Series 2

37.  Dungeon of Fear
38.  Castle of the Undead
39.  Secret of the Djinn
40.  Siege of the Tower
41.  A Wild Ride
42.  Forest of Darkness
43.  American Knights
44.  Night of the Tiger
45.  Galactic Challenge
46.  Bigby's Curse
47.  The 24-Hour War
48.  The Test
49.  Sands of Deception

Rebooted Series 3
50.  Into the Jungle
51.  To Catch a Thief
52.  Big Trouble
53.  Escape the Underdark
54.  Escape from Castle Ravenloft
55.  The Mad Mage's Academy