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For an adventure I never played, and probably will never play, I have spent an inordinate amount of time going over Temple of Elemental Evil. I made a color coded version of the map to show the area of influence of different factions operating in the temple.

In my revision, I am contemplating removing so many humanoid monster encounters. The bugbears in particular are numerous. I feel the dungeon lacks more "Elemental" motifs. I would put in magic circles that have bound some elementals. Throw in some mephits.

Also, since the Drow are involved, I think it should have some classic spiders encounters and made some mix of Elemental enhanced spider encounters.

Instead of zgmty, the imprisoned god is the Elder Elemental God, as referenced in the Giant/Drow series of adventures.

There would still be some fungus encounters. The dungeon sorely lacks food sources and as I have mentioned many …