Looking a lot like an adventure module, with a cover painting by Larry Day and interior art by Jim Holloway, this is actually something completely different and a new kind of product for D&D, a collection of NPCs for DMs to use in their campaigns, ready-made and easy to just transport from the page into your game. 

Interestingly it comes bundled with a little setting, the titular Inn where player characters can find these NPCs, complete with a map and everything. This is designed for the D&D system, but it shouldn’t be too hard to adapt to AD&D.

The funnest thing about this, however, is the fact that there are illustrations for each and every character, in little group “photos” with all the fighters, Thieves or Elves put together. Also fun is the way this ties in with the toy line that was on sale at the time, as well as the animated show on TV. You get stats for characters like Strongheart, Warduke or Kelek under the Special Characters section. At the end of the module there’s also a section where the characters in the book are sorted into parties that the characters can meet according to their level.