Look at that name! Ed Greenwood! He’s been around TSR since the 70s, mainly as a contributor and assistant editor of Dragon magazine, with his long-standing series of articles on a certain setting that will soon become extremely prominent as AD&D moves away from Gygax’s Greyhawk and Dragonlance loses a bit of its steam, to become more a literary than a gaming phenomenon.

So, it isn’t completely unusual to come across Greenwood’s name, but this is, from what I can remember, the first work coming out under his name as a standalone article and not inside the covers of Dragon. This would become very frequent in the remainder of the year with the Forgotten Realms setting coming out under his name and a FR novel, Spellfire, also coming out this year.

As an adventure, however, The Endless Stair isn’t much to write home about. A competently written and by the numbers adventure (it starts off at an inn, where else?) there isn’t much that is different or innovative in here. Still, I can only imagine that Greenwood was concerned with greater and better things which will be coming out just around the corner.