The book presents game statistics and illustrations for 20 new monsters, and the adventure was intended to be used with Dungeons & Dragons and Tunnels & Trolls.

[2] Nanorien Stones was written by Jim Gallagher and Steve Morrison, and was published by Mayfair Games in 1982 as a 32-page book.

[3]: 166 Kelly Grimes and Aaron Allston reviewed Nanorien Stones in The Space Gamer #58.

And when it does end, it leaves the players hanging, returning the characters to the prime material plane with little reward for their efforts.

"[2] The detailed the adventure's "many and varied" flaws, including some of the "petty and mean" encounters and that "this unpleasantness is predetermined; it happens without the character's actions making a difference".