Needle is an adventure in which the player characters recover a magical obelisk from a distant jungle, and which turns out to be a door to another world.

[1] In this adventure, the player characters volunteer for a king to explore a dense jungle that was once home to a great civilization, with a magic obelisk at its center.

In Part 2, Retrieval, the party leads a team hampered by disease and jungle animals to transport the obelisk to the king.

I11 Needle was written by Frank Mentzer, with a cover by Clyde Caldwell and interior illustrations by Doug Chaffee, and was published by TSR in 1987 as a 48-page booklet with two outer folders.

[1] Design: Frank Mentzer Developer: Frank Mentzer Editing: Barbara Young Cover Art: Clyde Caldwell Illustrations: Doug Chaffee Cartography: Dave Sutherland Typesetting: Betty Elmore and Kim Lindau Distributed to the book trade in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Canada by Random House of Canada, Ltd.