In this case, the player characters are teleported from the Mountain of Mystery setting directly to the temple in this adventure.
[3] Dimension Six, based in Englewood, California, appeared in 1980 and published a number of products that year for fantasy role-playing including Furioso, The Nine Doctrines of Darkness, and Mountain of Mystery.
[4] Later the same year, they also published a sequel to Mountain of Mystery, a 24-page saddle-stapled softcover book titled The Temple of Athena, designed by Ken Ritchart, with artwork by Michael Carroll, Ray Schelgunov, Jr., and Vandy Vandervort.
In the February 1981 edition of Dragon (Issue 46), Tony Watson mentioned the low production values: "As a general rule the artwork is acceptable, but varies greatly in quality and craftsmanship.
To make [this work] flexible enough for use with different systems, there have been a lot of minor details omitted that will have to be added before play begins."