The original "White Plume Mountain" adventure was written by Lawrence Schick, and was published by TSR in 1979. It features interior art by Erol Otus and David C. Sutherland III, calligraphy by Darlene Pekul, and a front cover by Sutherland. The module includes a 12-page booklet and an outer folder which featured a two-color cover in the original printing; the module was expanded to 16 pages and rereleased with a full-color cover by Jeff Dee in 1981. The adventure was included as part of the "Realms of Horror" abridged compilation produced in 1987. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the "Dungeons & Dragons" game in 1999, a reprinting of the original adventure was made available in the "Dungeons & Dragons Silver Anniversary Collector's Edition" boxed set, with slight modifications to make it distinguishable from the original (for collecting purposes). Wizards of the Coast also released a sequel to the adventure in 1999, "Return to White Plume Mountain", as part of the TSR 25th Anniversary series of publications. The events in the sequel are assumed to take place 20 years following those in the original. It was made into a novel of the same name by Paul Kidd for the Greyhawk Classics series.