"Something Rotten in Kislev" is thus meant to make this sudden context change more believable, since the characters were away for a while and did not receive news of the Empire during that time. The first four episodes of The Enemy Within were generally regarded as the most popular and successful. "Something Rotten in Kislev" departed significantly from the theme and setting of the previous adventures in the series, while "Empire in Flames" was viewed by many fans as being an unsatisfactory resolution of the plots developed in the earlier episodes, as well as being considerably more linear than the previous volumes. When Hogshead Publishing held the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay license, a new ending for the campaign, entitled "Empire in Chaos", was created to replace the unpopular "Empire in Flames". The project was abandoned when Hogshead returned the WFRP license to Games Workshop in 2002, but fan-produced alternatives such as "Empire At War" continue.