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This is the category of books, sourcebooks, accessories, novels, and boxed sets concerning the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. This is a subcategory of the general category for Dungeons & Dragons books. It contains materials either written specifically for Greyhawk, or written to be used in ...
In 1999, order to recognize the 25th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, Wizards of the Coast published the "Greyhawk Classics", a series of seven novels based on well-known D&D adventures published by TSR during the first decade of the game: Against the Giants (1999), White Plume Mountain (1999), Descent into the Depths of the Earth (2000), The Temple of Elemental Evil (2001), Queen of the ...
It was the first novel based on a role-playing game, [3] the first to use the Greyhawk setting and the first to be based on D&D. [4] In the early 2000s, Norton and Jean Rabe began to collaborate on a sequel to Quag Keep, but Norton died before the book was completed. Rabe subsequently finished Return to Quag Keep, which was published by Tor ...
It was the first Greyhawk novel released by TSR. [3] It was not the first published novel to take place in this world; the first novel to feature Greyhawk was Quag Keep, published in 1978 by Andre Norton. In 2008 Troll Lord Games released a new hard cover reprinting of Saga of Old City.
Novels based on the Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Pages in category "Greyhawk novels" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The book updates material from the earlier From the Ashes. [2] The book was the first in a series of publications designed to re-launch the Greyhawk campaign setting, followed by other sourcebooks and adventure modules set in Greyhawk such as Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil and Return to the Tomb of Horrors.
That being said, it is decent pulp fantasy, with Emerson giving us a steady flow of adventure and conflict, monsters and magic. The characters are somewhat one-dimensional, but more fleshed out than what this genre is used to. In keeping with the Wizards of the Coast "Greyhawk" series, the book feels more like an adventure module than a novel.
Gary Gygax, the developer of the World of Greyhawk campaign setting, realized that novels set in Greyhawk could have a similar benefit for his recently published World of Greyhawk boxed set, so he wrote Saga of Old City, the first in a series of novels that would be published under the banner Greyhawk Adventures. The protagonist was Gord the ...