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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.
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 ...
Saga of the Old City was published in 1985; this and its sequel Artifact of Evil were the only two novels published under TSR's Greyhawk Adventures written by Gygax. This was Gygax's first novel, and it was edited by Kim Mohan. [2] It was the first Greyhawk novel released by TSR. [3]
Lawrence Schick, in his 1991 book Heroic Worlds, calls Greyhawk "The first and most important supplement to Original D&D". [4] Shannon Appelcline, in his 2011 book Designers & Dragons, considers Greyhawk an "innovation" because at the time "supplements were largely unheard of in the wargaming industry. Though games were frequently revised and ...
The tone of the materials is intentionally darker and more grim than publications set in the pre-Wars era, and was designed to re-energize TSR's sales of Greyhawk-related publications. [citation needed] The set was followed by related adventure modules and sourcebooks by Sargent including The Marklands, [3] Iuz the Evil, [4] and The City of ...
The Player's Guide, also known as the Greyhawk Player's Guide or the Player's Guide to Greyhawk, is a sourcebook for the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Written by Anne Brown, the work was published by Wizards of the Coast under its TSR imprint in 1998.
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 ...
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.