Best D&D Fiction

[Kaiyosama]

What D&D fiction do you consider to be worth reading, if any? I haven't read any yet, but am thinking I might like to read some of the better ones. So which are they? And why?

 

[Chauzu]

Aye, me wants to know too.

 

[Pants]

I really enjoyed Gary Gygax's old Gord the Rogue books. The first book kinda sucked, since it didn't seem to have much of a purpose. The second and third books were great reads, especially the second 'Artifact of Evil.' The fourth was pretty good and I haven't read the last.
It's too bad that they're almost impossible to find now though.

Salvatore's Drizzt books have some good stuff in them and I really like the 'War of the Spider Queen' novels as well.

 

[John Smallberries]

RAS's Drizzt books were good---ignore the haters. After the first six, I started to burn out on the series.
I actually *liked* Spellfire, but didn't did any other of Greenwood's sruff.
The new Spider Queen series is shaping up nicely.

 

[Mistwell]

There are so many of those Forgotten Realms books, it would be great if someone could list, by name, the ones that a generally considered very good.

 

[Holy Bovine]

I liked the Dark Elf trilogy and the Icewind Dale trilogy. Tried reading Starless Night but I think I wasn't in the mood for it at the time. I do like RA Salvatore's writing - very fast paced but unfortunately he has become so wrapped up in Drizzt, Wulfgar & company that he doesn't move their character forward anymore - they seem locked in time just moving from adventure to adventure and never developing.

The first Dragonlance book was pretty good (Dragons of Autumn Twilight) but the 2 after that, frankly, sucked. I never went back to Dragonlance after that.

I remember enjoying I, Strahd sort of an autobiography of the Ravenloft vampire Strahd von Zarovich.

 

[Fenes 2]

Anything by Elaine Cunningham is very good, especially Elfshadow, Elfsong, Silver Shadows, Daughter of the Drow, Tangled Webs and Thornhold.

 

[Claude Raines]

I liked the Dragonlance novels by Weiss & Hickman, but hated the stuff farmed out to other authors. I also liked the first 5 DarkSun novels by Troy Denning.

 

[takyris]

I was a big fan of Elaine Cunningham, although I didn't love her Daughter of the Drow series. I remember thinking Salvatore rocked when I first read him (when I was 12). And I still like his early stuff. His later stuff seems to have gotten away from what I saw as his strength -- writing cool fight scenes between equally powerful characters. Now, he writes fight scenes between yet another demon/devil/outsider and yet another guy-who-can't-lose. It's just not fun.

I'm not looking for deep meaningful Joycian literature when I read a D&D novel. I'm looking for fun and action. Elaine Cunningham is good at fun and does good character stuff, and Salvatore used to be great at describing fight scenes.

-Tacky

 

[Sixchan]

I liked the Cleric Quintet, you know, the non-Drizzt books Salvatore wrote?