Best D&D Fiction

[Eternalknight]

So if I were to pick just one of those to try out, which should I pick?

I'd recommend the Icewind Dale trilogy.

 

[Alzrius]

- Very first book in the Harper Series. About a novice Harper sent to the Anuroch Desert

The Parched Sea, by Troy Denning, iirc.

 

[CCamfield]

I'd second the recommendation for the Paksennarion series, although the story I heard was that it wasn't actually based on the author's gaming experience.

Liavek might have been, but I'd be somewhat surprised as it was a shared-world anthology.

As for Brust's Jhereg books, I think they've evolved beyond that...

Um, well I'm not a big fan of gaming fiction. The Salvatore that I read back in university was decidedly mediocre.

 

[JamesL85]

I'll have to agree on the first two W&H Dragonlance trilogies and any of Salvatore's Dark Elf books.

I thought Alzrius was going to beat me to the punch on the new Greyhawk books, but no one has mentioned The Tomb of Horrors. I have about 100 pages left and I find it a very good read.

I would mention Jordan's Wheel of Time books, but I wouldn't read much past about book 5 (although I'm still reading at book 10 ).

 

[Warrior Poet]

I suggest a visit to the Story Hour forums to read Sepulchrave II's Heretic of Wyre series, starting with Lady Despina's Virtue all the way through The Rape of Morne (Part II).

It's not published, but should be.

Quite simply, some of the finest D&D fiction I've ever read, and maybe some of the finest fiction period.

Warrior Poet

 

[Alzrius]

I thought Alzrius was going to beat me to the punch on the new Greyhawk books, but no one has mentioned The Tomb of Horrors. I have about 100 pages left and I find it a very good read.

Heh, and for the most part, I did.

On the subject of Tomb of Horrors though...I found the book very disappointing indeed.

If you have a hundred pages left, then they should only now have actually gotten to the Tomb. That right there ticked me off. The titled Tomb gets very little attention, especially since most of the book is just the decision to go there and the actual journey there.

I also found the choice of villains to be extremely upsetting. A cult of Tharizdun? Monks of the Scarlet Brotherhood? Flashbacks to the capital of Iuz? I read Tomb of Horrors and Return to the Tomb of Horrors, so when I read a novel called Tomb of Horrors I expect to see something substantial about Acererak! That irked me so badly.

Minor trivia note here: Way back when TSR was trying out a new adventure format (I forget the name of the line), those adventures had books of the same name published also. Anyone remember the novel Tale of the Comet, based on the boxed set of the same name (I'm pretty sure I got the name right). Well, look on the first page of that novel, where it lists future novels. What do you see? A Thief in the Tomb of Horrors, by, iirc, Simon Hawke (of the Tribe of One trilogy, and The Broken Blade, all for Dark Sun). I would have liked to read that, and I still wonder whatever became of it...

 

[JamesL85]

I finished it up and, like you said, ended up disappointed. I read the preview section on Wizards site and thought that it looked good. I bought the book and really enjoyed the first part, but I kept wondering when they were actually going to make it to the Tomb....LOL. The ending felt rushed, and they glossed over some of the adventuring.....Kind of sucked....LOL

 

[WayneLigon]

Well, in order to do some research for the WOTC novel call for submissions, I purchased Halls of Stormweather and Black Wolf to get a feel for what they are expecting in both novel-length and short-story formats. I'll see how they are.