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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacob Lewis" data-source="post: 8493861" data-attributes="member: 6667921">14-year-old me had a different perspective of the world and literature than me writing about this today. So while I don't think I would enjoy half the books I read as an adolescent in the 80s, I can remember fondly how these books excited and fueled my imagination.The first true D&D novels I read were Saga of Old City and Artifact of Evil, the first two books in the Gord the Rogue series by Gygax. Gord was the reason I had such a strong affinity for rogue characters with dual-daggers. (Eat it, Drizzt!) Plus, the books included some beautiful black and white illustrations by one of the iconic artists for the game, Clyde Caldwell.Of course, the original Dragonlance trilogy was a staple for every D&D fan at the time. More than a great story, it was a blueprint for world building on a level that most of use only dreamed for a campaign setting. It was also how I imagined a great adventure campaign should be; a continuous, evolving story with strong character motives, and a definitive ending that could only be achieved through great struggle and sacrifice. Those were pretty lofty goals at a time when most campaigns were often built on a string of adventure modules that weren't always connected.Finally, I think the Cleric Quintent series by Salvatore needs more attention. It didn't spawn a slew of spin-offs and endless trilogies like the drow. I don't even remember most of the plot. But what I did get from it is this: even a dull or boring character concept, like a human cleric of Denier (the FR god of literature, art, and knowledge), can be an interesting and compelling character to play. The character makes the character interesting: not the race, or class, or whatever.</blockquote>

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