D&D-influenced Fantasy Novels

[Calico_Jack73]

Joel Rosenberg's "Guardians of the Flame" series is very D&Desque.

Paul

Couldn't agree more. The interesting thing about GotF is the difference in values that our modern society has compared to the fantasy setting in GotF. Slavery is an abomination to us but in most fantasy settings it is a perfectly acceptable institution. Rape is considered a "spoil of war" in the fantasy setting where we in this modern world consider it one of the most horrible of crimes. Also, when Karl gets into his first fight but then gets sick after he has to take his enemy's life it shows how unprepared we are to take someone's life even if our own is on the line. It may be macho to say you could do it but it is one thing to say it and another thing to do it (which is why during a break-in most people are injured with a weapon that the intruder took from them). When one of their party members is killed early on with no apparant way to bring him back (all low level at the start) it drives home how gritty a campaign should be at low levels.

Very good series.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

No one has mentioned Greg Costikyan's "Cups and Sorcery" series. Those are great and hilarious to boot.

 

[Blue Orange]

Not really D&D-influenced as a whole but I was reading Caitlin Kiernan's 'Tinfoil Dossier' books and there's an offhand reference to 'deities and demigods' up at headquarters which made me chuckle.