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<blockquote data-quote="Thanael" data-source="post: 5256016" data-attributes="member: 22734">Oh well. Make sure you read the <a href="http://www.oerthjournal.com/mikaobah8.html" target="_blank">Rose Estes Hate Page</a> (by Greyhawk guru Erik Mona himself iirc) that Hobo linked to before buying any of her books. There are also a few Greyhawk novels by Gygax - but similar to the Greenwood Realms novels they are critically acclaimed. I personally liked the Gord the Rogue novels very much, but the general opinion seems to be that they're not very well-written. Perhaps not being a native speaker helps me here. They are certainly very Gygaxian. For me they were very much a back to the roots experience, seeing how&nbsp; Gygax envisioned his D&amp;D and coinciding with my delve from 2E into the 1E books.Here are two older threads on Canonfire on the topic of GH novels:<a href="http://www.canonfire.com/cfhtml/modules.php?name=Forums&amp;file=viewtopic&amp;t=815" target="_blank">The Books, Please</a><a href="http://www.canonfire.com/cfhtml/modules.php?name=Forums&amp;file=viewtopic&amp;t=1094" target="_blank">Gord the Rogue: Does book order matter?</a>Quag Keep was an interesting read, being the first D&amp;D novel. There's also Nightwatch by Robin Wayne Bailey which is set in future Greyhawk. It is kind of low fantasy but comes highly recommended.Being a great fan of the Ravenloft setting I feel i must also mention the Ravenloft novels line. <a href="http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/DrawingRoom.html" target="_blank">There's a list of them with reviews on the Fraternity of Shadows site.</a>From the FR novels line I also very much liked Lisa Smedman's&nbsp; House of Serpents Trilogy.As for non-D&amp;D fantasy novels, i wonder that nobody has yet mentioned&nbsp; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brust#Bibliography" target="_blank"> the Vlad Taltos novels by Steven Brust</a>. They are quite good. The main protagonist was inspired by the 1E D&amp;D assassin class, and the books have some D&amp;Disms like resurrection.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thanael, post: 5256016, member: 22734"] Oh well. Make sure you read the [url=http://www.oerthjournal.com/mikaobah8.html]Rose Estes Hate Page[/url] (by Greyhawk guru Erik Mona himself iirc) that Hobo linked to before buying any of her books. There are also a few Greyhawk novels by Gygax - but similar to the Greenwood Realms novels they are critically acclaimed. I personally liked the Gord the Rogue novels very much, but the general opinion seems to be that they're not very well-written. Perhaps not being a native speaker helps me here. They are certainly very Gygaxian. For me they were very much a back to the roots experience, seeing how Gygax envisioned his D&D and coinciding with my delve from 2E into the 1E books. Here are two older threads on Canonfire on the topic of GH novels: [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cfhtml/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=815]The Books, Please[/url] [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cfhtml/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1094]Gord the Rogue: Does book order matter?[/url] Quag Keep was an interesting read, being the first D&D novel. There's also Nightwatch by Robin Wayne Bailey which is set in future Greyhawk. It is kind of low fantasy but comes highly recommended. Being a great fan of the Ravenloft setting I feel i must also mention the Ravenloft novels line. [url=http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/DrawingRoom.html]There's a list of them with reviews on the Fraternity of Shadows site.[/url] From the FR novels line I also very much liked Lisa Smedman's House of Serpents Trilogy. As for non-D&D fantasy novels, i wonder that nobody has yet mentioned [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brust#Bibliography] the Vlad Taltos novels by Steven Brust[/url]. They are quite good. The main protagonist was inspired by the 1E D&D assassin class, and the books have some D&Disms like resurrection. [/QUOTE]

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