Gord the Rogue

[Eternalknight]

I have recently aquired five Gord the Rogue books, written by Gary Gygax. However, I have no idea whether I have all of them, and what order to read them in.

Was there only five? Which one should I start with?

 

[Evilhalfling]

These five share a single story line, and it gets better as it goes along, until it takes a nose dive in the second half of the last book.

Saga of Old City
Artifact of Evil
Sea of Death
Come Endless Darkness
Dance of Demons

These two are just terrible and should be thrown away -
they are short complilations of adventures that wander in and about the timeline.

City of Hawks (intresting description of the plane of shadows)
Night Errant (no redeming qualities)

 

[Eternalknight]

Thanks. Looks like I'm missing Saga of Old City and Dance of Demons.

 

[Steverooo]

Gary was asked about this in his Q&A thread, not too long ago. He said to start with the Saga of Old City, then...

The book to read after Artifact of Evil is Night Arrant, then read City of Hawks before Sea of Death, and i hope you enjoy the read. the tales are sheer adventure with little or any message anywhere therein

It is likely that Troll Lord Games will begin publishing hardback versions of the seven "Gord" books beginning in the last part of this year.

 

[Bront]

I read I think the first five or so a long time ago. I liked them in general. I remember it ending somewhat abruptly though (Spiler)

Spoiler

after forging some sort of neutral sword of some kind

I may have to go through my dad's collection again and see if he still has them out. Been at least 10 years since I read them.

 

[BSF]

These two are just terrible and should be thrown away -
they are short complilations of adventures that wander in and about the timeline.

City of Hawks (intresting description of the plane of shadows)
Night Errant (no redeming qualities)

I would disagree here. These books can be quite fun as well. But they are definitely in a different vein than the other Gord books.

 

[Turanil]

I still have Artifact of Evil (most of my fantasy sci-fi books were stolen at one point), and really enjoyed reading it. At the time I bought it (don't remember when and where), I didn't know there were others, and later when I tried to know never found anything. I am glad to learn that these books are going to be printed again!

 

[grodog]

For an excellent Gord/Greyhawk resource site, see Chris Siren's Gord's Greyhawk at http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/gordmain.html