Series - Dungeons & Dragons Novels

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Language:	English
Publisher:	Wizards of the Coast -- United States
Category:	Product Family : Dungeons & Dragons

These non-interactive novels are based on the third edition of the popular role-playing game and feature that release's "iconic" characters.

Novels

1. The Savage Caves
2. The Living Dead
3. Oath of Nerull
4. City of Fire
5. The Bloody Eye
6. Treachery's Wake
7. Plague of Ice
8. The Sundered Arms
9. Return of the Damned
10. The Death Ray

User Comments

In the 2000s, near the release of the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, the publishers commissioned a number of anonymous authors, all writing under the same pen name, to write novels for new "iconic" characters, to promote the new version.

I've read a few and they are fairly standard adventures with nothing much to recommend them. They are really marred by the cover artwork.

That these "iconic" characters all became forgotten is most likely due to the horrible 1990s-2000s fantasy artwork commissioned for the covers. They feature bloated unrealistic armour, bodies of illogical proportion, weapons that are larger than the characters themselves, and ugly as sin faces. I can only imagine that if Wizards had hired some of the truly iconic 1980s artists like Clyde Caldwell or Larry Elmore then these 3rd edition characters might be better remembered like the 1st edition characters.

--Kveto