Editing Greyhawk Classics

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'''The Greyhawk Classics''' was a line of [[Dungeons & Dragons]] fiction stories released around the late 80s/early 90s to novelize the [[Old School Roleplaying|most iconic 1970s-era]] modules. We got seven of these.

They started [[Greyhawk]] but as you see, B2 snuck in there, which had been done for [[Tom Moldvay]]'s system therefore generic - [[Mystara|Known World]], if anything. (Although, yeah, [[E. Gary Gygax]] did write the original.) Rumor has it that an eighth volume, a novelization of [[S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks|Expedition to the Barrier Peaks]] by Roland Green, was planned before the line was scrapped.

Aside from the books written by [[Paul Kidd]], the novels are treated as separate from each other.

# [[G1-2-3: Against the Giants|Against the Giants]], Ru Emerson
# [[S2: White Plume Mountain|White Plume Mountain]], Paul Kidd
# [[D1-2-3: Drow Trilogy|Descent into the Depths of the Earth]], Paul Kidd
# [[T1-4: Temple of Elemental Evil|The Temple of Elemental Evil]], Thomas M. Reid
# [[Q1: Queen of the Demonweb Pits|Queen of the Demonweb Pits]], Paul Kidd
# [[B2: The Keep on the Borderlands|Keep on the Borderlands]], Ru Emerson which was crap;
# [[S1: Tomb of Horrors|The Tomb of Horrors]], Keith Francis Strohm which ended this series on a brown note.

As to quality, it's best to approach them as running commentaries on the modules, to which end - at their best - they detail how to paper over the flaws of 1970s-era content. Paul Kidd did well-enough with the genre that they let her do it again. Emerson and Strohm, not so much.

[[Category: Greyhawk]]
[[Category: Literature]]