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Gygax's writing hits me where it hurts most: bad and tedious. There came a point where I gave up on the blow-by-blow of the pursuit after the titular Artifact of Evil, Part Two of Three (?). It attempts to capture the entire adventuring experience, from supply to competitors to nuisance encounters to drawn-out chase, leaving the reader wondering what reward sits at the end of all this. Skipping ahead found no interesting set piece, no remarkable plot twist, just a series of encounters that shutt
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I had this in an old box in the garage from my teens, and decided to read it as was playing DnD with the kids and had begun a module set in Greyhawk.
Like the first book it's a good fun introduction to the world, via the mostly likeable Gord. It reads pretty much like a DnD adventure, and if you like well detailed adventure fantasy this will do for you- full of monsters, humanoids, Demons and devils galore with spells sizzling around like no-ones business.
It suffers, however, on the plot front. I ...more
Like the first book it's a good fun introduction to the world, via the mostly likeable Gord. It reads pretty much like a DnD adventure, and if you like well detailed adventure fantasy this will do for you- full of monsters, humanoids, Demons and devils galore with spells sizzling around like no-ones business.
It suffers, however, on the plot front. I ...more
Not as good as the first book, Gord becomes more of an epic hero rather than a sword & sorcery rogue.
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