Not D&D really, but T Kingfisher is a D&D fan herself and her Clocktaur Wars duology (Clockwork Boys and The Wonder Engine) was partly inspired by Neverwinter Nights 2, albeit mainly by dissatisfaction with the way the paladin character was written. It has a reluctant party of a disgraced paladin, two rogues and a cleric setting out on a quest to infiltrate an enemy city and discover the source of some mysterious and nigh unstoppable war machines.

It’s also very good, as are many other of her books set in the same universe. And if you like audiobooks, the Clocktaur Wars ones are some of the best performed I’ve come across.

EDIT: Not novels, but I enjoyed the Minsc comics by Jim Zub (first one is Legends of Baldur’s Gate) recently. Most are fairly reasonably priced as ebooks. The tone certainly won’t be for everyone, but I found them great fun and the final adventure ties directly into BG3.

EDIT2: Melissa McShane’s Company of Strangers is again D&D inspired rather than actually D&D. I’ll admit I wasn’t hooked enough to continue reading the rest of the series, but the first book has some fun ideas about what it would actually be like as a low level party with few spells, joining together for their first adventure.

Last edited by The_Red_Queen; 05/09/22 09:33 PM.

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