Wizard Books

If you love fantasy and books that talk about a time of dragons, mages, elves, dwarfs, and many other races that fight for the balance of good and evil, this is the type of book for you. Out of all the fantasys written, I think the Dragon Lance saga is the best fantasy saga ever written. Everything you might have wonders about, like how magic can be cast and used in the real world or any other questions, will be answered for you in these books and will carry you through an excellent realm of fantasy where you will gain feelings for the characters and actually become part of the book itself.

I got to read this book before it was ever published, and I must say I was surprised at how good it is! I loved it, it keeps you entertained and it's very suspenseful. I would recommend this book to any fantasy readers, because this is a must-read.

The Dragon's Tomb is an excellent book, and even better if you know anything about Dungeons and Dragons, AD&D, etc. The book has a very excellent story line. (That includes the whole trilogy) The Story is about a young squire, who seeks vengence on the Evil Dragon Verdilith, for killing her lover, and the Knight that was training her, Flinn the Mighty. With his magical sword Wyrmblight she will hunt the dragon until the death.

The game play itself is a little difficult to grasp, but the source material is worth the price. The artwork is great & the game pieces are interesting. If you are a DL collector, this is a must to complete your collection.

The DL series was a huge leap forward for TSR - these modules featured a new emphasis on drama and storytelling that made the gaming MUCH more fun and involved for the PCs and the DM. Of course, at heart, being TSR modules from the 80s, they're still dungeon crawls! In this chapter, the heroes find themselves without hope, as the draconians conquer the lands of men, and despair drives them beyond the impassable mountains. With hundreds of refugees depending on them, they need to find a way to survive... a great, dark adventure for levels 6-8.

Once agin we enter the tangled saga of two worlds threatned by magic. A complicated and complex tale, sadly this is the last complete work of writer Jo Clayton- she wil be greatly missed.

The epic Blackmoor campaign reaches its conclusion as the heroes (levels 10-14) learn of the dreaded Well of Souls! (The Well is basically an efreeti-crafted Ark of the Covenant - souls of the fallen grafted into an artifact that can level cities and conquer entire armies.) Now, the final battles must be fought, and the legacy of fate will reach its earth-shattering conclusion... a highly dramatic adventure, well-scripted.

Dungeon Magazine has been a great source of adventures for TSR/Wizards of the Coast role-playing games since its first issue in 1986. Dungeon #33 was the January/February 1992 issue, written primarily for AD&D 2nd edition rules, and includes five adventures. This is a great issue, one that should be included in every Dungeon Master's library.

That Island Charm - AD&D adventure, levels 7-12, ~55 total levels - When the player characters (PCs) are shipwrecked on a tropical island, they find that something wicked is going on. [Some knowledge of underwater adventuring helps with this one.]

The Siege of Kratys Freehold - AD&D, levels 1-4, at least 12 total levels - When the PCs stop at an isolated fort, they soon find themselves besieged, and their actions might mean the difference between life and death for everyone there. (This is a personal favorite, I highly recommend it!) [Can be used with the BATTLESYSTEM rules, but includes a nice set of large-scale combat rules.]

Dark Days in Welldale - AD&D, levels 3-5, ~22 total levels - A Halfling village requests the PCs help - good luck has turned to bad luck, and good times to bad. Can the PCs turn things around? (This is a very nice adventure that can be a lot of fun!)

Alicorn - AD&D, levels 1-2, ~8 total levels - There is a wounded unicorn out there. The goblins want to kill it, so that they can use its horn to cure their ill leader, but can the PCs get to it first? (A wonderfully folklorish adventure for new characters.)

Mad Gyoji - AD&D Oriental Adventures, levels 7-10, ~32 total levels - The PCs are asked to help a sick village myoshu, sickened by a curse placed on his family by Mad Gyoji. Can the PCs kill Mad Gyoji and rescue the village? It might be harder than you think.

I've been a D&D fan for over 20 years. I've been a chess fan for longer. So when I read about this item being planned, I was excited but also a little fearful that it wouldn't really be of a very good standard. Well, I was wrong.

I know it's quite pricey, but I bought it through an Amazon seller for a little less. Needless to say, I love it! The base is nice and solid, and the whole thing is quite heavy (which always makes it feel more worth it's price, doesn't it?(!)). The pieces are light resin from what I can tell, and they're beautifully scuplted. Tiamat is the five headed black Queen, and Bahamut is the regal white King, both standing almost 4" tall. The other dragons are equally impressive, all posed to make them more easily identifiable as the pieces they represent... the rook dragons are curled atop a castle tower, the knight dragons are rearing like a horse and so on. The base of each piece also has the name of it sculpted into the back and the regular chess symbol/crown on the front for the other player to see. All the white pieces are ivory coloured, edged and brushed with gold, the black pieces are dark red, edged and brushed with copper.

One of my own pet niggles is that I don't really like walnut, which is the veneer on the base and chess board, but that's just my own preference, and not in away a criticism of the quality of the product.

It's a very, very nice chess set, and a very impressive, quality piece of D&D merchandise. I hope they release more D&D related products like this in the future.

This boxset contains rules to play D&D in a stripped down "basic" form. Rules cover the first three levels of experience. The "Basic" D&D set was intended to be a temporary update of the original set until the AD&D game could be finished ("From The Sorcerer's Scroll", Dragon magazine, March 1980, p.13). It main purpose, however, was to teach people how to play D&D in an uncomplicated method. Once the basics were understood, they player would then graduate to Advance D&D. That, at least, is what the creators of this work intended. However, due to public demand for higher level rules, the Expert set was eventually developed, giving people two entirely different games: Dungeons & Dragons and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

The book of organized much as the later basic and experts books would be in years to come: first rolling up a character, then PC races and classes, melee rules, spells, monsters, and then treasure. The last eight pages are devoted to showing the DM how to do his craft. Information on how one actually goes about playing this game are sketchy.

The Basic set has a couple of interesting features. First, readers are directed to explore various rules in more depth by consulting the AD&D books. At the time this book first appeared, however, most the core AD&D rulebooks were not even finished. Second, the alignment system is the one used in AD&D (good/evil/neutrality & law/chaos). This was later changed for the next (2nd edition) of the D&D game in 1981 back to the more simplistic "original" rules alignment (the lawful/neutral/chaotic concept taken from Michael Moorcock's interrelated "Eternal Champion" fantasy books).

The Basic set is a vast improvement over what had come before. More importantly, it is very adaptable and playable. One could crack open the book right now, role up some characters, and be off on an adventure in no time. Of course, since the game doesn't really tell you how to play, you'll have to get someone to teach you, or just figure it out yourself. Present gamers, however, would deride this set's lack of sophistication in regards to rules and campaign information--in essence, there is little.

Contents: A rule 48-page book, Monster & Treasure Assortment sheets, Dungeon Level Geomorph sheets, and five dice.

(Note: There are three versions of the basic D&D rulebook. The first came out in 1977 by Gary Gygax and has a white & blue drawing of a dragon on the book cover. The second is a revision of this book that came out in 1981. It was edited by Tom Moldvay and has an Erol Otus painting on the cover of two adventurers fighting a dragon in a water-filled dungeon. The final version came out in 1983 and was edited by Frank Mentzer. It has a red cover with a Larry Elmore painting of a female adventurer fighting a dragon. Some listing of these books on Amazon are confusing with unclear information on which edition the book is.)