Saga of Old City

Saga of Old City
	Cover of the book
Author	Gary Gygax
Cover artist	Clyde Caldwell
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Gord the Rogue
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	TSR, Inc.
Publication date	1985
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Followed by	Artifact of Evil

Saga of Old City is a 1985 fantasy novel by Gary Gygax, set in the world of Greyhawk, which is based on the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

Plot summary

Saga of Old City was the first novel to feature Gord the Rogue. Saga of Old City starts in Gord's childhood, and ends with his triumphant return to Greyhawk City as a young man and master thief. He learns his trade in the 'beggars' guild', and gets involved in the gang war touched off by the beggars encroaching on the official thieves' guild's territory. He travels and has a variety of swashbuckling adventures, ranging from participating in a war, to liberating a young noblewoman held hostage, to defeating a demon with a druid, Curley Greenleaf, and a barbarian, Chert.

Publication history

Gary Gygax wrote a short story, "At Moonset Blackcat Comes", that appeared in the special 100th issue of Dragon in August 1985. This introduced Gord the Rogue to gamers just before Saga of Old City was scheduled to be released.[1] Saga of the Old City was published in 1985; this and its sequel Artifact of Evil were the only two novels published under TSR's Greyhawk Adventures written by Gygax.

This was Gygax's first novel, and it was edited by Kim Mohan.[2] It was the first Greyhawk novel.[3]

In 2008 Troll Lord Games released a new hard cover reprinting of Saga of Old City.

Reception

gollark: Well, see, you could be bluffing about that too.

gollark: Are you bluffing? Deploying inductive bee systems...

gollark: The implications of this are interesting, unless you're bluffing.

gollark: Oh, you're waiting for us to ship the cognitohazards in it or something?

gollark: I should probably write my code, retroactively.

References

Gygax, Gary (August 1985). "At Moonset Blackcat Comes". Dragon. Lake Geneva WI: TSR (100): 22.
"TSR Profiles". Dragon. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR, Inc. (#105): 62. January 1986.
Winter, Steve; et al. (October 2004). 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-3498-0.

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[1] Gygax, Gary (August 1985). "At Moonset Blackcat Comes". Dragon. Lake Geneva WI: TSR (100): 22.

[Dragon_#105-2] "TSR Profiles". Dragon. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR, Inc. (#105): 62. January 1986.

[30_Years-3] Winter, Steve; et al. (October 2004). 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-3498-0.