First Novel – Day 22 D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop

This is day 22 of the of d20 Dark Ages’ D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge! Based off of the challenge’s prompts I will be sharing personal stories about my history with Dungeons & Dragons every day in February. You can hop to another participating blog by using the links at the end of the article or click here to see my previous answers.

Day 22: What was the first D&D-based novel you ever read?

If I were to call myself as “reader” I could also call myself liar. Though I’m doing my best to fix my fiction-illiteracy as an adult that doesn’t change the fact that my childhood was spent squarely in front of a PC playing games. Even though the classic D&D novel lines were at their peak when I was in grade school and middle school I only picked up one of them. I wiffed on Dragonlance, I skipped the Forgotten Realms, Dark Sun’s Brom book covers looked to scary for me to pick up. No, I read Vampire of the Mists: Ravenloft.

Really, the story was way too mature for my seven-year-old brain. The gothic “Anne-Rice-y” vampiric story telling was a little too much for me to process. But I do remember some badass vampire fights, which seems to fit the the Drizzt novels I’ve read as an adult since.

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