Douglas Niles Books in Order

Something is badly wrong in the village of Orlane, and the player characters have to uncover the cult behind the fear. It is part mystery, part dungeon adventure, and a classic beginner module.

The Duke of Rhoona is making bizarre decrees, and the mystery behind his behavior threatens the whole realm. This Expert module mixes investigation, travel, and a race to lift the curse.

From Guido's Fort, adventurers head toward a monster-filled hill rumored to hide an evil witch. It is a straight-ahead Basic D&D expedition with wilderness dangers and a three-level dungeon.

The war widens as the Heroes of the Lance move from rescue and escape into open resistance. This early Dragonlance module balances occupation, infiltration, and a march toward freedom.

This high-level AD&D adventure combines military-scale conflict with classic questing in a strategic frontier under attack. It is the opening move in the Bloodstone saga.

This Dragonlance module pushes the war forward through enemy schemes, dangerous travel, and the search for advantages the dragonarmies do not expect. Deception and divided paths shape the adventure.

Driven south from Tarsis, the heroes cross the Ice Reaches toward Icewall Castle and a dragon orb. The module mixes wilderness travel, new allies, and a hard frozen fortress crawl.

This solo gamebook drops you into a dangerous prison break where every choice matters. Dice, decisions, and a little luck are all that stand between you and freedom.

This gamebook drops Tarzan into a dangerous search tied to slavers and a hidden well. Choices drive the action, so the path out depends on the reader.

The original Dragonlance module sequence ends with war on a continental scale and a direct challenge to the Dragon Queen's power. It is part finale, part setting guide to Krynn at war.

A high-level fantasy adventure built around world-shaking threats and powerful enemies. It keeps Douglas Niles's taste for military pressure and epic stakes squarely in view.

Prince Tristan Kendrick must unite the peoples of the Moonshae Isles against Kazgaroth, a beast empowered by a corrupted moonwell. It is the start of Niles's Celtic-flavored Forgotten Realms saga.

Tristan struggles with rule while Robyn's druid power grows, and outside forces push the Moonshaes toward open war. The sequel expands the islands and turns up the scale of the conflict.

This famously high-level AD&D adventure sends heroes against powers of death and into the Abyss itself. It is large, deadly, and built for characters who can change worlds.

A Dragonlance module anthology that offers several adventures in different corners of Krynn. It is more like a toolkit of side journeys than one single straight campaign.

A corrupted moonwell gives evil a path into the Moonshae Isles, and Tristan and Robyn have little room left for failure. The original trilogy closes with divine stakes and a hard fight for the islands.

This expansion pushes the Gammarauders setting further into mutant war and scavenged-tech chaos. New bioborgs, factions, and battlegrounds make the post-nuclear conflict bigger and wilder.

Before the War of the Lance, Flint Fireforge returns home to investigate his brother's murder and gets tangled in dwarven politics he never wanted. It gives the gruff companion a solid solo adventure.

A soldier from Faerun enters Maztica and is swept into a clash of empires, cultures, and gods. The trilogy begins as an adventure story, but the larger conquest never stays in the background.

Maztica grows more dangerous as old faiths, invading powers, and personal loyalties collide. The second book keeps the pressure on while deepening the struggle over who will control the land.

The Maztica trilogy closes with gods, conquerors, and survivors all pulling the land in different directions. Personal loyalties matter, but the future of an entire continent is at stake.

Set deep in Dragonlance history, this novel follows Kith-Kanan through the civil war that reshapes the elven nations. Personal loyalties and political fracture drive the story as much as battle.

When the Moonshae people drift from the Earthmother, the High King's daughter must help restore that bond. It begins a new trilogy shaped by nature magic, faith, and island politics.

The second Druidhome novel carries the Moonshae struggle beyond the islands and into underwater realms. It widens the story while keeping the focus on duty, faith, and survival.

The Icewall trilogy ends in the far north, where old grudges and fresh alliances decide who will survive. The frozen setting stays central, with weather and distance as dangerous as any foe.

This collection updates the middle stretch of the original Dragonlance adventures for later rules. Icewall, dragon orbs, and wartime travel all sit inside one volume.

This Villains novel follows the rise of Ariakas, the war leader who means to rule all Krynn. It is a power story built on ambition, strategy, and the pull of darkness.

The Moonshae line reaches a climax as the Kendrick family and the Earthmother's followers face enemies on land and sea. Faith, inheritance, and island politics all matter here.

When the barrier between three very different realms begins to fail, scattered heroes are pulled into a larger war. This opener sets up Niles's mix of quest fantasy, prophecy, and dark invasion.

Farm boy Holt and Princess Danis join forces to keep a dangerous magical artifact out of enemy hands. It is a young-reader quest story with clear stakes and a fast-moving adventure plot.

Princess Danis faces courtship, scheming, and a quest strange enough to involve a wine-giving goat. The middle Quest Triad book mixes fairy-tale humor with real danger to the kingdom.

This Lost Histories novel traces the wild elves across different ages of Krynn, from first separation to later wars. It is more mythic than most Dragonlance books, and deeply rooted in forest culture.

The breach in the Watershed has changed everything, and the fight against dark forces grows harsher and stranger. The second book deepens the world while pushing its scattered heroes back into danger.

Holt and Danis return for the last Quest Triad adventure, where strategy and sacrifice matter as much as courage. The story expands from court politics into a final struggle for the kingdom.

Rather than following one small party, this novel steps back to tell Dragonlance history from the dragons' side. It tracks their rivalries, loyalties, and wars across ages of Krynn.

Thief Kip Kayle is swept into a hunt for a legendary artifact broken across the world. The quest grows from treasure chase into a cosmic struggle between Law and Chaos.

A forgetful kender, a young priest, and unlikely companions are pulled into a mystery tied to the dead archmage Fistandantilus. It plays as a travel adventure with dark magic at the center.

The Watershed trilogy closes with the barriers between realms collapsing and Dassadec's threat growing harder to contain. Rivers, mountains, and magic all become part of the final war.

As chaos spreads across Krynn, familiar lands begin to feel strange and unstable. The story follows characters trying to hold onto duty and each other while the world tilts toward disaster.

Dark dwarves, rival claimants, and rising chaos throw the dwarven kingdoms into crisis. Niles uses the end-of-the-world backdrop to tell a tight story about power, loyalty, and survival underground.

Raw chaos is warping creatures and loyalties across Krynn as the old order falls apart. This Dragonlance story turns apocalypse into a series of close, dangerous choices.

This companion-style Dragonlance book follows Gilthanas through the missing stretches of the War of the Lance. It fills gaps in the main saga while adding lore, notes, and extra perspective.

Silvanesti is still fragile, and rebellion, dragon threats, and family conflict push the elves toward another breaking point. This Chaos War novel leans into court intrigue as much as battlefield danger.

An Aztec warrior is pulled into a layered magical realm where elves, dwarves, and crusaders are heading toward war. It opens a big portal-fantasy trilogy with a lot of movement and conflict.

What if Hitler died in July 1944 and Rommel lived? This alternate-history novel follows the military and political shock that turns the war in Western Europe into a very different endgame.

Characters drawn from Earth and the Seven Circles face a widening war as old evils press upward through the realms. The second book broadens the world and raises the magical stakes.

The fight for frozen Icereach deepens as rival peoples, ogres, and ancient magic close around a powerful prize. This middle book keeps the Icewall story moving through harsh country and harder bargains.

With Rommel and Patton forced into an uneasy alignment, this sequel imagines the end of World War II tilting toward a new race against Himmler and the Soviets. It is big, tactical, and relentlessly tense.

The Seven Circles trilogy ends with the balance of its linked worlds at risk. History, magic, and war converge as the struggle reaches the power at the heart of creation.

After the War of Souls, magic itself is unsettled, and the Orders of High Sorcery must decide how to survive a changed world. The danger here is as much political as magical.

The first Rise of Solamnia novel follows the shaky rebirth of the Knights after the War of Souls. It is part military fantasy, part political struggle over who gets to define honor.

Douglas Niles updates the Martian invasion for the modern age, with EMP attacks, failing technology, and a global military response. It keeps the classic premise but shifts it into a 21st-century crisis.

War-scarred Solamnia is still unstable, and competing visions of knighthood keep sharpening into conflict. Duty and power collide as the struggle to rebuild the order grows more dangerous.

In this alternate World War II novel, setbacks in the Pacific force the Allies toward a bloody invasion of Japan under Douglas MacArthur. Strategy, ego, and battlefield cost all matter here.

A distress call from a Mars research outpost sends an elite SEAL team into Earth's first violent contact with alien powers. Military rescue quickly becomes a fight to survive an interplanetary trap.

As Solamnia tries to rebuild after war, honor, law, and ambition pull its knights in different directions. The final Rise of Solamnia book turns political strain into a fight over what the order should become.

Brandon returns to Kayolin as a hunted fugitive while civil war tears dwarven lands apart. To save his people, he has to face old enemies and imagine a different future for Krynn's clans.

Earth's first interstellar diplomatic mission needs protection, and a new kind of spacefaring SEAL team gets the job. First contact turns into a tense mix of covert security work, alien politics, and firefights.

Brandon Bluestone leads uneasy allies to the sealed kingdom of Thorbardin, where a mad king and old hatreds threaten every chance at peace. The Dwarf Home trilogy closes with war at the gates.

This alternate-history thriller asks what happens if the Cuban Missile Crisis tips the wrong way. Nuclear brinkmanship becomes a chain of human decisions, military pressure, and catastrophic momentum.

In frozen Icereach, a desperate warning pulls scattered peoples into a struggle against ogres and old powers. This opening Icewall novel mixes survival, travel, and the politics of a harsh frontier.

An aristocratic dwarf on the run, a gully dwarf survivor, and a stubborn priestess are drawn together by secrets buried in ancient Pax Tharkas. Their choices could reshape the future of Krynn's dwarven nations.

A nonfiction tour through dragon stories from myth, folklore, and fantasy tradition. Niles looks at how cultures imagined dragons and why the creatures keep returning.

A nonfiction survey of American battlefield victories in Vietnam, arguing that many hard-fought tactical successes have been overlooked in the war's larger public memory.