Gary Gygax Books in Order

Gygax's famous referee's tome is packed with tables, treasures, rules calls, and campaign advice. It is demanding, opinionated, and full of the practical machinery that powered classic AD&D play.

The original AD&D bestiary gathers a huge cast of monsters into one book and gave generations of players their first look at iconic creatures. It is essential reading for the shape of fantasy gaming itself.

One of the foundational AD&D books, this manual gives players the rules for races, classes, spells, equipment, and combat. It helped define what a fantasy roleplaying rulebook looks like.

This classic underworld adventure carries heroes into the domain of the drow, where stealth, politics, and survival matter as much as combat. It deepens the giant conspiracy into something far more sinister.

Trapped in a jungle pyramid, adventurers must survive a maze of traps, cursed relics, and Mesoamerican-flavored horrors. The challenge is not just fighting through it, but escaping before the shrine finishes them.

The Expert Rules expand early D&D beyond the beginner dungeon crawl into wilderness journeys, sea travel, stronger monsters, and domain play. It is where a local campaign starts to feel like a whole world.

A fantasy party explores a crashed spaceship full of robots, strange creatures, and dangerous technology. Few adventures show Gygax's love of genre-mixing more clearly, or more boldly.

Following clues from earlier dangers, adventurers track monsters into a hidden mountain temple devoted to Tharizdun. The result is a bleak, eerie crawl through secret rites, madness, and a buried evil that does not stay quiet.

This sequel bestiary adds a fresh wave of creatures to AD&D, from strange planar beings to monsters drawn from Greyhawk play. It is a toolbox for making familiar campaigns feel unpredictable again.

A bizarre mirror-world adventure inspired by dream logic and nonsense fantasy, this module leads characters into a place of riddles, odd creatures, and hidden danger. It is whimsical on the surface, but rarely safe.

Gord grows up in the slums of Greyhawk, learns the trade of a thief, and gets swept into bigger adventures beyond the city. It is a coming-of-age fantasy with grime, speed, and a lot of sly energy.

This interactive fantasy gamebook casts the reader as Sagard, a young barbarian facing monsters, hard choices, and deadly fights. It mixes solo adventure storytelling with light roleplaying mechanics and branching paths.

This supermodule turns a string of classic adventures into one long campaign of giants, drow, and deep underworld peril. It starts with surface raids and keeps descending toward the realm of the Spider Queen.

Gord is pulled into a race to find a dangerous artifact before darker powers can claim it. The novel widens Greyhawk from back alleys to a larger contest involving famous wizards, demons, and the balance of the world.

Gord returns to the Free City of Greyhawk and its dangerous underworld, where old enemies and deeper secrets wait. The book mixes city intrigue with revelations that make Gord's place in the larger story feel far more significant.

A collection of Gord the Rogue stories, this book drops back into his younger years and his life in and around Greyhawk. The adventures are brisk, streetwise, and full of thieves, monsters, and narrow escapes.

Gord crosses the deadly Sea of Dust in search of a hidden key and the truth behind a greater threat. The novel blends hard travel, strange ruins, and high stakes in one of the series' broadest quests.

Gord's struggle against the forces threatening Oerth turns darker and more desperate here. The stakes move well beyond city intrigue, as allies and enemies alike are drawn into a widening war of cosmic power.

The Gord saga races toward its climax with journeys into the Abyss and a direct confrontation with demonic power. It is the biggest and most cosmic book in the sequence, with the fate of worlds hanging in the balance.

When powerful sorcerers begin dying, Magister Setne Inhetep follows the trail from Aegypt to misty Avillonia. It is a fantasy murder mystery driven by old gods, rival wizards, and a mounting sense of menace.

The core fantasy rulebook for Dangerous Journeys, Mythus lays out Gygax's later, denser take on roleplaying. It introduces the world of Aerth and a system built for detailed characters, magic, and long campaigns.

A setting book for Dangerous Journeys, this volume maps out Aerth, an alternate Earth shaped by legend, history, and sorcery. It gives referees cultures, geography, and hooks for globe-spanning fantasy campaigns.

A deadly adventure set around an ancient city of the dead, this module sends heroes into tombs, traps, and old evils beneath desert sands. The mood is ominous, and survival is never guaranteed.

Setne Inhetep and the amazon warrior Rachelle travel to Delhi to recover the Maharajah's stolen crown jewels. Pirates, assassins, black magic, and court intrigue turn the search into a dangerous international mystery.

Magister Setne Inhetep stumbles into a murder by magic while visiting the city of On. The case widens into a conspiracy of priests, merchants, and sorcerers that could threaten the whole Triple Kingdom of Aegypt.

Raid the strongholds of hill, frost, and fire giants in one of Gygax's classic linked adventures. What starts as a brutal counterstrike slowly reveals a darker force pulling the raids together.

The player-facing entry point to Lejendary Adventure, this book covers character creation, abilities, and the basics of play. It is Gary Gygax building a new fantasy system with a different vocabulary and a more flexible feel.

This is the game master's core book for Lejendary Adventure, packed with rules support, campaign guidance, and material players are not meant to see. It is where the system opens up from character play into world running.

A bestiary for the Lejendary Adventure game, this book expands the world with monsters, encounter details, and referee-ready lore. It is built to give campaigns more variety, stranger foes, and more texture at the table.