Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting Artefact of Evil

Having treated myself to several good Dungeons & Dragons novels in a row — mainly the original Dragonlance trilogy and R.A. Salvatore’s The Halfling’s Gem — in the last few D&D&N columns, I knew that I must pay a price in return. That price was reading Artefact of Evil, the second Greyhawk novel by D&D co-creator Gary Gygax, whose first Greyhawk book currently sits as the worst entry I’ve read so far. Is Artefact any better? Yes, but not nearly enoug