paizo.com - Death in Delhi (Trade Paperback)

About the Author

In 1974, Gary Gygax (1938–2008) co-created the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, forever changing the face of fantasy. The hand-assembled first print run of 1000 boxed rulesets sold out in nine months, and by 1978 the game’s explosion in popularity warranted a three-volume harcover rules expansion called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons authored by Gygax. The release of AD&D coincided with the explosive popularity that catapulted the game into a true cultural phenomenon, introducing fantasy to a generation of new readers. D&D’s literary roots drew upon the sword and sorcery work of authors like Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, and Robert E. Howard, and by the mid-1980s D&D’s publisher, TSR, began to release their own line of fantasy fiction.

Thus was born Gord the Rogue, Gygax’s rakish, metropolitan thief whose daring adventures span seven novels: Saga of Old City, Artifact of Evil, Sea of Death, City of Hawks, Night Arrant, Come Endless Darkness, and Dance of Demons. Years later he introduced a new character, the crime-solving Ægyptian wizard-priest Magister Setne Inhetep, in a trilogy of novels: The Anubis Murders, The Samarkand Solution, and Death in Delhi.

Gygax's importance to American popular culture was solidified with an animated cameo alongside Al Gore, Stephen Hawking, and Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols in a 2000 episode of Futurama.


Vic Wertz (Technical Director), Mon, Nov 17, 2008, 05:30 PM

I've updated the product image and description to match the final product.


flash_cxxi (RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32), Tue, Nov 18, 2008, 12:39 AM

Yay, can't wait for thisun'! =D


Shadowborn (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Thu, Nov 20, 2008, 11:24 AM

So...I just read the blog posting on this, including the excerpt that was printed there and found an error: "Thugs!" he managed to should to Rachelle. "Stranglers of Kali!" Hopefully that's a typo from the blog posting and not an error in the text itself. That being said, I'll have to pick this one up. I've always been fascinated with Kali and the Thugee.


James Lowder (Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Nov 21, 2008, 08:40 PM

Shadowborn wrote: That being said, I'll have to pick this one up. I've always been fascinated with Kali and the Thugee. A couple of Thug-related films to watch as you're waiting: Gunga Din (the 1939 Cary Grant classic) and The Stranglers of Bombay (a rather good 1959 Hammer production). Of course, the Thuggee are the main baddies in the Beatles romp Help!, too. I'm not as much of a fan of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom or the Pierce Brosnan flick The Deceivers, but they do have plenty of Thugs. Cheers, Jim Lowder


Tosari, Sat, Jan 3, 2009, 08:58 AM

I believe those are Thugs as well in the James Bond flic, Octopussy.?