Demi-humans in Gord novels.

[AxeMental]

To get an idea of how battles run in AD&D and how Gygax pictured the world of Greyhawk I suppose the Gord books were as good of a place to look as any.

I never did complete the Gord series, but I do remember that the books seemed to be very human-centric, and that they only presented a few examples of demihumans. Is the Gord series a place to get an understanding of what demi-humans are supposed to be like in AD&D?

I read these books over 10 years ago so I can't remember details, but I recall a halfling thief (def. not your nice dancing on tables type), Curly Greenleaf was a half elf right (his descriptions I recall didn't seem to offer much light in how he differed from humans) and a dwarf sent from hell. I don't recall Gygax describing any gnombes or pure elves in any detail.

[TheDungeonDelver]

AxeMental said:

To get an idea of how battles run in AD&D and how Gygax pictured the world of Greyhawk I suppose the Gord books were as good of a place to look as any.

I never did complete the Gord series, but I do remember that the books seemed to be very human-centric, and that they only presented a few examples of demihumans. Is the Gord series a place to get an understanding of what demi-humans are supposed to be like in AD&D?

I read these books over 10 years ago so I can't remember details, but I recall a halfling thief (def. not your nice dancing on tables type), Curly Greenleaf was a half elf right (his descriptions I recall didn't seem to offer much light in how he differed from humans) and a dwarf sent from hell. I don't recall Gygax describing any gnombes or pure elves in any detail.

Obmi was the "dwarf from hell"; his partner was a pure elf. Gord buys a "Longtooth" type magic dagger from a dwarf in Greyhawk; a passing mention is given to gnomes and halflings going hither and yon on errands in the early chapters of Saga of old City.

[geneweigel]

If I recall correctly that gnome sounded a little "Germanic".

There is a bit in ARTIFACT OF EVIL within the elven country of Celene.

The Obmi character seems to be a major exception from other dwarves. Note that in the G series, he appears grossly fat. However in the novels, Obmi is really well muscled. One can assume that he's been transmogrified by magic since he seems to deal with all those "unoerthly" types of the lower planes.

There's other examples in the series like Biff the Halfing and Melf the Elf and a few half-orcs here and there.