Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sleeping Dragon | 1983 | Joel Rosenberg | Buy |
| 2 | The Sword and the Chain | 1984 | Joel Rosenberg | Buy |
| 3 | The Silver Crown | 1985 | Joel Rosenberg | Buy |
| 4 | The Heir Apparent | 1987 | Joel Rosenberg | Buy |
| 5 | The Warrior Lives | 1988 | Joel Rosenberg | Buy |
| 6 | The Road to Ehvenor | 1991 | Joel Rosenberg | Buy |
| 7 | Guardians of the Flame: To Home and Ehvenor | 2004 | Joel Rosenberg | N/A |
| 8 | The Road Home | 1995 | Joel Rosenberg | Buy |
| 9 | Not Exactly the Three Musketeers | 1999 | Joel Rosenberg | Buy |
| 10 | Not Quite Scaramouche | 2001 | Joel Rosenberg | Buy |
| 11 | Not Really The Prisoner of Zenda | 2003 | Joel Rosenberg | Buy |
Guardians of the Flame starts with a premise that sounds like wish fulfillment: a group of college students playing a role-playing game find themselves actually transported into their game world. But Joel Rosenberg quickly makes clear that living in a fantasy world means facing real danger, real violence, and real moral choices that don’t come with a reset button.
The eleven-book series follows the characters as they go from confused outsiders to active participants in their new world, eventually taking on causes like the abolition of slavery. The series was ahead of its time in treating the portal fantasy concept with genuine weight and consequence.