I just finished reading
Game Night by EN World's own Jonny Nexus and it is a laugh riot.
I'm not sure if any of you have read Jonny's website
Critical Miss, but the "falling on your ass laughing" calibre humour that he's always brought to the site translates well into this book.
It is about a group of Gods (literally) playing a fantasy roleplaying game using mortals as their PC's. The concept seems pretty easy to come up with...but I'm happy to say the author
really delivers
Basically, the Chief God has a really epic, poetic drama-filled adventure in mind, and it keeps getting sidetracked by the fact that his players (the rest of the pantheon) are for the most part
petty, rules-lawyering yahoos,
bored goofs who can't retain any information from moment to moment,
snide know-it-alls with a sense of entitlement...and the lone
awesome gamer for whom you get the feeling the adventure was designed.
The "adventure" itself is pretty compelling , but the real gold in the book is recognizing how many of these exact "Group Dynamic Disasters" I myself have been in over the years.
This one sentence sets the tone I think...
The ride up the Valley had been long and tiresome, and the party's spirits had been further dampened by an unfortunate dispute over the bill at the inn in which they'd spent the night. But now they were within sight of that which they'd spent many moons travelling towards.
The Gate
And unfortunate dispute over the bill at an inn...the very picture of an Epic Fantasy
Anyway, the writing is top-notch, the story is hilarious and the book is very reasonably priced.
Go that Amazon link and buy one for your DM for Christmas
And, in the grand tradition of EN World reviews ***** 5/5 Stars
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