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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melba Toast" data-source="post: 4616012" data-attributes="member: 80591">I was kind of enjoying the Tribe of One series until, in the middle of the third book, Sorak actually sits down at a game table and plays himself playing D&D.I sh*t you not.It actually happens.I threw the book across the room.Here's an actual quoted text from the book (pg. 116). Here, Sorak is observing a "game" in a Casino in Salt View:"The first this they notice was that no cards were being used, nor were there playing pieces. There were no wheels or boards, and players were in a team. Instead of a dealer, there was a sort of gamemaster who directed the play. Each player assumes a character... The gamemaster then presents them with a scenario... the game that had stopped to watch happened to be called, ironically, "The Lost Treasure of Bodach".It was ironic, because Sorak was searching for the Lost Treasure of Bodach. And you see, Sorak then plays the game, rolls polyhedral dice and everything, then, it turns out, he's the first player to ever "win" the game. Turns out the game was a "test". Now, if this were just a comic aside, it would be fine, but this goes on for 20 pages! The worst part was this comes midway through the last book of the series. By this point, anyone who read this far was heavily invested in the character and the story. This chapter is a mockery of your time and money.      ****I'm less critical of the Prism Pentad series. It's not Shakespeare, but Dark Sun was Troy Denning's world, and the books are respectful. I haven't read (or even seen) any of the other novels but I liked some of the short stories that came with the modules.</blockquote>

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