The
evil sorcerer Ssor Ssorensen must have attended the "freeze them with
perpetual winter" school of villainy, because when he and his minions
conquered the town of Noresha, the first thing he did (after taking a
nice, hot bath) was encase the city in ice. Then he laid out a
thirteen-dungeon obstacle course challenge, filled with mind-twisting
riddles, fiendish traps, and a bevy of the most monstrous guardians a
conqueror's shoestring budget can afford, because that's what the best
of the bad guys do.
Strife
inevitably brings resistance. A band of heroes led by Yorel the
paladin, calling themselves the Phoenix Dragons, are the front runners
to challenge the sorcerer and put an end to his menace.
This
is not their story. This is the story of Endrew the bard, a fallen hero
and humiliated former Phoenix Dragon, who has to team up with a pack of
misfits just to make it through the week. His companions include an
untrained rogue, an unusually sophisticated half-orc mage, a misplaced
pixie, a dwarven monk full of unlikely theories, and a halfling warrior
who wants more than anything just to be tough. Endrew and his unlikely
crew set their sights on surpassing the champions and saving the city
from evil, but before they can do that they must surmount their
shortcomings just to survive. For a mismatched group that can't even
settle on a party name, that may be a tall order indeed.
This book is available both in print and in Kindle format through Amazon.
• See an excerpt: Disarming Traps
• See an excerpt: Brown-Bearded Dwarf Needs Food Badly
Aaron, awesome novel, hillariously funny and even my wife loved it and read it twice now. Before that her closest encounter with CRPGs was watching me play Torment but even she got the jokes and found it very funny.
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Thanks, Andreas. Really glad both of you enjoyed the book. I'm particularly thrilled to hear I could bring enjoyment to a non-gamer spouse. Thanks also for the mention on the CRPG Addict's site. If you're up for posting a review or even just a rating on a site like Amazon, Goodreads, Librarything, etc., every little bit adds a little credibility to an indie book. Thanks again.
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