Brian M. reviewed on 12/9/2012 + 70 more book reviews

The start of a good trilogy written in the late 80's when D & D was at it's height.a good mix of action, humor and imagination. A group of people begin a role playing game and are magically transported to a magical land where they have become their characters, but unlike playing a game, the players find that their enemies play for keeps...and they face some brutal violence during the course of the book. The first couple of books balance this with humor-mainly due to the characters importing 1980's pop culture references,manners,slang,knowledge, ect into the mideval, fantasy world in which they are now trapped. The first four or five books deal with the original characters fighting slavers...the later books deal with their son/daughters taking over the crusade and since they never lived in "the real world" the humor of the earlier books is gone and the overall tone becomes darker and dull. The main hero, Carl Cullance was the heart and soul of the series...once his son takes over, it just wasn't fun anymore.

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