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jasminenoack 's review for:
The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club
by Doug Henderson
This book had a great set up. Unfortunately, it only really had a great set up.
I was waiting for something hilarious to happen. It really felt like a comedy set up so maybe I was just waiting for the wrong thing. It read sort of like bite me by Christopher Moore, but that build up never actually paid off.
There were some side plots that maybe you could invest in and get to a better place than I did. But they were fundamentally strange in a lot of ways. Like why did Ben keep agreeing to hang out with someone he hated? Even if the guy usually didn’t show up? What’s up with Moneyham? Like at all. It’s possible that things were lost because we had too many characters. We had 7 or so main characters. Most had D&D alter egos. Then there were at least 4 relatively important side characters. That’s at least 15 characters to keep track of and develop which is a lot for ~200 pages. Maybe I would have been more invested if we just picked one.
I liked parts of how the D&D sessions were written. I like the story in a story. I like that the characters sometimes say ridiculous things because the players are saying them like “I didn’t roll high enough”. I like that the DM periodically does a deus ex machina to end a session. That all feels real. The stories I like less. The monsters don’t seem challenging or impressive to overcome like they do in other D&D content I’ve listened to of people playing in real life, and the solutions aren’t interesting. It kind of feels like reading a not great D&D session.
I recommend Polly. The book could have used way more Polly making her own custom dildos for Etsy.
I was waiting for something hilarious to happen. It really felt like a comedy set up so maybe I was just waiting for the wrong thing. It read sort of like bite me by Christopher Moore, but that build up never actually paid off.
There were some side plots that maybe you could invest in and get to a better place than I did. But they were fundamentally strange in a lot of ways. Like why did Ben keep agreeing to hang out with someone he hated? Even if the guy usually didn’t show up? What’s up with Moneyham? Like at all. It’s possible that things were lost because we had too many characters. We had 7 or so main characters. Most had D&D alter egos. Then there were at least 4 relatively important side characters. That’s at least 15 characters to keep track of and develop which is a lot for ~200 pages. Maybe I would have been more invested if we just picked one.
I liked parts of how the D&D sessions were written. I like the story in a story. I like that the characters sometimes say ridiculous things because the players are saying them like “I didn’t roll high enough”. I like that the DM periodically does a deus ex machina to end a session. That all feels real. The stories I like less. The monsters don’t seem challenging or impressive to overcome like they do in other D&D content I’ve listened to of people playing in real life, and the solutions aren’t interesting. It kind of feels like reading a not great D&D session.
I recommend Polly. The book could have used way more Polly making her own custom dildos for Etsy.