Critical Failures

By Robert Bevan

Book Overview

They weren't chosen.
They weren't heroes.
They weren't even particularly bright.

But they were assholes.

When a group of dysfunctional idiots gets dragged into a fantasy RPG, they don't become heroes.

They become everyone else's problem.

Trapped in a world of magic, monsters, and a game master who's had enough of their shit, Tim, Dave, Julian, and Cooper have to survive.

Using the only skills they actually have:

Bad decisions.
Petty arguments.
Zero impulse control.

If you're looking for noble heroes, epic destiny, and clean fantasy adventure...

This isn't that.
Not even close.

This is what happens when the worst possible players get trapped inside the game.

Party-based fantasy adventure... if the party hates each other

Real RPG mechanics... abused in the dumbest ways possible

A game master who absolutely will screw them over

Crude humor. Offensive jokes. Zero heroic speeches.

They piss off everything that moves.
They fail upward.
And somehow... they keep surviving.

What if you and your friends actually had to live inside the game?

And worse...

What if you turned out to be terrible at it?

Would you survive?

Or would you be just as screwed?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481952439
• ISBN13: 9781481952439
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Take 4 college-age guys, who are kind of generally a**holes to one degree or another, add a Dungeons and Dragons-esque tabletop RPG, a new DM who takes the game far too seriously, and a set of magic dice, and you have a recipie for raunchy humor and misadventures of the highest order. One of the better additions to the developing sub-genre of fantasy in which people from our world are trapped in a world that resembles and functions like, or -is-, an MMORPG that I've seen in recent years. R. A. Salvatore's work with the "Forgotten Realms" novels it isn't, but enjoyable and bringing enough originality to the concept that I look forward eagerly to the next book.