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The Players Guide to Dungeon Crawling

Name: The Players Guide to Dungeon Crawling
Rating: 3.92 (64 reviews)
Author: Matthew Phillion

Matthew Phillion March 25, 2018

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For six lifelong friends, it was supposed to just be a simple game night. But when they break out a new, classic high-fantasy style game—half tabletop RPG, half dungeon-crawling board game, simultaneously familiar and unexplored—for a test run, they find themselves transported into the game’s setting, living the lives of their made-up characters, where the dangers, and the monsters, are deadly serious. Left with little choice but to jump headlong into their roles, Cordelia, Morgan, Jack, Eriko, Tamsin, and Tobias will have to become the heroes they were just pretending to be to stop a nightmare creature’s reign of terror… or find out if life and death in this fictional setting is as real as it seems. Ranger and cleric, barbarian and thief, bard and they’ll have to combine all of their new-found abilities to stop a creeping evil and to survive in this strange new world.

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