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The Living Dead ("Dungeons & Dragons") (Mass Market Paperback)

by T.H. Lain (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0786928484
  • ISBN-13: 978-0786928484
  • Product Dimensions: 18 x 11 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,127,548 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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When hunting parties from a small elven village and from a dwarven settlement on the far side of the mountains vanish without a trace, both sides blame the other, but a courageous band of heroes races against time to save the citizens of the tiny hamlets from a sinister force out to destroy peace, in a second fantasy adventure based on the Dungeons

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2.0 out of 5 stars Could do better. Could do much better., 27 Aug 2002
It's nice to see Wizards making an effort to breathe some life into the iconic characters. The illustrators did a wonderful job of creating memorable and distinct images of them in the core rulebooks, but none of Wizards' supplements have gone beyond using them as examples; they might as well be called Wizard A and Fighter B for all the actual character they have. In this light, I welcomed the publication of The Living Dead as a step in the right direction.

Unfortunately, it's not actually any good as a novel. Well... perhaps I'm exaggerating. Certainly this tale of Mialee and Devis's attempts to rout an ancient undead menace made me laugh out loud many times, though I'm not sure the humour was always intentional. TH Lain makes mistakes a ten-year-old would avoid. The point of view is wobbly, the storyline cliched and predictable, the characterization inconsistent. The writing is... eurgh. The least said about that, the better. This is a short novel, and it could have been cut to half its current length if somebody had sat Mr Lain down and forced him to use pronouns and proper names instead of epithets, and to cut out half the adjectives.

But parts of it are good. The opening chapter, which was what made me shell out the cash, is atmospheric and amusing, and manages to describe D&D game effects without resorting to jargon or stupidly artificial phrasings. There are occasional flashes of this high quality throughout the book. So it wasn't a total loss.

It just could have been so much better, though.

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