My husband really enjoys D&D. I'm looking for a book with the adventuring vibe with maybe a little wackiness. He loved the movie with Chris Pine, so anything similar to that would probably be a hit!
Consider the LitRPG genre? Dungeon Crawler Carl was ok.
MushroomAdjacent on
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
fremade3903 on
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman
BelmontIncident on
There are actual Dungeons and Dragons novels. The most popular are the Drizzt series and the Dragonlance series. Those mostly aren’t funny, though.
The Philosophical Strangler by Eric Flint is a pastiche of 70s fantasy with world building that feels like a dungeon master trying to improvise fast enough to keep the game going and just barely staying ahead of the players. He decided to make it free a long time ago to get more people interested in the rest of his work
Speaking of pastiche that feels like DnD, Terry Pratchett was a dungeon master before he decided to try doing for fantasy what Blazing Saddles did for westerns. The Colour of Magic was successful enough as a parody. The next forty-one books in Discworld got better.
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Good news! They have books that tie in to the movie!
Technocracygirl on
The Company of Strangers series by Melissa McShane is a D&D campaign with the serial numbers filed off. The series starts with *Company of Strangers* and goes through six books. They’re a very light read, but I love them and have read through them at least twice.
The Guardians of the Flame series is also D&D-esque, (college students playing the game are transported to their game world) but I never made it through the first book. Your husband’s tastes may differ from mine, though.
aloealoealoha on
maybe a choose your own adventure book?
SarahwithanHdammit on
“Guards! Guards!” by Terry Pratchett, if he already isn’t into Discworld.
There’s also official D&D novels. The Drizzt series by RA Salvatore is very fun. “Dragons of Autumn Twilight” is a classic.
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Consider the LitRPG genre? Dungeon Crawler Carl was ok.
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman
There are actual Dungeons and Dragons novels. The most popular are the Drizzt series and the Dragonlance series. Those mostly aren’t funny, though.
The Philosophical Strangler by Eric Flint is a pastiche of 70s fantasy with world building that feels like a dungeon master trying to improvise fast enough to keep the game going and just barely staying ahead of the players. He decided to make it free a long time ago to get more people interested in the rest of his work
https://www.baen.com/the-philosophical-strangler.html
Speaking of pastiche that feels like DnD, Terry Pratchett was a dungeon master before he decided to try doing for fantasy what Blazing Saddles did for westerns. The Colour of Magic was successful enough as a parody. The next forty-one books in Discworld got better.
Good news! They have books that tie in to the movie!
The Company of Strangers series by Melissa McShane is a D&D campaign with the serial numbers filed off. The series starts with *Company of Strangers* and goes through six books. They’re a very light read, but I love them and have read through them at least twice.
The Guardians of the Flame series is also D&D-esque, (college students playing the game are transported to their game world) but I never made it through the first book. Your husband’s tastes may differ from mine, though.
maybe a choose your own adventure book?
“Guards! Guards!” by Terry Pratchett, if he already isn’t into Discworld.
There’s also official D&D novels. The Drizzt series by RA Salvatore is very fun. “Dragons of Autumn Twilight” is a classic.