Thread: What are you reading?

Reading a french book called Le donjon de Naheulbeuk L'orbe de Xaraz. The dungeon of Naheulbeuk The orb of Xaraz. It's a pretty clever parody of tabletop DD RPGs and the second 'book' in the series, which is also the fifth 'season' of the adventure. The first 3 seasons were in audio format, although they have since been redone as comic books as well. Season 4, 5 and 6 are all in book form only. I have to say that I'm quite enjoying the books, maybe even more so than the audio seasons. The ragtag group of adventurers's antics is much more fun to read in text form as it brings a bunch of details to the table that would be left to nothing but the imagination had the author chosen to retain the audio format. Which is fine too, don't get me wrong. The group is comprised of characters with no actual names called 'The ranger, the elf, the dwarf, the sorceress, the barbarian and the elf.' Which is about as impersonal as it gets, but shows the 'parody' intent of the whole thing quite clearly here. As you would expect, the barbarian is a dumb brute who's always trying to fight everything, and the sorceress is a wise-ass who's always trying to talk her way out of everything, if not blasting it with magic. The ranger is the 'leader' of the group and a sniveling coward who usually hides during battle... I don't think he has actually participated in ANY fights so far, despite reaching level 3. Yes, the book literally tells you about the adventurers going up in level, as it is a 'real' physical thing in their world and the characters are aware of it. The ogre is nothing but a stomach on legs, always trying to eat anyone and anything if not stopped. the sorceress is his 'friend' of sorts and speaks his language. But my favorite characters are the elf and the dwarf. The elf is a complete head-in-the-clouds moron who knows less than nothing about pretty much everything that doesn't concern forests or nature... She's very often getting naked for all sorts of reason, and as a result of gaining 'charisma' points when leveling up, her busts increases in size with every level... So you can imagine what her nudity does in most instances, although it turned out to be quite useful in fighting off a group of bandits who were too busy staring at her when she had been trying to sunbathe previously. The dwarf is completely insufferable and regards anything and everything that's not 'dwarven' beer, rocks, weapon and other dwarves basically as completely worthless, and constantly reminds the group of it. He never loses an opportunity to insult or throw sarcasm at the others and has gotten the group in undesired fights with the locals more than once. He even eats a brand of candy known as 'Chiantos' which in english would loosely be 'Annoytos' a parody of the mentos candy which causes whoever eats it to turn into a complete asshole. ... But yeah, I'm rambling. It's funny, but most anyone here will be completely unable to read those books, so honestly I'm not sure why I'm writing all of this. I'll leave this post with a loosely translated quote from the first season, which I nabbed from the TVTropes article regarding this series. The Elf who has fallen in a hole Help me, I'm stuck! The Dwarf She says we can leave her behind. The Elf Get me out of here, it's slimy! The Dwarf She says she wants us to drop rocks on her and put her out of her misery. Click to expand...