Who let the geeks out? Put the cat outside, unplug the telephone and prepare to be entertained by a cast of misfits of the type your doting mother warned you about Real life's just too much effort... That's the conclusion that the author has reached after spending years of his life doing his best to avoid it. As one of millions of teenage boys (and sometimes those other ones who smell better and have two bumps at the front) who spent the 80's playing games with model soldiers or pretending that they were a mighty elf warrior as the role playing craze swept the globe, the author takes the...

Real life's just too much effort... Dealing with a dragon or a powerful necromancer is easy, but girls, bullies and parents are a totally different challenge altogether. This bitter-sweet, but always humorous memoirtakes the reader on a revealing journey as the author attempts to escape from the world he thinks of as mundane, immersing himself in the world of fantasy role playing games and wargaming. This is a personal celebration of the quirky and geeky rather than an apology for being a fantasy-obsessed man-child. The reader may laugh, cry or just cringe at the antics recounted, but no...