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What if you and your friends got to live the game for real? What if you and your friends were assholes? After relentlessly mocking their strange new Game Master, Tim and his friends find themselves trapped in the bodies of their fantasy game characters, in a world where the swords,…
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If there is one thing in this world I love as much as a good scream, it’s playing D&D with my friends. Well, Critical Failures is like what it would be having those same jackasses alongside me as I got sucked into the game world – and subsequently discovered I sucked there as much as in real life. I like to think I’d be either Aragorn or Legolas if thrust into a fantasy world, when the reality is I’d probably end up more like their drunk cousins who their families never talk about or invite over for the holidays. Well,…
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