Ostertag, Molly
Summary: "Middle school is a dungeon ... At least, that's how Jess sees it. Luckily, she and her best friend Olivia know how to escape into the sprawling worlds of their own imaginations. The two friends have always loved making up stories, first with little kid games of make-believe, and more recently with the fantasy roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. When they play, Olivia runs the game as Dungeon...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 OSTSummary: "Centers on three mates whose world revolves around their obsession for the fictional MMORPG Kingdom Scrolls, splitting between their real and virtual lives, and how they crossover."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEAVan Norman, Ivan
Summary: A child can get their first glimpse into the world of Dungeons & Dragons, even as they learn the alphabet, a precursor to every new path in reading. Teach the alphabet to any early reader as told imaginatively within the world of Dungeons & Dragons. With read-aloud friendly rhyming couplets from Ivan Van Norman and adorable illustrations from Caleb Cleveland.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wizards of the Coast, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE VANBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and boy and girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning: Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs; Svetlana, who embroiders her skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, and dungeon masters her own RPG. They should pick themselves up, continue on their way, and never talk to each other again. But they don't. This is a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BREUnderhill, Scout
Summary: "Four adorable dogs are tail-waggingly excited to play their favorite role-playing game in DnDoggos: Get the Party Started, the middle grade graphic novel debut from online comic creator Scout Underhill. They've picked their characters and favorite dice, and are ready to set off on the adventure their game master Magnus has created for them. Pickles, a rough and tumble fighter; Tonka, a playful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Brown, Lars
Summary: "In a philosophical fantasy adventure, warriors living through a role playing game must learn the difference between diversion and escape as they try to break the cycle of a never-ending quest"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BROSummary: As the strict Game Master of a fantasy role-playing game, Scott leads his friends in a weekly quest through mysterious lands from the safety of his grandmother's kitchen. But his mastery of his own domain starts to slip, along with everything else.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ZERKawahara, Reki
Summary: Having said their good-byes to the mysterious elven knight Kizmel, Kirito and Asuna set their sights on the fourth floor of Aincrad. But once they open the door, they find the way forward blocked by a powerfully flowing river. The updated version of the fourth floor has been changed into a water world! When they finally arrive at the floor's town, they're greeted by chalk-white streets and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen On 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAWGillen, Kieron
Summary: "No one can escape DIE until everyone agrees to go home. Or rather, no one can escape DIE until everyone who is alive agrees to go home. The second arc of the [...] bleakly romantic fantasy fiction starts to reveal the secrets of the world, and our heroes' pasts. There's always the chance they'll escape DIE. They'll never escape themselves." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DIEDoctorow, Cory
Summary: "Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 DOCKoops, Victoria
Summary: "IRL, Darcy has just moved to the small prairie town of Unity Creek with her two moms. It feels like she left everything good behind in the city. She misses her tabletop gaming friends and her boyfriend -- and is horrified by the homophobia her family faces in their new home. Then she meets kind, quiet Art, who invites her to join his Dungeons & Dragons game. Art is mostly happy fading into the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KOOVan Norman, Ivan
Summary: A child can get their first glimpse into the world of Dungeons & Dragons, even as they learn their early numbers, a precursor to every new path in counting. Teach numbers to any early reader as told imaginatively within the world of Dungeons & Dragons. With read-aloud friendly rhyming couplets from Ivan Van Norman and adorable illustrations from Caleb Cleveland.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wizards of the Coast, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE VANKawahara, Reki
Summary: Having cleared the first and second floors of Aincrad at great cost, Kirito, Asuna, and the rest of the players ascend to the third floor. Tenuous new allies await them--most crucially, Kizmel, the elven knight. Kizmel is supposed to be a minor NPC with low-level AI, but she soon reveals herself to be much more. With new allies come new complications, though, and the elves of the vast...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen On 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAWFollmuth, Alexene Farol
Summary: Viola Reyes is annoyed. Her painstakingly crafted tabletop game campaign was shot down, her best friend is suggesting she try being more "likable," and her school's star running back Jack Orsino is the most lackadaisical Student Body President she's ever seen, which makes her job as VP that much harder. Vi's favorite escape from the world is the MMORPG Twelfth Knight, but online spaces aren't...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOLWalls, Jasmine
Summary: "Jay, Lana, Drew, Walter, and Shen began playing Dice Deathtraps in high school. Now dealing with college and all the twists and turns of their lives, their weekly game has been a wonderful constant. But, as college graduation looms and it feels like their lives are all moving down very different paths, Lana's thrilled to finally finally complete the party's unfinished original campaign. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Cave Studios 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LASMorris, Brittney
Summary: An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Keira enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MORGillen, Kieron
Summary: "DIE is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthly horror they only just survived as teenage role-players."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DIESattin, Samuel
Summary: "Isaac is a shy boy with OCD, but one day at school he meets new friends who introduce him to role-playing games, which lead him on a journey of self-discovery and growth"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Niven, Larry.
Summary: Offered a dream job escorting a teenage heir on a fabulous moon role-playing vacation, Scotty Griffin, a personal security specialist, becomes embroiled in a violent reality game involving armed terrorists, psychological tests, and a large audience.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVDoctorow, Cory
Summary: Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer a poor Chinese kid...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 DOCSummary: Ernest Terry, like most boys his age, is obsessing over George Lucas's Star Wars saga. In the woods outside Ernest's neighborhood, capture-the-flag contests escalate into sprawling Jedi battles, with bright yellow Wiffle ball bats substituting for lightsabers. But when a bully snaps Ernest's already-damaged 'weapon' in half, our hero and his friends accept a mission: Follow a nearby stream to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD StCole, Frank
Summary: When Lucas Silver, who is trying to run away, and his friend Miles and two girls they know, Jasmine and Vanessa, step out of Hob and Bogie's Olde Curiosity Shoppe, they discover that they have agreed to play a match of Champion's Quest, a role-playing game--played from inside the game with goblins, trolls, witches, and a three-headed monster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLGaider, David.
Summary: For Dragon Age newcomers, this comprehensive volume brings you up to speed on everything you need to know about the regions, religions, monsters, magic, and more! For dedicated fans, never before have the secrets of BioWare's epic fantasy been revealed so completely and so compellingly!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2013
View online at Hoopla
Formato, Jaime
Summary: Twelve-year-old Riley steps out of her older brother's protective shadow and behind the Dungeon Master's screen, running D&D campaigns for her friends and learning to be independent and self-reliant.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2022