I heard this guy on NPR a few days ago. He came across as a non-gamer trying to write about some strange subculture he had just discovered by “going native” just long enough to get his story.
The subtitle on the book should be a concern to anybody who knows D&D. Level 12 is not especially high, and he has only apparently ever played a single character, probably in a single group with a same DM. He’s trying to write about an entire culture of people from the very narrow slice he personally visited. Maybe if we’re really lucky he managed to make a trip to Gencon while writing the book, and we’ll get the chapter where he wanders around lost in bewildered amazement at all of the weirdness everywhere.
