Mand O'Lin
Singer of Songs Drinker of Drinks
Hello all!
I have been trying to find a fantasy book I read 20+ years ago. Unfortunately many of the details (like character names) escape me, but here is what I do remember:
- Humorous fantasy adventure
- It was based on the mad wizards dungeon idea. Citizens from all over would come to the city to venture into the dungeon looking for loot.
- I seem to recall the local government taxing whatever loot was pulled out of the dungeon.
- The story revolved around a single group of adventurers.
- One of the adventurers was a fire wizard who was immune to fire damage and would forget that others were not. So he had no problems setting off a fireball at his feet and would then apologize after setting his fellow adventurers on fire. I think said wizard also smoked a pipe which.
- In one instance they tore an entire room apart looking for loot, including whittling down the legs of the desk (just in case).
- I believe one of them carried an 11 foot pole, because there are some things you just don't touch with a 10 foot pole.
- It was reasonably short... 100-ish pages.
I seem to remember reading it around the same time as The Misenchanted Sword, but not as long ago as 1985... though it may have been 1995.
Does anybody remember reading this book and the name? I recall it being a very fun read - like Xanth (or at least the first few Xanth books).
Thanks!
I have been trying to find a fantasy book I read 20+ years ago. Unfortunately many of the details (like character names) escape me, but here is what I do remember:
- Humorous fantasy adventure
- It was based on the mad wizards dungeon idea. Citizens from all over would come to the city to venture into the dungeon looking for loot.
- I seem to recall the local government taxing whatever loot was pulled out of the dungeon.
- The story revolved around a single group of adventurers.
- One of the adventurers was a fire wizard who was immune to fire damage and would forget that others were not. So he had no problems setting off a fireball at his feet and would then apologize after setting his fellow adventurers on fire. I think said wizard also smoked a pipe which.
- In one instance they tore an entire room apart looking for loot, including whittling down the legs of the desk (just in case).
- I believe one of them carried an 11 foot pole, because there are some things you just don't touch with a 10 foot pole.
- It was reasonably short... 100-ish pages.
I seem to remember reading it around the same time as The Misenchanted Sword, but not as long ago as 1985... though it may have been 1995.
Does anybody remember reading this book and the name? I recall it being a very fun read - like Xanth (or at least the first few Xanth books).
Thanks!
