Dungeons & Dragons: Big Trouble: An Endless Quest Book Hardcover – August 10, 2018

I remember the original run of Endless Quest books from the 80s and always found the more engaging and better written the ground-breaking Choose Your Own Adventure books. This updated book is gorgeous, with full color illustrations on most pages and a tense story line. A young elven mage is attacked by giants and separated from her family. Now she must choose between trying to rescue her brother and mother to the south or father in the north. With danger waiting in both directions!My kids and I have tried this several times and met several grizzly deaths or unfulfilling endings. Despite good judgement, genre savvy and frequently marking our page to turn back, we still have not found a path that leads to the rescue of the family.So while it's well-written and tense, younger kids may find this book frustrating or depressing. The vocabulary is also a bit higher than expected, maybe 4th or 5th grade level at least.

I bought this for my 12-year old daughter, who I recently introduced to Dungeons & Dragons. She loved the book, and enjoyed the adventure within the Forgotten Realms. I think these are books are cleverly written, and should pique the interest of any reader wanting to do some solo D&D as a quick read. I plan to collect the series.

This book is terrible. Every thing ends in death. It lacks imagination and is not written very well. I would not recommend this for any kid nor any adult for that matter. Not at all as described and not at all what I expected.

I’m 5O.I recently got-into D&D board games.I usually read non-fiction...history and science.But these books are wonderful, light reading!I love the concept of “taking the story” where you want too...with the D&D themes!Mr. Forbeck...please write more of theses books!

I was expecting a little more from this. Somewhat disappointed.

My son has read this book and explored the different choices and really enjoyed the story! The wizard getting attacked by Hill Giants...great idea.

Brings back childhood memories of the encounter never ending books.

My wife loves the book.

Excellent book. My kids, m/f 6/8 both love it and read it to me and on their own. Best thing about it is that there are consequences to every action, there’s no 100% happy ending, much more like real life :)

While the old books (many of them written by Rose Estes) were not candidates to the Literature Nobel Prize, at least they were enjoyable, had nice stories and were a great introduction to the world of D&D.These new game books are completely different. They simply seem advertising material to specific D&D Campaigns and they really don't provide a good experience by themselves.Basically these new game books plots are based in several of the campaign books from D&D 5.0 edition.- The Mage book is based on the "Storm's King Thunder";- The Rogue book is based on the "Waterdeep Dragon Heist";- The Cleric book is based on the "Tomb of Annihilation";- The Fighter book is based on the "Rage of Demons";While some of them seem to follow the story of their campaign counterparts, using the same places and characters (Like the Fighter book) other are more loosely based on the setting (Like the Rogue Book).The GoodSetting of D&D 5.0Great quality of the physical book with great artwork (although mostly from the Players Handbook)Your character is given a great background story and you feel involved with him.It's like playing the respective D&D 5.0 campaigns while the good starting feeling lasts.The BadThe choices given are illogical.Some of the wiser choices lead to an unexpected sudden death (that strangely has nothing to do with choice you just made) and some of the most silly choices are the ones that lead the book forward.Usually the most selfish and suicidal options are, for reasons i don't understand, what the author decided that were the "correct choices". Also trying to help any character or doing the Lawful Good decision, usually leads to failure.All this regarding game decisions (which are the essence of a game book), seems too much random.The writing at times is lackluster and resolves a previous hard situation in a single paragraph.You are Lost in the woods? A mighty ally come out of the sky and takes you to an yet unheard powerful adviser, that puts you back on the right track. All this in two paragraphs....My opinion of the Books ranked from best to worst;- Fighter - Nothing really bad here. Quite enjoyable to whoever played Rage of Demons.- Rogue - Some of the early choices give the best endings but all feels a bit forced on the player.- Cleric - While it has a few good parts, mostly is bad and suspension of disbelief breaking material.- Mage - The plot is terrible and at outcomes for your character decisions feel completely random and arbitrary.

The media could not be loaded.  There is little I haven't enjoyed from these books. The production is excellent, the writing is very, very good, the art direction is gorgeous...Very highly recommended.

disappinting and boring story. Most ending are really depressing and might be a bit harsh for some kids.

Bought as a gift for teenage boy. He loves this series so much.