In the summer of 1976, twelve-year-old Mark Barrowcliffe had a chance to be rmal. He blew it. While other teenagers were being coolly rebellious, Mark and twenty million other boys in the 1970s and 80s chose to spend his adolescence pretending to be a warrior, an evil priest, or a dwarf. He had discovered Dungeons & Dragons, and his life would never be the same. No longer would he have to settle for being Mark Barrowcliffe, an ordinary awkward teenager from working-class Coventry, England; he could be Alf the Elf, Foghat the Gme, or Effilc Worrab, an elven warrior with the head of a mule. This is an hilarious memoir of an adolescence spent entirely in the world of fantasy.