Kickstarter – Dangerous Games by Matt Forbeck

Author Matt Forbeck (website, Twitter) may sound familiar if you remember the G.I. Joe: Tales from the Cobra Wars* anthology that was published last year (review here). Well, Matt’s back, and this time it’s with the Dangerous Games project on Kickstarter.

Dangerous Games is Matt’s upcoming trilogy set at GenCon, the annual game convention where I (and many others) go to work and have fun. And since Matt’s been attending the convention for many, many years I am certain that the details will be exact. And the entire concept behind the trilogy is something I find highly entertaining and just had to share with all of you: a game designer is murdered.

Once a year, the greatest tabletop gamers in the world descend upon Indianapolis for Gen Con, the Best Four Days in Gaming, to play games, see friends, and have fun. They play things like D&D, Magic: The Gathering, Warhammer 40,000, Settlers of Catan, Munchkin, and everything else they can get their hands on. Mostly the competition is friendly.

Sometimes it is not.

When a world-famous game designer turns up murdered at the convention, a group of gamers makes it their quest to figure out who killed him, and why. As they dig deeper, they start to question everything they thought they knew about the man: who he is, why someone hated him enough to kill him — and if he’s really dead. In the end, they must figure out who’s playing whom or risk not only losing this most dangerous game but their lives.