Gosh this book is just a warm hug from my childhood

There’s also a much older game based on this book by the same name part of a series from the late 80s/early 90s

as I’m reading this, some of the characters say things like “who would trust the word of a goblin over that of a man” I wonder whether the me of 25 years ago would have noticed it or the parallels with reality

One down and I picked a real stinker to start with. Instead of being a cute little one off thing, the Cheers reference was just the first in a series of many many many dated sitcom references and weak wordplay. It can only get better from here. I hope. I really, really hope.