>>96490884
>Who wants to read a novelization of an adventure?

I'll go you one better, the novelization of an early cRPG. As I recall, and it wasn't more than a year or two that I read it

>City Leader: Are you the heroes who cleared out the evil creatures from the temple that was infested but which we inexplicably moved citizens right next to?
>Heroes: Yes.
>CL: Good, good. There's a monster infestation outside the city, you're going to clear it out.
>H: 'Kay, where?
>CL: Right outside the city.
A few moments later
>H: We got rid of the monsters for you.
>CL: Good. Time to clear out the next infestation
>H: Where?
>CL: Just outside the city. Right next to where the last lot were.

Don't know if it was Ward's contribution or his co-authoress's but I did appreciate the mechanical fidelity to AD&D especially the PHB spell-description-accurate magic that slaps you in the face harder than the misandry in a Captain Marvel movie.