D&D DUNGEON CLUB GN (2025)

HarperAlley partners up with The Wizards of the Coast in the first book of a new graphic novel series by Molly Knox Ostertag and Xanthe Bouma to masterfully blend together a contemporary middle-grade school story with the high fantasy world of Dungeons & Dragons. Best friends Olivia and Jess have always loved making up stories...first with little-kid games of imagination and, more recently, with the sword-and-sorcery tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. Olivia runs the game as Dungeon Master, while Jess is the solo party member, playing a take-no-prisoners, lone-wolf character of her own design named Sir Corius. But when Olivia wants to add a new player to their club, Jess finds herself struggling to share their game-and her best friend.

Olivia loves being the Dungeon Master of her after-school club, creating a world with magic and epic battles where adventure can be found around every corner. She's always felt at home in her game, but now-with new members and new plotlines-her world has gotten more complicated than ever. It doesn't help when Olivia's older sister, Lu, comes home from college and brushes off all Olivia's hard work, telling her to get real. A seed of doubt is planted, and suddenly the colorful world of her game starts to fade around her. Will Olivia be able to keep everything from changing, or will the party fall apart?