The Legend of William Oh

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William Oh is an orphan with one dream: climb the Tower at the center of the world and get strong enough to serve his deadbeat parents a knuckle sandwich. Petty? Deeply. That's the charm. The structural gimmick is what sold me: every chapter opens with a tall tale about Will — Paul Bunyan-style exaggerations of things that sort of happened — and his folk-legend reputation becomes an actual resource he can spend. Legend as a stat. Macronomicon (of Apocalypse: Generic System fame) writes wit-forward and clever, and the tall-tale openers keep landing right up to the finale. If you need your stakes played straight, the constant exaggeration will wear on you; the book knows exactly how seriously it wants to be taken, which is: not very. Soundbooth went full cast — Ryan H. Reid leading, with Annie Ellicott and Jeff Hays in the mix — and the sound design is icing on an already great production. Ten and a half hours, zero filler. 4.9 from 390 early ratings.

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