I listen to a lot of audiobooks. Between my commute and being able to work with earbuds in, I can get a lot of listening time.
I've recently finished two of the four audiobooks for Robert Bevan's Creatures and Caravans series - Critical Failure and Critical Failure 2: Fail Harder. The bathroom humor was a little extreme for my taste, but I still found myself laughing and I did enjoy them. I've also finished the two available books for Drew Hayes NPCs. And the three for Scott Meyers' Off to be the Wizard, which really isn't D&D but was still really good and close enough to count.
What else is out there? Specifically in the comedy field, and more narrowly in the D&D-like genre? Failing that, a general fantasy genre could do as well, but I'd really like to stick to D&D comedy books.
Any recommendations?
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They're not book length, nor are they all D&D based, but check out Role-Playing Public Radio's AB3 rants
They're based on stories of bad gaming experiences, done with voice acting. Pretty funny. :)
Edit: the first one isn't that good, start with "The D&D session that mostly wasn't" or "Death by thumbs".
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Well, I'm not positive what you mean, but Thrilling Intent does put their audio on iTunes. Less an audiobook and more a podcast series, though. It's basically an improv-heavy D&D group that cut out all the dice rolls/rules stuff and just kept the action and talking. Very funny stuff, though there's also a ton of roleplaying and story.
Well, I'm not positive what you mean,
Normal books that someone else has read and published. I can listen to their audio publication without having to read it myself.
From there. I'm looking for a specific genre of books: comedy, D&D-like.
Creatures & Caravans is book series that is basically a group of gamers playing C&C (aka D&D) with a Cavern Master (a CM, seem familiar?) and the players get sucked into the gaming world as their characters and have to survive.
Drew Hayes' NPCs is about a group of gamers playing D&D, and the the "camera" shifts to the NPCs of the world and what happens to them when the PCs leave.
As novels, these are all fiction adventure stories written in 3rd person, rather than a non-fiction book about D&D itself (For example, Of Dice and Men, by David Ewalt, which I didn't really enjoy).
Thanks for your suggestion! And you as well, Scythia!
Basically, I'm looking for novels that explore the same theme as "The Gamers" movies.
It's not really what you've said you're looking for, but you can get Zelazney's' A Night in the Lonesome October as an audiobook. It's often amusing - and would be moreso if Zelazney himself weren't doing the reading, unfortunately - though he does an acceptable job.
Set in Victorian England, he book is told from the POV of a wizard's familiar - a guard dog - as he interacts with other familiars while their masters prepare for a major ritual.
