This book is about four college students who enjoy playing a role playing game, however, the situation reverses itself and the game plays them instead. As the magic of the board opened a pathway to the parallel world. The college students arrive dressed in different clothes, dressed as their characters would have been in their make believe world in the dorm room. The only difference is that one is a necromancer instead of the guide master. They do not have a clue where they are, but they know they cannot go back the way they came for they do not know how to do so. After sleeping in the wild outdoors the first night they all awake early in the morning to fighting off in the distance that disturbs their sleep, they meet natives of this world and they decide to go together on a trek across Northland.
There are fortune tellers, gypsies, several continents to explore in the series of stories that shall follow until the adventure in this world is over. The characters manage to hold their own against enemy combatants and the native warriors and thief and necromancer are surprised. But as one character said, we have played these roles so many times in college and before that we feel like we can do them here and we do. Just one rule they all live by, you should fight together rather than alone for there is strength in numbers.