Down and Out in Legend of the River King
It creates a world where your protagonist cannot die, but lingers on the brink of death forever — starving, exhausted, and debilitated. And nobody in the game even acknowledges it’s happening.
Alexander B. Joy is a writer from New Hampshire who holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UMass Amherst. He authored Legend of the River King (Boss Fight Books, 2026) and edited Flaxman Low: Occult Detective (MIT Press, 2026).