The 1632 crossover book with its serial numbers filed off

Just finished reading West Virginia Coal Miners in the 30 Years War. The crossover with Gorg Huff’s Warspell series that Eric Flint got cold feet about because he felt it might have been too confusing with the mainline universe. All the names have changed, but the story’s still there.

Warspell where anybody who ever played a tabletop role playing game inexplicably found themselves fused with their character in a mysterious event called the Merge. Out of all those thousands of games, one such group happened to be playing a story set within the Ring of Fire Globe of Light world when the Merge happened. Suddenly finding themselves with the memories of random teenagers from yet another 21st century world, a group of would be adventurers in 1635 must make use of their knowledge of the book series to shape the story in new and interesting ways. The only trouble is, this time magic is real and the witch hunters are sure to be coming after them.

This was an interesting dive into the meta. Set in the middle of The Dreeson Incident and continuing on through The Polish Maelstrom, this book is packed with crafty winks to the audience and fans of the series. At one point, Rebecca’s expy Sarah bemoans the fact that she is doubly fictional (first a character in a series of books, then the creation of some random Dungeon Master). It’s a wild ride.

It was enough that I’m proceeding into the Warspell series in earnest after finishing it. I doubt there’ll be much direct continuation, especially seeing as Flint pulled out because he was concerned people would get the two timelines mixed up. Still, the premise is interesting that’s for sure.

Has anyone else read it?