As a person who spent a lot of time playing role playing games years ago, the show Saving Throw Versus Love sounded very interesting to me.

It started off with an improbable premise. Sam and Carol are announcing their engagement and Carol thinks that Sam's Thursday evening out with the boys is about playing poker and not role playing games. I'm not sure that I've ever heard of a gamer dude getting engaged without his fiancee at least knowing about and being interested in gaming, if not being a gamer herself.

However, gamers are especially versed in the willing suspension of disbelief and are likely to forgive the diifficulties of the initial idea as well as the important device at the end of the play where the judge cannot make it to the wedding.

Instead gamers will appreciate Carol's beginners luck in the game as well as the struggles not to take a game too seriously. Yet how would non-gamers appreciate the show? One older man I spoke with after the show said he was so thoroughly involved with the show that he didn't notice these difficulties.

Saving Throw Versus Love is a light but completely enjoyable show with an amusing script and good acting. I highly recommend it to balance out seeing too many serious shows.