Tales of the Damned Dice — Book I
Monday 'n' Mayhem
Satirical Grimdark Fantasy
"Others called it justice. He called it performance."
Tales of the Damned Dice — Book I
Satirical Grimdark Fantasy
"Others called it justice. He called it performance."
The Story
Mišo Kanis — conman, merchant, and accidental prophet — must turn the chaos into legend or die trying.
Together with his ragged tavern crew, four men bound by lies, loyalty, and ale, he spins a story big enough to hide a corpse, or mountains of them.
But stories this big don't stay buried. They take on a life of their own, dragging them into a war against made-up enemies, absent gods, and the very truth itself.
Monday 'n' Mayhem begins the Tales of the Damned Dice series — a satirical grimdark fantasy saga born from real D&D campaigns and forged through ruthless dice, real emotion, and terrible decisions, where heroes are frauds, prophecies are drunk, and salvation always comes at someone else's expense.
For fans of Kings of the Wyld, The Blacktongue Thief, The First Law Trilogy, and Good Omens — a brutal, darkly hilarious descent into brotherhood, guilt, and the price of storytelling.
Series
Tales of the Damned Dice
Order
Book I — Opening
Format
Satirical Grimdark Novel
Length
284 pages · Kindle · PB · HC
Peek Inside
Two-page spread view — use arrow keys or buttons to flip
Use ← → arrow keys to flip · ESC to exit full screen
The Company of Fools
Conman · Merchant · Prophet of Improvisation
"Two Groš" · The High Prophet of the Holy Joint
Mišo Kanis sells both salvation and the sin it feeds. Slim-framed with slicked-back hair, he drifts through life with a joint perpetually hanging from his lips. Once a cloth trader, now a merchant of faith, smoke, and second chances — he peddles miracles between refills and revelations. Called "Two Groš" for turning nothing into profit through methods that would make priests weep. Through clouds of cheap weed and cheaper wisdom, he's built a religion of improvisation: one sermon, one joint, one disaster at a time.
Bare-Knuckle Champion · Debt Collector · Professional Regret Manufacturer
"The Little Knight" · The Sickle of Mrkotín
Kon is what happens when you compress violence, pride, and impulse into a body barely reaching most men's chests. A scar splits his brow like divine punctuation, and his beard clings with defiance. His knuckles stay bandaged because bare bone sounds worse than it feels. They call him Kon when friendly, and worse when collecting debts. At four-and-a-half feet, he's the self-proclaimed champion of Pochmúrno — undefeated, unchallenged, eager to prove why.
Ranger (allegedly) · Chef (regrettably) · Full-time Disaster
"Brada" · The Patron Saint of Culinary Crimes
Kubo is a man of many claimed talents and zero proven competencies. His beard looks less like facial hair and more like something that crawled onto his face and died there — earning him his nickname "Brada." He styles himself as a ranger turned chef, though his stew suggests he's been neither. Most blame his delusions on mushroom wine, but his loyalty runs deeper than his stupidity, and he'll defend his friends with crossbow, ladle, or terrible jokes.
Where It Came From
The Tales of the Damned Dice did not begin on paper. They began years earlier — at a D&D table, with live players, real rolls, and the particular kind of chaos that only happens when nobody planned for the session to go this direction. Miško, Kon, and Kubo were played before they were written. Their disasters were voted on, survived, and laughed about before any of them became pages.
That origin is on every page. The book carries the energy of something that was alive before it was literature — decisions made in the moment, consequences that nobody saw coming, and that irreversible sense that the story went somewhere it was never supposed to go.
What This Book Explores
Miško does not have power. He has the appearance of power, which turns out to be close enough. The book asks what happens when a con becomes a cause — and whether there's any real difference at the point where people start believing it.
The three men do not make sense together. They stay together anyway — not because of loyalty in any heroic sense, but because going separate directions seems more complicated. That's not so different from how most bonds actually work.
The comedy is real. So is the grimdark. Mrkotín is not a pleasant place. The laughter does not blunt the stakes — it rides alongside them. The book holds both without resolving the tension, because that's what the genre demands and what made the campaigns memorable.
This is not a growth arc. Miško ends the book roughly as capable as he began it. The point is not transformation — it is survival, and the dark comedy of what survival actually looks like when the people involved are these people.
What's Next
The Path of None — Book I
The author's darker side. Where Tales of the Damned Dice leans into satire and chaos, The Path of None goes somewhere altogether more serious — dark spiritual epic, betrayal, and the shadow that takes hold when everything is burned away.
Full Book Details →II
TBA
Tales of the Damned Dice — Book II
Miško, Kon, and Kubo survived Monday. The week is not over. Tales of the Damned Dice continues — follow the author to be notified when the next chapter of their catastrophe arrives.
All Books →Questions
Monday 'n' Mayhem is the first book in the Tales of the Damned Dice series — a satirical grimdark fantasy following three deeply unqualified adventurers through the village of Mrkotín. It's irreverent, darkly funny, and relentlessly entertaining. Born from real D&D campaigns, it brings the chaos of the table to the page.
No — Monday 'n' Mayhem is the opening book of an entirely separate series: Tales of the Damned Dice. It shares an author with The Path of None but not a world, tone, or cast. Think of it as the author's other face — where The Path of None is dark spiritual epic, Tales of the Damned Dice is grimdark comedy.
The Tales of the Damned Dice grew from years of live D&D campaigns. The characters, chaos, and catastrophically bad decisions were played out at a real table before they were ever put on paper. The result is something that feels genuinely alive — because it was.
Perfect for fans of Nicholas Eames' Kings of the Wyld, Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief, Joe Abercrombie's The First Law Trilogy, and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens — stories that are wickedly funny without losing the teeth of grimdark.
Not at all. Monday 'n' Mayhem is a completely standalone world. If you're new to Alexander Gabriel ZoderoT, this is as good a starting place as any — and if the tone hooks you, The Path of None waits on the darker shelf.
About the Author
Author of dark spiritual fantasy, graphic ballads, grimdark fiction, and mythic stories of transformation. His work explores the place where the sacred meets the abyss — where suffering becomes initiation, and the soul is forced to confront both its darkness and its hidden light.
Drawing from years of spiritual practice, sacred texts, mythology, martial sciences, and the guidance of his teacher Vladimir Vojen Kocurek, ZoderoT writes worlds of demons, seekers, warriors, cursed bloodlines, reincarnation, and broken souls searching for wholeness.
Read more about the author →"Others called it justice. He called it performance."