When someone writes a novel that’s connected to a video game or a movie series or a line of frozen desserts, you expect that they would be familiar with the game, the movies, and the sweetness. But in the following interview with writer David Guymer about his epic fantasy novel The Shield Of Daqan (paperback, Kindle) — which is based on the Descent fantasy board games — he admits that not only was he not familiar with Descent before he started writing Shield, but that his unfamiliarity kind of helped.