Fred Betzner's "12 Sided Die" is a geekfest bachelor party, as four Dungeons & Dragons fanatics gather in honor of their buddy, who's leaving their games world ("it is not a game!") to (shudder) get married. I imagine it's funnier to those who know the lingo, but it was funny enough to me, especially when a non-D&D fan arrives, followed by a hired D&D version of what might be a stripper at the more usual bachelor party.

Just when the whining becomes repetitious, the evening tightens into what it is more seriously about all along, the importance and frailty of friendship and the relationship of games to reality, for which dramaturgic Dungeon Master Betzner has a D&D-based twist. The unevenness of director Brad Stephenson's cast doesn't much matter because the two central actors, Glenn Bailey Jr. and Josh Futrell, are fine; even the epic 17-minute length doesn't seem excessive.<