With this show, Portland Playhouse joins the Trek in the Park crew in catering to what appears to be a permanent and deep-rooted part of our civic psyche: a willingness to wallow in some really geeky shit. Willow Jade's proud declaration of nerdery? "There is no substitute for authentic role-playing." While the undeniably witty playwright Hunt Holman needs to learn how to write a female character who isn't a bitch or a slut, it's hard to get too mad at a show that concludes with a bloody orc battle. AH