Best Dungeons & Dragons Gaming
What if you and your friends got to live the game for real? After relentlessly mocking their strange new Game Master, Tim and his friends find themselves trapped in the bodies of their fantasy game characters, in a world where the swords, the magic, and the gastrointestinal issues are all too real.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Because buying all the books and narrations drained my pocket."
"Comedy books can be challenging, but Bevan pulls it off nicely."
"I think there was a movie made like this in the eighties, but they wound up committing suicide."
"Having been a D&D player years ago, I was thoroughly caught up in the details of the game."
"Second is that the characters never really embrace their own sense of peril, you'd think they'd take their situation a little more seriously. This isn't about the trouble with being teleported to a world of actual swords and sorcery, rather the trouble of being teleported to a word were "game balance" is paramount."
"As a fan of the real game (Letter after C&Letter after C), I was interested in reading this series."
"Voice actor Jonathan Sleep brings these characters alive and adds a whole new dimension to these already wonderfully entertaining books."
"If you have spoken by any time with dice and paper games, especially 2nd Generation AD&D, then this is a book for you."
After being betrayed and cursed by an extremely rare spell, Oren, a powerful and influential player, finds himself as a 1st level Goblin! -Ramon Mejia [author of Adventures on Terra] "This is a base building story done right: all of the difficulties of resource management, along with the great payoff of making an area truly yours.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The book maintains a great pace, rarely slows, and never bogs down."
"There's no pop culture references to push this so easily into the mainstream."
"I laughed out loud when his new recruits started calling him 'dork totem' instead of 'Dark Totem'."
"The magic system in this book features direct mana manipulation, so if you're like me, you will love the references to Hindu meditation, the author seems to know the real thing."
"Rather than keeping the games internal workings completely separate it has him merge with and interact with it in a fascinating way that reminds me of a mix of alterworld and awaken online."
"Really fun take on this genre."
"On the other hand, this is the first LitRPG novel I've read where the author provides a meaningful tie between the fantasy world of the game and the real world where the characters come from."
"One of the better LitRPGs out there."
Elorion has just finished a VR gaming session to find a monster waiting for him.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Cons: HP and other point based resources aren't tracked completely."
"Now I have 2 of your series I'm waiting on the next book."
"The reader is learning about the world at the same time as the main characters."
"Very quick read."
"I've read a lot of Litrpg and this is the second book I've found that has group play."
"Fantastic book, with a cool spin on the rpgLIT genre."
"Fun read."
"Great read, I'm excited for the sequel."
Best Changeling Gaming
Warships now move in the stars, made of soul gem constructs, built by mages and engineers, crewed by those that lived on Emerilia or within Earth’s Simulation.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Especially during the space battles."
"Somehow with this crazy (but entertaining) start the author creates a world in which some weird little gnome tells Dave he is on some really intense drugs, a dark lords plan is stopped, Dave becomes an alright smith, three new races are ressurected, oh also one of those races was ressurected by Daves new book club friends.... only took a couple minutes really...... anyway, than the dark lord gets a tempertamtrum and is like "no you can't have my old toys" so he sends 2 million of his new toys to kill the other toys, and while all this is happening two weird fire doggos come to help, anyyyyyway, while that tiny scuffle goes the other children are like wooooow how did he do that, but they think there toys are better anyway so they don't care, as we get further in more people learn that all this is just like some prison thing... and like these weird frog guys are using them for entertainment.... it's a small thing anyway the important part is when they realease all these reaaaally bad monsters on emerilla and everyone is like that not nice, so they create the floating playhouses to fight back, but while this is going on the children were like " I own this playground" but like 3 of them were saying it so they starting throwing spitballs at each other, but a few hit the the older kids in the playhouse so they put the smack down on there asses...... anyway, by this point the frog things notice Dave isn't playing by the rules so they try to stop him, which leads to Dave bringing out his hidden toys.... star ships with basically nukes on them."
"I loved this series for the first seven or eight books but the once fun battles became awkwardly worded and the author seemed to get carried away with the descriptions of everything and anything for the last few."
"Characters are numerous and diverse and yet Michael weaves a spell that gives you a strong connection to them all. Adventures abound, battles of epic scale fill the pages, but in the end it is all about freedom, family, friendships and strength of character."
"While the earlier books in the series did a good job of following the characters and emotions of building a society and fighting against what the empire had done, that's mostly lost by this point. One positive note: the series does manage to continue to consider the engineering problems the characters face and to try and capture the engineering process."
Best Mage Gaming
A mage by choice, and a swordsman by necessity, he soon finds out that he’ll need to use much more than magic and steel to survive; strategy, creativity, and carefully chosen words can often accomplish what simple attacks can’t. ★★★★★ Unique LitRPG Goodness! Great addition to the growing LitRPG genre! A great addition to the LitRPG genre, with a unique magic system and a well-made character. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed writing it!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book made me overlook those with an interesting main character who is creative and a world that is just as interesting."
"With good depth to the characters and story line."
"Felt like it dropped off at some point and I was waiting for either more discoveries or potential power bumps with skills attached."
"Aside from the few grammar errors, this book is awesome and fitting g for a long series from the author."
"Good book."
"Great book, it was a little cliche, and it took awhile to figure out where some of the more obscure parts of the plot would come together, but the author did well in spinning a very entertaining tale."
"One of the best endings of a book I've read in a while."
"It's always fun when the character in a book does not fit the typical mold."
Best Strategy Gaming
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It feels like the author is just mass producing books to make money off an emerging genre."
"The author kept the story moving at a good pace as the MC tried to adapt to the new place and his outsized role in it as the owner of the special sword."
"Massive parts of the book are superfluous and unrelated to the rest of the book. At the exact halfway mark of the book, the author tells the reader the ending."
"Come on learn from your mistakes, he makes a promise then does a stupid action the next instant that leads to his promise being worth squat."
"The main character gets a magic sword that grants him LitRPG powers with stat charts for things, but lots of it are left unexplained for no reason. The whole basis for the entire plot is that he can modify things, it's the only part of the main character that's interesting (he's an awkward sword-collecting dork), his increasing mastery of it is supposed to be how he solves his problems, and yet at one point a whole section of him modifying and empowering his followers is just summarized as 'he spent their experience.'. At first, I thought it was going to be an adventure story, he goes to hell and wanders around seeing strange things and growing his powers."
"Plus the main protagonist doesn't do anything except upgrades skills and states of other characters."
"This story needs major editing and rewrite."
Best Werewolf Gaming
When Max and Kayla embark on an epic questline few have ever completed, they'll find themselves trapped face to face with the primordial forces of darkness.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The in-game storyline is about two people on a quest to unlock the power of the rings of promise they got in game. The real life story develops great background for the main character and creates empathy for him."
"Overall, the story picks up and develops every character from the first minus one and continues without missing a beat in a logical way. Despite being almost 400 pages, I blew through it in the span of five and a half hours and at first thought that it was a short story to tide me over until Crystalfire Keep in what I assume will be the fall."
"Kayla and Max continue their quest for the Rings of Promise alone with o my each other to depend on. During the quest they find that they will lose their avatars if the lose."
"The AI filter in the game protects the gamers from identity theft, but it also prevents them from forming more meaningful relationships. Luckily there's a rare quest for the Ring of Promise, an artifact that allows two players to reveal more about themselves to each other, if they can pass through the trials. The fact that Max is fighting in game to earn money to help with medical expenses makes his struggle more important than just leveling up."
"The Vale of Three Wolves: Elements of Wrath Online, Book 2. Written by: J.A. Cipriano, J.B. Garner. Narrated by: Joe Hempel. This is an audible book I requested and the review is voluntary."
"I received a free copy and I honestly enjoyed the story as it was well written in the LitRPG style and the light romance interesting."
"The characters grow in knowledge and love as they complete each smaller quest until they have the fortitude and understanding to attempt the final challenge in this adventure."
Best Vampire Gaming
Sherman had always thought high school was a real drag.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I read the premise of Hell High and thought it sounded like dark comedy with lots of potential. That doesn't matter much, because a nerdy, anime and comics addicted kid like him, who is literally ignored and overlooked by everyone, even his parents, has no chance to get Charlotte, the girl of his dreams. After Charlotte confronts and kills the devil, all hell breaks loose, somewhat literally, as some of his fellow supernaturals of his faction discover his body and give chase. As every supernatural lays exposed in true form, fights to the death suddenly burst out all throughout the school! Dodging flying body parts, fireballs and talons, Charlotte and Sherman have to also avoid the faculty, who happen to be huge armed devils. Sherman comes across as a real person, and his musing to himself about Charlotte, comics, manga and other pop culture make for some hilarious scenes. Going back and forth from teen girl and big bad succubus assassin, its hilarious watching her try to deal with Sherman's mooning over her, especially since she, like everyone else, can't remember his right name."
"Despite the fact this book is written for Young Adults I still thoroughly enjoyed this book."
"I really enjoyed reading about sherman, a high school nerd like i was, in a school where vampires, demons, and other things that go bump in the night coexist."
"I enjoyed reading this book."
"Some scenes are gory, so maybe don't read it if you're sensitive to that kind of stuff."
"Book really gets you interested but is quite short hopefully next one Wil be longer."
"Interesting read and entertaining."
"This is a undeveloped movella being sold as s book."