Beginnings

Adventures on Terra #1

by R.A. Mejia

Armon Ellington is nineteen year old kid that always felt out of place. He’s an orphan, a gamer, and a role playing game geek. When he dies after a seventy-two hour gaming marathon, instead of going to an afterlife he’s transported to a new world governed by rules that are eerily similar to the RPG games he loves. On this new world, Terra, he can be anything he wants, a warrior, mage, or even a crafter. Only, Armon wants more than that, he also wants friends and family.


Join Armon on his journey through this amazing new world where he’ll go on adventures, explore dungeons, slay monsters and hopefully find the friends and family he never had on earth.

Adventures on Terra is a LitRPG adventure series

Genres: Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Role Playing Games, Action, Fiction, Audiobook

435 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 3, 2016

Reviews

[Mike (the Paladin) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Okay..I'm going the full 5 stars here simply because I really enjoyed this book. Now how did I enjoy it? It is NOT a balanced meal of lean chicken, Brussels sprouts and whole grain wild rice with a salad (dressing on the side) all served in moderate sized helpings. No this is the biggest best tasting double burger with cheese, your favorite fries...maybe some coleslaw with a large Coke AND a chocolate malt... and then dessert.

In other words I'm not claiming this is a literary read...it's just fun. I like it.

Now for the slight disclaimer. I (strongly) suspect that Gamers will like this book far,far better than you who are simply fantasy fans. There is a very strong "game feel" here that includes the learning curve, picking up skills (even the odd skills) and a somewhat "actual" leveling up feel. (In other words our hero doesn't drop into the world and immediately jump to high levels and become unstoppable.)

Now for another (slight) oddity. The book does not take place in a game. No it's an afterlife. See Armon Ellington went to bed (apparently) after a mammoth 72 hour gaming session...and died of a heart attack. When he woke up he found himself in an after-life-world that is set up "just like a game". However this is a reincarnation not a spirit realm. There is no "respawning" as in a game, nope if he gets killed he's dead. Will he end up back here or somewhere else.

Frankly that never seems to occur to him. He's just worrying about staying alive (Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive)... sorry couldn't help myself there.

Anyway (any way?) its a great read and I plan to jump right into the next. I've been in a very, "nothing is good" reading mood of late and this light read was just what I needed.

Recommended, enjoy.

[Ibri · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would not bother with this one, run of the mill litrpg and lets be honest while there are some good ones the average for litrpgs is rather low. I gave up half way through neither the character writing nor the story is particularly interesting at this point. And the setting hasn't made an impression either.

(Well except that I still wonder what possible use it would be to give a hand sized pixy a staff to hit normal enemies. Even if she had the strength (and maybe she has in this setting) she simply does not have the mass. Also how does the MC follow her when they are playing search and stealth (or something) she can fly she does not leave traces on the ground. Unless she deliberately walked but if so the text didn't really talk about that. In general I often thought the author didn't put all that much thought in things. For instance how much xp stuff gives and how low level people around him are. Maybe he gets some giant xp boost or something but others don't seem to wonder about his progress. But then they did not wonder about him coming out of the forest and having somehow no skills that you can't acquire in a few weeks in the wilderness. Unless imprisoned or something it should be impossible for him to not have picked up skills. )

Btw the MC is an idiot: Example thought process paraphrased: "Lol need xp, lets go in the dungeon while in a world without respawning. Lets not ask the more experienced people that train me to get information (or even tell them what I am doing despite having long range communication for that purpose), lets not prepare at all, lets not take the other members of my fledgling group with me. Might my low level be a problem? Lol nah I am a mighty level 3. Lol. Others go in groups and actually have armor and stuff? Whatever.

… Lol almost got killed by a trap. Lets just continue exploring. I am invincible. What is that? A random enemy almost kills me? Whatever lets solo the floor 1 boss. " Don't worry he does not actually use the abbreviation lol in the book.

[Logan Horsford · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think it moved from 'a bit dull' to 'starting to actively dislike the MC'.

Because he is dim.

I know it would not have made for good writing but if I was spending a week with an information sprite, I'd have pried out all sorts of info on the world. The MC didn't bother to. This makes him dim. I'd have had her talking pretty much non-stop till I'd gotten every useful fact out of her.

I despise dim MC's.

And yes, he has already survived by writer fiat once an hour in. Because he is stupid and would have died without it.

After an hour and a half (listening) I just couldn't bother going on. Didn't care about the MC enough.

[Isaac · Rating 3 out of 5]

If I read this book, I would only give it 2 stars. But I listened to the audiobook and Jill Smith did a great job, so an extra star.

I'm writing this as a general review to the series with a few specific points regarding each book.

This book is not very aggressive. Say, I killed your husband/wife and your response is "omg, you killed my husband/wife. I need to get revenge. (in a very logical systematic and stupid way)." It's not very dramatic. It's very casual and carefree.

I read a review saying the MC is stupid and that reviewer disliked stupid MCs and whatnot. I stayed away from this book for that reason for a while. I must say that yes, the MC is a retard. But no, it's not that bad.

MC is very laid back and casual and carefree. He's very kiddish. You know how you have the Percy Jackson series where Percy is very mature and adult-like while being a kid? You have the opposite here. You have an adult, more or less, acting like a kid doing silly stupid things.

The good part is that it blends well. Yes, the MC's stupidness moves the plot to some degree but it's not out of character. So I'm okay with that.

My biggest problem is that the author wanted include so many things and not finishing anything. The MC has like a zillion skills but not mastering any. The MC can't decide between being a caster or a fighter. There's so much potential and ideas where the author can explore and concentrate. But he gets nothing done. The MC has a totally messed up status with a ton of low-mediocre skills that can't really do much.

Another way of saying it is the pacing of the book is bad. The MC is like a forever noob that goes around adventuring (aka d*cking around).

[Aaron · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh

It's not that it's a bad book, it's just that I'm, apparently too old or something because it feels like it was written for 10-14 year olds. When the main character, whose is supposed to be 19, refers to his virginity as his "flower" you lose me. Seriously, wtf?.

[Steve Naylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rating 3.0

This will be a tricky review. I have seen other peoples reviews that range from 5 stars to 1 star and I can kind of see everyone's point. I do love lit RPG books but this one was just okay. When dealing with the lit RPG aspect of a book, I break each into 3 different categories: beginner, intermediate, and advanced (I am not including those books that have lit RPG component but aren't really lit RPG books). This is how I describe the complexity of the leveling/magic system. This book would definitely be a beginner type of Lit RPG. At this point, I have read a lot of lit RPG stories, enough that I feel I have moved passed the beginner books. So, while I found problems with the system, I do think that this would be a pretty good book for someone new to this genre. I rolled my eyes a bunch of times while reading this book because I thought a lot of things were pretty dumb. The main character almost died after being attacked by a horned rabbit? Yes the rabbit has a horn but it is still a rabbit. The explanation why it was so hard to kill it was because it was level 3. Good thing he never came across a level 10 ant or something, it might have destroyed an entire village! This story avoided the whole idea that levels aren't the only thing that matter. A level 2 troll can still probably kill a level 7 human without that much difficulty. I was also not impressed with the amount of damage that could be inflicted and received. Sometimes is took 3-5 hits with a spear to kill the horned rabbit, or later on the large rodents, regardless of where they were stabbed. Armon however took damage all the time. He was stabbed in the hand with a thorn later in the story and he took 5 points of damage, yet when he stabbed someone with a spear it was only 7? Good thing he didn't get 10 paper cuts in a row when he was level 1, otherwise he probably would have died!

I didn't find too many things wrong with the story, I felt it was pretty good if not a little simplistic. The only real gripe I have is the beginning in which a 19 year old dies of a heart attack after having a 72 hours gaming marathon. Unless there were drugs involved or he was one of those sick kids that live in a bubble, that doesn't make any sense. Its not that big of a deal but I did want to mention it, though it really didn't change the way I felt about the story.

As far as the characters go, except for 1 exception in which I will go into great detail a little later, I thought they were pretty good. Still a little simplistic but all the supported characters had their own personalities and I liked them. Mary was my favorite. The little fairy was the comic relief and had some pretty funny one-liners. While her jokes were kind of juvenile and obvious, and while I didn't laugh out loud, they did put a smile on my face. She had been studying earth for the last couple of decades so had pop culture mastered. She made a lot of "that's what she said" jokes. Then there was Vrax the cobalt companion. He was the perfect straight man to Mary's comedy. Most of the other characters were enjoyable to read about as well.

The one character that I felt was terribly written was the main character Armon. He might have been the stupidest character I have ever read about. He comes to this new world after he dies and is told that he only has one life and if he dies, that it, there is no coming back. If he had extra lives or something, I could excuse some of the stuff he did because he would be treating this world like a game. He is told that he needs to be at least a level 4 in order to enter the dungeon and yet at level 3 he goes to enter the dungeon. Everyone else entering the dungeon has armor, and weapons and have a team of at least 5. Armon goes in with only a low level shield and spear and with no armor at all and enters the dungeon all by himself. Then when he gets in trouble and barely survives the rodents of unusual size (shout out to Princess Bride), does he realize he is in over his head and head back out of the dungeon? Nope, he goes on to fight the boss because why not, its only a game right? Oh wait, no its not a game, if he dies that it! I have read other reviews where they said he got better over the course of the book, which is a little true but when a character starts off doing something so stupid which is the equivalent of playing in traffic, its not such an impressive growth when all he does is learn not to do that anymore. . His character is also very bland, he doesn't have much of a personality. He goes around and does stuff, he never seems to get mad or afraid. He makes stupid comments about how "he is saving his flower for someone special". What guy calls it their flower? He also is all over the place with his skill and level increases. One day he is excited about fighting, the next about magic, the next about magical engraving, then about building up his level, then its crafting. He never seems to focus on what he really wants to become. He also has no concept of money and what things are worth/cost. A silver is supposed to be a lot of money and yet he spent 4 silver on a shield and spear and then immediately lost the shield and broke the spear. Then he spent another 4 silver to replace the shield and spear, and then he broke the shield almost immediately. We later learn that it cost about 2 silver to stay at an Inn for a week once his friends leave.

BTW, usually in these type of stories, people braved loosing their lives in the dungeon because they can make so much more money than doing other things. It doesn't seem like it is financially worth it in this book based on the money they get from their adventures in the dungeon. They barely get enough to cover their food for a couple of days!

Up until the end I was telling myself I would not read the next book. Now I am kind of interested to find out what happens next though. The supporting characters are good enough that I can forgive the main character being so badly written, and I can't imagine him getting worse. I am going to read something else for a while though, but I might come back to this series if I run out of other things to read.

[Gillian Murrell · Rating 3 out of 5]

This being my first LitRPG I found it to be a cute book to listen to. As the story progressed I was really liking the characters and loved the earth banter that went on throughout the story. There is a mystery as to why the Gods brought Armon to this strange world that I guess will be explained in latter books. This book is appeal to gamers with all the levelling up and gaining new skills as the story progresses. Even battling the creatures that inhabit the dungeons in order to gain more experience and treasure drops. Well worth the read if you love that kind of thing, I look forward to the next book in the series as I feel this is just the beginning for this author.

[GaiusPrimus · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the best entries into this genre. Although with a podcast dedicated to just LitRPG, the author has been exposed to a lot of what works and what doesn't.

Really enjoyable read, one of those that is hard to put down.

Highly recommend.

[Wolfgarr · Rating 3 out of 5]

sigh.............Why is it authors seem to use the mental midget plot device for main characters so much now days? This is a decent story..If you can get past the mental midget bumbling of the main character.

[Bert · Rating 5 out of 5]

I surprisingly loved this book. I am almost embarrassed to admit it, but I found it very enjoyable. SPECIAL NOTE: Please spend the extra $$ and get the Audible version of this. The voices used by Jill Smith are incredible and add to the attitude, sarcasm and humor; I cannot see this being anywhere nearly as enjoyable if just consumed via written text.

The story has a video game persona, which will likely not appeal to everyone (I like video games, but rarely play). But I doubt that a love or dislike for video games will diminish the enjoyment of the book (but I could be wrong).

The humor in this is probably what I enjoyed the most. At times is very simple comedy and kid-friendly. At other times, it gets very close to the line (which I appreciate it). Tactfully done, but sexual innuendos occur throughout and they are awkward and therefore very funny.

Definitely an audio book that I recommend, and I am already starting on book #2

[Melissa Jane · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNF 72% I had to give up on this one due to the MC going from an annoying, emotionally 12 year old, naive boy to an irritating and stupid 12 year old kid. The story premise was good, but slow in execution. Even the fights weren't interesting to read. Maybe someone looking for a YA LitRPG might enjoy this, not me.

[Russell Gray · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's unfortunate that 3 stars kind of counts as a negative review for many people, because I did like this book but cannot justify giving it a higher rating since it does have a significant number of glaring flaws.

What I liked most about this book is that it captured that initial feeling of starting from scratch, gathering resources, scraping together a small amount of copper to live hand-to-mouth, and grinding those early levels. The beginning of the game when you are uncovering the mechanics and info is my favorite part, so these are the things that kept the pages turning for me.

The overall story is pretty solid and there's also a nice variety of characters. Unfortunately, this is where the cracks start showing.

The main character is kind of an idiot...there are a number of very questionable choices he makes and examples of general ineptitude. He also has an extremely lackadaisical attitude toward life-and death-situations that just didn't seem realistic to me. Luckily, the supporting characters, even if a little flat, provided a good distraction from this and kept things fairly enjoyable.

The writing quality is pretty amateur. I don't want to come across as mean by saying that because honestly I didn't have any problems following the action or the story. So the clarity of writing was very good, but there were a variety of grammar and spelling issues at times, and the use of present tense will be an obstacle for many people. I think it's a poor decision that serves no purpose at all and is just in the way of a reader's immersion. Your prose should be a vehicle that delivers the story to the reader in the most efficient way possible and then you add style points and fancy shit once the efficiency standards are met.

The actual writing techniques have a lot of room for improvement as well. I'm pretty sure I've heard Ramon say on his podcast that he doesn't have an extensive background in writing or knowledge of structure and the other stuff you would learn in a class. I'm not knocking him on that cause honestly I think 90% of what you learn in a creative writing class is worthless anyway.

But, for example, Interlude 3 is a random character talking/thinking to himself about stuff that he already knows as a way to fill the reader in on some random happenings elsewhere in the world. This is one of those stereotypical beginner mistakes because there is no good reason for a person to talk to themselves in an expositiony way about the previous day's events other than to clumsily fill the reader in on something. Experience will help a writer come up with better ways of getting this info to the reader and I hope to see that growth in the sequels.

Those things aside, I still enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys litrpg. It really did a great job capturing that early-game feel and this first book did a solid job setting up for additional content.

[Artrain · Rating 3 out of 5]

This review is for this book plus 22% of the next book, at which point I've dropped the series. So in short, pros:
- Decent representation of RPG elements.
- Okay-ish world building
- Lot of ideas from old school RPGs included which increased the scope of the book when I started reading it, and made me quite excited to see where the author would take it.
- Okay-ish characters.

Cons:
- Main character is 19, but acts line he's 9.
- He's supposedly an avid gamer we're told he died gaming after a 72 hour marathon run , yet doesn't know basic RPG elements.
- The writer is obssessed with humour. Every 2nd sentence is an attempt at making a joke. It went from being slightly funny to quite irritating very fast, and ended up giving the feeling that the author does not take his own story or his own characters seriously. There's an extremely casual and careless vibe to the book, and absolutely no sense of danger or of anything being grave or important enough to be given serious attention.
- The general stupidity of the entire populace is off the charts. This is highlighted especially in the 2nd book when 1. enslaved people kill their guards and flee the city where they were held with the help of the protagonist, and then just 2-3 hours away from the city, they make camp and start leisurely talking and smiling.
2. Protagonist notices mounted soldiers coming after them and warns the group that they must continue on, and they just argue that those soldiers might be random patrol and not somebody who's after them (!!!!). This was unbelievable for me to read. .
- The author shows general trend I'm seeing these days where characters who are actively trying to hide their identity don't bother coming up with any backstory, or even a name (!!!) for themselves. Despite them having days or weeks to do so. It is just lazy writing.
- Pacing of the book is quite fast and level of detail of the world and its occupants is not very high.

Frankly, I feel bad because if three things had been taken care of: moderation of humour, characters acting their age and not like they're under 10, and slower pacing with more detail then this could have turned into a really good series.

[Kristoffer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is full of good and bad. The main character and his fairy friend are idiots. They keep forgetting about important things such as the fairy telling the main character that he is in a gamelike world and giving him a quest but forgetting to tell him that there are no respawns until he is nearly killed. The characters act stupidly a lot at the beginning, and it is not funny stupid. It is just annoying. The characters act less stupidly later on, but it does continue somewhat. The stupidity made me nearly quit the book multiple times. I couldn't stand the main character and his fairy friend. The main character also asked stupid questions a lot at the beginning about basic game elements despite him supposedly being a gamer who should know better and at least ask somewhat specific and well thought out questions. The book did explore speciesism, I guess as a way to explore racism in a detached way. I did appreciate this pretty well. There was a fairly interesting kobold tribe and neat interactions with them too. The book also had a good ending. I am not sure whether to continue with the series because I am afraid the stuff I really dislike will continue in the same or greater amounts. I am interested in what happens next though. I would not recommend this book unless you don't mind infuriatingly stupid characters.

[Chris Evans · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book begins as an almost exact copy of Aleron Kong's "The Land", there's a pro-log with Gods interested in a human coming into their world, A human wakes in a game-like (but not a game) world immediately after playing an mmo, a small flying exposition creature explains world and it's rules, near identical game mechanics, and the first real fight is against wolves, a fight the main character looses.

HOWEVER, once past that point Mejia does go his own way. In a few ways, this book is very much the kind of story I would end up writing with that initial premise. A decent focus on crafting, he gets interesting non-human companions, there's a bit of dungeon born type dungeon exploration/grinding, and an interesting set of powers. Despite my initial annoyance, I found myself really liking the story by the end which I didn't believe would happen.

Final score is 3.5/5, rounded down due to that poor start.

Update: Star Overflow from book 3 bumps this up to 5 star.

[Matt · Rating 1 out of 5]

Terrible

Feels like this is just a parody of a litrpg book. Slow, the system doesn't make sense, characters are there only to provide exposition and train the protag. The fairy is the worst.
And then there's the flashback at about 20% mark. Its like the author couldn't decide if he wanted it to be a flashback for the character or have the character tell the story to the MC, so he had the character try both and it was so bad it was funny.
First 20% of the book the protag goes on a training montage. Where every thing he does seems to have a quest involved that rewards 5+ XP. The MC chopped down a tree? 5XP, next tree? 5 more XP. Takes 100 XP to get to lvl two. Takes one month somehow.
One of those books where the author makes a system with leveling, stats, XP then proceeds to ignore the mechanics and do what he wants. I didn't get to a part of the story where the MC gets any items, but I'd bet they would be treated the same.

[DJay · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm in love with this series. I love how all of the characters grow. Wendy is a boss, and Vex is also too damn cute. The MC is also a god send. He starts off dumb as hell and then starts to get better as the story goes on. This is a feel good story of a guy with nothing and struggles to make something of himself. At the end of it all, he's a character that you can relate up. He knows that he's limited and he that he needs help. He's not one of those headstrong MC's. Looking forward to the second book.

[Johnny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not to shabby

For being book one there are only a few errors and they don't really interrupt the flow of the story.
I like that it's over 500 pages of good fun.
Look forward to book two.

[John Edward · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good concept, poor narrative

Ok concept but kind of slow and too much focus on training instead of development and action. Not sure I will read the sequel...

[Caline · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very cool concept but not for me. Couldnt read it

[Pablo García · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story is above average. The idea that a gamer can play for 72 hours and then die is hardly believable though. Especially if the author doesn’t explain the reasons behind the constant play and sudden death. If it were for a world contest, for a life or death situation, like the real story of Marathon (Greek History), then it would make it more real...
Then, the Pop culture references known by a fairy are not very plausible. It’s as if the fairy lived on Earth (and everywhere else, at the same time, all the time, which is not probable, omniscience is god-like and fairies are not at that level).The author writes pop culture references at almost every conversation with Mary and Armon, which again is futile and illogical. It just gets all lost in translation to the locals and it makes the whole “reincarnated into another world, isekai, fantasy novel series” lose credibility, integrity and cohesion.
The other observation is that Kobolds are regularly “dog-like”, not really descendants of dragons or lizards (because there are already too many species that are “dragon-like”. Even in the Dungeons and Dragons lore/canons the Kobolds have slowly but surely become dog-like because Dragons are supposed to be the apex-predators-superior beings of the Multiverse and having midget child-sized dog-like-descendants is not very prestigious or honorable. Kobolds are Germanic in their folklore, and in most web-novel, light novel series, they are portrayed dog-like humanoids that dwell underground.

[Simon Larcher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not just a great podcaster but author too!

With this book, Ramon proves that he can put his review comments into practice with his own novel...
The story centres around a gamer from our world transported to another fantasy-centric world following his untimely death. It has just the right mix of story and LitRPG stat elements (in my opinion at least). The main character is the subject of most chapters with the occasional chapter focusing on the world at large with other factions planning on helping/hindering him, a fact that he remains largely ignorant off until very close to the end of this story.
The characters are enjoyable, as is the plot, with plenty of real world 'Easter eggs' to spot and chuckle at.
Highly recommended

[Sonya_W · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read this book in elementary school. I have come back to reread this because I love rereading books. When I had first read this book, I was too young to understand any references. However, as I read this again, I realized that this book had hidden jokes and references a regular teenager would chuckle at. This book, like what the title says, is about new beginnings and starting over. The main character, Armon, starts over and creates a new self while his kobold friend puts aside the bias against the reckless humans he had met in the past to create a tight relation with the main character. I highly recommend this book to those who love the idea of reincarnation and lots of magic!

[Kevin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't understand this book. When I started it, it was uninteresting and I constantly thought of dropping it. Then a couple chapters well into the book, it got interesting... Now I just want the book to end.

The crafting had me seriously thinking of picking up the sequel to see what the protagonist can do, but that "Team Mary" thing and the constant pop culture references (in a world where only two people can understand it) was the last straw.

I would have loved to continue the series, the ending seemed like the next book would have been interesting, but I can't read anymore of that stupid fairy.

2/5 Stars

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're a fan of the LitRPG genre this is definitely worth a read.
The book is fairly slow paced as it introduces you to the mechanics of the world and its intricacies but is pretty typical of most fantasy RPGs.
The cast of characters, whilst not vast, keeps things interesting with their different personalities. Especially with the jokes that the main character and fairy helper share.
I gave this book 4 stars as it's a good book, and definitely worth a read. However, so far it doesn't have any novel ideas that I haven't seen in other books in the genre.
Keen to keep reading this series.

[A. Njoroge · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pleasantly surprised

This was my first LitRPG. I was a bit leery about the genre but am glad that I gave it a try and am looking forward to the next one.

Note to non- gamers: Ignore the character stats if you're not familiar with RPGs. They're part of the fun of watching the character's development but skipping won't detract much from the plot. Having said that, by all means join me in delving into this intriguing genre.

[Travis · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. I will definitely have to track down the second book in the series and read that too, but this book was clearly from an independent author, since there were more grammatical errors than you could shake a stick at. No self respecting editor would have let this one slip past without dying of embarrassment.
Regardless though, I still thoroughly enjoyed it, and highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys gaming, rpgs, or just great adventure stories.

[Curtis · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Good Start

Although a stiff start, the writing smooths out and gets much better. The plot and characters also improve so that by the end of the book you really do want to read the next book to see what happens. Overall the book is a good start, and the next one can expand on everything with ease.

[Keston · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best

Best book ever. I do not read books very often because I just am never intrigued but this got me hook,line and sinker. I am planning fully to buy a physical copy of the whole series. I have yet to read the next 2 but will start very soon. Suggested to anyone who likes a lot of action and a tiny bit of lovely romance. Thanks.

[Ramon Barreiro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read

Enjoyed reading this book, it had all the rpg elements but does not overwhelm the story. Characters are like able and have some depth to their personality. Mary and her wise cracks brought humor and lite hearted ness to the story. If you like lit-rpg give this a try, you won’t regret it.