He doesn't know how he got here, and while parts are familiar, he doesn't actually know where he is, either. From one perspective, Duromar is a half-ogre barbarian, a brute by any standard you care to use. But he's also a character created in a gaming system and must live within the rules of that system.

This is the story of a gamer who ends up in a game that's just a bit off from what he knows.

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I wanted to write something a little bit old-school. Most of the LitRPG I've found seems to be based on computer RPG styled stories. Progression through levels is fast, and depending on the game, skills and even attributes can be trained with or without class levels. This wasn't true with the older pen and paper games, and that's the style of leveling I wanted to write.