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Outpost

Monsters, Maces and Magic Series, Book 1

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By: Terry W Ervin II
Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
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Summary

Glenn, a college sophomore, has a Sociology 102 paper that requires spending time with an unfamiliar group or culture. Luckily, two hot girls from his class have the same idea: Attend the university’s game club to get reaction material for their papers.

A creepy game moderator shows up, ready to start a game of Monsters, Maces and Magic. Glenn doesn’t fret over the GM’s disturbing vibe, figuring it’ll lead to potential fodder for his paper.

Moments after rolling up his character and beginning the adventure, Glenn, his two classmates, and three other players are drawn into the game - literally. How and why they got trapped in the game, transformed into their RPG characters are important questions, sure. But simply surviving a world filled with horrific creatures, unknown magic, and perilous roads is first on the list.

©2018 Terry W. Ervin II (P)2018 Gryphonwood Press Fantasy Fiction Magic Game

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“Exciting and hilarious! It feels like a true game with friends.” (Dueling Ogres podcast)
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It’s a good premise for the whole but there are parts that slow in the story.
It’s a lot like a game where there is lots of details but you never really know which ones are going to play out.

Nice Lit-RPG twist. D&D flavours are good.

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I'm a big fan of both LitRPG and D&D and this book comes the closest to combining them. The characterizations are great, in general, with one exception (in my opinion). The really tall, incredibly beautiful Elf with the oversized breasts is a good hook for teenage boys and, so far, it hasn't become tedious. It might in future works. I really enjoyed the fact that the characters are stuck with what they rolled, eg. the one character couldn't read because his Intelligence score was too low. The situations that the characters encounter are what you might expect in a D&D game, and they also comments intelligently about them ("Dungeon in a swamp area doesn't make sense, but that's a game world")

I wasn't totally happy with the ending. I feel the expected outcome could've been handled as well.

As mentioned above, there was one character that I felt was badly done: The low intelligence fighter that had a problem with the gnome (and with common cliches, phrases, insults, compliments) and was a coward. I know that having some intra-group tension helps the story but it felt forced to me.

I'm definitely going to listen to the next book! (Its already downloaded)

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Almost perfect. Made me want to find the D&D books

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This book plays out like an old D&D cartoon. A bunch of kids get together to play D&D and spend time creating their characters. Then as soon as they start the game, they are transported into the 'real' D&D world looking exactly like their D&D characters, where they have to use their fighting skills, spells and magical amulets to survive. They embark on a new adventure and although they don't all get along, they have to work together to achieve their goals.

There is an annoying theme running throughout the entire book. After Steph upscales all her character assets including increasing her height and b00b size, the author won't stop talking about her big b00bs. It's weird, the author makes a point of stating that women are oversexualised in the D&D world, then proceeds to describe how all the male characters are ogling Steph's chest, all the time. A chapter doesn't go by without several references to Steph's b00bs.

I feel this book is definitely aimed towards teens/YA's. For an RPG book it's a bit lacking, I think only one character actually levelled up and no-one really talks about levelling up in general. Although I love action, adventure books, Outpost is a rather tame adventure. The narrator did a decent job, but there's also some sound interference which repeatedly happens during the recording.

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Over-sexualised

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What do you do when you try to play a game but ends up being the one wo is played?
You do your best to win it!
I’m looking forward to boook 2.
Recommending both book and audio. The narration was great.

Outpost adventure with monsters, magic and mages.

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Fisrt time reading/listening to this author. I really enjoyed this story, thankyou. Narrator is great also. Now reading the second book.

Really enjoyed this book.

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