Homebrew

Metagamer Chronicles, Book 1

By: Xavier P. Hunter

Narrated by: Mikael Naramore

If Gary had known he'd get trapped in an RPG with his real-life stats, he’d have tried harder in gym class.

Gary Burns just wanted to create the greatest RPG campaign of his gaming career. But a freak magical accident sucks him into the very world he created - as himself.

Surrounded by heroes who look and sound like his friends, Gary is forced to play out the story he wrote. Worthless in a fight, Gary must prove himself valuable even if it means feeding the team insider knowledge.

Because he needs to keep his friends close - and himself alive - until he can solve the puzzle he never designed: how to get everyone back home.

Homebrew puts the RPG into litRPG, taking the ever-growing gamelit genre back to its tabletop roots. If you miss the rattle of dice and gaming at a table with your friends, the Metagamer Chronicles are what you've been craving. Fans of Dungeons and Dragons and old TSR novels will love Homebrew.

©2018 Xavier P. Hunter (P)2026 Xavier P. Hunter

I liked it

small issues that really don't detract from the story. kinda caught me off guard at the end.

A good start

it's a decent start to a series. the author isn't on the level of primal hunter series or the he who fights with monsters series. Bit this is at least worth a listen.

If you like D&D

Picture this your a DM about to start a new campaign with your friends. One of your friends shows up with a "crystal ball thing" and show how it ends up broken.

You find yourself inside the setting of your campaign. All your friends are their characters but only act in character not knowing you.

You find yourself as an underpowered bard with bad stat roles because you never rolled your own character for this campaign. You do however have your knowledge of how the campaign is supposed to work...

Check this out if you enjoy D&D (D20), an original campaign environment, humor, not all problems need to be solved with violence (no muderhobing), good narration, and some reworking on songs you will know (he is a bard in this tale)

I did receive a free copy of this book

Not LITRPG!

If you’re into dice rolling RPG’s then this is probably one for you. I have never been a d&d player but I guess it’s like this story. Story was interesting at best but very distracting with all the dice rolling and character stats.
Narration was very well done and was the best reason to listen to the story.
Overall I would say that it was worth the listen and I might even listen to the next one in the series just to see if the story gets better.

I received this free review audiobook and I am voluntarily leaving this unbiased review.

Lit RPG Humour Done Well

Laugh-out-loud funny. This is exactly what I look for in humourous fantasy, plenty of laughs, but not at the expense of the story.
I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.