Upheaval

RPG'd Earth, Book 1

By: Bern Dean, Cynthia Dean

Narrated by: Rebecca Woods

Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

Quick, roll your stats!

Now are you good? Evil? Or just whatever you want to be? Who do you wish to worship? Want to stay human or become something else, say like an elf, dwarf, or gnome? Or maybe you want to be one of the monsters that the world will be facing? Are you smart enough to know more languages just because Are you a fighter, wizard, rogue, or a heal bot cleric?

Make sure to choose your abilities and skills with care, they may just save your life. Oh, and don't forget armor and something to hit things with.

Wait, you ran out of time!? Better find a cleric and level up to finish, or else you're going to die and you'll only have yourself to blame for lollygagging.

Now, join Jason as he figures all of this out and decides what path he will walk as the world around him changes drastically without notice. Will he succeed or fail? How will he handle the tough decisions that such an apocalyptic situation presents? Finally, just what role does the witch Caitlin have to play in everything?

Real quick for those who are wondering: Yes, this is a LitRPG/gamelit story. No, it's not a harem, but it will have a bit of bigamy in it. Yes, my wife/coauthor who can't stand harem has agreed with how it's done. No, we didn't write any naughty fun time scenes. Yes, there is adventure. No, it's not another VR adventure. And finally, yes, there are zombie chickens!

So, welcome to Role-Playing Gamified Earth, if you survive that is...

©2024 Bern's Books LLC (P)2024 Podium Audio

liked it

Waiting for 2nd book, hopefully it will come out soon. Good performance and storyline

Why a side story?

Why do a side story at the end. Thought had 5 more chapter to go.

I wanted to like this...

I enjoyed Eternal Dominion, so I had high hopes for this series, but so far I was let down. Having played a decent bit of TTRPG, I felt the MC was massively overpowered, and while that is true of ED as well, there was at least a reason in ED, no such thing in Upheaval. But probably worst for me was the secondary protagonist Caitlin, she is just completely removed from everything. Not only is there no real connection to the main story, but Caitlin does not seem to care at all about the people around her. People die around her and she simply doesn't give a shit, she is just going around looting and wandering(I don't think she ever stated any sort of goal).
I'll give the second book a chance, but I'm still fairly disappointed with the start of this series.

good start

I tend to take it easy on the beginning of any new story. it's been my experience that even when dealing with tried and true authors the beginning of any new story can be shaky at times. I first came across this author through his series titled Eternal Dominion. I definitely recommend anybody reading this review check out that book series if they have not already. this specific book, if I remember correctly, has the last section written by his wife. the wife does not like the multi women relationships. if I remember correctly the author stated that this series is just going to be a three person Romance with his wife's short stories tacked on to the ending. the short story is set in the same universe. our main character is rolling dice at the beginning along with everybody else on planet Earth to build their new self. some people are so traumatized that they don't and thus are put in a worse position. our main character literally bows down to this foreign powerful being who has taken the name of one of the goddesses of Earth. this first book basically sees our main character traveling to what I would argue is their Promised Land and then picking up a bunch of followers along the way.

Great promise felt like a true fail

The first part of the book started off well but it felt like the introduction to the villain once he gained so many um followers… still the writer has talent great job with the witch. However I think was a pass for me on the rest of the series.