Build your kingdom – Destroy your enemies
What would you do if you woke up in a strange land?
What if you had no idea why?
Would you fight, or would you curl up into a ball and cry?
What if your fate was sealed by a booming announcement that cracked across the vast blue skies?
“Greetings, welcome to The Land of The Lessermen. You have arrived in the nick of time. War looms, its dire thunderheads crowding our once glorious sky. This land needs a strong hand such as yours. A hundred must battle for victory, and at the end, there can be only one.”
You’ve played the games, now read the book!
For Connor O’Grady this nightmare comes true. He wakes in a land and is propelled into an age called Legendary, where he has to fight his way up from nothing, literally nothing, not even a pair of pants. He must learn to survive, to fight, and to enlist the help of others in order to build a civilization capable of winning.
Because there is no other option.
This is a LitRPG – Civ building fantasy tale and includes progression stats and settlement stats.
For lovers of 4X strategy MMORPG civilization building games who enjoy a tale woven in the lands they spend far too much time in.
Warning: Contains curse words.
My Opinion: 739 pages, $3.99, Available On Kindle Unlimited
Right from the first paragraph the story is unabashedly LitRPG. There's an immediate trapped in the game scenario with promises of PvP, crafting, and town building. And the story delivers. From the get go the main character fights monsters to gain Lord Levels and resources to cover his nakedness and make weapons. As he advances he gets new powers geared towards survival and kingdom building. He picks up other players and NPCs to build and advance his kingdom to survive and possibly win the competition with other player run kingdoms.
Game mechanics are pulled from strategy games with a mix of simplified crafting, town building, assigning kingdom jobs, and strategy combat. The crafting is simple. The MC collects fragments and is rewarded with random clothing or weapons. It's a neat way to give the MC stuff he wouldn't have thought of to make. Kingdom roles like scholar and economist are given to other kidnapped earthlings who must be recruited. Kingdom's citizens are recruited which unlocks more development paths. Lots of good strategy game stuff mixed with a storyline of competing player kingdoms.
Overall a good story with only minor forced moments.
Score: 7.5 out of 10
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