Adventurer - Sunrise Over Sunset [A tabletop mechanics LitRPG]

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Description

Thrust into a world governed by tabletop RPG rules, Cire seeks out a place to belong, protect, and thrive. The allure of community is strong when you have nothing. He will strive to prove himself worthy of acceptance, while struggling to hide a dark secret.

He wasn’t chosen by the gods. He wasn’t granted unique or powerful skills. He definitely wasn’t gifted good fortune. With a motley band of friends, remote starting location, and questionable prospects Cire will endeavor to survive inElysium.

Series–

Dice rolls, quests, and intriguing characters are only the tip of the spear. TheAdventurerseries includes playable game mechanics, maps, and more!

Thrust into a world governed by tabletop RPG rules, Cire must survive an onslaught of wondrous and horrific challenges. His peculiar race, charismatic personality, and talent for turning negative situations sideways might just be the tools he needs to achieve his goals, or they may lead to his ruin.

Adventurer Book II - First Light

Adventurer Book III - Metamorphosis Rising

Short story prequel- The Lurking Lair: An Adventuer Series Short Story

Summary for the LitRPG savvy reader:Looking for a LitRPG that is more tabletop traditional role playing game and less MMORPG? This is probably your cup of tea. Long term progression with a heavy slice of life element. Strong mix and inclusion of ancient Greek life, values, and myths. Hence, the world can be a bit more harsh and brutish than modern sensibilities. The system is tangible and knowable beyond the MC's insights. The MC is more of an everyman than someone specifically chosen for the experience.

Author's Note: This is my debut novel. Up until this point, the only thing I have written of comparable length has been non-fiction and related to history. I am immensely grateful to all the folks who have given me feedback and helped me improve my writing.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2019
Author: TabletopLiterature

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Rating: 4.1/ 5.0
Followers: 299
Views: 139,518

Chapters(83 total)

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Community Reviews(8)

tarakisRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Definitiely a Very interesting read. The story is Very Good, the characters have depth to them and are likeable for the most part. The grammar is good but could use some polish, the style definitely needs some work to many "smushed" words fer my liking but not terrible. The mechanics are different and works IMHO. Interested in reading Moar.
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SmeowglivionRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I liked it.
Want more?
Fine, I'll write more.
As the title says, this book came as close to traditional RPG as possible. This includes being stuck in the first town for days, doing sidequests, building relationships with NPC, getting a bunch of stats every couple of hours, and more, and more.
I have very few issues with this book and most of them are subjective. That said, they do stand out for me.
First, and the main one - for a book with the title "Adventurer", there wasn't much adventure. The main protagonist spends the entirety of the plot in the same town, periodically going out into the wilderness to do some quests. I get it, it is supposed to feel this way, it just clashes with the intended purpose of the series. Not a very good introduction, in my opinion.
Yes, "Adventurer" is the title of the entire series, but if the very first book doesn't have the feel of this elusive adventurous spirit, it doesn't paint a very good picture going forward.
That was point number one. Number two - the book is classical fantasy in all the ways that count. This is not bad, per se - but there is nothing new it can offer to the reader. Your bog-standard dwarfs-berserkers, elves with bows, swords, armors, gnolls, and yetis. Nothing that really stands out, unfortunately.
Which brings me to the next part of the review.
Style - good. This book had been rewritten, and it shows. I haven't stumbled upon any weird constructions, nor anything that stands out in a bad way. Aside from a couple of issues, which I will point out in the Grammar section, there is nothing to distract from reading.
I forgot to add - I like the creativity on chapter names. It's simple, but it's fun.
Grammar - as I wrote before, there are still a couple of typos and mistakes. But the most jarring for me was the change of name between Stacy and Stace, in the same chapter, several times. And that continued throughout the book. The author clarified, that 'Stace' was supposed to be a nickname, which I clearly didn't
SummercatRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I gave it five stars because it seems well written and I don't want it to suffer for this tidbit but the MC is a vampire sun elf.
Not a spoiler because it's literally the first chapter early on.
13lack12oseRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
TabletopLiterature has done a fabulous job in creating a living breathing world for the readers to explore.
Style Score:
An enjoyable read which maintains decent pacing and interaction throughout the chapters thus far.
Grammar Score:
Well above average for RR. Full marks here. Author is quick to rectify errors which are brought to their attention. Mostly there are words missing a space which has negligible impact on readability.
Story Score:
The story is written from the point of view from our MC Ceri. The action begins straight away in chapter one with him fighting for his life against the elements that he has been abruptly thrown into. The world is slowly revealed to us other the next 10 chapters or so.
Character Score:
Probably the biggest flaw in the story is the MC’s impulsive decision making. Tabletop (author) is happy to discuss these though and has often modified the story to better suit the consensus reached. This is a rarity on RR and I cannot stress how awesome it is the have meaningful author interaction!
Closing thoughts:
Adventure is a wonderful tale with a unique world filled with interesting believable characters, I highly recommend you give it a try!
Fenrir_070Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Well thought out system with "old school" values. MC is a very interesting combination and character development is excellent. You can see the slow progression as he begins to accept that he's in a new reality and like any of us he makes mistakes and learns from them. Some small issues with grammer but very minor and easily overlooked. Still early days yet, looking forward to seeing where this tale will lead.
ZethuronRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Found this story quite recently, and decided to give it a read, mainly due to its premise of having a tabletop like system. And i have enjoyed it, even if there are flaws.
I do quite like the MC, and how he interacts with the inhabitants of the valley, he is not exactly a perfect person, considering that some of his decisions arent thought out at all, by no means he is a min-maxer or anything like that, he is someone with a normal personality trying to survive in the world of Elysium, and that fact is not helped at all by his race, to the point that he is being influenced by it.
Its really shown how he is like, when he for the benefit of the villagers of the valley, and to his own detriment, makes a rather major decision, one that does severly limit his travelling options, i really wonder just how the author is going to handle that, since it does limit the story, atleast to me.
The other characters that appear are well written for the story so far, having quite the dynamic between them, i especially do like the other members of the party.
Its rather refreshing to see a story of this type, one that uses a system with tabletop RPG like stats. And its quite well written here, the sytem is nicely constructed, of course it is not perfect, but its well done. Another thing is that while it may use tabletop rules, it does not go extreme in that by hiding things such as rolls, which would seriously slow down the story and make it more complex.
There is not much to say about the world the story takes place in, as it has not been developed much yet, due to the story not going beyond the valley the MC is in, and it does not appear it will happen anytime soon. Which is quite sad, as i do want to see the MC go beyond the valley, but if he is limited like that, it wont happen easily, and that sadly is a problem, as it ruins one part of the premise.
Also there is the entire reveal thing, i do feel like the buildup to that could be impoved.
The grammar used in this story is good
KoboldPatrolRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
(as of "Lurking Lair 1", i.e. the 31th post; review done before an announced editing)
'Adventurer' tells the story of the former human Eric (now Ciresil, a divine-elf/vampire hybrid) who is isekai'd in a remote valley in a fantasy world that feels like the computer version of a pen-and-paper RPG, with status boxes, skills, quests and xp. He befriends the few inhabitants of a small hamlet and learns how the system works, protecting the hamlet from wolves and similar dangers to earn his keep. Aaaand he starts sucking monster blood because that gives the most experience points.
Style/Grammar: The story is told in third-person internal style by an omniscient narrator, mostly from Cire's point of view but short scenes are told from various other POVs. The descriptions are good with a rich vocabulary. There are still things to improve: often there are sentences that could flow better or smaller continuity errors (the latter probably from rearranging while writing/editing). Typos mostly consist of missing spaces and missing possessive apostrophes. The author is listening to the readers' feedback, correcting errors and modifying "bad" scenes quickly.
Story: What I really missed while reading were explanations of and reactions to some very basic things, like the fact that the MC spawns in a game-like fantasy world at all without being irritated by that; but later in the story there are hints that there is an explanation for this. The mood is often easy but there are some impactful scenes as well. Pacing is a bit on the quicker and sometimes clumsier side, e.g. befriending the people seems to be much easier than I would expect and there is lots of stuff happening in a short time even though they are in a very tiny very remote settlement.
Characters: Cire is a unique MC due to his special hybrid race that gives him unusual options but also requirements. He has both good and flawed aspects which make his personality believable. There are some discrepancies between him sometimes
Den18Royal Road
★★★ 2.5
This story has potential but is unfortunately let down by railroading and unnatural interactions. The plot starts well enough but everything starts going downhill once the MC reaches a town. There are many minor issues like an inconsistent system and unclear power structure. The most problatic thing is the MC is just unrelatable and not fun to read about. His decisions make little sense and the pacing is all over the place. I would guess the author wanted things to go a certain way but did not have the ability to make it happen in story. This unfortunately leads to the the MC looking like a hurt/comfort fanfiction trope. He starts crying at the drop of the hat for pity's sake.
The railroading culminates in the MC making a permanant oath to never leave that first small town, for an extended period, upon pain of permanant death. Whats that? Yes I know the story is titled adventurer. Whats your point?
Joking aside the author has potential and the story initially interested me which is why what happened is so aggrivating. I would recommend the author plan things more and let the story get to where needs to go more naturally instead of trying to force things.
I would not recommend this story.