Isekai'd Again With My Himbo Hubby, Our Mischief Gremlin Daughter, And My Cheat SRD: A FIFTH EDITION COMPATIBLE litRPG

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Cassandra "Catastrophe" Claire and her family are being isekai'd yet again, and this one's the most derivative setting yet.Armed with her Query cheat skill and access to the System's Reference Document, not to mention sorcery, she's determined that her mischief gremlin of a daughter and her himbo of a husband will come out safe on the other side—and maybe she'll get to do some anthropology on the way.What to expect: Characters with at least one dimension! An entirely original adventure on the Daggered Shores! And the SRD 5.1.

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: Aaron Sofaer (aka Pastafarian)

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Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 275
Views: 75,052

Chapters(36 total)

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Community Reviews(9)

AfterTheHavocRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A cute little story that pokes fun at isekais, the 5th edition SRD being in Creative Commons, and the sillyness of an incomplete system with a bunch of things kept out of it being free to use. Whatever horrible force was responsible for making a world whose System works on the 5th SRD, it left a bunch of weird gaps that only slowly get filled whenever people think to look at them! Like this is a silly low-effort story for the author!
But really, the actual appeal is the himbo husband. He's high Wis, low Int, and absolutely perfect in every way.
BaellaHeyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Best response to system legal garbage politics i have seen. Would love to see these protagonists on other adventures possibly through other game systems or genres.
I can't stop laughing and look forward to more!
-p.s. I'm a DM and 10/10 would run this or any campaign with these "players"
DenubisRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
When the cinematic opening crawl (chapter 8) includes a correct CC-BY attribution to WoTC, you will know if this horrible, horrible, wonderful, shit-post of a fic is for you.
This fic is for me.
I have made an audible "snerk" at least twice while reading this self-aware parody of a litRPG. (As all good parodies do, it takes itself seriously (ish, kinda, to a sufficient degree) within the experienced text). As all good parodies indicate, it takes itself not at all seriously outside of the characters' perspective.
Delightful light reading, "leavened" by long blockquotes from the 5e SRD. The juxtaposition of an adventure and the adventure explaining itself to the protagonist through lawful use of a rules document and the just barely filed off IP that must be skirted around makes this fic an interesting metatextual statement.
Do read it. It's droll.
DragonslayerzRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Hilarious, and accurate to the source material, to the point of comedy.
5e's System Reference Documents Suck. This masterfully makes light of it, while also telling a wonderful story. I would gladly read 200 chapters of this, if there was enough content in the SRD to write a story that long.
I just realized that they're going to get to grappling rules eventually. That's going to be fun.
ElaikasesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
ve been reading game fiction since before "The Gnome Cache". Some of it was terrible -- Andre Norton's game fiction book is her only story that fails.
Some of it is barely ok. "The Gnome Cache" comes to mind.
Rarely it is superb. So rarely. So very rarely.
But this is excellent. Humor. D&D rolled into it cleanly. More excellent humor. Use of tropes to subvert them or develop the plot.
Excellent grammar as well. There is professional skill here as well as raw talent.
So the basic trope of people interjected into a game world starts the story but isn't the story. Instead it enables the humor, the plot and a story.
Well done.
So. What would I change?
Not the name. It gives fair warning of what to expect and the nature of the story.
Not the characters. There are just enough to make an ensemble but not so many that they get in each other's way.
Not the tropes. They are touched on just enough to be subverted. Humor rather than annoyances.
Not the interjection of the rules. Instead that is used flawlessly in order to further the plot and the humor and maintain ambiance.
The cracks about good-evil on the law-chaos spectrum. That just shows how unreliable the narrator is.
Guess there isn't anything I'd change right now.
JolligreenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
If you have played D&D, or Pathfinder, and/or have been following along with the shenanigans that Wizards of the Coast unleashed when they decided to drastically overreach around their IP (utterly terrifying and the quickly enraging a massive community of people who'd basically been doing a ton of their work for them)... then this fic is for you. The characters are ridiculous but lovable, it's a total shitpost, it's still somehow super satisfying and enjoyable to read, and I can't wait to see where it goes next.
Leahcim ZanathaxRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I'm really enjoying this story so far! I like LitRPG, of course, and stories like LoRG and Power of Ten are what brought me to RR, so I admit to being a bit biased.
This is the story of a family of isekaiers from modern day Earth, they're good at this, and have been through something similar before. They're starting from scratch in a new world, one using 5th Edition D&D for its basis, and there's been a decent amount of info dumps early on to give the reader the info they need to understand what D&D terminology means as well as what each of the three main characters are capable of.
Like in a lot of LitRPG there's a lot of this in early chapters, though I imagine this will go down quite a bit as we get further into the story, and as of chapter 30, we're already seeing a lot less of this, at least relative to the first few chapters.
The interactions and motivations of the various characters are interesting and well done. The grammar, punctuation and spelling are above average for RR and I!ve been enjoying it greatly so far!
Despite the goofy title, give this story a try. Its good!
TheLeakingPenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
with the release of the SRD to a creative Commons, several people had the same realization that I did, that it is now open for use in any transformative work. including a litRPG fiction.
This is exactly that. An Isekai / portal story in which the System of the world IS the 5E SRD.
With all the inanity, insanity, and incomprehensiblely designed rules that implies.
Make no mistake, this is parody. The constant repetition of every rule in the SRD whenever battle happens or other things that apply to the rules is humor along the line of Peter Griffen holding his leg and hissing in pain for several minutes, funny, then annoying, then just really overplayed, and then all of a sudden funny again.
The characters are wonderfully written and fleshed out, to the point where I mentioned the story to my wife, and suggested that our family would absolutely love being neighbors with this family. and it is indeed a family, as the title of the story suggests, the main character is adventuring with her husband and their daughter.
The prose and grammar is top-notch, with the exception of the system boxes, but that is because, true to a 5e compatible story, all of the system boxes are directly a copied and pasted from the SRD, therefore any grammatical errors are not the authors.
The individual story of the specific quest they are on itself is pretty tried and true, although lots of instances where the NPCs have plenty of genre savvy and understand exactly what is going to be happening based on story tropes and yet they do not understand why they have this knowledge, which is amusing in its own right.
in short, this is a wonderfully fluffy joy to read story that will make you laugh. You should read it.
shyktaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a shameless (currently) 20k-word shitpost of a story, clowning on a certain licensing drama you may have heard of.
And yet, it's utterly delightful.
It isn't high literature - it's low fantasy with a lot of low humor (and puns, and memes). You might have played an RPG just like it (if your DM really wasn't taking themself seriously), but the derivativeness is half the joke and if it's your jam it's no less enjoyable for it.
As usual for Pastafarian, the grammar is perfectly on point, and the characterization of the protagonists shines (or, bubbles, given that they're dirty rotten metagamers).
I find the writing style a little bit didactic at times (and it's not just because of the chunks of SRD) and a little bit too cursory at others, but it's not like you need a degree in computer science to keep up even then.
I hope you give it a few chapters to know if it's your thing.