The Power of Ten: Book One: Sama Rantha, and Book Two: The Far Future

Information

Status

Completed

Year

2020

Author

RE Druin

• Chapter Ten – A Little Cunning
  Feb 4, 2020
• Chapter Nine – Caught in the Web
  Feb 4, 2020
• Chapter Eight – Cats and Birds
  Feb 4, 2020
• Chapter Seven - Rebirth
  Feb 4, 2020
• Chapter Six - Kitty and Friends
  Feb 4, 2020
• Chapter Five – Baby’s Toys
  Feb 4, 2020
• Chapter Four – Level Two
  Feb 4, 2020
• Chapter Three - Second Primary Class
  Feb 4, 2020
• Chapter Two – The System
  Feb 4, 2020
• The Power of Ten: Sama Rantha, Vol I – Hagborn
  Feb 4, 2020

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• toddRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Apparently, this story has been around for some time, given the reviews from prior readers as soon as it showed up on Trending. Having just burned through the entire story in the last couple of days, I figured it would be worth writing out a review for anyone looking to try the story. First thing, the world and growth system is drawn from tabletop RPGs, primarily Pathfinder and D & D, which having only played a game once left me on the outside of all that information. That said, I would ignore those recommending to skip the Nightmare chapters (where the MC is trapped in the realm of Nightmare, not just dreaming). I didn't understand any of the glorious min-maxing going on, but the Nightmare chapters are endless growth runs, dying over and over again while introducing feats that eke out just a little more of an advantage each time.
  The premise is that the main characters all died in Terra, and were notably the best players of a game that mirrored the world's mechanics exactly. It's relegated to the background but serves as an explanation for how the characters know exactly what classes and feats to sprint towards in service of min-maxing their perfect build. From there it's a grand romp of seeking out Evil and burning it for The Land, quickly getting embroiled in bigger and bigger schemes and conflicts and drawing more and more people into their orbit as events progress. The world-building is excellent, without overusing or reusing monsters, and constantly traveling into new spaces with new and strange things to kill. The pacing holds to a fast tempo from the start and virtually never slows down, with the occasional emotional beats that are built up to over dozens of chapters. I will say that the grammar and writing errors do interfere with the flow of things and editing would improve that, but significant issues are rare enough that it didn't put me off the story.
  Overall, this story makes for an absurdly involved growth and progression that gradually spills out int
• Simon SmithRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I found the power of ten books in December 2023. I liked them so much that by the date of this review, 13 Jan 2024, I have read the first 3 books on royal road and the 4 ebooks on kindle. These book are pure power fantasies and I like that. I am familiar with RPG systems so the parts from that don't bother me although I can see why some people wouldn't like them. The level of detail is amazing when considering the grand scope and scale of the stories told.
  On to book 4!
• borgrelRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  A true wordsmith. Descriptions use words in unusual, inventive ways that make you think. You will never get bored of the way things are written.
  Although the story is a bit of a slog, just a short break will leave you wanting to return for the sentences that make your synapses tingle.
• liwaenahariRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I started at book one, and couldn't stop. This is one of the most fun pair of books I've read in a long while. Definitely reading them all. The flow of fantasy to grimdark, to hopeful grimbright...the inclusion of stats and the way ttrpg mechanics translate to the physical world. It's all so masterfully done! I'd love to play some D&D with you.
  Thank ya for such a wonderful contribution to the universe we live in!
• Brother WolfRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  For everyone wanting to know if this colossal work is good or not, I will hands down say that it is a wonderful story. The world is detailed and the writing makes every scene come to life. The characters are many and not one-dimensional, romance is there (no harem as of ch.227 on the first book). I could go on, but it would take too much time. The problem is the beginning as some of you may already know. It is not that there are any plot holes (haven't seen any yet), but the story wants you to know a lot of details before fully enjoying it. The numbers and descriptions become much more manageable after the first several chapters so if you are amenable to slogging through the beginning, you will likely not stop reading this great story.
  edit: I'm now on the second book. The story gets so much grander and wide-scale. You aren't investing your time in another book but a whole world(or multiple). Help me, I can't stop binge reading!
• KryptonHDRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  First of the Power of Ten books I read years ago, will be going to re-read them again later after I finish up with book 4,5 again.
  I personally really enjoy seeing the characters of Sama Rantha and Briggs and what they get up to. The DnD type character creation and system is something I had never seen before in a story and it works so well in my opinion to bring this story together.
  I love both book 1 and 2, with both being different genres personally I prefer Book 2 I just love the Sci-Fi feel of it more.
  Just leaving a review on this wonderful piece of work after going back to it and realizing I never left one on these books (not great at reviews mainly want to write it to support RED)
  Thanks for the great introduction to a great series of books that have left me entertained for years.
• LaZeR716Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  In the same vein as Valkyrie's Shadow or Log Horizon, the story is a "what if game logic was applied to the real world". In this case, the author expertly applies tabletop rpg logic to the world and shows what it would look like when applied to society.
  It is VERY numbers intensive, but I enjoyed it. It's not super critical to the story to remember everything, so don't worry if it's too hard.
  The story follows multiple POV, but they eventually converge.
• AyashiRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  Starting with the bad points: the protag is basically a huuuuge Mary Sue, that always knows better than anyone, with a significant penchant for arrogance and a tendency to belittle everyone else. It gets so bad she literally takes people's souls to reincarnate into her clones... The worse part as far as I'm concerned is how she(/the author) enjoys hammering her morality values to the reader.
  Assuming you survive the previous we get to the good points.
  What are the good points, you ask? Why, everything else of course! The world building, while "heavily inspired" is great, the other characters feel alive, the plot  issues are believable (with the caveat of being solved by a Mary Sue), the Game System is a great mod to classic D&D, the 40k crossover makes sense, the grammar and syntax are pretty close to perfect( the only issue that comes to mind is the use of a few archaic words such as whelmed), ect...
• VuxxRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  Love the ideas and plot, but the writing meanders too much and becomes bland and boring often. Ultimately had to give up on it before finishing, which is extremely abnormal for my reading habits. I was originally going to attempt to push through so I could get to the other books where the writing hopefully improved. Maybe someday I'll come back and try again.
• BookmanRoyal Road

  ★ 0.5

  First of all i only give 5 stars to true masterpieces.
  There is only 1 on RR that i read that fit the critiria so far.
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  Now to this.
  I stoped reading at chapter 5 to write this. Bc the first 5 chapters are terrible 0,5 star for anyone who is not a D&D Table top veteran.
  I am not, so i did not understand the levels, classes and math that the author wrote.
  Immagin going to your first D&D Table top game. You never played before and you have no prior knowledge to any of the math and stats etc. You have no idea what the game is about.
  Now instat of explaining the stuff to you over time, the Game master just dumps numbers on you and expects you to know what they mean.
  This is the first 3,5 chapers. Numbers and Specific D&D Words get trown at you with no explanation what so ever.
  Even then it is 3,5 chapters full of info dump stats.
  The first 0,5 chapter is the prolog Then 3,5 chapters full of numbers no one but D&D Tabletop veterans know about.
  At Chapter 5 the info dump ends and the story begins. Im there and will continou for now.
  Should however another info dump like this one apear then i will abondon this.
  I belive the author forgot while writting this, that not everyone has the same knowledge as him/her.
  This happend to me when i talked with 2 of my friends about a game i played for 15 years. Only one of them played it as well and he quickly told us that he cant follow the conversation as we talked from veteran to veteran rather then veteran to newbie.
  I can only recomend to redo the first 4 chapters.
  Lessen the info dump.
  There is no need to point out every singel decition the MC has regarding her stats.
  We as readers need to know how mutch stats she has in total and what they do but we do NOT need to know that she put 1 point in dec and another point in dex becourse of this reason or that reason.
  Later when she only gets a few points thats ok but over 3 chapters with this stuff is pure nightmare.