• Metagamer Chronicles

  • Complete Collection, Books 1-3
  • By: Xavier P. Hunter
  • Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
  • Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (120 ratings)

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Metagamer Chronicles

By: Xavier P. Hunter
Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
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Publisher's summary

Gary Burns thought he’d created a masterpiece. Instead, he’d created a prison for his friends - and himself.

Gary Burns just wanted to create the greatest RPG campaign of his gaming career. But a freak magical accident sucks him into the very world he created - as himself.

Surrounded by heroes who look and sound like his friends, Gary is forced to play out the story he wrote. Worthless in a fight, Gary must prove himself valuable even if it means feeding the team insider knowledge.

Because he needs to keep his friends close - and himself alive - until he can solve the puzzle he never designed: how to get everyone back home.

Metagamer Chronicles puts the RPG into LitRPG, taking the ever-growing GameLit genre back to its tabletop roots. If you miss the rattle of dice and gaming at a table with your friends, the Metagamer Chronicles are what you've been craving. Fans of Dungeons and Dragons and old TSR novels will love Metagamer Chronicles.

©2018 Xavier P. Hunter (P)2020 Xavier P. Hunter

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Meh, Rather Watch a Twitch Stream

This book isn't very exciting. The premise is a GM of DnD game gets put in his own campaign. He then decides he "just wants to tag along".

So for the first few HOURS of the book it is just him walking behind everyone and talking to himself in his head going "Hmmm I wonder how they will handle this!?" over and over... Then finally something exciting happens!!! Well, then it is ruined because the party is stupid, like dumber than a 5th grader stupid. So the MC decides to save them by giving them some life saving info so they wont die and have a party wipe. Then after he saves their lives and earns them hundreds of gold.... they are ungrateful dicks and continue to treat him like their btch (not exaggerating on that) and he just takes it like one. They treat the wolf pup better than him, to his face and he just goes "OK"......... Sigh. The MC then continues to be lame and mediocre for the next 4 hours, the side characters are STILL annoying as all hell, not to mention uninteresting and dumb (like just do dumb things for no logical reason and even contradictory to common sense), and at about 9ish hours in I just stopped listening because it is so boring.

I really feel that this was someones real life and not that great DnD game that they decided to turn into a book. At no point in this book was I worried about the group, did I feel like they had something they needed to overcome. They either steamrolled through situations or acted like idiots just so that the MC could show how "useful" he is by giving them inside information. It feel like the Author in those situations purposefully dumbed down the party members so that the MC could "shine". If you want to read a story that has actual adventure, this isn't it. There is never a sense of danger because the MC can just give the answer. Hard pass on this, I will be getting my credit back.

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Great but with drawbacks

The amount of times the character sheet got read in its entirety was very annoying. But great world and story

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little too campy, but the ending was sweet

little too campy, but the ending was sweet
little too campy, but the ending was sweet

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Good story but

good story very good narrator but by the end reading his stats lasts over 1 minute each time that gets old and he does it very often...

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this was amazing to say the least

the ending was perfect and everything that happened in-between was fantastic I hope to see more sometime

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wish there were more

if you are into heavy role playing dungeons and dragons or even just familiar with it the way i am. this book will keep you listening and entertained Naramore does very well in his performance of this title.

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Interesting Idea, Poor Execution

The narrator was what kept me listening to the story, they were that good. Unfortunately I was having to force myself to keep listening to the story.

It had all the aspects that I usually enjoy in a story, but I could never really get myself to connect with the characters and kept finding myself bored, and uninterested.

I was only able the finish the first book in the pack and a third through the second before I stopped forcing myself to listen.

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Fun, dorky

Fun, light story about a DM who ends up in his own world "isekai" style.
Mickael Naramore's narration is amazing as always.

The only ding I'll give it is the frequent read-throughs of the character sheets which could've been bypassed by only reading the bits that changed/were important.

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Fun LitRPG

This series probably don't deserve 4 stars, but between the conceit, the world design, and the characters, it was just fun to read.

The ending of this book ran long, but that actually contributed to the very end of the story, so I'm willing to forgive that. It's definitely not a 5-star experience, and it probably wouldn't get 4-stars if you're not a fairly serious LitRPG fan, but for me, it was a lot of fun.

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more

I love DND, and it would be pretty awesome to hear more of these - whether same group, or another

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