2019 reading challenge: a LitRPG book

The Dark Lord Bert by Chris Fox

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


What an absolute hysterical hoot! This is a story that takes itself seriously by NOT taking itself seriously. Poking fun at pop culture, geek culture and gamer culture, I just could not stop laughing throughout the entire thing.

In an unnamed MMORPG, Bert is a 1 hit-point goblin. So low he's considered by the game to be a critter rather than a monster or any kind of threat to anything or anyone. He's at the bottom of goblin rankings and he dreams of being a Warg Rider. But see... Bert's smart - for a goblin. Rather than looking for garbage like other goblins, he has paid attention to players and seen that they take the bits of metal as loot and exchange that metal for stuff. So he starts following players around and looting for metal so he can go buy himself a Warg and become a Warg Rider.

Along the way, he follows a group of players as they tackle a dungeon and while they are busy battling the Boss monster of the dungeon, he goes and loots it. But along with the money, he takes a gem that turns out to be what gives the holder of the gem the power and rank of the Boss monster. Suddenly he finds himself in a role he was not created for, and in need of help from players to make his world safe.

If you play any kind of RPG (tabletop or online) this book is for you. I was totally the target audience. And James Gillies reading of it just made it even more spectacularly entertaining.



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Glad Game April 30, 2019

* water goal achieved

* discovered past me knew about a future me's dinner craving and had bought ingredients accordingly. Yay taco salad for the win.

* almost all base paint down on scroll for weekend.

* major headway into new audiobook that is proving to be hysterical.