The Pocket Hobbit
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To celebrate The Hobbit's 75th anniversary of publication, a pocket-sized hardback of J.R.R....
Pathfinder: Dark Waters Rising: Vol. 1
Jim Zub and Andrew Huerta
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The warrior Valeros can rely on his sword arm and his friends, the mysterious sorceress Seoni, qu...
Sneakers (1992)
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Robert Redford leads an all-star cast in one of the most satisfying suspense films! Computer expert...
Rick and Morty: Pocket Mortys
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Join Ricks throughout the multi-verse as they get swept up in the latest intergalactic craze: Morty...
I recently decided to give it a re-read (in 2020). What is now clear(er) to me than to the just-becoming-a-teenager I was on my first read is just how heavily indebted this is to JRR Tolkien, and just how much it reads like someone-decided-to-play-a-game-of-D&D-and-write-down-what-their-characters-did.
That latter probably shouldn't come as a surprise, given that one of the authors of this actually helped design that game.
Here, in the first of the 'core' Dragonlance novels, we have your standard archetypes: Halfling (Kender), Warrior, Knight, Elf, Half-Elf, Wizard, Barbarian all going off on what becomes various quests that (surprise surprise!) involve delving in dungeons and various sundry other enclosed spaces ...
I'll probably re-read the sequels, just because.
The Way of the Shaman: Book #1 Survival Quest
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Barliona. A virtual world jam-packed with monsters, battles - and predictably, players. Millions of...
LITRPG Way of the shaman Mahan
Castle Crush: Epic Strategy
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Duel players from all around the world in the best real time game! Collect and upgrade 40+ troops...
The Furthest Station (Peter Grant, #5.5)
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There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little...