He doesn't know how he got here, and while the trappings are familiar, he doesn't actually know where he is, either.  From the perspective of those around him, Duromar is a half-ogre barbarian, an uncivilized brute by any standard you care to use.  But from his perspective, he's a character created in a gaming system.  From either one, he must live within the rules of that system. This is the story of a gamer who ends up in a game that's just a bit off from what he knows. ---- I wanted to write something a little bit old-school.  Most of the LitRPG I've found seems to be based on computer RPG styled stories.  Progression through levels is fast, and depending on the game, skills and even attributes can be trained with or without class levels.  This wasn't true with the older pen and paper games, and that's the style of leveling I wanted to write.