It is 2037 and James, aged 24, is playing an online RPG with his friends. A LitRPG saga The Land: Founding: A LitRPG Saga (Chaos Seeds Book 1) By concentrating here on the events of the start of each book, there is plenty still to discover for each of them. It’s surprising how addictive can be and in the case of books, shows that traditional notions of plot and character are not all there are to understanding the enjoyment of a good read.Ī summary outline of the Aleron Kong The Land books follows, which inevitably contain a certain amount of spoilers. To some extent the books tapped into the same enjoyment that gamers have when watching videos and streams of other people playing and commentating on their game.

Rather than being put off by such interruptions to the story, readers found it fascinating to see the framework of the fantasy world that the main character, Richter, found himself in and enjoyed his exploitation of the various rules of the game to achieve success. But at the time The Land: Founding was published, this was still relatively new in the English language (Russian authors had been practicing this style of writing from 2012). Nowadays LitRPG is an established genre with readers used to tables and gaming commands made visible (you can read our list of the best LitRPG here). Aleron Kong took the relatively daring step of placing a lot of RPG information into the narrative flow of the book. The first book in The Land series by Aleron Kong was published in 2015 and it popularised a new genre: LitRPG.

In fact, you can put the experience needed to progress as a character in The Land in a table:Īnd so on, with levels 2-10 requiring an extra 1,000 Experience Points to level compared to the previous goal, 11-20 needing 2,000 more per previous goal, 21-30, 4,000 more per previous goal and 31-40, 8,000 more. In the universe of the Chaos Seeds, it is a law that 1,000 experience points are needed to move from Level One to Level Two, another two thousand to reach Level Three, another three thousand to reach Level Four, etc. Just like in playing an RPG game, in Aleron Kong’s The Land, characters can gain levels according to how much experience they earn.

Imagine a realm where as well as the law of gravity, there are Experience Points, which you learn from completing tasks, quest and – above all – from defeating your opponents. The Land is a fantasy world, whose laws are those we are familiar with from RPG games. There are currently eight books in the popular LitRPG series and although the series seems to be on a hiatus after book 8, the story is ongoing and there is scope for many more books. Fans of The Land enjoy the fact that the author, Aleron Kong, combines humour with very detailed RPG mechanics. Aleron Kong is the bestselling LitRPG author, with his Chaos Seeds series – also known as The Land – having sold over 1m copies.

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