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Roll For Initiative (Tomb of Malevolent Evil) Paperback – May 3, 2022

by Kevin Mclaughlin (Author), Michael Anderle (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
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Game night will never be the same again for Terry, Jewel, Mandy, and Morgan.

The role-playing gamers thought they were getting together for a gaming session. Now they've been summoned into another reality.

One that looks and feels an awful lot like the games they’re used to playing.

But this is no game, and the Power that brought them here has plunged the players into a life or death battle. They must defeat their enemies and escape the dungeon, or die trying.

When the game becomes all too real, it’s time to roll the dice and play for keeps.

Can they forge a strong enough team to win through the challenges to come? Or will the Tomb of Malevolent Evil destroy them and doom this new world to darkness?

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    Tomb of Malevolent Evil
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    292 pages
  3. Language
    English
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    May 3, 2022
  5. Dimensions
    5.25 x 0.73 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-13
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09ZCQSCJ4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ LMBPN Publishing (May 3, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8885413046
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.73 x 8 inches
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  1. Michael Anderle

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    Michael Anderle (ok, weird talking about myself in the 3rd person) (1967-Hopefully a long time from NOW) was born in Houston, Tx. A very curious child, he got into trouble - a lot. What to do with an inquisitive mind when he was grounded? Read!

    Ok, done with all of that 3rd person stuff.

    In the first 20 years, I mostly read Science Fiction and Fantasy. In the last 10 years I have enjoyed Urban Fantasy and Military Fiction. With this background, I've been blessed with creating The Kurtherian Gambit series, a well-selling, and fan loved, collection of stories.

    The fans have propelled these stories beyond my wildest imagination and they should get all of the credit for sharing with friends, family and occasionally the random person on the street. They are fantastic!

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    Kevin McLaughlin

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    USA Today bestselling author Kevin McLaughlin has written more than three dozen science fiction and fantasy novels, along with more short stories than he can easily count. Kevin can be found most days in downtown Boston, working on the next novel. His bestselling Blackwell Magic fantasy series, Accord science fiction series, Valhalla Online LitRPG series, and the fan-favorite Starship Satori series are ongoing.

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J Krug
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun book and great characters
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2023
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This was a fun book and I really enjoyed the characters. There was a lot of action, magic, adventure, and fun. It will be interesting to see how they react in the new character setup from the end of this story. I enjoyed this book and recommend it.
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Rotten Roger
4.0 out of 5 stars Failed Picked Pockets but passed the Stealth check. Fun and bring the popcorn.
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2022
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This steals from Norton's Quag Keep, and Rosenberg's Guardians of the Flame series as D&Ders are pulled into a D&D world. The authors get a pass for stealing from 5E D&D as they steal with permission some of the ideas. The gender swapping and conversions between real world person and fantasy person is occasionally interesting and occasionally boring. But it works.
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Charles Daniel Christopher
5.0 out of 5 stars What if — your game became your life?
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2023
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Role playing gamers casually don new personas to play out scenarios of tactics, challenge, and combat, but what happens if the player becomes their persona? Can they deal with the challenges of living in different bodies and memories of those peoples' lives up to the point where the players' minds assume control? Not to mention, changing gender for a pair of them.

Read to find out
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GlueFactoryBJJ
3.0 out of 5 stars A D&D-based LitRPG series
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2022
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If you are (or have been) a D&D gamer, and really enjoyed playing it, then you'll probably really like this series. Alas, I never was a fan of D&D. I tried playing with some friends for ~6 months, about 30 years ago, but I just couldn't get into it. I just didn't like D&D.

I like computer games, but not D&D.

Anyway, I didn't care much for this book for the same reasons I didn't like playing D&D. If you didn't, then you probably won't either.

As an aside, whether intentional or not, there is a "side story" that seems to relate to being "trans'. Again, I don't know if it is intentional, but there are characters who "get their gender mixed up". And the authors (inadvertently?) highlight the confusion some of the players feel when in a body that doesn't match their own sense of self. It is confusing for them and, I would imagine also for many readers.

While I have always been empathetic/sympathetic toward those in the LGBTQIA+ community, it helped open my eyes to a couple issues I hadn't thought about before, at least not deeply.

Regardless, if you like D&D, then I think you'll like this series, I didn't and won't be continuing with this series.

I give it a conditional recommendation (for D&D fans).
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Kenneth T
5.0 out of 5 stars If you enjoy D&D...
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2022
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... then you will probably enjoy this.
To be perfectly honest (is there any other kind?) I never cared for D&D.
The closest I got was the World of Zork.
I saw this book during another search and it intrigued me enough to buy it without even reading a sample.
I enjoyed the book and believe you will too.
ps I've already purchased the next two books in the series. So I'll get started reading now.
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Julie Y
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun D&D
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2022
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I always enjoyed D&D and this book shows that it could be fun to wake up in a roll playing game as a different person with cool skills. I liked the fighting and how it brought the characters closer and very much enjoyed the twist at the end. I am looking forward to the next book to see what other trouble they can get into.
4 people found this helpful
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Bard,Warrior,Cleric and a Sorceress walk in to a bar.
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2022
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Very cool. Nice interaction with each character. Warrior learning not to rage all the time. Everyone learning their roles. Can't wait for the next book.
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Health Nut
1.0 out of 5 stars Too confusing
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2022
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Constant mental flipping between reality, game-reality, and character personification. Seems like a great plot, with well fleshed out characters early on, but once they stepped into the game world it was confusing and eventually tedious to keep track of who was whom. The characters were layered too much. It was like, "that's george, but he's bob, but he's actually mary." Too many mental calisthenics for me.
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Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars A fun little adventure
Reviewed in Canada on May 26, 2022
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I found I rather enjoyed this, I even wished I was there with them. It sounds like it would be a great time. I would really like to explore one of these worlds, from within rather than from behind the keyboard. I never found people to do the pen and paper one for more than 1 or 2 sessions before they got bored.
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Barbara Davies
5.0 out of 5 stars Made a good change
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2022
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This book veered off from the usual immersive (headgear etc) experience. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will get the next book as I need to know what it going on.
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Tony Calder
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun LitRPG story
Reviewed in Australia on July 1, 2023
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LitRPG is a genre that can be hit or miss, but this one is pretty good. For anyone unfamiliar with the genre, LitRPG books have people from our world transported into a game world - inside a video game, or into a role-playing game, or something along those lines.

In this case, a group of gamers are reuniting to start a new D&D campaign, only to find that they are actually inhabiting the bodies of the new characters. Unlike may LitRPG novels, where the world the main characters are transported to uses a non-specific set of game rules, this one is definitely based on the current edition of D&D.

The characters are all fairly generic at the start, but there is character development along the way, and more of their back stories are revealed. The adventure the characters find themselves in is also fairly generic, but that can be said about the early stages of a lot of D&D campaigns, and there are signs that this may develop into something a little less generic. There is also a decent amount of humour in the book.

This book doesn't resolve the storyline - there are two others (at this stage) - but it doesn't end on a cliff-hanger, either. At the end of the novel, the story definitely continues, but there is enough closure to allow readers to go on to something else without feeling that they must continue.
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