"Thrice heard and witnessed!" Chaos Seeds is my first LitRPG book. To be honest, I didn't even know such a genre existed until I started reading this one. Though, with majority of the enthusiastic gaming types probably not being that interested in reading, it's hard to imagine there being a large audience belonging to this genre. But boy am I'm glad to be in that group! Never for once I had thought those long hours I put into Skyrim, NWN, and Witcher would make reading a book this much enjoyable. "Excuses are monuments of nothing that build bridges to nowhere." Though LitRPG is new to me, it seems that the genre is well understood among many readers. So, I think there is little requirement of explaining what the overall idea behind a book like this is: The protagonist levels up in the fantasy world, while learning different skills, establishing relationships and developing his Kingdom with the assistant of a group of companions. The main character here, Richter, (so far or for now) appears to be growing along a stealthy archer/ light armor path, which also happens to be one of my favorites in RPGs. There's an awesome group of supporting characters led by Sion, whose humor complements Richter's journey quite nicely. And the detailed base building is the icing on cake! The author is off to an excellent start here with this first book. "Quests to be completed. Enemies to be stopped. People to be rescued. Items to be identified, and weapons to forged." However, I believe, how much you get to enjoy this book most likely depends on your background in different RPG games for a couple of reasons. First, the world building, character development and the writing itself are nothing special compared to most fantasy series. You're not going to be blown away by prose or anything like that here. Secondly, if you haven't tried or heard of an RPG game before, I don't think the statistical nature of this story would give a pleasurable reading experience. I mean, for me, it felt great coming across the identical, yet ever growing statistics page of Ritcher many times but I'm sure it would not be the case for most non-gamers. Although, I guess it'd be interesting to know the feedback from non-gamers on this book. "Tomorrow, we hunt goblins!"