Back in 2004 I wrote Epic, which was a proto-LitRPG book in that the characters were in an RPG game world and had to strategise with the game system to defeat their opponents. But I didn't drill into the stats the way we would today.
Back then, too, audio was not significant and although I sold the rights to Epic to O'Brien Press in Ireland and Penguin i…
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