By Kai Hsu
Genres: LitRPG, Fantasy, Adventure
Age Range: 15 - 24twa
Summary: “No killing Goblins.”
So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.
It’s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn’t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.
In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn.
She’s an [Innkeeper].
As an incredibly creative (and long) LitRPG web serial, The Wandering Inn takes the standard video game trope and flips it on its end. The main specialization that The Wandering Inn has is its clever and creative storytelling, which is a very special factor of this web serial. A pitfall that many books of the LitRPG genre fall into is the shift to boring and repetitive grinding for levels. Oftentimes, this kind of shift leaves the novel uninteresting. However, this web serial avoids the trap with its blended use of both the video game mechanics and the plot of the story. The story is told from multiple main characters, each character’s storyline intersecting with each other’s at certain points, but never combining completely. Sometimes, the main narrators never fully meet, but they’ll both be close friends to a certain side character who knows both of them. It’s actually completely reasonable to think about a story this way though. Realistically, characters with a special trait won’t always meet another in whatever vast world they live in. Besides the storytelling, The Wandering Inn is best known for its amazing and incredibly vast worldbuilding. I’ve mentioned this before, but the story told from all the main narrators intersect and connect in some ways, and a main benefit of those intersections is that it helps fully realize the worldbuilding that Pirateaba constructed. The world is incredibly vast, and sometimes it just really puts into perspective how small the main characters are relative to the world they live in.
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