Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World: Volume 6

Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World Light Novel #6

by Schuld, Lansane (Illustrator), Mikey N. (Translator)

After a grueling stint navigating the meteoric rise of Agrippina von Ubiorum as her right-hand-man, Erich is finally freed from his indentured servitude. Though his farewells with Elisa, Mika, and Cecilia cling to his heart, he steels himself to put the capital behind him and set off on his journey—but what sort of misadventures await him on the way home?! Let the folding screen rise on a rough and scrappy sixth campaign!

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy, Harem

359 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 25, 2022

Reviews

[poet · Rating 5 out of 5]

How rare it is for me to dislike an over muscled dumbass but it's nice to see Erich show his actual mental age a little as a contrast to normal exploits.

[Daniel Washington · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this series

I havent been as taken with a light novel series as this since reading Ascendance of a bookworm.

Its masterful. True to a diehard trpg fan's core. The world building is superb. One of my favorite things about this series is the alternate reality epilogues that flesh out the consequences of a decision the MC could have made throughout the story. It's been a fun game trying to guess which of the choices he is presented with will be expounded upon at the end of the volume.

The language in this book vacillates between antiquated language and modern language skillfully.

Im enraptured. Ive had to look up definitions for certain words throughout the entire series. Its enriching in more ways than one.

I am genuinely frustrated when I have to wait for the next volume.

I love the isekai genre, and this series encompasses every reason why.

[slugbiscuit · Rating 5 out of 5]

In volume 6, Erich has come of age and it’s now time to take his leave of Berylin. To keep his promise and start their adventure, he needs to return to Konigstuhl and pick up Margit; so essentially this volume is the reverse of volume 2. It chronicles his journey home and the incidental misadventures along the way. I liked his new traveling companion and found their interactions to be amusing. Honestly, I was more excited to return to this series than I thought I would be, and now I’m looking forward to the next volume.

[Darren · Rating 4 out of 5]

ಠ_ಠ
what did I just read

[Pieter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Erich is finally on his way home to reunite with his childhood friend and fulfil his life long dream of becoming an adventurer (regardless of whether or not he has had many adventurers before Erich is a bit caught up in the idea of the traditional RPGs). The trip is not nearly as easy as he hoped, not in the least with the temporary addition of Dietrich the centaur girl to his group things.

While I certainly enjoyed the book, again due to solid character depth and development and superb worldbuilding*, it was not as good to me as earlier volumes. It lacked the focus in earlier parts with several unrelated events on the road, and some of those events felt a bit over the top. The prose was as normal a tad flowery at times, but that is to be expected by now.

Still, it was a good read and now I am curious about those dice that were provided with the pre-order of the Japanese version of the light novel...

* The exception might be travel times. They feel overly long. I took a look at travel times in the RL Roman Empire, which in regards to organization and technology feels about the same to the series' empire, and that was a lot shorter. Granted, Romans were known for their roadbuilding, but the Empire is very centrally organized and has magic.

[Adam · Rating 3 out of 5]

(Rating the Japanese edition because the English edition from J-novel club hasn't been put into goodreads yet. The actual version I read was the serialized version available to members on j-novel.club). Still a fantastic series, but this book wasn't quite as good as the last mostly because the content felt somewhat filler-y.