ABANDONED. Lirpg (literary role playing game) book that starts with the main character on death row. Spoiler ahead.

[Liam]

The book opens with the main character on death row for a crime of blowing up a police station.

Spoiler:
His brother did it.

After he is executed he wakes up to a dark entity giving him a second chance at life in a world that is like a video. However all the gods of the universes decide the fate of the universes with this game. So each god has their own team of players.

[Kris]

Liam, around what year did you read this book? A range of years is fine.

I spelled out the acronym and added a spoiler alert to the header.

[Liam]

Read around 2016 to 2018

[Peter]

Sounds like Hero of Thera by Eric Nylund. There's a sequel now, but I haven't read it yet.

[Kris]

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

Liam (OP) was last active on the site in September 2020.