The Mayor of Noobtown
Jim Hill is a sarcastic American on his way home from work when he sneezes himself into another world. He arrives in a high-fantasy realm with monsters, magic, and a Hero already several centuries into a quest he has no interest in joining. What he does have is a system that levels him up like a video game character, an unwanted role as the new mayor of a tiny goblin-infested town called Noobtown, and a cast of NPCs who treat him like the most useless special-class adventurer they have ever met. Working backward from a few hard-won spells and a knack for trades nobody else wants, Jim sets about turning Noobtown into a place his neighbors might survive. Ryan Rimmel's debut, originally serialized to a devoted online audience, is a comic LitRPG novel that pokes fun at the genre's chosen-one conventions while building a world Jim and his readers can keep returning to.
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After a strange death on Earth, Iraq veteran Jim wakes as a low-level Wood Elf rogue named Jiminy in the small frontier village of Bridgetown. With a creator-god patron who speaks through floating prompts, he sets about clearing dungeons, recruiting villagers, and being voted in as the local mayor.
Yes. The Mayor of Noobtown is a popular litRPG and progression fantasy series with stat sheets, leveling, and game-mechanic worldbuilding. It started as a self-published series and gained an audience on Audible.
Ryan Rimmel has published more than seven Noobtown books, plus connected novellas. The series continues.
The Mayor of Noobtown was written by Ryan Rimmel.
The Mayor of Noobtown is a standalone novel by Ryan Rimmel, not part of a series.
The Mayor of Noobtown is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.