Books by Travis
This is exciting! I got to DM (dungeon master) for a book! Check it out!
Death Has Joined the Party
(Mana Runners, Book 1)
Tavin Sorrel is stuck with a lich in his head, powers he can barely use, and he just lied his way onto Mana Runners - the world's deadliest spectacle that pits heroes against the hordes of the Endless Dungeon live on air all in the name of ratings.
Set in a world where magic has advanced to the information age and levels are a thing you can list on your resume, Mana Runners features an underdog protagonist shoved into the brutal life of celebrity dungeon crawling with the fate of the Material Plane resting on his shoulders.
DEATH HAS JOINED THE PARTY is a LitRPG novel based on the SRD 5.1 - a public ruleset for the world's most popular tabletop roleplaying game.
Available on eBook, Kindle Unlimited, and (soon) Audiobook.
Forever Fantasy Online (Completed Series)
FFO is a gritty dark-fantasy series that features gamers stuck in a real-world version of their game. The series is primarily gamerlit and portal fantasy (a cousin to isekai) with epic-scale battles. It’s muddy, it’s bloody, and it’s beer…y?… Ok, there’s not actually that much beer because people are too busy trying not to die.
Forever Fantasy Online
Book 1 of 3
Could you survive?
In the real world, twenty-one-year-old library sciences student Tina Anderson is invisible and under-appreciated, but in the VR-game Forever Fantasy Online she's Roxxy—the respected leader and main tank of a top-tier raiding guild. In the real world, her brother James Anderson is a college drop-out struggling under debt, but in FFO he's famous—an explorer who’s gotten every achievement, done every quest, and collected all the rarest items.
Both Tina and James need the game more than they'd like to admit, but their favorite escape turns into a trap when FFO becomes a living world. Wounds are no longer virtual, stupid monsters become cunning, NPCs start acting like actual people, and death might be forever.
In the real world, everyone said being good at video games was a waste of time. Now, stranded and separated across thousands of miles of new, deadly terrain, Tina and James’s skill at FFO is the only thing keeping them alive. It’s going to take every bit of their expertise—and hoarded loot—to find each other and get back home, but as the stakes get higher and the damage adds up, being the best in the game may no longer be enough.
Available in eBook, audio, print, or read it for free on Kindle Unlimited.
"Forever Fantasy Online is one of my first LitRPG novels, but thanks to the powerhouse couple of Rachel Aaron and Travis Bach, it will not be my last... if you are looking for a riveting and fast-paced read that also has a good dose of geek humour to boot, I recommend picking this title up." --TS at Booknest.eu
Last Bastion
Book 2 of 3
Bastion was supposed to mean safety. It was supposed to mean a break from fighting for their lives and a chance to talk to someone who might actually know what’s going on. Access to their gold and some beer would have been nice, too.
They got none of those things. When Tina and James arrive in the capital, they find a city on fire in more ways than one. Players and non-players hunt each other in the streets, while the king who controls the city’s all-powerful artifact cowers from the chaos in his castle. Desperate to warn somebody about the Once King’s coming invasion, James wants to try to talk to the king anyway, while Tina just wants to meet the royal portal keepers who might be able to send them home.
It shouldn’t be hard to get an army of the world’s best-geared players through one city, but when they discover that the captain of the Royal Knights has been massacring low-level players in revenge disguised as justice, James and Tina will have to decide what is more important: the lives of their fellow gamers, or the stability of this world’s last great city. Both choices deserve a champion, but with the Once King’s armies closing in, taking the wrong side may doom everyone to an eternity as slaves to the Ghostfire.
Available in eBook, audio, print, or read it for free on Kindle Unlimited.
The Once King
(Book 3 of 3)
Leylia’s secret could unite them all or lead them to an eternity of undeath.
After the loss of Bastion, everyone who’s not a zombie has holed up in FFO’s sole remaining safe haven: the lowbie town of Windy Lake. But the undead armies never rest, and it’s only a matter of time before the Once King’s forces come to crush what’s left of life in this world.
But Tina, James, and the rest of the players are facing a crisis of their own. After so long in this world, their human bodies are dying on the other side. If they don’t find a way home soon, they may have nothing to go back to.
With time running out in two worlds, Tina and James face a horrible choice: do they spend their final days looking for a way to get back to their old bodies, or join the NPCs to fight for their new ones. But just when things look impossible, James learns a secret that might change everything. Only one catch: to pull it off, they’re going to have to fight one raid boss no one, not even Tina, has ever beaten.
The Once King.
Available in eBook, Kindle Unlimited, print, and audio.