Welcome to The Dreamlands - Hardcover

by A. C. Echo (Author), R. C. Croft (Author)

For Judd Shaw, a medically retired Army Ranger, a quiet life managing his schizophrenia is all he wants. His only anchor is Boris, his fiercely loyal Bull Terrier. When he and his friends get an exclusive invite to beta test a revolutionary new AI-driven virtual tabletop game, it seems like the perfect, safe way to spend a night in.

But the moment they click "play," they aren't just logging in. They're physically abducted.

Now trapped in a brutal fantasy world where death is permanent, Judd must fight for his life while his own mind becomes the most dangerous enemy. But he's not alone. Boris was pulled in too and has been transformed into the party's holy warrior tank. Together, they must survive a game designed to break them and uncover the sanity-bending truth behind their capture.

What if the next big Virtual Tabletop RPG wasn't virtual?

Welcome to The Dreamlands is a LitRPG Thriller where a hardcore, full-immersion game slowly unravels into a sanity-draining nightmare. The System is a lie, its tooltips glitch with impossible, cryptic warnings, and every level up comes at a cost. It's a dungeon crawl where the ultimate boss isn't a dragon. It's your own crumbling sanity.