Worth the Candle

Joon finds himself in a fantasy world that mirrors his childhood worldbuilding and D&D campaigns with alarming precision. As he adventures through familiar yet wrong landscapes, darker truths emerge about the nature of his reality and his relationship to the world's creator. Alexander Wales' Worth the Candle is an ambitious, meta-layered LitRPG exploring grief, wish fulfillment, and authorial control within nested narratives. One of the most intellectually ambitious works in the genre.