History Literature / SmallMedium

# ''At Large'' -- Chase travels to Arettzi, country of crafts, and gets hired to stop a plague of werewolves.

# ''Big Trouble'' -- Chase looks for adventure, and finds it, with a necromancer threatening Bothernot and the discovery of a prison near the town that contains Playas.

* TarotMotifs: Chase inherits a Fortuna deck from her grandmother, which synergizes with her Oracle powers. Trump cards include The Noob (an analog to The Fool) and The Griefer. Evidently, suits are different too, since cards like the Page of Warriors are drawn (complete with a lampshade comment that they were wondering if the deck had any Minor Arcana in it), corresponding to the main RPG classes of Warriors, Clerics, Wizards, and Rogues. According to Speranza, a Playa who dabbled with Tarot cards before, there are three extra major arcana that don't map to Tarot cards: The Lag, The Elemental, and The Dragon.

* {{Hobbits}}: Halven are essentially Hobbits. They are short, constantly eating, naturally low in Perception, but carrying a bonus in Fate, and naturally good at throwing things.

The ''Small Medium'' series is a trilogy of [=LitRpg=] books by Creator/AndrewSeiple, set in the same ''Generica Online'' setting as his ''Literature/{{Threadbare}}'' trilogy, where a few decades ago, the world transitioned to {{MMORPG}} mechanics where statistics and skills are visible and able to be improved by discovery and repetition.

* ForeignCussWord: The necromancer is named [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vaffanculo Vaffanculo]]. While this may fly over the head of some readers, in-universe, this is noted as an obscenity (with Chase not realizing [[spoiler:Thomasi was calling out to his party member]], not cursing). In-universe, this is justified because [[spoiler:Vaffanculo is a "Playa" and probably chose the profane, but reasonably "fantasy-sounding" name as a joke]].

* InsideAComputerSystem: Perhaps. The "Playas" were jacked into a virtual reality interface for the MMORPG of ''Generica Online'', and then one day, they realized they could no longer log out. It's ambiguous whether the game tapped into a pre-existing world, which the game no longer connects to, or if artificial intelligences seized control of the game. Also, one of the players muses that it's entirely possible that no one is actually trapped here, but that they are all [=NPCs=] based on their players.

* {{Necromancer}}: Vaffanculo, a Playa who serves as the primary antagonist of the first book as he raises an army of undead to take over Bothernot.
* RealMoneyTrade: Mister Yubai, in the third book, is a (somewhat) uplifted gold farmer bot. He knows enough to harvest resources and then to sell them again.

* InsideAComputerSystem: Perhaps. The "Playas" were jacked into a virtual reality interface for the MMORPG of ''Generica Online'', and then one day, they realized they could no longer log out. It's ambiguous whether the game tapped into a pre-existing world, which the game no longer connects to, or if artificial intelligences seized control of the game. Also, one of the players muses that it's entirely possible that no one is actually trapped here, but that they are all NPCs based on their players.

* InsideAComputerSystem: Perhaps. The "Playas" were jacked into a virtual reality interface for the MMORPG of ''Generica Online'', and then one day, they realized they could no longer log out. It's ambiguous whether the game trapped into a pre-existing world, which the game no longer connects to, or if artificial intelligences seized control of the game.

* TarotMotifs: Chase inherits a Fortuna deck from her grandmother, which synergizes with her Oracle powers. Trump cards include The Noob (an analog to The Fool) and The Griefer. Evidently, suits are different too, since cards like the Page of Warriors are drawn (complete with a lampshade comment that they were wondering if the deck had any Minor Arcana in it), corresponding to the main RPG classes of Warriors, Clerics, Wizards, and Rogues.

# ''Big Trouble''
# ''At Large''
# ''Well Done''

** Beart beastkin: Yubai is a panda beastkin

* BeastMan: Cagna is a beastkin, specifically a dog-woman. And yes, the Doge Fedalta is also one, specifically a corgi.

* TarotMotifs: Chase inherits a Fortuna deck from her grandmother, which synergizes with her Oracle powers. Trump cards include The Noob (an analog to The Fool) and The Griefer. Evidently, suits are different too, since cards like the Page of Warriors are drawn (complete with a lampshade comment that they were wondering if the deck had any Minor Arcana in it).

* BeastMan: Cagna is a beastkin, specifically a dog-woman.

* BeastMan: Cagna is a dog-woman.

---> '''Next you’ll be finding a sword meant for a prophesey’d hero, and revealing an old birthmark, and then FOOMP, the village will get burnt down and it’ll all be your fault Chase Berrymore."

* ForeignCussWord: The necromancer is named Vaffanculo. While this may fly over the head of some readers, in-universe, this is noted as an obscenity (with Chase not realizing [[spoiler:Thomasi was calling out to his party member]], not cursing. In-universe, this is justified because [[spoiler:Vaffanculo is a "Playa" and probably chose the profane, but reasonably "fantasy-sounding" name as a joke]].

* LevelUpFillUp: Leveling up in a Job refills your Health, Spirit, and Moxie. Some characters exploit this by accepting unlocked jobs mid-combat entirely for the purpose of refilling their levels with easy level gains.

The ''Small Medium'' series is a trilogy of [=LitRpg=] books by AndrewSeiple, set in the same ''Generica Online'' setting as his ''Literature/{{Threadbare}}'' trilogy, where a few decades ago, the world transitioned to {{MMORPG}} mechanics where statistics and skills are visible and able to be improved by discovery and repetition. Chase Barrymore is a Halven, a race that are [[{{Hobbits}} short, stout, and generally preferring to avoid trouble of any kind]]. Chase despairs of the boredom of life in the village, and yearns for excitement, which inevitably finds her again and again as she begins to unravel the mystery of the seemingly immortal Playas, as well as her role as an Oracle to Hoon, good of travel and trade.

The books consist of:

* ''Big Trouble''
* ''At Large''
* ''Well Done''

** discussed in the opening of the first book between Chase and Greta.
--> '''Next you’ll be finding a sword meant for a prophesey’d hero, and revealing an old birthmark, and then FOOMP, the village will get burnt down and it’ll all be your fault Chase Berrymore."

* {{Hobbits}}: Halven are essentially Hobbits. Short, constantly eating, naturally low in Perception, but carrying a bonus in Fate, and naturally good at throwing things.

** [[spoiler:They're actually trapped in the world of Generica Online now, and they have a limited number of respawns, after which they suffer in the simulated hell of a chatroom filled with sensorarily deprived players begging for a respawn]].
** In the third book, we learn why one of the antagonists hates Playas so much. [[spoiler:Her father was a player, and when his real-life wife objected, he killed and destroyed much of his virtual possessions as a symbolic sign of his commitment to the real world, including the antagonist's mother]].

** [[spoiler:They're actually trapped in the world of Genérica Online now, and they have a limited number of respawns, after which they suffer in the simulated hell of a chatroom filled with sensorarily deprived players begging for a respawn]].

** [[spoiler:Bothernot survives the first book, but it's a close thing, and in later books, she encounters members of the town which been displaced as more trouble finds it.