Last updated on May 7, 2026
Not all fantasy worlds live only in our imaginations.
32-year old Tar feels like a Non-Player Character in their own life. They’ve been utterly sidelined by their anxiety and they spend all their spare time playing video games. Then they get invited to play Kin, a tabletop role-playing game their friend swears will change their life. And it does, but not in the way Tar expects. Friendship, it turns out, is even better than escapism.
But what none of them knew was that it would change their life a second time. Because the world of Kin is real. And the whole party soon discovers that changing your setting doesn’t change you.
Non-Player Character is a cosy, queer portal fantasy for adults featuring a non-binary autistic protagonist and their found family of fantasy-loving nerds.
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CW: Non-Player Character is a very gentle book, but it does contain mild fantasy threat and mild violence. Strong language. Brief, non-graphic allusion to past self-harm. Brief allusion to past acephobia. Spiders in a non-horror context.
This book does not contain any AI generated content.