Reddit reviews Schooled in Magic

A couple of Meta posts: List of good fantasy hfy stories and Request for 'thrown into fantasy' subgenre and Fantasy is welcome, but where is it?

ones listed therein:

• A World Away from Yesterday - no magic, but the main character finds himself transported to another world inhabited by a relatively medieval species. It's ongoing at the moment with much more to come but what's there so far should tide you over for a bit.
  
• The Bathroom Adventures - not at all serious
  
• Burning/Building of Ashenvale - Novel length.
  
• A Heros War - Morey is summoned to a fantasy world under siege by the forces of darkness, called a Hero by the natives. Unknown to them, they got two 'Heroes' for the price of one. Dumped into a strange and dangerous fantasy world, Cato struggles to find out what happened to him and where he is. And perhaps there are advantages to not being a Hero. And perhaps not all the legends are true...
  
• JaketheSnakeBakeCake's Guide to Promt Jumping - Novel length. (also check out his Snake Report story, a bit different but still well received)
  
• Harry Potter and the Nat 20 - Milo, a genre-savvy D&D Wizard and Adventurer Extraordinaire is forced to attend Hogwarts, and soon finds himself plunged into a new adventure of magic, mad old Wizards, metagaming, misunderstandings, and munchkinry. Novel length
  
• the webcomic Erfworld
  
• Blessed are the Simple - basically Zero no Tsukima if Master Chief was the one summoned. Novel length.
  
• Blessed are the Simple: Lords of the Red Star - a spinoff set in the same universe written by a different author... possibly discontinued
  
• Release that Witch - An engineer takes over the body of a worthless prince and tries to introduce industrialization. Novel length.
  
• Stranded in Fantasy copied over 4Chan story. Novel length.
  
• I love this story - A man gets thrown into an alternate world after what was supposed to a harrowing escape from death. Follow him as he uses his knowledge from his previous life of research to adapt and survive in a place that is void of human contact, only to find out later how absurdly ridiculous his abilities are. Journey alongside this man as he attempts to change the new world for a better place, to turn it into one that he loves. Novel length.
  
  
• Spellslinger Series by RegalLegalEagle - he's not stranded in fantasy, but aside from that it's a lot like OTHNGW
  
  Published books, try: (Lol, all of these are "Novel Length")
  
  
• Schooled in Magic - this has a remarkably similar feel, but is less HFY more general fantasy (all the major characters are human)
  
• The Warslayer - think "Galaxy Quest goes fantasy"
  
• Centaur of the Crime - a crime scene analyst is kidnapped to solve a fantasy world murder
  
• 1632 - not into a fantasy world (or necessarily HFY) but a modern Appalachian town is suddenly transported to Germany, the year 1632AD
  
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Harry Potter fanfic, where he applies the scientific method to magic (complete with the occasional explosion...) (not necessarily HFY, but...) - Personally recommended by the author of OTHNGW
  
• Critical Failures - D&D group gets magicked into their game
  
• Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
  
• Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions
  
• Dresden Files - It mostly deals with the supernatural, humans are generally seen as a prey species, but most of the denizens are secretly afraid of humanity.
  
• The Wiz Biz - a programmer gets summoned into a fantasy realm.
  
• Nightlord: Sunset starts off with this premise, although the main character got turned into a vampire before getting stranded in fantasy, so it's not necessarily HFY... still a fun read though
  
• The Soprano Sorceress also not necessarily HFY, still fun. A down on her luck singer gets transported to a world where music is magic, and tries to bring the world at least a little bit into the modern age
  
  More general fantasy:
  
  
• The Forest - now actually a published work, but still up for your enjoyment. Novel length.
  
• The Demon Hunter Series (as well as several of this author's other works) probably *Novel length** by now.
  
• My Name isn't Bon Bon Series - finished, if you like atmosphere more than any idea of what's going on - FINISHED
  
• Orcish Blood Series - closer to standard fare for fantasy
  
• Empire Series
  
• The Hero Series
  
• The Gardener - One shot.
  
• Mage - One shot.
  
• The Curious creature One shot.
  
• On the nature of warfare - One shot.
  
• survivor wanderers and Wanderers ashes - There's a host of others, but /u/Meatfcker writes tasty things.
  
• /u/Radius55 did a 'what happens when fantasy bad guys meets modern humanity'- you can find it in his history.
  
• /u/Haenir has some several such things.
  
• No Magic Required - One shot.
  
• Our Lack hereof - One shot.
  
• WP: Alien Battles and the series 501st Mind Games that came from it
  
• Steve Irwin's Fantasy Adventure - One shot.
  
• Bloodrunners Series - a guy who was a delivery man for the underworld which consisted of goblins, vampires and other creatures.
  
• Who the Hell are You - (sort of the fantasy equivalent of the Veil of Madness). Humans are "magic sinks" and thus are able to live in the dangerously magically charged forest at the edge of elf civilization. The current elf government has been going all Third Reich on non-elves and non-high-elves for a while now. The humans know this and proceed with caution, before getting Allies and setting up beachheads. ^(sorry, I'll stop with the WW2 references now) :) we're also the only ones who invented dogs, and dey scary man.
  
• Steel and Sarcasm - a long buried human space ship is unburied, and the resident AI/kickass power suit personality adopts the human who found her and they proceed to fuck things up. (Her long time alone has led to some... interesting personality quirks, thus the "Sarcasm")
  
• Swords of Te'ra was fun.
  
• Red Blood Series - Every other species in the galaxy lives in a perpetual high fantasy state due to magic being the handwavium of the setting. Humans, by contrast are non-magical, but are so inherently toxic to magical systems (due to the iron content of their blood and equipment) that the very ground dies where they walks, and our blood is basically xenomorph blood. Sci-fi humans meets high fantasy everything else.
  
• All Sapiens Go To Heaven Series - a human wakes up in Hell and is dissatisfied with the service

The Schooled in Magic series by Christopher G. Nuttall and The White Mage series by Derek Perkins are both in that style and are good.

Schooled in Magic by Christopher Nuttall starts out a little YA but is very well written and takes a mature approach to describing a world where rape, murder and pillage is basically a given. I kinda think of the series as a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, except the protagonist is a young woman from an abusive home who ends up in a much less politically correct version of Hogwarts. Also there are 15 books in the series, so if you like it you'll be set for weeks.

christopher nuttall

https://www.amazon.com/Schooled-Magic-Christopher-Nuttall-ebook/dp/B00INFP20W

I love this type of stuff too so I have some suggestions for you!(Read the real descriptions for the books, these are just quick ones I put together.)

[Books]

Fimblwinter
This is about a man who, when down on his luck, made a deal with a goddess to protect her last follower in another world.

Schooled in Magic
This is a story about a girl who was abducted from her world because she was a Child of Destiny...problem is her mother is named Destiny, is it a fluke?

Portals of Infinity: Book One: Champion for Hire
One day William walked through a portal in the woods into an entirely different world and after staying a while decides that this world might be better for him.

[Manga]

Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari
One day our protagonist Naofumi is browsing a bookstore and finds a book that sucks him into another world as a hero! The thing is though, everyone looks down on him because he is the Hero of the Shield which people think of as weak.(Only 7 Chapters so far)

[Light Novel/Web Novel]

Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou
A class of highschoolers are transported to another world and become Heros, among them is Hajime, our protagonist, who received an artisan class and mediocre stats. This is his story of fighting through hardships and persevering.

Mushoku Tensei
A 34-year-old NEET otaku was chased out from his house by his family. This virgin, plump, unattractive, and penniless nice guy found that his life was heading towards a dead end. He recalled that his life could actually become much better if he can get over the dark history of his life.
Just when he was at the point of regret, he saw a truck moving at a high speed with 3 high school students in its path. Mustering all his strength, he saves them but ended up getting run over by the truck, which kills him.
The next time he opens his eyes, he had reincarnated to a world of swords and magic, as Rudeus Greyrat. Born to a new world and a new life, Rudeus declared, "This time, I'll really live my life to the fullest with no regrets!" Thus begins the journey of a newly made man

Log Horizon
Just read the description on the site. It has the basic premise of SAO, but it is very different than SAO.(Has an anime also)

These are the only one I can think of at the moment.

Edit: formatting

I personally love worldbuilding in stories, probably to the same extent you do. Someone wrote below that they don't want to read a D&D guide, I DO want to read a D&D guide. We probably are in a minority, but there are a few ways I've seen authors cover for the fact that their stories are very heavy on world exposition:

1. Young characters learning about the world, or characters in school. The character can be learning things at the same time you are teaching the reader. Harry potter takes this format.
   
2. Portal fantasy. A person is transported to another world. Its a justification for why they know absolutely nothing about that world, and anytime they learn new things its an opportunity for the author to go on some exposition. The schooled in magic series did this a lot.
   
3. Do it shamelessly, but spread it out and try to always keep it really interesting. I've enjoyed all of the books in the Spellmonger series because it dumps exposition everywhere, but its also why I rarely recommend the books because I know I'm kinda weird for how much I like exposition.
   
4. Appendices, and separate areas where you keep the majority of your exposition. Just keeping most of the background separate from the story but available to curious readers can also work. Most famously, Lord of the Rings did this.
   
   My advice as a wanna-be author (a few unfinished stories) is to just do something that you feel good and comfortable doing, but just make sure you have some good editors that can understand what you are trying to do. Amazon self publishing is a thing, and there are a bunch of websites where you can also share your stories. There are way more readers than authors out there