FWIW, I'm a writer, and I hate time travel stories pretty much universally. When I like them, it's in spite of the time travel, not because of it.
This story... was a little too amused by its own title and ended up with the main plot being overshadowed by the setting flavor. (Which is a lot like many RPGs I've owned, whenever they tried to feature metaplot, so I guess that's kind of apropos.) I, like many other commenters, would rather have read a story about Stout-of-Heart instead of this story, which is both good and bad for the author. That's the risk of putting cool setting details in, I suppose.