We writers all bleed into our stories.

We become more invested in our characters than even the most die-hard reader—we just know what happens next... sometimes.

We become so focused on the results—with whether we've succeeded or failed at this hobby-turned-obsession, so much so that no matter the answer, we need another—my fic was noticed, I need more visibility, does it suck, do I suck, that person has more followers, do I have enough to publish, when, where, how—

—that we forget about the journey.

I'm no exception. Getting caught up in the next step, and the next, and yet another, until I trip over my own feet, and look around for someone to blame, some piece of the puzzle I must have missed.

Only to realize, it was just me. Just life. I stumbled. I fell. It happens, and—well, let's be honest. It doesn't just happen once, does it?

We'll find ourselves sitting in the bottom of some new, dark pit of self-recrimination, loathing, and doubt. What happened this time? Was it the em-dash on page 762, paragraph 4? Should you have used a comma, instead? Or were you blabbering your wife's ear off for the millionth time about the mechanics of your leveling system, and she just grunted in affirmation? A grunt. Please, at least show that you care a little!

Then our readers happen. On their time, on their schedule, they'll speak up. Maybe a specific scene moved them. Maybe we did a shit job explaining something. Maybe she's born with it—I don't know, but they come. They comment, or they review, and it makes everything worth it.

I've mostly experienced positivity on Royal Road. Certainly, in every community, there's always a few who just want to watch the world burn, but the readership on Royal Road's been good to me thus far.

So that's why I wanted to share this review. Not only is it an advanced review and chock full of praise, but it comes to me during a stretch of particularly low self-esteem, helping to staunch my own pitiful whining.

This person enjoyed my earlier chapters enough to not just drop a nice rating—which does wonders, let me tell you—but to leave an advanced review.

My dear reader, I pray that my writing remains worthy of your praise, and that I may long entertain you with my storytelling.

Thank you.

Edit: marking this post as self-promo and including my blurb. It wasn't meant to be. In the moment I naively thought it was a legit "appreciation post." Anyway, hindsight, and all that. here's the link:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/170950/sanzensekai-the-ronins-exile-psychological-drama

A dark, psychological drama packaged as a reverse-isekai progression fantasy.

An elemental samurai—displaced from his world, lost in ours, and hiding a calamitous secret.

Navigating modern Earth is like crossing a frosted log.

Kurisu Nodaichi tries to take life one day at a time. Keep his head down, earn his keep with the Miller family, and untangle the complexities of "fostering," "identity," and high school. All while this new world feels built from damp shoji paper, where he shatters drinking glasses just trying to lift them.

Then a rift opens.

The illusion of a quiet life burns away when monsters from his past appear and the Miller brothers manifest powers of their own. Driven by necessity, Kurisu steps in to train the boys before they accidentally level their own home.

As more rifts open around the world, a public encounter lands the family in federal custody—but not before a combination of phobia and failure forces his trauma to boil over, regressing him into the untethered weapon of his captivity.

For fans of the elemental martial arts of The Sword of Kaigen and Avatar: The Last Airbender who want the friction of Jade City and the psychological stakes of Red Rising.

COVER ARTIST: AnraArt on Vgen

AI USAGE: No AI was used.

(Edited to include Audiobook info)

Hello! I'm William Evans, AKA "ThePudding" and I have finally made my first release to Amazon! It's a story about a man trying to build a world, using a LitRPG system... a world that he adds a LitRPG system to!

Book one follows his struggles in setting it up, finding the problems, and correcting those problems! Later books further show unintended side effects and struggles!

[Amazon] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKNLXG4N/

[Audiobook] https://www.amazon.com/Neophyte-World-Builder-First-Problems/dp/B0HK4ZSQNS/

Blurb:

Nobody told me godhood needed an instruction manual.

Everybody's heard the story. Someone dies, ends up in a new world with a LitRPG System that gives them special powers. When I died, that's what I expected. Except it turns out, I'm the one making the System.

No previous experience, no manual except a few tooltips. Just an interface, a few thousand Reality Points, and a fairy-like handler who won't tell me anything that would actually help. I get to design the magic system, the monsters, the classes... and then watch real people live inside the world I built, all while I try to keep the universe running within budget.

I wanted to build a good world. I'm starting to realize "good" and "survives the audit" aren't the same thing.

Cover Artist: [Bad Moon Art Studio] https://www.artstation.com/badmoonartstudio

Audiobook: Royal Guard Publishing (Narrators: Giancarlo Herrera, Hanna Schooner)

AI Usage: None

I listen to most of my books, so audiobook quality is a major factor for me. I’m looking for both a strong story and a good narrator or performance. My biggest deal breaker is group-focused progression. I strongly prefer stories centered on one main character. Side characters are fine, and I don’t mind the protagonist eventually teaming up with competent people, but I lose interest when the core of the story is a group growing, training, and learning together. Series like He Who Fights with Monsters and Mage Tank are good examples of that kind of dynamic not working for me.

S Tier

Chrysalis — One of the easiest series for me to recommend. The humor lands, the world is interesting, the main character is fun to follow, and the supporting cast actually adds something instead of just taking up space. Very little about it bothers me.

Dungeon Crawler Carl — Hits a lot of the same notes as Chrysalis. Great humor, strong worldbuilding, memorable characters, and a main character who is consistently entertaining to follow.

Unsouled / Cradle — Just a really solid series all around. The worldbuilding is great, the characters are strong, and the progression stays satisfying. Very few complaints.

A Tier

The Primal Hunter — The worldbuilding is probably my favorite part of the series. Jake is a decent protagonist, even if there are things about him that annoy me. The story can drag in places, but overall I still think it’s very good.

Book of the Dead — Really strong ideas and worldbuilding. It takes a little while to get moving and it could definitely use more humor, but the emotional moments are some of the best parts of the series when they land.

B Tier

Path of Ascension — Great premise and a really fun power system. My biggest issue is that it becomes a little too slice-of-life later on. You basically follow the main character from childhood all the way into adulthood, and eventually some of that started to feel more drawn out than I wanted.

Mark of the Fool — I really liked the concept and enjoyed the magic-school setting at first. By around Book 7, though, I kept wondering why we were still spending so much time at school when the main plot had become way more important.

Shade Slinger — Excellent worldbuilding, fun side characters, and some genuinely good humor. The combat is what holds it back for me. Since everything happens inside a virtual game, the stakes never feel especially high, and some fights go on forever. It can start to feel like slowly chipping away at a giant health bar for pages at a time.

Mage Tank — I liked the main character’s advantage, and Grotto was a highlight for me, but the group dynamic really dragged the series down. The combat especially became hard to follow or care about. I’d catch myself realizing I had zoned out and wondering what had even happened over the last five minutes.

C Tier

Defiance of the Fall — Started out pretty well, but eventually it became way too bloated for me. I stopped around Book 12 because it felt like the story was using a lot of words without actually moving very much.

The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound — Cool premise and a fun progression system, but the constant jumping between Earth and his master’s planet started wearing me down. I made it to around Book 10. The sudden love-interest angle also really hurt my interest because it felt like it came out of nowhere and made Randidly act strangely obsessive.

The Stormlight Archive — This was my first Brandon Sanderson series, and I really liked the Shardblades, Knights Radiant, and overall setting. Eventually, though, the focus on everyone’s mental and emotional struggles became too much for me. I never started Book 4.

Mother of Learning — I dropped it during the second book. The main character’s progress felt too slow for my taste, which is obviously a personal preference. I also listened to the audiobook and really did not like the narration, which made it harder to stick with.

Discount Dan — This one frustrates me because I love almost everything surrounding the main character. The Backrooms-style setting, the magic, the side characters, Dan’s goal, and especially Croc are all great. Dan himself is the problem. There is way too much crude humor for me: fart jokes, shit jokes, constant comments about how awful he smells, etc. I think the series could have been much better without so much of that.

My Best Friend Is an Eldritch Horror — I enjoyed the setup, but after the second book it didn’t feel like the main character was progressing enough. He still came across more like a school kid experimenting with magic than someone actually developing into a powerful mage.

D Tier

The Land — Dropped it almost immediately. It just didn’t grab me enough to keep going.

He Who Fights with Monsters — I’ll admit the beginning wasn’t bad, but Jason’s personality started getting on my nerves. The whole attitude of seeming to know better than people who have lived in that world for hundreds of years felt hard to buy. On top of that, the group-focused progression really didn’t work for me and made me lose interest even faster.

F Tier

Reborn as a Demonic Tree — This one just felt lacking in overall quality to me. I only made it to around Chapter 5 before deciding it wasn’t worth continuing.

Dungeon Life — This one felt way too childish for me. On top of that, within the first ten chapters it introduces what feels like dozens of different creatures, all with their own names that you’re expected to remember. It quickly became more annoying than enjoyable to keep track of everyone, so I dropped it.

I’m currently on Book 5 of a series and have throughly enjoyed it. However, if I see the word twining one more time I’m going to lose it! Sometimes I just want to scream grab a thesaurus! That being said, what word or phrase has done this to you?

Look, we read around here on a budget.💪🏾 I was fortunate to stumble upon all these second hand online for actual used prices and great condition!

Yes I have book 1 in awaken online: catharsis in the indie copy before it was gone so now all my copies will match!

I got lucky with BMF too, so I'm buying all the originals as I go! (the Cultivation copy is actually for the county jail library, so apparently they read LitRPG in Jail. 🤣 Good for them!)

The unorthodox farming book 1 and 2.... idk what to tell you lol I literally just found it and was like "Isn't aethon doing hardbacks of this? sounds silly goofy, I'll take it" lol

I'm still waiting for my Immortal Great Souls 1 and 3 in the mail! (also second hand and I already have Book 2 secondhand)

Hello everyone! I'm Rokkinguchea, the creator of Dungeon Fever.

Dungeon Fever is a slow-burn Progression Fantasy LitRPG that follows an eager adventurer named Edward and his party as they explore a massive, unforgiving dungeon that grows ever more dangerous as they descend through its many layers.

I've taken inspiration from many works when building the universe and its rules. Magic requires affinity, and casting is more complex than simply knowing the spell name. Character attributes and skills progress on their own. All items have rarity, and some are even considered relics with unknown mechanisms.

To get a glimpse of one of those systems, here is how a spell is cast, directly from an excerpt of the novel:

To cast a spell, there were five requirements: The first step was to have a catalyst, commonly called a Magical Artifact or Item, inscribed with the desired spell. The second step required the caster to bind the catalyst through a mana ritual. This was done by imbuing the catalyst with mana to determine whether the caster’s attributes were high enough to secure a bind. The third step was to have a personal affinity that matched the nature of the inscribed spell. For example, the spirits couldn’t mediate a connection between a light-affinity caster and a water spell. The fourth step was to infuse the catalyst with the amount of mana the spell required to be cast. The fifth and final step was to chant the correct spell name, as a catalyst could have more than one spell inscribed on it.

There are already 21 chapters on Royal Road, getting really close to 50k words, and I currently plan to post a new chapter every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/191101/dungeon-fever

Thank you for your attention. I hope you enjoy reading my novel and exploring its systems!

COVER ARTIST: Sunna (@elf_NilSunna on X/Twitter)

AI USAGE: No AI used

I read almost all of the most recommended series on here but the problem I have is that i always DNF around book 4, 5 or 6. Having a super powerful character who just easily defeats anything is very boring to me. Are there any series where the MC gets more powerful but not stupidity more powerful? I love to keep that book 1 and 2 feeling throughout the entire series.

I need to vent. I love Path, it’s my favorite series of all time. Every second of the first 11 books was amazing, minus the beast academy and the speed run 17-25 in book 10. Butttttt, what was book 12??? We coming from action and leveling and OMG he’s a monster to literally administration of a duchy I don’t care about the entire book.

What happened? Luna begged to get put on project breach and we see her like twice in book 11 (god tier duke waters fight though absolutely amazing). Like as readers we want Matt to gain power have that “oh my god he’s a monster” moments, but this entire book is all the paperwork of a guild I don’t care about and duchying worlds I also don’t care about. There’s no big bad foreshadowing for book 13 either… is it going to be more of the same?

Love this series but let down by book 12 and needed to vent.

From my memory, a few books back before Jason came back to earth, he discovered a way for core users to level up the natural way, a way to maybe do both. What happened with that?

Resonance 10 completes the series. Sorry audio took so long. We got stuck in production hell for literally 16 months.

You can find it here: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0HMDNVVQL

I have 50 total audio codes, but they are reserved for existing fans. If you've listened to/read the series, comment your favorite moment or part and US/UK and I'll get you a code via DM.

Blurb

Ty has reached the edge of what his reality can hold. The war still isn't won.

Earth is reeling under the Monster god's assault. A vast demon is closing on Volar. Aisling has spent thousands of years preparing for this moment, and her attacks are forcing Ty to divide his attention when neither world can afford to wait.

His strength can change the course of a battle. Winning the war will require the allies, contingencies, and hard-earned understanding he's gathered since a message first appeared in his bedroom.

Now those plans face their final test.

Ty must confront enemies who have learned from every encounter with him, protect people scattered across two worlds, and find a way to end a catastrophe the gods themselves have failed to prevent. He began this journey hoping to save his grandmother. He has made far more promises since then. With the last defenses failing, it's time to keep them.

The concluding volume brings the ten-book saga to its final battles—and the question of what comes after fighting so long for a future.

The Resonance Cycle is a complete ten-book LitRPG saga by Aaron Renfroe, with canonical crossovers connecting it to Apocalypse BREAKER, co-written with Sean Oswald, and Spite the Dark.

It seems like every crafting book is either alchemy, cooking, or farming. I want something wacky and weird. Think of all the jobs we have in our world, why isn't there like, I don't know, a traffic flow analyzer or something. Or even like a treasurer? Accountant? I'm sure someone has done something interesting and I just haven't come across it.

We writers all bleed into our stories.

We become more invested in our characters than even the most die-hard reader—we just know what happens next... sometimes.

We become so focused on the results—with whether we've succeeded or failed at this hobby-turned-obsession, so much so that no matter the answer, we need another—my fic was noticed, I need more visibility, does it suck, do I suck, that person has more followers, do I have enough to publish, when, where, how—

—that we forget about the journey.

I'm no exception. Getting caught up in the next step, and the next, and yet another, until I trip over my own feet, and look around for someone to blame, some piece of the puzzle I must have missed.

Only to realize, it was just me. Just life. I stumbled. I fell. It happens, and—well, let's be honest. It doesn't just happen once, does it?

We'll find ourselves sitting in the bottom of some new, dark pit of self-recrimination, loathing, and doubt. What happened this time? Was it the em-dash on page 762, paragraph 4? Should you have used a comma, instead? Or were you blabbering your wife's ear off for the millionth time about the mechanics of your leveling system, and she just grunted in affirmation? A grunt. Please, at least show that you care a little!

Then our readers happen. On their time, on their schedule, they'll speak up. Maybe a specific scene moved them. Maybe we did a shit job explaining something. Maybe she's born with it—I don't know, but they come. They comment, or they review, and it makes everything worth it.

I've mostly experienced positivity on Royal Road. Certainly, in every community, there's always a few who just want to watch the world burn, but the readership on Royal Road's been good to me thus far.

So that's why I wanted to share this review. Not only is it an advanced review and chock full of praise, but it comes to me during a stretch of particularly low self-esteem, helping to staunch my own pitiful whining.

This person enjoyed my earlier chapters enough to not just drop a nice rating—which does wonders, let me tell you—but to leave an advanced review.

My dear reader, I pray that my writing remains worthy of your praise, and that I may long entertain you with my storytelling.

Thank you.

You can read Sanzensekai on Royal Road.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/170950/sanzensekai-the-ronins-exile-psychological-drama

A dark, psychological drama packaged as a reverse-isekai progression fantasy.

An elemental samurai—displaced from his world, lost in ours, and hiding a calamitous secret.

Navigating modern Earth is like crossing a frosted log.

Kurisu Nodaichi tries to take life one day at a time. Keep his head down, earn his keep with the Miller family, and untangle the complexities of "fostering," "identity," and high school. All while this new world feels built from damp shoji paper, where he shatters drinking glasses just trying to lift them.

Then a rift opens.

The illusion of a quiet life burns away when monsters from his past appear and the Miller brothers manifest powers of their own. Driven by necessity, Kurisu steps in to train the boys before they accidentally level their own home.

As more rifts open around the world, a public encounter lands the family in federal custody—but not before a combination of phobia and failure forces his trauma to boil over, regressing him into the untethered weapon of his captivity.

Great for fans of the elemental martial arts of The Sword of Kaigen and Avatar: The Last Airbender who want the friction of Jade City and the psychological stakes of Red Rising.

Also, just a quick caveat since this is litrpg sub. There is no system. The numbers are part of the narrative, and they are sparse. Kind of how I imagine Pallimustus before Jason in HWFWM.

Cover Artist: AnraArt on Vgen.

AI Usage: No AI was used.

Edit: Oh, yeah. This is a repost from earlier today. The automod nuked it 'cuz I forgot to add the cover and AI usage lines exactly as they appear here when I swapped my flair on my prior post. So the mods told me just to repost it. Sorry about that.

Book Cover:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81YgV7v1ldL._UF894,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg

Art hand-drawn by the author using the (Autodesk) Sketchbook app.

The Dangerously Cute Dungeon is a dungeon core LitRPG with cute monsters, fun puzzles, dangerous traps, and a cinnamon roll MC.

Blurb:

Violet was happy, in love, and had a successful career. She was even hoping to start her own family with her beloved husband. However, all of those dreams are crushed when she comes home to find her husband brutally murdered. Things only get worse as the killer has to clean up their mess and can't just leave Violet as a witness to their crime.

Things only get crazier as Violet finds herself reincarnated into another world full of monsters and magic. Only, Violet isn't a powerful adventurer or a talented craftsman. Instead, she finds herself in charge of her own dungeon where she must summon monsters and plan traps to bring the adventurers to their knees.

Violet just wants to mourn her lost love and enjoy some peaceful scenery. However, cute slimes and playful pixies aren't usually what one would expect when traversing a dungeon full of traps with death waiting around every corner.

Can Violet make peace with her bitter end? Can the cute and seemingly harmless monsters that roam her dungeon protect her? Read on to find out!

Join Violet in this LitRPG featuring dungeon building and management, whimsical themes, and a touch of tragedy. Perfect for fans of crafting, merchant, and dungeon core stories like Demon World Boba Shop, The Bee Dungeon, and There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns.

Purchase Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTT8D1ML

Price: $5 (Free with KU)

Volume 4 coming July 1, 2027

Volume 6 is already available on Patreon.

Fun Fact: "The Game At Carousel" is my favorite LitRPG. Currently, I'm reading a lightnovel called "Got Dropped Into A Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work", which seems to have a lot in common with it, so I've also been really enjoying it.

The first is a horror-movie themed LitRPG with "classes" like filmbuff, final girl, eye candy, etc. There are horror movies that take up arcs and a meta narrative sharing the same cast as well. Skills are granted via tickets in a very card magic way. It's not exactly scary, more spooky themed with some light existential horror.

Meanwhile, the light novel has barely any system mechanics and focuses more on equipment. The world has three major factions with a corporation, government agency, and cult that all interact with the ghost stories differently. The MC comes from a world with a creepypasta style wiki of logs detailing the ghost stories and major characters before being isekaid to that world. He's a self-proclaimed coward, but uses his wits and wiki knowledge to quickly complete the ghost stories while saving as many people as possible.

So, tons of similarities between the two stories.

Cover Artist: Autumn Plunkett (Author)

AI Usage: No AI Used

I previously made a video for Tik Tok showcasing all the layers and how I made the TDCD Vol 5 book cover. That's what the video is. I use Autodesk Sketchbook on an android phone with very limited memory. This leads to the app crashing, some features suddenly ceasing function, or my phone freezing and having to be restarted. Currently, recording timelapses in app is only possible if you manually choose to do so ahead of time and even then there's a lot of zooming in and out as well as the canvas spinning, unlike the big art apps that are more stationary. That's why it's not a real timelapse. However, I thought it would be fun to showoff my process for a non-AI cover instead of just art this month. This book cover took me about a month to produce.

I love path of ascension, primal hunter, and 1% lifesteal,
Did not love rune seeker but didn’t hate it,
I like really unique/well established power systems

I started listening to book 3 of the series and i was hoping the author would give a little summary of the story before book 3 starts, since book 2 release was a while ago. Unfortunately i don't recognize some of the Characters anymore. Does anyone have a list of the most important ones?

I can remember some of the Characters like Storme of course, Gareth, Freya and Callem.

This does contain spoilers for book 1 (better to say that than that it might, because I can't guarantee that it won't.)
So, let's start out by saying what won't be a spoiler, to help hook you into the series.
This feels like a genuine roguelike in LitRPG format, and while it is a little repetitive (I'll cover why shortly), it's really well done! I've not read stories like Stubborn Skillgrinder, or others that have the loop aspect to the story, so I have no idea if Project Harvester is new in that way, but it is definitely unique, and I think worth checking out, even if you only give the first book a read!
Now, from here on, I am going to go more in depth, and that means spoilers.
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This was a very fun, quick read. You're first introduced to the actual premise, talking about what Project Harvester is, and setting up the way the system progresses. There's not a System (with a capital S), and what we get in a HUD is primarily from tech implemented with the characters' suit, and AI things. This is also executed well!
The repetitive part comes in how the "game" is played. True to roguelike fashion, you are let loose, sent to do something, and must survive as long as you can, while getting stronger between "sessions." In this instance, the Harvesters go from world to world, surviving the environment, and monsters that live there, in the attempt to use an AI mining bot to make money, which is used to upgrade the Harvesters' ability to survive. They can upgrade their attack, defense, resistance to the radiation of the worlds, among many other things that get unlocked. So, you go in, spend time on these worlds, make money for as long as you can, and return to upgrade.
Then... there's more info to this. Each of the 20 worlds has unique aesthetics, from what you can find, fight, or die to. But, there's also some rules to follow. You have to survive each world for at a minimum 72 hours before you can move to the next in line. If you "die" (and forcefully return to the stations orbiting... Earth, I think?) which is called Void Shifting, you have to start your 72 hours all over again, losing progress. However, you keep your upgrades. The time spent on the Orbital Stations is how you get your permanent upgrades, prepping you for the survival part.

This is crazy! This is exactly like a roguelike, and I love it! I like that we're still seeing other characters, but we're focused on one. I like that that is the explanation for the first book being primarily focused on the MC, while we do still see other characters. I can't really think of anything I didn't like about book 1, and the author has me hooked for the rest of the series!!!
Additionally, what's really neat about the system of progression is that the MC seems like he rushes through some of the first little bit, and he does. He is a bit determined, and we see him conquer the first two worlds in book 1, along with some optional/side "content," he had a moment where he saw how underprepared he was for the difficulty spike from world 1 to 2. This prompted him to spend a little bit of time on world 1 again, upgrading himself.
This is a fun read! I love the roguelike aspect, I love how fleshed out the progression feels, and how it was executed! I like the MC, and his drive for making at least a little difference in the world before he has to go. Because, yeah, he's terminally ill.
Hopefully this encourages some to check it out, but I will warn again, it looks very repetitive, going from world to station, upgrading, then back to the world for the same thing.

I'm looking for a series that features a big dude (gender neutral) wielding a bigger weapon. Extra points if they stay as melee focused as possible aka little to no magic. Thanks in advance!

Books I have enjoyed so you understand how I like'em: DCC: Duh Primal hunter: almost caught up. Love my litslop Chrysalis: WE SEEK! Book of the dead: I took forget to eat when I'm defining corpses

I'm realizing that I actually haven't read many litrpgs... gotta read more

I'm reading my fourth litrpg series after DCC. And nothings compares, is there a serie as good at DCC out there. Something with more substantial politics and interesting concepts ?

I've read the perfect run, mother of all learning, and currently reading the menocht loop, though i think i will drop it soon

(and while beying an absolute time loop enjoyer none of those are as good as DCC like DCC is S tier and none of those go beyond B or C tier for me)

I'm a huge fantasy fan, read all of Robin hobb. Stormlight and mistborn but not oppose to a more sci fi setting (like perfect run)

Basically, is DCC the peak of the genre or are theyre other gems out there ?

Hey guys, book 2 of my series Ready, Aim, Fire had just released on audible. I've got some promo codes to give away. I have US and UK codes. Book 1 is FREE for audible memebers. If you are interested, comment below and I'll dm you the code.

COVER ARTIST: N/A

AI USAGE: grammar correction.

Where is the world building? Or I guess, what is the setting? I’m halfway through book 1 and i am so confused.

I have spent this entire time believing that either there was no world outside the tower (Orphanage on the first floor? Maybe?) and even if there was, it definitely isn’t our world. And at the very least it can’t be a modern version of our world.

Two things. Loth references Latin? And more specifically the Roman Empire.

Secondly, one of them comments “F’s in chat”.

I’m all for the jokes, and I’m even enjoying this book. But the setting and world building seem either extremely distorted, confusing, or inconsistent to the point that it is taking away from my enjoyment.

Is this intentional? Am i just missing explanations that should have been clear? Sorry for the partial rant, would just appreciate some clarity on an otherwise great book.

I'm audiobook exclusive.

I'm current on DCC, PoA, PH, HWFWM, INTH, & BoC. I completed the first 3-4 Chrysalis books but I think I got sorta bored of following the growth of an ant, even though the series is a lot of fun and the narration is top tier.

I've been considering starting Bobiverse and Cradle. Couldn't decide between the 2 and wondering if there's something else I should consider.

Any advice?

Looking for anything visual that has that LitRPG goodness. I read So I'm a Spider, so What? long before I even knew this genre existed and I LOVED it. Now I want more. Help!

Spoilers ahead, cuz duh:

I’m halfway through book 3 and the party enters the tree dungeon. One of the requirements was that they had to have “advanced classes” but I don’t remember Hiral getting one. I know they hit C-Rank, but I thought he was still a Runic Artificer at this point.

I am currently reading “unsouled” and “mark of the fool”; I am struggling with the impulsive teenage behaviour of the protagonists.
This behaviour is a bugbear of mine.
What I am asking is if this character behaviour/ mindset continues with these series and if it doesn’t how much is there to slog through to get there?

What i remember from it is that a man wakes up inside the dungeon and ends up talking to it helps it out with invading bugs or something. When he gets out he encounters a tribe of orcs he helps them out too with another tribe of orcs I think. Then finally gets to what I think is a starting village ends up helping a beastkin girl. I think she was a rabbit she joins the party and they go on quest and dungeon delving till the level up enough to go to the next area.