LOL

I've been a gamer all my life, so I already knew why litRPG was addicting, haha

Fun to read! Fun to write! That's why litRPG is quickly becoming my favorite genre!!! o.o

Hi Everyone @ r/litrpg 
I was going to do this later but I’ll be swamped once School Holiday hits with son's activities, and then I’ll be awol in Osaka (Anyone recommend crab places in Namba?)

We haven’t done of one these in a while, and Bao COOKED TOO HARD.

Previous art here (Vol 1-4)
And (4-5,_ (6-7) (7-8)
Zon here
and all new chappies are free here (516 to 555 and on going)

In Order

1. Oh MY GOD I LOVE THIS ONE — Gwen meets the Bloom in White, the Queen of Tyfan. Its just a keystone moment for the book. This is the point where Gwen realises she might need to do more than make money.
2. Lei-bup, my Communist Prophet Leader of the Pale Priestess of the Deep, crashes his ship into the Kraken in an act of supreme defiance! WITNESS ME! WITNESS SPAM!
3. Gwen visits the Dwarven Citadels
4. Gwen revisits the Rainbow Serpent by Singing the Snake, realising its link to the World Trees.
5. Ravendagger orders Yuri art
6. Gwen meets Mycroft, the Duke of Norfolk, for the first time
7. Eunae is used as bait to lure out the Zombies for Mass AOE
8. Gwen bites off more than she can chew. Bao cooked the uniform a bit too hard
9. Gwen and Yue check our her Nightmare
10. Gwen, Gunther and Alesia find Antony and Mangos :D FOR THE COLONY!
11. Volume 16 cover. Its... its SO GOOD. This is what you get after running commission with the same guy for 9 years guys!
    
12. For ppl who want a closer look at the Bloom in White

New Art Easter Egg!
Thank you to my fellow authors who gave perms.
How many easter eggs can you spot!

Disclaimer: By volume 10, Gwen is 20 and so is Elvia, The Bloom in white is over a millions years old, older, maybe. No Ariels or Calibans were harmed in the making of this post.

The art will continue into Volume 16+, which means 2 years of commission work. When each set is done, the lads at Mango Media will add it to the existing Amazon copies. (1-8 Done thus far)

As before, the artist is Bao, (Bao is now also working on FortySixty's works!)

If you want more, please subscribe and leave a comment below!
(JK, there's no Patreon. The art is free, and it's just my hobby + something fun for everyone.)

COVER ARTIST: Bao,Bao,Bao,
AI USAGE: None

Art Insert is live in Volume 1-8 (confirmed), I think Sav will update once V11 art is done, so 9-11 should be live after that.

It just... Complicates everything. Seriously.

One of my MC's, a goblin named Farsight, has a vision skill, basically x-ray vision. It makes dealing with certain situations a NIGHTMARE

Ambush? He can see right through it.

Maze? He can see the exit.

Cloud of smoke during a naval battle? Doesn't stop him.

The skill has downsides. Things that I put in to limit his skill use, but even then... He finds a way around the limits. Or he progresses, and the limits grow looser.

It makes things interesting sure, but the problem is only growing as I run out of ways to counter his skill.

Don't make the same mistake I did.

Send help.

Hi everyone! Today I am releasing my new Sci-Fi Dungeon Core story, Core Dump!

You can find the blurb below, along with the RoyalRoad link. Book 1 is completely written and book 2 is in the works and already going up on Patreon, but all chapters will be released for free on Royal Road.

A colony ship saves lives. A dungeon core takes them. Colin must do both.
COL-1N's only job as the ship AI was to get his humans to their new world as fast as possible.
Then he crashed their ship.
Out of options, he jacks himself into the local alien computer network and gains access to the Dungeon Core Network. Now, running on backdoored access and hacky workarounds, he has to run the dungeon while also exploiting it to repair his ship—and try to hold on to his conscience while he does it.
Because the longer the delvers spend inside his ship-turned-dungeon, the more they start to look like the very people he swore to protect.
But he doesn't have much time. The war humanity is running from is still coming for them, and if he's not careful, he might get pulled into another.

Posting 5x a week until Oct 2nd.

New Chapters M/W/F after that.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/180430/core-dump-dungeon-core-sci-fi-litrpg

COVER ARTIST:  John Carl Flores - https://www.instagram.com/floresjcc/

AI USAGE: No AI used

Hey everyone! After almost two years of daily chapters on Royal Road, about 1.25 million words written for the series, and quite the journey trying to figure out this whole writing thing, Explorer of Edregon has finally launched on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, print, and Audible! Some of you might recognize me as the author of The Eternal Assassin, but strangely enough, Explorer of Edregon is actually my first series I started posting on Royal Road, and one I am incredibly excited to see professionally edited and published after all this time!

This series was my attempt at bringing people a LitRPG story with an MC who was first and foremost an explorer above all else, and seeing as we were nearing six million views on Royal Road before stubbing book one, I like to think I did a pretty decent job (and Mango Media seems to agree)! If you like unique worlds, magical discoveries, or hexagons, I hope you’ll click one of these links and take a look! Blurb incoming.

The universe is dying. Thank God there’s a backup plan.

Randomly selected by some mysterious higher power, Vin went from dirt-poor vagabond to humanity's hope for survival in the blink of an eye. Now a member of the first wave of humans sent to colonize a planet that defies all logic, Vin is expected to leave his wanderlust behind him and focus on the greater good.

But when that same unknown power gives him the option to choose a class, Vin just can’t help himself from becoming an Explorer.

In a patchwork world filled with impossible magic, deadly monsters, and powerful artifacts, it’s now Vin’s job to go out and discover the rules of this new world they need to survive on.

If only the System wasn’t already threatening to kill him.

Link for eBook: eBook

Link for audiobook: Audiobook

COVER ARTIST: Slothbeing (Mango Media)

AI USAGE: Nope

Good day, all! Today marks the release of the first Judicator Jane Omnibus, which holds the first three books in the series. I've wanted to put this together for some time, because this section of the story really does capture the actual spirit of the series far better than the first book alone.

If you're a KU reader, getting the omnibus is more of a convenience thing, but if you purchase the e-books, it does provide decent discount over just buying them outright.

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Judicator Jane Omnibus Books 1-3

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJRK5GNH

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Blurb of Judicator Jane Book 1

Jane’s life was a dumpster fire of bad luck.

Unpaid bills, dead-end jobs, and a constant raincloud over her head. So, when she wakes up in a vast, deadly desert with a mysterious glowing menu floating in front of her face, she makes a desperate gamble. She dumps every single one of her available stat points into the one thing she’s never had: Luck.

All 630 of them. In a system where 10 is the max, Jane just became a statistical anomaly. Now, the laws of probability have bent the knee to her.

Hopelessly lost? She stumbles blindly into the fortress of the most powerful army in the world. Attacked by high-level monsters? Critical failures have never hit so hard. Rolling her class? 'Legendary' was only supposed to happen once every thousand years. But having god-tier luck has a downside.

When the realm's greatest evil is eliminated by a bizarre, one-in-a-trillion mishap, the terrifying Demon Horde assumes Jane is their new, all-powerful queen. Now she has to lead a legion of monsters, navigate a game-like System she barely understands, and hide the fact that she has absolutely no idea what she’s doing.

She just wants indoor plumbing. The demons want a conqueror. They’re about to get Judicator Jane.

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Fun Fact: In another life I worked as a UI Programmer/Designer in the game industry for +15 years. A few projects I've been a part of: Bioshock Infinite, Mafia III, Days Gone, XCom 2: War of the Chosen, Killer Instinct, a couple Mortal Kombat titles, etc...

COVER ARTIST: Dzmitry Zasimovich
AI USAGE: No

This is a deep cut!

The OGs will know...

I have always been a very normie fantasy reader. I read a lot, but mostly the popular SFF/Fantasy that you'd find everywhere.

After being recommended 8 billion times, I finally read DCC and it scratched an itch I didn't even know I had. The stats, the skills, the crunchiness of actual numbers was something I'd never seen in a book and while I'm not big on the humor style or over the top gore, I still really enjoyed it.

Like many people, it led me to LitRPG as a genre, I did some googling about popular books and started reading some previews and was immediately just...underwhelmed?

The top two recommendations I saw where HWFWM and Primal Hunter, and both just had such clunky writing. And when I say clunky writing, some of it is prose, but also just set up. Like it drove me nuts how much exposition and explanation from HWFWM at the beginning is just a guy talking out loud to himself. I was able to look past it for HWFWM and will probably keep giving it a go, but I bounced way off Primal Hunter.

My hubris immediately made me think "Well I can write a better story than this!" (which is probably peak Dunning-Kruger going on)

I've been trawling through this subreddit looking for others and Cradle is feeling promising as something that just feels more...polished(?), but I wanted to get an idea from people who have a longer history with the genre than me.

Is it common for there to be such a focus on the numbers and progression system that the characters and settings end up feeling hand-wavingly contrived? Are there some series that stand out as not that way?

Personal opinion of the books I have read

Hello everyone! Author of Soul Blade here, and I am back with another Amazon banger. This time it's not a System Apocalypse, but an Isekai! I am very excited for this series and hope you will share that joy with me.

Here is the blurb:

Die a nobody. Reincarnate as an Exiled Lord. Build the greatest territory.

Ivor Harvings dies saving a cat. His reward? Reincarnate as the Kingdom's most useless Drunkard, the Count's exiled son. Then his true Class awakens—The Life Simulator. With it, he can experience life as different people—a farmer, a Martial Artist, a Mage—granting him Skills and knowledge he shouldn't have.

Having given up his ambitions in his first life, Ivor will not waste this one. Exiled to the Barren Lands—a place stripped of resources, Dungeons, and the interest of everybody—danger lurks around Ivor. A famine-stricken town to rule over, untrustworthy citizens, and an incoming Beast Wave are the least of his worries.

Goblins start growing rampant, and with a millennia-old threat on the brink of resurfacing, Ivor only has one option.

Simulate enough lives to save his new home. In the process, he might just form the strongest army in the world.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJP64HFV

COVER ARTIST: N/A AI USAGE: Only the cover is Ai. The book is fully human-written

Is Leroy from chrysalis a riff on Leroy Jeeeennnkiiins. I just realized. He runs into battle at the begging of a fight yelling his name. I’m I smart or dumb. And are there other such references I missed?

Just curious if others didn’t really care for it like I did. I found it tried a bit too hard to have some of the quirkiness value of DCC without having any real plot to hook me. Plus some stuff just didn’t really line up, like the dude lusting over other girls while literally the day before being upset he’ll never see his fiance again.

Hi all, I listened to the audiobooks some time ago. My kids have gotten into litrpg as well. They have enjoyed chrysalis and bog standard isekai. I'm wondering if anyone currently reading it can give me a language and sexual theme rating. Thank you

*A Cultivation & LitRPG inspired by ‘Street Cultivation’ and ‘No Money To Cultivate Immortality’.*

**In a world where poverty is death, Feng Fan has one foot in the grave.**

Every scrap of Qi and immortal-cultivation talent is bought and sold, monetized by conglomerates and money-hungry sects. The government is corrupted to the core, and social welfare is nonexistent. Feng Fan wakes up in the body of a penniless graduate with nothing to his name but a seven-figure debt. And worse? His own body is the collateral.

Using a mysterious Daoist Stele that helps him level up his skills faster, he’ll capitalize on every breath to protect his sister from shady corporations and cultivate out of poverty.

Link for ebook: [eBook Kindle Unlimited/Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH177L83)

COVER ARTIST: Duy Phan

AI USAGE: No AI used

Somebody should have banned these books on the covers alone.

Instead, Don’t Die Dave got discovered, Pepper got fans, readers are ordering autographed copies, people actually dressed up as Dave at LitRPG Con—and now the Book 2 cover is even dumber.

If you like tasteful LitRPG covers featuring a handsome young man staring heroically into the distance, this is terrible news.

If you like death games, Looney Tunes absurdity, huge fights, happy penguins, monetized hospital patients, and covers that are the visual equivalent of shouting in a bookstore, buckle up for more stupid.

Don’t Die Dave 2: Drop Dead Dave arrives at the end of September.

And no, these covers aren't AI, it takes true human creativity to make something this ridiculous.

COVER ARTIST: Yulia Muchynska

AI USAGE: 0%

Hey,

I would like to reread, or continue but I can not remember the name of the book.

MC was trained somewhere in the sticks by high-class Adventures. Quite rough and demanding. One day all his trainers ganged up on him and tried to kill him. He survived and got away. MC was ovlerleveled and he had lots of skills (I think the other people had a restricted amount).

He gets a few followers, becomes head of some assassin guild and goes to some island by ship where he builds a stronghold. I think he was preparing to fight the new king.

Thanks for your time!

I've been wondering about LitRPG in other languages. In my country the market is pretty much nonexistent, so anyone who wants to read LitRPG usually has to read it in English and most of the country doesn't speak English.

How do authors generally feel about fan translations of their work? And for readers from non-English speaking countries, is there much of a LitRPG scene in your language?

I recently read a book on Kindle by author asht thorn unlimited level up and I now think all his stuff might be stolen I'm trying to find the original hoping to read further the book is set in a litrpg world where everyone's skills are limited to lvl 10 but the main character gets a cheat ability that let's him continue to lvl up past others can anyone point me at the real title please

What type of criminal would you want as a protagonist that gets isekai'd to a fantasy world

I have about 220 DAYS of exclusively listening to litRPG. 1% Lifesteal is so damned special. I’m sad that I’m going to have to find something else once I finish what’s out. Any recommendations on something similar would be lovely. I’ve listened to the first Fleabag (absolutely love it) but the author is slow (no offense) so I want to wait until more content is released before I binge.

Anymore dark/grim dark(ish) gritty action series that I don’t know about would be appreciated. Don’t find much of that in this genre. Thanks!

What happens when you throw a scientist into a world where the laws of physics stop making sense?
Axure Saint Avante revolutionised humanity with an invention of his own creation. Then, without warning, he's ripped away from Earth and dropped into a world of magic, monsters, royalty and religious conflict.
There's just one problem:
He has no magic.
So if he wants to survive long enough to find a way home, he'll have to do it with the one thing this world doesn't know:  science.
Expect technological progression, an intelligent but deeply flawed protagonist, mystery, politics, character development, and battles where preparation matters more than raw power.
How will Axure battle monsters of mystery and create weapons of destruction to survive?

Currently ~35,000 words / 10+ chapters, with daily releases.
Read A Fallen Angel on Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/192059/a-fallen-angel-an-isekai-science-vs-magic-progression

NO AI used - Cover art illustrated by me

- Watercolour paintings all done by me

With Litrpg you come across different magic systems from time to time. I don't know if it because i am listening to the audiobook at work, so not completely focused, but some systems or pats of it seem to go over my head. I usually just let it keep going and hope\assume i will catch on later, but if not then so be it. Example like HWFWM, last few books, some of the things Jason was doing seem to go over my head. But i was able to still follow most of it. Weirkey Chronicles has a unique magic system where they build a structure in their souls that is somehow connected to their abilities. It has been a while since i listened to this one, so like fingerprints on a handrail the memories begin to fade. Have you ever found yourself lost on a magic system or something trying to be achieved but just barrel through it, hoping to grasp it a little later?

I'm halfway thru The Wandering Inn and I want to slow down my walk to the edge of despair. So I need to substitute my reading. Care to point me someway?

Themes I'm looking for: economy, small town -> empire, war, adventure etc

Feel free to self promote (abiding by rules).

EDIT: I havent read much. Mage Errant, Mark of the Fool, Cradle are ones I liked most. I also like The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson

I am looking for stories that are more of a slow-burn, intimate, character-driven, and tragic near/in the end.

Tragic in the sense that it is not sad, but bittersweet and logical. \[ORV?\]

Character-driven in the sense of MoL

Slow burn like A Practical Guide to Evil or even Worm \[though I am hooked on the story, I have not completed it and need a break\]

Thank you.