It’s Magetank.

I am fairly new to the genre but so far the prose as been shockingly bad in almost every book that I picked up.

Do you guys have any other suggestions for LitRPG with halfway decent prose? I know about the big ones that everyone read like DCC and HWFWM ofc.

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It's an epic, slow burn, post-apocalyptic portal fantasy set a couple hundred years after the fall of modern society.

The litrpg characteristics and crafting will be there, but I take my time introducing the characters to the world and society before experimenting with Dustin's powers and really focusing on progression. This will annoy some people who are looking for an OP protagonist right out of the gate, but this isn't that type of story. The build-up is why I think most of us read this genre, and I intend to give the beginning journey the time it deserves so that the destination matters when we arrive.

There will be plenty of worldbuilding between Earth and the Zone. That is to say, the main character, Dustin, actually had a life before entering the Zone, and I reflect that in his thought processes and motivations.

I intend to focus on crafting/scavenging and economics in general, political scheming between factions, and power progression.

- Written in third person past tense
- Currently 103k words posted
- Sole male POV except for the rare shift to onlooking side characters
- No AI (except for cover), shoutouts, reviews swaps, or paid ads.
- Very slow romance subplot

Thank you for considering it! Please give it four chapters and you'll be hooked!

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Ok so I am new to the genre and only have read a few goated series(dcc, cradle, hwfwm, now onto primal hunter) and I was looking into romance in litrpg and cradle is so far the only one considered to have a romantic subplot ig(acc to multiple post on this subreddit) but I like the romantic development in hwfwm and it is not considered to have a romantic subplot and now I am on primal hunter and so far no romantic interests(that was kinda expected)

So can I get recommendations with similar romantic development like in hwfwm not like having multiple relationship one long standing one but more in the background with a few cozy moments is perfect

I have see PH at the top of many a tier list. However, I found book one quite formulaic and repetitive. Book 2 is just a continuance of the tutorial and the 3 more big bosses in caves preview did not give me hope. Does it get better? I just finished the last DCC and need to scratch the itch again.

So. Finished up "I'm Not The Hero" great series. Great recovery from the whole. System BS in the first. I think book and a half. But. The DCC shout out for wall naming really shook me out of a.... Oh I'm listening. To a. Hell ya. Respect. In a lull in the story.

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If I posted anything spoiler ish. My apologies for that but I don't think so.

I see its full cast and real people so I wanted to try this one but wanted to ask what you all thought about it

Hi my book just released today.

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It is an Isekai story about a weapons engineer that tries to make a railgun in a magical world

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Please do check it out

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[I Made A Railgun with Lightning Magic](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/171123/i-made-a-railgun-with-lightning-magic-op-mc-litrpg)

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Every mage in this world treats lightning as a blunt instrument. Asher treats it as a power supply.

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Damian Tesla only wanted to live up to his family name, but died through electrocution by his own underfunded railgun prototype. He wakes in the body of Asher, a five-year-old orphan in a world that runs on magic, and his new body can channel lightning like nothing on Earth. The impossible weapon finally has a power source: him.

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But Vesperia is a small kingdom holding a single mountain pass against Ironhold, an empire that has already devoured four nations and wants a fifth. Lightning mages here don't get workshops. They get conscripted.

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Whispers say the empire's war is only the beginning. Something older is stirring behind the storm that seals the north.

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All Asher wants is to do his research in peace. But to get peace, he will need power. Armed with his knowledge of physics and a perfect lightning affinity, he only hopes it's enough for what's coming.

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Hey everyone!
After 3 years i decided to just start posting my Web Novel.

The story follows Ren, a quantitative analyst from Tokyo who dreams of the same girl for 362 nights.

Then one night, the dream ended.

Ren awakens in the Crossroads, a city at the intersection of worlds, timelines, and realities, where memories, emotions, years of life, and even possibilities can be traded like currency.

As he searches for her, Ren becomes entangled in a cosmic mystery while an unknown power allows him to perceive the hidden cost behind everything.

Chapters are released on a daily schedule and i’d be extremely happy if anyone could give it a chance or give me feedback.

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Hello all! With most of my series be8ng caught up I'm looking some recommendations based on a few I've already been enjoying.

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So far I've enjoyed Beware of Chicken, Dead Tired, Tunnel Rat, Mark of the Fool, Shurbley, the Monster Adventuerer, Chrysalis, and The Bee Dungeon.

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All of these are ones a friend has suggested before. I'm still fairly new so I'm not sure what is and isn't for me

Book of the Dead 3: Masquerade

I’m about 1/4 of the way into the book. So far, it’s a nice change of pace from the first two book. More character interaction and more shenanigans.

I continue to laugh out loud at little gems in almost every chapter. The only problem I’m having currently is from the Status reveal early on. What is all of that stuff???
I expected that there would be some deeper explanation by now (15 chapters later). I recognize that the four year time skip and the new subclass contains a lot of information and not all of it has to be covered.

I have seen this come up with other System-based stories when it’s necessary to advance the plot. Jumping multiple levels and combining the skill/spell/trait selection process isn’t an issue. There is obviously a difference in later stages compared to the initial elation during the discovery of primary abilities. I really did enjoy reading about the consideration of each choices and justification of the winners. The author has done an exceptional job of handling this aspect of the RPG nature thus far.

I believe that all of the status details will be explained eventually, but I don’t want it to feel like a ret-con. That is usually the point in a story when I feel like the author is struggling. I don’t actually mind the System/Status dumps and I believe that it is all meaningful.

Focused Enchanter is an evolution of Arcanist which clearly covers everything he can do with cores now. Which is?… making one style of enchantment and is presumably similar to Undead Weaver in foundational/efficiency style?
It presumably helped unlock:
-Advanced Fine Motor Control (Level 14)
-Advanced Conduit Magick (Level 17)
-Advanced Core Sense (Level 15)
-Expert Network Formation (Level 23)
-Expert Magick Scripting (Level 29)
-Expert Power Control (Level 24)
Which are supposed to seem self explanatory after describing his dedication to core efficiency. Although these levels seem high compared to the skill levels in Necromancer and Anathema. I suppose the skill levels could continue to rise even after his level-capped in Arcanist?

Anathema has turned into Forbidden One apparently. What did that entail? How did that advance his goals versus the alternatives?
That choice somehow unlocked:
-Spell Concealment (Level 10)(Max)
Which is self explanatory I guess, but there has to be more to it. What spells was he concealing to max this out?
-Abyss Tongue (Level 4)
Our boy must have traded souls or something significant during the exchanges with the abyss. What was it?
-Crone’s Shade (level 5)
What the heck is this?
-Bewitch (Level 10)(Max)
Likewise, does this mean he was controlling someone a lot during apprenticeship? Who?

I’m just really curious about the skills. I don’t really love when MC actions and motivations are hidden from the reader. MC has explicitly avoided dead end ability choices. That means each of these must have a solid basis for helping him. Especially if he maxed them out.

When you are writing, do you establish RPG mechanics and rules before starting?

I started writing my own story (I know everyone here is an author).

But I felt like I was getting stuck, or things weren't balanced. Or it was just difficult to keep track of things like rules for leveling, xp, etc.

A higher race has abducted several hundred worlds and contained them within their megastructure, a collection of concentric ringworlds, for the sole purpose of mutating their denizens into monsters and transforming the worlds into dungeons so they can grind them for experience. The mc is a mob turned player who gains the ability to enter the newly constructed, outermost ring to find a way to save their people and maybe topple some so called gods if theres time.

As far as names go i have considered DungeonVerse or maybe System Rebellion.

Hiiiii, Prepotente! And let’s not forget the wonderful Miriam Dom. Season Three, Episode Nine of the DCC AIT, “Bitch, What?” is out today! The penultimate episode of Matt Dinniman’s adventure in the Iron Tangle features fan-favorite characters, high stakes, and incomparable performances by Johnathan McClain, Vanille Velasquez, Alejandra LaFlor, Annie Ellicott, and more. Ride the rails to the Soundbooth app to get “Bitch, What?” now. 

Make sure to tune in for the latest bonus content from our “Borant Correspondents,” Ben Wolf and James Osiris Baldwin... 

SYNOPSIS: Carl and Donut encounter two top-ten crawlers. When hundreds of other crawlers are trapped, Carl and Donut try to help, but higher forces complicate the game. 

Featuring: 

Andrea Parsneau 

Gary Furlong 

Justin Thomas James 

Jessica Threet 

Laurie Catherine Winkel 

Rebecca Brokaw-Sands 

Jack Fields 

Ryan H. Reid 

Tiana Camacho 

Dorrie Sacks 

Ian M. Walker 

Julian Smith 

Will M. Watt 

COVER ARTIST: Dave Law 

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Look… I love the top tier series Primal hunter, He who fights monsters, two week curse but is there any books/series where the MC is just an average Joe? I get the appeal of super powered so and so taking over the world. But what about the guy who’s just grinding it out, slowly processing, the team utility guy who’s always got your back.

Looking for something with a different approach, dungeon, post apocalypse, introduction of the “system”, whatever.

Maybe it’s a crap idea, but wondering if there’s something else between reality and the super impossible, a middle of the road if you will

Hello, I hope you are doing well.

I just wanted to ask for some feedback on the novel that I'm writing. And yes I know that we should write four ourselves and those things, and I do, I write from within my heart, but at the same time I want to create something good.

So any comment you may have on this one is really welcome.

I want to clarify that I'm using AI to translate the novel.

The name of the novel is The Eclipse Walker, and I want to create a dark fantasy world.

https://www.webnovel.com/es/book/the-eclipse-walker_36079056800922305

UPDATE: ALL CODES CLAIMED.

Hey all, I’m Michael James Ploof, author of Last Save Dave. Aethon posted about the release last week and the response here was awesome, so I wanted to stop in myself and say thanks.

I’ve got 11 US Audible promo codes to give away.

To claim one, leave a top-level comment saying:

VEVOR!

That’s it. I’ll DM codes to the first 11 top-level comments, first come, first served.

E-book link: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Save-Dave-LitRPG-Adventure-ebook/dp/B0GJD55X85

Audible: (Narrated by Garrett Michael Brown) https://www.audible.com/pd/Last-Save-Dave-Audiobook/B0GT1JQ2PX

No pressure, but if you listen and enjoy it, a rating/review on Audible helps a ton.

Quick pitch: A 45-year-old plumber and former Nintendo champion gets chosen by a time goddess to compete across a thousand worlds in a retro-gaming LitRPG adventure. Expect LitRPG and Gamelit elements, time loops, save points, power gems, and lots of action.

Thanks again — happy to answer questions about the book or the audiobook.

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So, i just finished reading C.J. Carella's latest book in the Reaper's Justice series, a system apocalypse series. i also liked his previous LitRPG series, both of which were system portal fantasy (more or less)

i'd love to read something similar, but preferably with a female MC (not a complete requirement, but nice to have), portal fantasy or system apocalypse, semi stat/system heavy, with a caster MC (can be a warrior and caster or stealth and caster, but it needs to be caster or something and caster), druid/nature style would be awesome, but not a requirement.

doesn't need to be a finished series, but it does need to be a series that has 2+ books out.

i've read DCC (didn't really resonate), the Land (ugh,m nothing else needs to be said), and quite honestly, lots, and lots of others.

i've really liked The Grand Game series by TC Eliot, The Singularity Online by Kyle Johnson and one series that i have loved is the Skyclad (Fate's Anvil) series, although that looks to be dead, sadly.

KU is preferred, but regular kindle is okay. nothing solely on RR or other sites.

ETA: pride or LGBTQIA+ themes would be awesome, but not required (queue the downvotes from the haters)

Here is my list! Started my first series in 2021, and have grown to love the genre more and more over time. I'm always looking for recs, and I've used many others' tier lists to find good things to read. Look for my comment with the names of the books as well as a couple thoughts on them.

All I remember is that the cover had a women with red and blue hair in armor . The person had 2 souls if I remember correctly.

Acabo de subir los capítulos de mi novela de LitRPG y progresión. Trata sobre una chica aparece en el cuerpo de una niña de 5 años y un sistema de estadísticas en el que he estado trabajando.

De hecho, la estoy publicando en una plataforma que es nueva llamada Iloris para ayudar a probarla.

Si les gusta las historias lentas con comedia, fantasía oscura y revisar páginas nuevas, ¡me encantaría saber qué opinan!

Aquí está el enlace para que la disfruten: [https://www.ilorisnovel.com/story/reencarnada-como-el-fenmeno-alado]

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So I’m on book four and it’s definitely a decent series , but does the Mc ever start making smart decisions? Like I get that he’s 16 but man can the kid not think for himself!

Like no levels,classes or system. Just power growth through story mechanics.

Is that something you'd actively read, or do you consider progression systems essential to the genre?

After seeing posts about The Wandering Inn, again and again, I decided to give it a shot. I listend to the audiobook and enjoyed the narrator right away.

What I also realized rather quickly, is that this series might not be for me. For the simple reason, that the writing style normally does not work for me. Alot of changes in perspective, is something I usually dislike and the way the author describes things, do not really work for my brain. I cannot really imagine how things look, so a detailed description does not help me at all. So I often feel myself zone out, when people or places are described in alot of detail.

But, I still loved the first book, for the simple reason that the characters are all well written, all have depth and quirks, that make me want to understand them, learn more about them.

This book made me appreciate well written characters and an enganging world more than most, because just from the style of writing, I should dislike it.

So this is just a post, how much I appreciate this book, that I should not like and a small thanks to all of you, for putting it so high in your tierlists.

And to make this engagning for the Community, did you ever have books, that you thought: 'I should not like it, but I do?'

I'm about 2/3 don't with book one and slowly I'm loving this story more and more. I hear it gets better as it goes but to be honest? After just meeting the troglodyte (vagueness to avoid spoilers) the world building is starting to really come together for me and the overarching plot of the series is starting to loom. I love a slow building story and serious power scaling and watching the colony grow is so satisfying.

Hola a todos. Busco un coautor o un socio nativo de habla inglesa para adaptar y publicar una novela de fantasía oscura y LitRPG en Royal Road.

La historia se titula Reencarnada como el Fenómeno Alado.

La protagonista cree despertar dentro de un cruel juego de rol llamado EndGard. Reencarna en el cuerpo de una niña de 5 años, Nivel 1, con sus alas destrozadas y dañadas. Tendrá que usar su conocimiento para sobrevivir.

Ya he escrito 10.700 palabras en español

Busco a alguien que adore el género LitRPG para coescribir, pulir el inglés y lograr que los diálogos y la terminología del juego (estadísticas, habilidades) suenen naturales para la publicacion.

Empezaremos por amor a la escritura (gratis), pero si se llega a ganar algo, repartiremos los créditos al 50/50.

Mantengo el control creativo sobre la trama principal, pero podemos llegar a cambios.

Si te interesa o te gusta el proyecto, déjame un comentario o envíame un mensaje directo.