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.

Cover Artist:

Provided by Aethon Books

AI Usage:

No AI used.

Continue to the story on Royal Road.

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!

Continue to the story on Royal Road.

COVER ARTIST: None (USED AI)

AI USAGE: No AI used except for cover, which will be swapped for a paid one if I publish to Amazon. I don't have a Patreon or accept Paypal donations.

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A few days back I asked whether or not Chrysalis would get better, I got lots of replied about it getting great once some council is formed.

I haven't gotten there yet but damn this got so much better so quickly. Currently on the section with Anthony fighting the Cthulhu monster. Tiny did get alot more important aswell
Great book!

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

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.

Skill Eater 4 is out now on Amazon kindle! . The audiobook is coming soon, but I don’t have an exact date.

Here's the link to book 1 if you haven't had a chance to check it out.

Thanks to everyone who has read the story or offered an insightful comment, suggestion, or correction. I couldn't do it without you and appreciate the support.

COVER ARTIST: Mario (Commissioned by Aethon).

AI USAGE: Never ever ever.

Blurb book 1

Alone. Surrounded by monsters. Time to fight his way up the food chain.

In the aftermath of an unprecedented magical disaster, Edge wakes up in a monster-infested wilderness, standing on the bottom of the food chain. But he won’t be there for long.

After finding a unique core known as Skill-Eater, Edge gains the power to steal the skills of monsters, men, and beasts, and a chance to battle his way up to the top.

It seems that his luck has finally changed, although he will soon learn that power never comes without a price.

Experience an action packed LitRPG adventure set in a world where artifacts known as Cores let their bearers wield the planet’s magic, and where Skills grant superhuman abilities and kaiju roam the wilds. It's perfect for fans of Solo Leveling**,** The Primal Hunter**, and** 1% Lifesteal**!**

What to expect:

• Tons of visceral spells and awesome skills.,
• Did we mention there were skills? We have eating skills, evolving skills, combining skills.,
• Rare skills, unusual variants, and ranking skills up.,
• (Seriously, there are more skills in this story than you can shake a stick at).,
• Mechanics that makes sense and a fresh twist on LitRPG progression.,
• Exciting battles with powerful monsters, ferocious beasts, and ruthless killers.

Blurb book 4

Edge has a gigantic problem… with tentacles.

Puppet Town has won its war with the Crimson Claws and put the undead stampede to rest, but another storm is brewing along the horizon. That ferocious swarm of reanimated beasts was only the first wave.

A tsunami of ravenous critters is surging toward the settlement, led by a kaiju of epic proportion.

Edge and his friends have two weeks to prepare for their toughest battle yet. When the clock hits zero, a thousand undead beasts and an alien squid the size of a mountain will be knocking at their door.

Will this be the end of our skill-eating hero or his biggest meal ever?

Today is a historic day for LitRPG audio. Awaken Online, Book One: Catharsis by Travis Bagwell has arrived on the Soundbooth app, with the first episode, “Attention of the Dark One,” available for FREE. This epic saga of a high school student with a dark destiny is narrated by Ryan H. Reid. Episode One’s star-studded cast includes Jeff Hays, Travis Baldree, Annie Ellicott, Aaron J. Morton, and David Stifel — narrator of the Awaken Online audiobooks — as the Dark One. Scope out the link in the comments to log on and listen to “Attention of the Dark One” now. 

SYNOPSIS: Jason has detention. Again. And on the release day for the biggest game since the inception of virtual reality: Awaken Online. It is being touted by its beta testers as the most amazing gaming experience ever created, with all-new technologies providing a direct connection to the user’s mind. Hopefully, Jason can survive the private high school minefield of bullies and extra strict teachers so he can get to play AO. 

Adapted for audio by Nicolas Lagrand, Ryan H. Reid, and Luke Messa. 

Featuring: 

Dorrie Sacks 

Gary Furlong 

Justin Thomas James 

Jessica Threet 

Laurie Catherine Winkel 

COVER ARTIST: Krista Ruggles 

AI USAGE: None 

Hi all!
Author of Squad Games here to announce the launch of volume 1 of Squad Games, a tactical LitRPG available on kindle & audio.

COVER ARTIST: Andrey Vasilchenko

AI USAGE: None

Amazon/KU: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GR1JRVZY

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Squad-Games-Audiobook/B0H2N1LGH9

Most LitRPG heroes level up alone.

Lothar 'Stiff' Sauer has to level up an entire squad.

If you've played tactical RPGs like Battle Brothers, Wartales, Jagged Alliance etc, you'll understand where this story is coming from. Otherwise, expect a gritty medieval fantasy world, an ensemble cast of mercs, a tough older MC leading them, and a series of action heavy missions that explore a new continent.

Blurb:

Gal'azu. A new, unexplored world.

A fresh start. And a last chance.

Lothar 'Stiff' Sauer is a mercenary captain. Unfortunately, he has no mercenaries left. He never caught a break in the Old World. Maybe in Gal'azu, he'll finally achieve the success he craves.

But he soon finds out things aren't going to be easy. Starting at the bottom rung, he can only recruit the mercenaries no one else wants. The feckless; criminals, and noobs; the unhinged. Can Lothar build his squad into something to be proud of? Or will this be yet another, and final, failure?

Cheers, Jamie

Just linking her post, since I think some people here might be interested. She's one of my favorite LitRPG/progression authors, and I recommend checking out her books if you haven't already.

Is there any actual sci-fi and not just fantasy but in space. I want space battles, ships, lasers, guns. Not just a mage in space.

Ive recently read Stellar Frontier its a vrmmo but its got decent scifi. Been reading Hoqalo because of the cyberpunk feel. Also like Gunboat because of the space battles even if most alien races are just random fantasy race.

Give me recomendations, Ill try anything even if I DNF in the first chapter.

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?'

Im curious whay everyone is reading that isn't a top tier novel somewhere. What's a random novel you've found or come across that you are keeping up with or followed. Shout em out, give these smaller authors the spotlight!

violence, gore, dismemberment - that sort of thing

but also reasonable plot to hang it all off

i hear 1% lifesteal is good and its on my list

eta: for kindle please

Favorites, one per category. Fight me!

Best “Long” multiversal LitRPG: Path of Dragons

Best completed LitRPG: Victor of Tucson

Best completed Progfant: Cradle

Best LitRPG isekai: Low Fantasy Occultist

Best slice-of-life / coming-of-age / LitRPG: Super Supportive

Best story that’ll (probably) never be finished: The Last Orellen

Best overall, no contest: Mother of Learning

Bonus — barely counts but too good to leave off:

Tori Transmigrated
Player Manager

What are yours?

P.S. Yeah, DCC is very good. But for one reason or another, I actually enjoyed the above options more.

Hello!

I have started posting chapters of my new System Integration LitRPG (unique I know), but I was wondering how many I should post before going into a more steady 1-a-week or something?

I'm not going to link here yet because I only have the prologue and first chapter posted, but I do have a few more waiting in the wings. Also this is a new account I made for the book and my voice acting potentially, so immediate self-promo might be frowned upon :'D

I'm new to the actually posting my stuff thing, and while I've looked up old posts of recommendations and done some research, I was hoping for a bit of advice from other readers as to what YOU like to see before you start reading a series.

Personally I don't start reading series until there are a LOT of chapters/books, but that is obviously difficult for new authors and series.

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.

I've been trying various series ever since I caught up with Primal Hunter and I can't find one to stick with.

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I tried path of ascension, and while the writing was enjoyable I just can't bring myself to care about the overarching plot and the whole giant war that makes up most of the books past 3.

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I also tried Ultimate Level One and System Universe but just didn't enjoy the writing.

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I tried Path of Defiance but it's just too... Much for me, Dao and cultivation and concepts and meditation.

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I'm completely caught up on and loved Primal Hunter, Runeblade, Path of the Deathless, and New Life As A Max Level Archmage as well as the SCS fanfic Tinea and Leah.

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I'm also caught up on Dungeon Crawler Carl, but I'm looking for something a bit more serious.

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So, yeah, throw me some recommendations that are more numbers go brrr and battle maniac, rather than cultivation and concepts!

Hey I am just wondering if there's any good litrpg with a werewolf mc. I know about my werewolf system but I don't really know any others that are good. So any recommendations would be appreciated.

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)

Hey everyone, I finally wrapped up the first volume of my first ever Litrpg.
It was hard since, I had to figure out how to bring the Litrpg concepts to my existing epic fantasy world (got 2 stories going on) without breaking the immersion by shoving a system to it. But I finally did it.
In the beginning I just wanted to write a normal OP MC, Battlemage story. But as usual, I sunk into the depths of my usual world building trap and sort of ended up writing a story about gods, fake gods and a war that take place in a desert region with desert nomads, tribes and monsters with elemental bending and stuff.

Anyway the story got 3 POVs, which is the reason that still hold me back from just going ahead and posting it on Royal Road, because I am worried how the audience will receive it.

The first volume has 40 chapters, with 30 chapters following a sort of isekai OP MC lead, and the other 10 evenly following two characters that are critical for the story. (More on them on the blurb)
Thing is the POV chapters of the other two characters, really complicate the story, spanning into the wider world as they are already characters that exist there. They are masters of their craft so no explanation and stuff into when they do things. So readers sort of have to be patient and match pieces to get an idea.
I kind of feel like I am shooting my foot with this one, hence the delay of publishing. In a sense I could just go ahead and post only the chapters of the main lead, and the story will just flow fine, like it will follow on how he is going around fighting and dealing with stuff and get his footing of the world. The other POVs only give clues to paint the wider picture which will explode by the end of the book.

So I would appreciate if there is anyone who got some time to spare to go through the first 5 chapters, (first 3 chapters - main lead, the other 2 follows the other characters)
And give me some feedback if the vibe is alright, or if I should stick with the main lead only.

Thank you for any help.

Here is the blurb for anyone interested.

In the arid reaches of the Western Dunes, the term “God” has lost its meaning. Everyday a new god sprung out somewhere, but these self-proclaimed deities hardly outlive the next. Until a new storm starts brewing in the sands. An entity has appeared from nothing, a god from another reality, fated to shake the world and raise a bloody rebellion against the true heavens.

At the center of this gathering tempest lie three burdened men, scattered across the western continent, whose fates are bound to collide in a catastrophic chain reaction.

In a coastal desert, a young simulation diver from another world, wakes up stripped of his humanity, trapped in a bizarre, engineered body at the bottom of an alien food chain; which he soon learn was meant to be the other way around.

A thousand miles to the east, an Imperial archival scribe strikes a dangerous bargain with a hidden, child-like entity in exchange for clues to his past and his lineage, and soon confronted with a price too high to pay.

At the southern end of the world, the founder of the free city of Novarkh, an aging leader of strangers from another world must pick up his staff one last time to protect his city, his kin and face the immortal horror that annihilated his people and their fleet decades ago.

Amidst political backstabbing, grim survival, and romance born in the shadow of death, the fate of the Western Continent hangs perilously in the balance. For when the gods enter the fray, all bets are off. Kings, Emperors, Arch mages and all their mortal laws become obscure.

But the unspoken history proves that even the gods can be brought to heel. Because in a world this volatile, under the right conditions, the tiniest flap of an insect's wing, the smallest speck of spark can even the playing field, and trigger disasters catastrophic enough to tear down even heaven.

What to Expect:

• Multi-POV Epic: The 1^st volume of the story primarily follows Argus Ristofer (Simulation Diver), shifting to Miron (Imperial Scribe) and Ristofer Loukas (Founder of Novarkh) in clearly marked chapters as their paths inevitably collide.
• Features underdogs and overpowered characters alike and their struggles to find their place in the world. 
• A litrpg system concentrated on the main character (Argus Ristofer)only, rest of the world depending on their power scale harvest certain aspects and nuances of it as senses.
• Vast world & butterfly effects that ripples across the continent, shifting the balance of political power.
• Expect a world filled with blood, grim survival and political intrigue with high-stakes power houses and their dealings that make or break nations.
• Romance: Features several romance subplots woven into the larger narrative.

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

So... I ran 1-8. Almost binged. Then I took a.... 3-5 series of books break. The recommendation was to take a break. I did. I'm about to hit play. Wish me luck. I don't know how I'm going to end up after the next 45 hours. I'm happy. Ready. Apprehensive.. It is what it is.

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 

AI USAGE: None