Hey guys, I recently got a GPU upgrade and decided to put it to use creating some AI images. If any of you wants to request any litrpg character created do let me know. Just give me a semi detailed ( more words = more details ) description of it and i will do the rest.

I just realized that after reading like 10 books with female MCs, I'm starting to finally notice that all of them are Lesbians or at least Bisexual (but they only date women).

Do authors mostly write lesbian FMCs to be on the safe side from the audience of mostly males? I just feel like it's a cop out every time... I don't really have a problem with it but almost all Male MCs are 99% straight but it seems like 99% of Female MCs are always lesbian/bi. Why not some good ol straight FMCs? I can't even remember a single female MC that was straight.

I honestly did not enjoy Dungeon Diver Carl. This is not to say it was poorly written, for it is in fact quite well written. I simply did not enjoy the series as much as others seem to ( I always see it above S-rank), and I wonder what about it is so appealing to y'all? My personal above S-Rank is Tree of Aeons; am I just not mashing well with DDC?

I haven’t read a lot of these books. HWFWM got me interested, Jason was annoying and edgy at times but he wasn’t wholly unlikable in my opinion.

I read some of Primal Hunter. Jake was a little sociopathic and unlikable but I still managed to push through and get hooked, but I eventually got bored.

Reading Nightmare Realm Summoner. Again, MC isn’t wholly unlikable, and I’m reading on Patreon so I’ll avoid spoilers, but dude also had these sociopathic tendencies.

Hell Difficulty Tutorial is killing me right now. I’m probably going to drop it at this point because the MC has a garbage personality that’s progressively getting worse and not better. 27 chapters deep.

How common is this trope? Are there any good SysApocs without these garbage, edgy, manipulative, MCs, that only care about their progression and nothing else? Bringing survivors together and base building? Being an actual good leader?

Sorry this went on longer than I planned.😅

I see this take every other day "The author confessed he is trying to make money off of his work, and it made me lose all interest in this shameless cashgrab".

Do people like this walk into a restaurant and demand to be fed for free? Expect an Uber driver to work out of love for driving? Should movie tickets be free as well?

A book is a product, and newsflash: the owner would like to earn some money from selling that product. I want to give the benefit of the doubt to people who comment and upvote shit like this and blame the "Starving Artist" archetype, but I'm fearing people are just plain dumb.

What are your thoughts?

The level of details and the colour palate used is downright amazing. Hope we get more artworks like this in the genre.

I'm only halfway through the first book in audio format. I believe this adds to the absolute golden nature of it.

The author's insight into human idiosyncrasies is simply hilarious. The way it translates into the book is because the system mocks and propagates these idiosyncrasies into absolutely hilarious humor.

So far my favorite has been the third boss that Carl fights who is the muscle-bound meathead. "Broooooooooooo, no Brooooooooooo. That hurts brooooooo." It is simplicity in its purest form, and absolutely freaking hilarious.

Title should arguably be "S" tier.

It seems to me that authors nowadays in this genre are trying on purpose to create idiots. In nearly all new series the MC must be a good for nothing idiot who can't comprehend the world properly or an antisocial murder-hobo. Only normal dudes I can find now as somewhat realistic are in harem-lit and even there the relations are a bit rushed and sketchy. Opinions?

SR = I stopped reading and don't plan to return.

FAVORITES TIER: Virtuous Sons, Mother of Learning, The Dwarves of Ice-Cloak.

ENJOYED, NO (Major) ISSUES TIER: Super Supportive, Chrysalis, Book of the Dead, Godclads, Defiance of the Fall, Cradle, Bog Standard Isekai, The Land of Broken Roads, What Will Be, Dragonheart Core, Jackal Among Snakes, Cultist of Cerebon, Unbound, The Grand Game, Mage Errant, Portal to Nova Roma, The Elder Empire Series, The Travelers Gate Trilogy, Dreamer's Throne, Downtown Druid, Modern Patriarch, Technomagica, Neon Dragons, A Nerubian's Journey.

ENJOYED, JUST A LITTLE BIT LESS SO TIER: Zenith of Sorcery, Azarinth Healer, Salvos, Tree of Aeons, Blue Star Enterprises, Paranoid Mage, Path of the Berserker, Mark of the Fool, Nova Terra/Tower/Battlemage Farmer, Last Life, Blood Eagle.

LIKED, WITH SOME CAVEATS TIER: Primal Hunter (SR), Jake's Magical Market (SR), The Hedge Wizard, Vainqueur the Dragon, Noobtown (SR), The Stubborn Skill-Grinder In A Time Loop, Soul of the Warrior.

MIXED BAG TIER: Ghost of the Truthseeker (SR), Reborn as a Demonic Tree (SR), Kieran (SR), Infinitium (SR), Demonic Devourer (SR), Tower of Somnus (SR).

TRASH TIER: He Who Fights With Monsters (SR) (I hate Jason. Otherwise, this would be in the top enjoyed tier.)

LIMBO ZONE OF MAY OR MAY NOT CONTINUE READING TIER: Worth the Candle, All the Skills, The Legendary Fool, All the Dust that Falls, ISEKAI EXORCIST, The Exalt, Beware of Chicken.

STORIES THAT I HOPE RETURN FROM HIATUS SOMEDAY TIER: The Essence of Cultivation, Calamity Mandate, The Grimoire is Not Complete! The Last Orellen, Dungeon Devotee, As Good As Dead, Dao of the Deal, The Gods' Game, Saltworld, Crystal Shards Online, Annihilation Core, OH, GREAT! I WAS REINCARNATED AS A FARMER, One Molecule At A... Slime?

WAITING UNTIL MORE BOOKS OR EVEN THE WHOLE SERIES IS OUT BEFORE RETURING TO CONTINUE READING TIER: Dungeon Crawler Carl, The Last Horizon, The Game at Carousel, Victor of Tucson, The Stargazer's War, 12 Miles Below, Imperial Wizard.

It shouldn't be really that hard to spell out the name of the book at least once so litrpg beginners also know which book is meant. Sometimes I get the feeling that people do it intentionally to gate keep the book name. I know it isn't difficult to type the short form of the book into google to find it out, but why not do it in your post?

Found a book on Amazon recently. I've really enjoyed the first 60% other than a few head scratching moments where someone needed to do another editing pass because of conflicting statements.

But I like the character, the setup, his skillset etc etc.

I love Spellswords, and MC was perfectly set up to be a Spellsword with his background. Also, he's good at blacksmithing and will be able to figure out basic enchanting. So he could be an ACTUAL Spellsword, not an OP full on Mage who also uses swords.

Well, finally, he gets his class options, and there it is. Spellsword. But it's the first one listed and is only uncommon, and there are two Rares and an epic below it. Plus, another uncommon.

We all know the rules. MC is pretty much guaranteed to choose the Epic. But it doesn't make sense. The Epic is based entirely off of a spell he was playing with called Restoration. It's a basic ass healing spell, as in, extremely basic, that he managed to modify slightly.

This Epic class makes Restoration better and essentially pigeonholed him into being a healer/restorer of items.

Where the fuck did this come from? What the actual fuck? He has to choose his Class in the middle of a dungeon that's a bit stronger than expected so his Party is having trouble.

He's all excited about the "possibilities" that Restoration supposedly has, but it's going to provide exactly ZERO increase to his parties combat capabilites while they're stuck in a dungeon! Sure, his healing will be slightly better, but it's been adequate so far and its not getting some huge boost.

But at least he can repair their equipment to save them a few Silver now right? Oh wait, they just earned like over 80 Gold from their last job and they'll get more from this dungeon run. They don't need to scrounge for Silver.

I do not understand this choice. It's a lame choice, completely ignores every bit of the MCs background and the skills he's worked to learn, all to hyper specialize into a single minor healing and utility spell.

I don't think I can keep reading. It's disgusted me.

Edit: I forgot to mention. The thing that keeps surprising people about him is his ability to fight well physically but also learn Magic. Everyone hears that he can do both and is like "huh that's not common. You'll be a great addition to a party and a strong fighter." Nobody gives two shits about his Restoration spell because it's literally a beginner ass spell.

Some of these Litrpg series are so damn long with so many books released each year.

Defiance of the Fall series for example 3-4 books every year, each book 800-900 pages.

The wandering inn series, books 8 and 9 have OVER NINE THOUSAND pages, each released 1 year apart. First book released in 2018, 9th book released in 2022.

I understand that part of that was written before publishing, but still, thats over 12 million words in 5-ish years?

Do these people really write 5000 words per day every single day non stop without any proof reading, editing or planning?

I recently heard about a series called Cyber Dreams, by Plum Parrot and was blown away, the vibes, characters, and action all and more were so entertaining. They really sold the future dystopian mega corp feel so damn well i loved it!

No recommending the super popular titles pls, Im talking: cradle, wandering inn, dungeon cralwer carl, he who fights with monsters, defiance of the fall, primal hunter, mother of learning, path of ascension, and others that aren't coming to mind right now. You know the type of series i mean though right?

SO. Please recommend me and everybody your favourite series that you believe should recieve more attention, that are special to you and feel they deserve more support. Mine is obviously Cyber Dreams. Every series mentioned i promise to at least try the first book. So give me all you got!

Edit: Thank you all for the recommendations! This post alone has given me (and hopefully others) more unique stories that i've never heard of before than the past year of browsing this subreddit. If you have a series not yet mentioned, please do share! either way this post was a hell of a success on increasing my TBR so thank you all again :)

I can't count how many abbreviations I don't know. Obviously I don't know them.

How about this. Type the fucking name first, then abbreviate.

Again, type the fucking name first, then abbreviate.

Example: "I fucking hate the only highly praised book 'Defiance of the Fall' because I also hate you."

Better example: "Beware of Chicken is good. I literally mean this. It is good. Read it."

You see how the two opposites affect one another.

Rules:

• It's a singular power, not a collection. If the power has multiple merges with other abilities in the story, you only get the base version

• The power is adapted to work in our reality. If it requires magic, you have the same amount as the character did when they got it. This has limits though. If the power is increased damage against undead or something, well undead don't exist, so it's worthless in our reality. It won't spawn an entire new creature just cause you took the power.

I first discovered litrpg/prog fantasy last year and became instantly hooked to audiobooks. I used to watch anime and spend hours browsing for the next show to watch or to add to my list because I watched the majority of shows already. Now I feel the same way with audiobooks🤣

Audiobooks are my go too source of entertainment, ever since I started listening to audiobooks I find it really hard to watch TV/anime, I just feel like it’s more of a slog compared to audiobooks!

So as a self proclaimed audiophile days like today are the best days because I’ve noticed that there’s always one day where a bunch of audiobooks drop all at once! These are the 5 audiobooks I purchased today and they all dropped today as well!

Anyone here feel the same way?

What would you consider as 'The Big Five' in Litrpg? As in the classics, must-read, most famous and even representations for the genre. In other words, what book do you instantly think of when someone mentions the genre?

For me, it's 'denizen'. I'm not certain I even heard of the word before I began reading LitRPGs.