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Re: LitRPG. I've read a few, but I'd love some recommendations. Any you'd care to share?

ask_b123 5y ago
You could check out https://www.royalroad.com/ https://www.royalroad.com/ which is a site where people upload web novels. Most novels there aren't really good, but every once in a while you can find something great. And they are free to read. I'll recommend 4 novels: Vainqueur the Dragon: pretty good and it is completed although I never finished it. Path of the Dragon Mage: also good, the author uploads about 10 new chapters with around 2k-2.5k words each month. Arrogant Young Master Template A Variation 4: a great LitRPG and Xianxia parody. But it is in indefinite hiatus with no news from the author. The Power of Ten: In my to-read list. What you can often do is read the first 5 or so chapters of a novel and see if you like it. After all, they are free. There are also lots of reviews. Another place you could look in is: https://www.webnovel.com/tags/system-novel https://www.webnovel.com/tags/system-novel although I haven't really checked it out and I think later chapter of the novels are locked.
saalweachter 5y ago
There's basically four flavors of LitRPG. 1. Books where the main character is a person playing a (VR) game. Travis Bagwell's Awaken Online is a good example of this. 2. Books where it starts off as a game, but then becomes real. Sometimes it's getting pulled into a game world magically (Rachel Aaron's Forever Fantasy Online, Aleron Kong's The Land). Sometimes it's getting uploaded into a game world (James Hunter's Viridian Gate Online, Dakota Krout's Ritualist). Sometimes it's a game world and a magical world getting cross-linked (James Hunter's Rogue Dungeon, Drew Hayes' NPCs). 3. Books where the world is just the world, but it runs like a RPG (video) game. People have classes and levels. Frequently they have an inventory, go on quests, gain experience. People will even see pop-up notifications and see and navigate menus only they can see related to their classes and abilities. Frequently there are dungeons full of monsters. Anything by Jonathan Brooks usually falls into this category. Full Murderhobo by Dakota Krout. 4. Books where the world is basically a game world, but the rough edges have been sanded off. You basically have classes, levels and experience but the author attempts to justify it with the metaphysics of the world. You don't have explicit quests or popups or anything like that, but you may still have dungeons and adventurers. Dakota Krout's Dungeon Born is a good example of this.
- bradleyy 5y ago
  Thanks for the recommendations, I'm going to try out the Murderhobo Series, because I'm /greatly/ amused by the name.
  - saalweachter 5y ago
    It's only on book 1 of N, but Krout is one of the modern machine authors who puts a book out in some ongoing series or another two or three times a year. Not the artisan wordsmith of your Rothfuss or Martin, but an enjoyable storyteller who gets the job done.

You could check out https://www.royalroad.com/ https://www.royalroad.com/ which is a site where people upload web novels. Most novels there aren't really good, but every once in a while you can find something great. And they are free to read. I'll recommend 4 novels: Vainqueur the Dragon: pretty good and it is completed although I never finished it. Path of the Dragon Mage: also good, the author uploads about 10 new chapters with around 2k-2.5k words each month. Arrogant Young Master Template A Variation 4: a great LitRPG and Xianxia parody. But it is in indefinite hiatus with no news from the author. The Power of Ten: In my to-read list. What you can often do is read the first 5 or so chapters of a novel and see if you like it. After all, they are free. There are also lots of reviews. Another place you could look in is: https://www.webnovel.com/tags/system-novel https://www.webnovel.com/tags/system-novel although I haven't really checked it out and I think later chapter of the novels are locked.

saalweachter 5y ago

There's basically four flavors of LitRPG. 1. Books where the main character is a person playing a (VR) game. Travis Bagwell's Awaken Online is a good example of this. 2. Books where it starts off as a game, but then becomes real. Sometimes it's getting pulled into a game world magically (Rachel Aaron's Forever Fantasy Online, Aleron Kong's The Land). Sometimes it's getting uploaded into a game world (James Hunter's Viridian Gate Online, Dakota Krout's Ritualist). Sometimes it's a game world and a magical world getting cross-linked (James Hunter's Rogue Dungeon, Drew Hayes' NPCs). 3. Books where the world is just the world, but it runs like a RPG (video) game. People have classes and levels. Frequently they have an inventory, go on quests, gain experience. People will even see pop-up notifications and see and navigate menus only they can see related to their classes and abilities. Frequently there are dungeons full of monsters. Anything by Jonathan Brooks usually falls into this category. Full Murderhobo by Dakota Krout. 4. Books where the world is basically a game world, but the rough edges have been sanded off. You basically have classes, levels and experience but the author attempts to justify it with the metaphysics of the world. You don't have explicit quests or popups or anything like that, but you may still have dungeons and adventurers. Dakota Krout's Dungeon Born is a good example of this.

bradleyy 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendations, I'm going to try out the Murderhobo Series, because I'm /greatly/ amused by the name.
- saalweachter 5y ago
  It's only on book 1 of N, but Krout is one of the modern machine authors who puts a book out in some ongoing series or another two or three times a year. Not the artisan wordsmith of your Rothfuss or Martin, but an enjoyable storyteller who gets the job done.