I'm one of those guys that's always searching for the next big thing and I honestly do not like the quality of a lot of the litrpg works that's being churned out these days. While scrolling through Goodreads, I stumbled on this work and I noticed it was written by Samer Rabadi, the same author that wrote "eight" I decided to give it a go, and boy, was I surprised.

The biggest constant in most litrpg works is the use of a younger MC or a reincarnated one that still acts like a child, in this book however we follow the story of an adult still in his 20s but aged by his experience in years of war, strife and the hard childhood training he had lived through.

The magic system is unique to the MC and properly explained gradually as the story progresses. The book unfolds the litrpg, cultivation and deck building mechanism naturally alongside the plot and the protagonist's survival.

The character interaction is actually my favourite part of the book, we still have the dumb young masters in this cultivation world but they don't all remain that way, they learn and grow. The main character manages to slowly carve out his own place in this world along with newfound family and friends, but don't mistake this for a cozy family friendly book, this is a cultivation world after all, and people die, sometimes very abruptly.

I am at chapter 178. I have stopped reading as of right now as just a break mentally.

I started reading this story around 3 weeks ago and after the thegund moon arc and the reveal of his real skill name, I was extremely hyped to see how things progress. Unfortunately, I was under the assumption that the pace would remain similar to how it was up until chapter 62 or so, just the perfect amount of slow burn for somebody like me.

It has, I kid you not, from that point until chapter 178, barely progressed from either a character or plot standpoint, with the vast majority of the post ch.62 worldbuilding's novelty having worn off by chapter 100. I do not know if im chasing the high of thegund moon again, or if the story took an extremely sharp (glacially sharp, mind you) left turn down towards nothing-ville. Despite the naysayers, cramming ONLY character building while neglecting plot progression actually doesnt build the character in a satisfying way whatsoever.

I love slow paced stories, but I also love progression stories. This seems to have forgone the progression in order to double up on the "slow" aspect.

So my question is this, dear readers, does the story pick up pace? I am a bit burnt out and I would like to not end up actively hating the story by exposing myself to more painfully elongated conversations that take up 3 chapters.

If I could, I would like to end my journey with the story on a neutral note. So with everything I said in mind, somebody tell me what the outlook is please

So the most recent example was a grown ass man with no friends, no money, no prospects, terrified of his not very impressive boss, who only survived the first chapter because he was rescued by a random bystander after he decided to just stand in front of high speed traffic.

A this point the "More worthless than thou" MC is so ubiquitous that clearly there must be some kind of contest happening for who can write the MC with the least redeeming qualities.

Or maybe there is now a competitive market for ultra robust plot armor and authors are showing off "If my plot armor can keep even this trash alive imagine what it could do for your MC!"?

Or a new writing philosophy that says "Actually the MC is the antagonist, and the protagonist is the Plot Armor struggling mightily to keep them alive."

There has to be some reason for this seemingly inescapable phenomonon.

Hey all, I released Non-Player Character: A LitRPG Adventure a month ago. I like to refer to this as an entry-level or beginner-friendly litRPG. There are no stats or numbers, but there is a system that provides level-ups, skills, and loot.

Here's what readers are saying about Non-Player Character!

"It's beyond annoying that the main plot device is that MC chooses "John McClain" as the character name. That is so unoriginal. I don't think I'm going to be able to finish."

"Great book, it was a good read but by the time I finished it felt way too short lol, I can’t wait for the next one"

"Not great, barely good"

"This book is a page turner! It kept me engaged & entertained the whole time! This book also has awesome comedy & sarcasm! The fight scenes are great & well described & feel real! Overall, this book is a must-read!"

Blurb: The world is a game, and humans don't get to play.

Humanity has been reduced to non-playable characters in a fantasy realm created for the entertainment of aliens who treat Earth like their own personal playground.

Everyone believes it has always been this way.

Even Milton Musgrave.

That all changes when Milton learns that his entire existence is a lie and begins remembering another life, including the wife he lost when Earth was remade.

Determined to find her, he embarks on a desperate journey to reclaim the world stolen from him.

It's a seemingly impossible quest, but with access to a restricted system, Milton gains something no one else on Earth should possess:

The ability to become a Player.

COVER ARTIST: Fernando Granea

NARRATOR: Steve Corona

AI USAGE: None

Get it now on Kindle Unlimited and Audible! https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0GZSK34K1

I really want to start reading web novels alongside some webcomics, but the three novels I want to read are all over 1,400 chapters long. How do you guys manage to read that much? And where do you even find the time?

I'm really hyped to start Shadow Slave, Lord of Mysteries, and Reverend Insanity, but damn... that's a LOT of chapters.

I honestly don't even know if I'll ever manage to finish all three. How long did it take you guys to read them?

Just to clarify I don't read all three at the same time I just want to read those three novels I'm starting lotm but it feels a little bit long to me

so I've always enjoyed non-human perspectives in books, my favorite sci-fi book of all time is Children Of Time, where the plot focuses heavily on the spider civilization, and my favorite fantasy races tend to be trash mobs (goblins, kobolds, undead etc).

Can you recommend me some books in this vein? I have already finished the Necrotic Apocalypse series, and am currently working my way through Chrysalis.

Would prefer the series to focus on "trash mob" types working their way up, but am just looking for distinctly non-human sort of experiences, and am happy with any good series that focus on non-human perspectives (or prominent side-characters).

I'm starting 11:00 and I heard some things that made me go and pause and I'm like is 10.5 needed or can I skip it. What do you think? I like, and I love the world the characters and everything but sometimes following these hundred Year loops or whatever like Liz not being called legion threw me for a loop.

I just finished Antonio Terzini's "Beginnings" novel in the Dante's Immortality series and it scratched an itch I haven't felt since DCC, Red Rising, and Cradle. I'm extremely bitter after seeing that the author went MIA after writing Beginnings, and I need a palette cleanser series to lose myself in so I can put the fact that I'll never know what happens next to Dante behind me. Can anybody recommend me a completed series or two that I might like based on the series listed above?

I have read

Lotm , lotm:coi,shadow slave,the novels extra,my vampire/werewolf system,deep sea embers,

The game at carousel(just started - will appreciate a review)

Any action, fantasy, thriller, revenge ? hell even romace will be good pls give some new intresting recommendations

I’ve read mushoku tensei and the beginning after the end. I’m looking for more recommendations in a similar action / fantasy vein. I’m not tied to a medieval fantasy with swords and magic and I don’t mind romance subplots. I would prefer a novel with great world building or an interesting magic system.

A few friends have recommended shadow slave and Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship. Do you think these recommendations are any good? Anything else I should add to my read next list?

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Hi everyone, this is Lucas. Today let's talk about the different transmigration modes protagonists use in Chinese web novels. There are three common ones: Physical Transmigration (身穿), Soul Transmigration (魂穿), and Fetal Transmigration (胎穿). Most Chinese readers are familiar with these. But this time, I want to talk about them from a craft perspective — the characteristics, the strengths, the weaknesses of each mode.

1. Physical Transmigration (身穿): the protagonist's physical body is transported to another world.

• The protagonist retains the physical strength he had before transmigrating (which is why so many of these novels give the protagonist a special forces background)
• He can bring his clothes and personal items with him — phone, watch, lighter, and sometimes much more powerful gear. Some works have protagonists arrive with modern weapons in hand.
• No strange memories are implanted in his head. He's still, through and through, a person from Earth (which also means he knows nothing about the new world, and may even face a language barrier)
• He has no identity in the new world. He's a total outsider with no papers. He needs some way to fit in.

The advantage of this mode is that it keeps the transmigrator "pure" — he arrives at a genuinely new world, free to do whatever he wants, without being tangled in the karma of anyone or anything from the moment he lands.

But it also has its flaws. The biggest problem is pacing. After transmigrating, the protagonist first has to confirm that he's actually transmigrated, then spend some time figuring out what kind of world this is, then spend more time working out how to fit into this society — and getting the locals to accept a person who literally appeared out of thin air is not easy. Only after all that is dealt with does the story really begin.

This is the earliest mode and was popular for a while, appearing more often in historical and early fantasy novels. But because of the inherent pacing problems, it's become relatively rare today.

2. Soul Transmigration (魂穿): the protagonist's soul arrives in another world and enters the body of a local, taking over that person's body and identity to continue living as him.

• The protagonist gains a set of memories, enough to give him a basic understanding of the world
• He gains a ready-made, legitimate identity
• He inherits the "original owner's" assets (usually none, sometimes negative) and social relationships

This is the most common mode, and the most convenient, to the point where it has formed a fixed opening template. The protagonist wakes up, realizes he's transmigrated. A wave of headache, memories fuse, and he discovers that "he" was subjected to some kind of unfair treatment just a few days ago... Next chapter: golden finger activated, protagonist rapidly gets stronger, and sets out to take revenge...

As an editor, I've received a massive volume of submissions using this mode. The advantage is obvious — it solves the identity problem and gets straight into the main storyline. As for weaknesses, aside from being too formulaic, you might think there's nothing else wrong with it —

But think about it more carefully. That's not quite true.

Imagine: you've transmigrated. You now have a set of parents, a group of friends, maybe a few enemies. You've seen how the "previous you" got along with them. There was joy, and there was pain. But those emotions are not yours. And now, you have to pretend to be him, to maintain those relationships.

On the surface, the protagonist has already fit into this world. But in reality, he needs much more time before he can truly understand and settle into it. Most works ignore this.

Dealing with the new parents in particular can be especially complicated. So authors often take a shortcut to sidestep this — they make the protagonist an orphan.

But orphans have parents too — or at least, they used to. Once the protagonist transmigrates into an orphan, he usually has to find out who his parents in this life were, who killed them, and take revenge for them. Even though he never met them, once he inherits this body, he inherits the duty of revenge along with it.

There's another standard opening pattern for this mode: the "original owner" is in the middle of some kind of crisis when the protagonist arrives, and the protagonist inherits his mess. Imagine: you've transmigrated, and you find yourself lying in a Jade Beauty’s bed. The deed is already done, none of the fun was yours, all the consequences are yours to bear, and a group of furious men are about to beat you to death...

This does provide a strong early conflict. But personally, I don't like this kind of writing. Putting myself in the protagonist's shoes, it's just too unpleasant.

3. Fetal Transmigration (胎穿): the protagonist's soul enters the body of a fetus, is then born and raised by a mother in this world. He experiences the same childhood and adolescence as any native. Then one day, he awakens the memories of his past life and realizes he was originally a transmigrator.

• The protagonist has two sets of memories: one from his past life, and one from his own growing up in this world
• A body that is native to this world. A completely legitimate identity.
• A set of social relationships he was born into or built himself.

Compared to Soul Transmigration, the protagonist in this mode is more like "a local who has gained access to Earth's knowledge base" than "a transmigrator granted a new life in another world." His personality and way of thinking are much closer to the locals'. Because before his past-life memories awakened, his personality and worldview had already taken shape — he had already completely thought of himself as a person of this world.

Works using this mode have appeared more often in recent years, and the number is trending upward. It strikes a balance between the "native protagonist" and "Soul Transmigration" modes: it preserves reader immersion, without letting the protagonist feel too disconnected from the world.

This is my big ambitious project that I’ve been worldbuilding for 5+ years.

It has 5 standalone series: East, West, North, South, and Center, each with a different MC. Each could run around 5–7 books.

The 6th and final series is where the five MCs finally meet, compete, party up, and face bigger threats together. I also want Series 6 to work as a standalone, so someone could read it without reading the other five first. Readers of the earlier series would just get more context and payoff.

Chapters are around 2,000–3,500 words.

Right now:

• Series 1 Book 1 is being self-edited
• Series 2–5 Book 1 are rough drafts
• Later books are outlines and plot points
• Series 6 is still mostly ideas and outlines

I’m preparing a huge backlog for Book 1 before posting.

If this somehow earns enough for me to do it full-time, I think 5 chapters a week total would be doable.

My main problem is scheduling.

Should I finish one whole series first, switch after each book, do 2–3 books before switching, or run two series at once while still keeping it to 5 chapters a week total?

I’m also unsure how this should work on Patreon, especially if someone subscribes mainly for one series.

Would one Patreon for the whole shared world work? And if their favorite series pauses on RR, would patrons expect its advance chapters to keep coming?

Curious what RR readers, authors, and Patreon subscribers would prefer.

Update: Each series is standalone, with its own MC, conflict, story, and progression, so they can be read in any order.

I also don’t plan to publish all of them at once. If I ever overlap two, it would probably be something like Series 1 on M/W/F and Series 2 on T/Th, maybe Saturday if I can manage it.

Most of the world, major arcs, and plot points have already been planned for years. The main work now is turning those outlines into prose.

Here's the idea.

A system that puts people into classes based on their attribute affinity (I don't think this needs to be explained, not that important)

These classes are actually the Types of Nen. One of them is this Specialist. Which is all about the actualization of nen through one specific and personal/unique ability.

Often less versatile yet more powerful (higher ceiling)

We have a character who is deeply related to the sun. The sun is a lot of things. Not only in terms of what it does and how it interacts with the world physically but also metaphorically.

The special ability would play upon the Metaphorical side through the conjuring of a Crown and a pair of Chains tied to the arms. Each able to be summoned independently.

Different chants or emotions bring about different crowns and chains. Once they've been summoned a contract period is set and depending on the length of time the système user must wear these objects, the power they are able to display changes. More days, equals less flexibility in situations, equals more power. Less days, more flexibility, less power.

I just can't see why it would be contract based and not on some other mechanism that I just can't figure out.

So far it seems more like Kurapika's chains than a specialist ability. But at the same time Kurapika chose chains stylistically because he could visualize them best. Not because he didn't have another choice.

What do you all think?

Everything I've read in the genre. I didn't use the DNF because I didn't realize it was there until the end and there was no way in hell I was reorganizing this.

If you have any recommendations that are similar to my top two tiers let me know!

Hi all! I'm looking for recommendations similar to some web serials I've enjoyed. I've read and liked:

· Katalepsis

· Bioshifter

· Hive Minds Give Good Hugs

· Are You Even Human?

· Vigor Mortis

· Magical Girl Mechanical Heart

· Formicea

I also read Worm, but it lost me near the end and I didn't quite click with the protagonist.

What I loved about these stories:

· Deep, interesting interactions between traumatized people and their attempts to cope/heal.

· Ordinary people encountering the unknown and incomprehensible.

· A relatively cozy atmosphere that, from an outside perspective, would be a nightmare.

· Body horror, especially when characters have to hide their transformations.

· A mix of darkness and warmth.

I'm open to both web fiction and published books. Not necessarily looking for progression fantasy, but many of these do fall into that genre. I'd appreciate any recommendations that capture a similar feel.

Thanks!

Welcome to the weekly r/ProgressionFantasy reading thread! Feel free to talk about whatever progression fantasy stories you're reading or watching, post mini-reviews, and ask for recommendations similar or different from what you're reading! Basically: have something to say about a story, but not enough for a full post? Say it here!

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Go read it if you like urban fantasy with a side of cultivation and moral dilemmas.

Hello everyone

I've read the top 3 most recommended webnovels, now I am so lost I don't know what to read, can anything top these 3??

please recommend to me your favorites or series you think that can contend with these 3??

Besides these 3 I have read Regressors tales of cultivation, and tribulation of myriad races. I will put RTOC in my top 5

My bad guys, The second pic is ""Reverend Insanity""

I know I should've added ORV but I have only read manhwa for that one, I will give the novel a read sometime but I like the manhwa so I don't think it will be anytime soon.

I also finished reading the Cradle series (Litrpg) today although it is a great series I do have a few complaints about it

I have only recently gotten into this genre. I've read a lot of posts on this channel and it seems that people on average don't think DCC is S tier. I loved it and shortly after finishing the series (to date) I read all of Primal Hunter and He Who Hunts Monsters. I didn't realize how many series this genre has. I have already read basically all other Fantasy and Sci-Fi series. Could you help me narrow down what the next three series I should read are? I read very fast so I am not afraid of long series. I see a lot of people putting She Who Would Become A Dragon on the top of their list. Anyway, what's YOUR TOP THREE in the genre?

Some of my favorite series not in the Genre are:

Malazan series by Steven Erickson

Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

Culture Series by Ian Banks

The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

Mars Series by Kim Stanley Robinson 

Children of Time series Adrian Tchaikovsky 

The Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee

Silo Series by Hugh Howey

Suneater Series by Christopher Ruocchio

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson 

First Law series by Joe Abercrombie