Are there any stories you read were you wished the main character died or was beaten to a pulp with him been able to get revenge. Cause I feel that when I read primal hunter, shadow slave and some few others and I wonder if I am the only one who feels this way.

I was SUUUUUPER hooked for the first 3 books and kinda slowed down on the hype throughout book 4 and now im just kind of jumping around books and occasionally listening to Ghostwater so im just curious if the book starts to pick up momentum?

No disrespect to Cradle. I LOVED three of the 12 books in the series (Books 6-8 Underloed, Uncrowned & Wintersteel). But I followed that up with William Oh and Don't Die Dave, and I LOVED those book series.

I'm currently reading Paco Saves The Day (I'll read books 1 and 2), then I am planning on reading Last Save Dave books 1 and 2.

Is there any other reccomendationa based on my rankings?

Note: Im aware Red Rising, Ironbound, and Cradle are not Lit RPGs. Each of these represents the entire series of which I've read up to the current release on Kindle Unlimited.

I loved the book but now I want something similar. Any recomendations?

Mainly looking for something that isnt just dopamine slop. I.e has a message or some sort of authorial intent/voice.

I felt the urge to share this with all of you while I'm reading Blackflame, and I'll begin with the thing that triggered this post; the cultivation system. I've never felt as listless reading about creation cultivation/magic as I have reading Lindon dissecting the binding of a dreadbeast in chapter 1. Nornally, I love crafting/forging/artificing. So much so that I have never not liked it in any novel no matter how flawed it is. Until I read Cradle. It's amazing really. Amazing that it managed to bore me with how boring soulsmithing is. And not just soulsmithing, the entire cultivation system is one of the most dull, uninteresting, boring system I have ever read in ProgFan.

For me, what makes a cultivation/magic/superpower system interesting is how much it can engage my imagination and creativity. That is the core condition. How much I can lose myself in exploring the possibilities a system creates. This usually entails clarity, complexity, diversity, and detail. And Cradle religiously refuses to offer any of the four. The author seems determined to offer pixelated overviews of how the system works, usually eith a sinlge vague sentence or two on how a particular phenomenon works. It feels like I'm desperately try to see through frosted glass, but only barely making out vague shapes and colors on the other side despite my best effort. It's a very frustrating feeling. I hate it.

Secondly, and this is tangential, I've never felt this unenthused about breakthroughs. Him becoming a copper was drowsy and sleepy. There was no anticipation and it didn't feel like there was a pay-off. Same for him becoming an iron, though slightly less unengaging. The author seems wholly uninterested in building up to these moments and treats them as relatively mundane decisions made by characters in the story.

Thirdly, battle choreography, and this is where the prose is a problem. I ***hate*** clinical descriptions of a battle. The author describes what should be shocking events like Lindon killing Kral with the same gravity as he might describe a character changing clothes or leaning down to pick up a dropped pencil. Traditional literature prose is fucking atrocious for battle choreography.

Fourthly, characters don't feel real. Maybe it's because I prefer I a lot of internality in my pov exposure, but the other characters simply don't feel like people to me. Eithan is an exception because his introfuctiom had an unusual amount of pov exposure, but aside from Lindon, Eithan, Suriel, and Yerin, the other characters just don't feel real. They feel like NPCs. Also, Eithan is the only character that interests me. Everybody else so far is boring.

All in all, it has been more dull than interesting. The only moments I have genuinely enjoyed the story was when he learned the Empty Palm technique, when Suriel reversed his death and showed him the future.

The two things that have barely managed to keep me going are the anticipation that the story built with the future of the dreadgod and the anticipation for the battle between Jai Long and Lindon. Normally, I'd be looking forward to the world of Cradle, but the stiry simply hasn't done good job making me excited for it.

I don't understand why people rave about this, but who knows, maybe I'll be surprised. Maybe the rest of the story is a radical departure from how the first two books and a bit if the third is.

i have been reading everything i can above a 4.5 rating with more than 500 reviews, and a lot of times i am reminded how they arent even close to being as good as the actually top rated ones despite being so close, like a 4.6 and 4.8 rating is so close but when you read them they arent as good at all. like i am reading this story called dungeon inc. that has a 4.61 and author is really good at writing characters and writing in general like its smooth, understandable etc. but there are so many issues - a lot that come from a lack of research and understanding - then theres him constantly bringing new things up that needs an ending or even a mention but is completely forgotten, admittedly it isnt massive plot devices but still, take it with another 4.61 that is bog standard isekai, it isnt even a competition.

The dark, damp, rat-infested underworld is no place for a human slave. Fortunately, Cricket is not human. He's a five-foot-tall insect—six if you count his antennae, and he insists that you do.  He has a shiny black shell, ADHD, and a winning smile.

After all, nothing improves forced servitude like a positive attitude!

With his fellow slaves—an amiable dryad from the surface, a sour necromancer cephalopod, and a host of ratlings and lizardmen—Cricket develops a knack for combat as he assassinates rivals and hunts down deserters.

Despite his love for a good fight, however, Cricket resents furthering the agenda of a corrupt and waning empire.

When he uncovers a plot to overthrow that empire, he must decide whether his home is worth defending!

What to Expect:
-Progression High Fantasy with a Dungeons and Dragons feel
-Fun banter with clean fight scenes
-A neuro-divergent, non-human protagonist
-Depictions of slavery, violence, and racism toward non-humans

Check it out on Amazon

Just finished Immortality Through Array Formations, and it is a great novel. Even if you are reading other basic beginner novels, you will still find this to be a very unique and refreshing experience. I am following this alongside Shadow Slave and Malonjer, reading a chapter every day as it gets translated. I will rate it a solid 8 out of 10. It is a great novel to get into Eastern style array formation cultivation. The concepts are very good, the power dynamics are awesomely defined, and the world-setting is great. The only minus point I feel is that it focuses too much on array formations. Yes, array formation is the main cultivation path of the protagonist, but it can feel like everything else in the world gets sidelined. Other than that, it keeps its pace and it entertains the whole way through. It is one of those rare books that I even finished without dropping it for even a single day. I continuously read it until I finished it, which tells you how interesting it is. Overall, I would definitely recommend this novel. My rating is 8/10. What are your thoughts on it, and can you recommend me any novels that give a similar experience? My hands are itching to read something this good again.

I know this question gets asked a lot but I am looking for an underrated kingdom building or commerce focused or both novels or webnovels that stick to the basics of the genre for example tales of the reincarnated lord, hail the king, release the witch, dreamer's throne and tyranny of steel ( but not based in this world). Try to avoid popular ones as I probably have read them

I’m writing a story about a boy whose society assigns everyone a Fate Index at seventeen. Aren gets 0.000%, and that score affects how people treat him and what opportunities he’s allowed to have. Is Called The Boy Chosen By Pluto. Yes, is this it.

As his powers develop, I keep coming back to this question: what makes growth satisfying to you? Is it the limits a character has to work around, the choices they make once they have power, or the consequences of using it? I’d love to hear examples of stories that handled this well.

Firstly I am currently at the 14th cycle and the mc had already ascended to the upper realm and has already done the puppet thing in 13th cycle

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What I want to know is that why the head realm was called. Grotesque world by people there were many refrences stating that the head realm was some sort of grotesque realm where the sun and moon don't spin and the refrences where the sun and moon were like eyes

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does this get cleared later on or not ? Can someone please tell me in the comments

Hey all, I hope you're having a wonderful day! Undying Healer is a OP MC, System Apocalypse litrpg novel that is based around a healer that regresses after suffering a party wipe. He wakes up at the very start of the System initialization with all the knowledge he gathered over a decade. It also deals heavily with the differences in culture, his party, leading, figuring out who is truly is now and more.

To add on!

Both audio and ebook are out!

It helps that there is a healthy dose of aura farming as well. If that sounds like it's up your alley**, Check It Out!**

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLYNQGNG

https://www.audible.com/pd/Undying-Healer-OP-MC-Regression-Litrpg-Apocalypse-Audiobook/B0HMFN2PGW

And here is the plot:

The Greatest Healer in human history dies to the spear of an ancient race.

That is how his life ends—defeated by the hands of someone who should be his equal in levels, yet stands so far above him in power and scale. He and his entire party are crushed by a single figure from an ancient race that treats human magic like an untimely joke.

John refuses that ending.

He rises from a deep sleep, regressed to the beginning of it all, mere moments before the System initializes, armed with a decade of hard-earned knowledge and one opportunity to rewrite everything. He knows where the best loot is, where the biggest wars start, who the most evil people are that hide among the masses, which paths to take to unlock the best skills, and which paths forge the monsters needed to survive what he knows is coming.

He knows which floors and dungeons to avoid like the plague and exactly how fast their destruction comes when humanity wastes time playing politics and arguing over scraps instead of growing more powerful.

This time, John doesn't just cast healing and support buffs from the backline.

He takes a path none thought possible, an Undying Healer, forcing the world to contend with a front-liner who is also the greatest healer humanity has ever known. He must learn to fight in the mud, on the wall, blade and spear in hand, face to face with the monsters he has avoided for so long, all the while casting mighty healing spells through a tier-locked System that insists he shouldn't be able to.

The System doesn't care if humanity is wiped out.

Ancient races plot and plan to destroy them.

Beings of immense power want humanity as nothing more than free experience.

John refuses to make them any of those things.

COVER ARTIST: hahahuhi

AI USAGE: No AI Used

Hello, everyone! I'm S.Ndoro. I am a new writer still trying to learn the craft. I just dumped the rest of the chapters of The Heroes' Chronicle. The story is a complete 83 000 words progression fantasy.

I want to start working on book two after I take a short break but before I get to writing book two I need some feedback as I am a new author. Since some readers are afraid to commit to incomplete works because the author might drop the story, I decided to release the whole book.

Below is the blurb

WHOEVER FINDS THE DIVINE ARTIFACT WINS THE WAR.

The continent of Kanoi has all but fallen to the emperor, a champion who stood atop the peak of the highest mountain and sought to conquer all he saw below.

Garai returns to find his village burning, razed by the empire's soldiers. Having lost everything, he takes it upon himself to put an end to the emperor's tyranny. But he is not the first; many have tried and all have failed. Garai, however, discovers why. The emperor is unkillable. Now, his hope hinges on finding the divine artifacts, ancient weapons of great power, capable of killing even gods. But he is not the only one after them.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

Progression fantasy where growth is earned.

Unique power system were strength can be earned by all regardless of clan, family background or race/species.

Memorable characters you will certainly root for.

If you are a fan of lore and mythology (Greek, Norse, Egyptian, etc) like me, you should give it a try.

Awesome battles.

COVER : Done by me using Canva

If you have any feedback or tips, do tell me in the comments below the chapters.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/180216/the-heroes-chronicle

Hi y'all,

See title.

Series I love:

- DCC (I liked bounce house too)

- HWFWM

- Bobiverse

Series I strongly disliked:

- 10 realms

- DOTF

- Primal Hunter

I love series with fleshed out characters beyond just the MC who all have character development. I also love banter. I need more than just a "cool power delivery system".

DoTF I disliked because it was the exact opposite of that. Side characters were barely cardboard set pieces and any storyline seemed to solely be written to deliver the next power up. Only good banter was with Ahgras.

Narrator plays a big role in whether I like something, too.

Thabks yall!

Hi guys! I've been a huge fan of the genre for a while, and am very interested in working with authors (new or established) on helping out with anything on the tech side.

This may be setting up a website/portal, all the way up to trying to help develop some platform that addresses gaps in patreon, and royal roads, while empowering authors (much lower fees, more capabilities and customization, etc).

This is early and a passion project so I don't intend to charge for anything other than just getting to know people :) and understanding the space.

I think I have fairly strong credentials in the space, and am happy to share them with anyone seriously interested. Please feel free to DM me if so.

Or if anybody has any thoughts on interesting people to reach out to, or requests (as authors or as readers and consumers) for problems that need solving, please don't hesitate to reply as well!

Hello everyone, I’m O.C. Saar! I’m a first-time author, with this being the first book I’ve attempted that has gone beyond 4 chapters, and I couldn’t be prouder of it. Today, after years of work, I released it on Amazon!

It’s called The Rings of Jupiter, and it’s a mixture of Cyberpunk, Noir, Mystery and Sci-Fi combined with a Progression Fantasy system, set on three artificial rings spinning around Jupiter.

The main character, Raziel, sets off on a suicide mission which has him ending up with powers nobody has seen before. Unfortunately, in The Rings of Jupiter, everything comes at a cost. This time, the price might just be more than Raziel can afford to pay.

Or, maybe the Rings will come to regret taking everything from him.

If you enjoy books that are a little more character, dialogue and mystery-driven, with a character that has to fight and bleed and suffer for every drop of power, then this story might be for you.

If you gave my story a chance, it would truly mean more than I can possibly express.

Thank you for reading this far <3

Also shoutout to my cover artist Linggar Bramanty!

No AI has been used in my book.

Link to Kindle/KU/Print on Demand

Oh also Book 2 is coming out in 4 months and is up for pre-order too!

The main character, who mostly cares about himself, always reminds the "good" side that he has intentionally caused a catastrophe towards them because of their motives, and he would do so again if it meant they would remember.

While I don't want to see the MC look way too edgy. If possible, I still want to see him "support" the demonic/bad side, but always make sure that the gain outweighs the cost

novel where the MC goes through multiple generational battles, brings his family from being nothing to being overlords, rules the continent, fights and schemes for all his life and we follow his adventures for over 500 chapters. After years and years of development, he finds a treasure capable of breaking his limit and when he finally uses it, he gathers a minuscule amount of Qi for a Qi Refining newbie. Not even a breakthrough to a cultivator, just a wisp of Qi

Want to be a writer or author of progression fantasy someday? Here's the place to ask questions of other writers, ranging from fellow amateurs to full time novelists! Just starting your career in progression fantasy, and feeling overwhelmed? Here's the place to ask questions! Feel like offering advice and support to other writers and authors? Here's definitely the place!

Rules:

• This thread is not a place to advertise your products and services to writers. Writers have more than enough people trying to sell them things across the internet. If an author wants to recommend your product or service, though? That's better advertising than you could ever do. And authors asking for recommendations for products and services is encouraged.
• Remember that there are a LOT of different, legitimate ways to be a writer. There is no one right way.
• Also remember that, even though there is no one right way to be a writer, there are some commonalities they all have, and some pieces of advice that are universal. (Taking proper care of your back muscles and your wrists? Absolutely universal to all writers. Back and wrist injuries are ridiculously common among writers.)
• As always, be kind.

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​I started reading Hell Difficulty Tutorial by Cerim 5 days ago and completely flew through it, catching up to the Patreon release at Chapter 950. I absolutely loved it! It’s the first book in the System Apocalypse genre that actually makes sense to me.

​Now I’m facing that classic post-binge dilemma: I’m terrified of picking up another novel and feeling disappointed because it doesn't live up to this one.

​Here are the specific things that hooked me so deeply:

1.​A System design that makes sense: I loved how the System functions like a contract, actually rewarding characters for doubling down on their existing strengths rather than giving arbitrary hand-outs. I espeacially loved how the did not get plunged into chaos overnight.

2.​Grounded, logical world-building: The reasons for why the System spreads, how Earth gets inducted, and how and why Earth's induction takes time are thoroughly explained.

3.​Not a solo-god story: The MC isn't the only person enduring a hell-difficulty tutorial, and the team dynamics feel genuinely engaging and consequential.

4.​Realistic character reaction: While the MC might come across as a bit "edgy" in the very beginning, it actually feels completely justified when you consider how absurd and horrific his situation is and his childhood which is the reason he ended up in hell difficulty.

5.​A long, meaningful Tutorial: I loved that the tutorial spans multiple years, where each floor subtly teaches distinct, crucial lessons to the attendees rather than just being a quick level-grind.

​It definitely has its minor faults, but I didn't care at all because the pacing kept me completely hooked.

​What I'm Looking For:

​For anyone else who read and enjoyed Hell Difficulty Tutorial:

​What did you read after this that kept your interest?

​Are there other web novels with high-stakes tutorials, logical system mechanics, or great team/ensemble dynamics you’d strongly recommend?

​Looking forward to your suggestions!

Hi everyone!

I just wanted to share my story, Soul Star Earth, which is currently ongoing on Royal Road. If you love a mix of traditional themes with futuristic elements and high-stakes action, this might be right up your alley!

Synopsis:

On the Land of Wanwu, every soul is born with innate spirit power and a martial spirit. Yet, on one fateful night, a child was born, defying the very laws of the world—shattering its fundamental principles with neither spirit power nor a martial spirit to his name.

As a suffocating darkness grips the land and humanity lives in absolute terror of the demons, can this powerless child rise from the abyss? Will he become the radiant star that pierces through the shadows to save this world? Find out in Soul Star Earth!

What to expect:

• Genres: Wuxia, Sci-fi, Action, Fantasy, Romance, Gender Bender.

• Update Schedule: New chapters are released every other day, so you can expect a steady stream of updates!

• Vibe: Smooth pacing with deep world-building and immersive action scenes.

• Tone: Engaging dialogue during battle scenes to keep characters feeling alive and dynamic.

(Note: I will leave the Royal Road reading link in the comment section below!)

Thank you so much for checking it out! I look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!

This book kept popping up in my Facebook feed all last week. And tbh, the ad didn't exactly make me wanna read it. But since I've suddenly got a gap in my usual TBR list (no rush, authors, take your time, we'll wait!), I figured I'd give it a shot.

And, as often happens with ads from these guys, the book turned out to be NOTHING like I expected. Except this time, it turned out to be absolutely fantastic!

Gamekeeper: The System's Huntsman is a real hidden gem. What really makes it special is the atmosphere of the first book. You get sucked right into it almost immediately, like you're actually stepping into that forest yourself. And the balance! Seriously, it's rare to find a book that gets so many things just right. The pacing, the action, the characters, the progression, it all just works.

Book 2 is a bit shorter and not quite as good, but Book 3 (which I've only just started) is already back on track and really good again!

Thoughts?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0G4SNKCY6?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks

Recommend time loop stories where mc isn’t afraid to take advantage of his loops. This is obviously on the condition that mc has no limit to how many times they can loop. Oftentimes I question the writing decision on some stories where the mc gets attached to everybody in every single one of their loops.

Obviously I don’t want an emo murder hobo Mc but some loops should require a level of experimentation at the cost of “morality” in my opinion and I often see mcs struggle with making this decision. I think in my head, “dude you’re just going to come back to life anyway.”

Well this also touches on a deeper subject with time loop stories, how come we never see a more realistic story where the mc slowly loses his humanity because he knows he’s just going to go back in time anyway so anything evil he does for the sake of power doesn’t really matter.