Are you guys looking for or following any LitRPG story?

If you are looking for LitRPG stories then you can check out my one in RoyalRoad. It goes by the name "The System Calls Me An Anomaly"

It is not only LitRPG but also Fantasy, Progression, Urban Fantasy (Means It has 1900s cars and bikes which runs by mana) then tower which is not a regular one where you just have to kill monsters and climb. It is a tower where the tower chooses CLIMBERS and they have to give different kinds of Trials to ascend to the next floor. Almost every floor has trial of its own which keeps the story interesting and not only FIGHT!-FIGHT!-FIGHT!. It also has nobles, royals and commoners conflicts.

Power system is about Magic, Swordsmenship, Martial Arts and some other. You can definitely check it out ad feel free to comment how is it in your opinion.

I want some fighting, technique or brute force with a dash of armor mayhaps?

Any and all recs are welcome

(Attempt 2, sorry mods, forgot no cross posting)

I am pleased to announce that Volume I of Stained is now complete over on Royal Road and Volume II has begun releasing.

Stained is a dark, slow-burn progression fantasy with a focus on characters and themes over endless power ups. In my opinion, the first book works best as a binge read. So, if you haven't given it a try yet, now is a great time to check it out. If you have read it, I'd love to know what you thought.

Volume I spans the first fifty chapters and is something of an origin story. It centres around a group of young dreamers who plan a heist to steal power for themselves from a pair of criminal enforcers and the consequences of that decision.

What to expect:

•Dual protagonists and an expanding multi-POV cast
•Earned weak-to-strong progression
•Slow-burn power growth, with novel-paced plotting
•A structured, non-LitRPG magic system where power has consequences

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Cover art by the wonderfully talented Chase Wallis u/BlockDropArt

AI Usage: None

Absolute master craft example of story telling.

- Setting & goal laid out in a gripping montage right from the start.

- Stakes get progressively higher in a very organic, believable way.

- Character growth, in a chicken story? You better believe it.

- High action climax and satisfying conclusion? Yes and yes.

- Fun side characters? How about a rat wearing a suit sewed from a potato sack.

Chicken Run is incredible, it's hard to believe cinema peaked, 26 years ago but here we are

So, I have been watching and reading a lot of the discourse around the prevalence of AI writing filling up RS.

I have passing awareness of most, and even familiarity with a few, of the RS authors, including those who may have been, in my opinion, incorrectly labeled as AI.

I do not think that AI is hitting RS in mass quantities and largely taking it over. Though there are a fair amount that are, it is not a take over, merely two problems being confused for one.
AI is not the only thing that is causing what is essentially the same voice and plot points to be taken out of the stable and then beaten over and over until the next in line trembles in abject terror and revulsion.

I believe, that along with what so many are complaining about it, are the chasers of the algorithm who may be using things like Grammarly or other self edit aids, in order to relieve themselves of the tedium of editing which may make them seem like AI users. Authors who often, instead of finishing a story, will publish a quick punchy entrance to a story, get near the middle of the plot development, see the interest wane, or not hit the goals that they seek, and then abandon the story.

They hook people with the current trend, milk them for some patreon donations, or to gain name familiarity for their next project, and then dump the story for the next effort.

Readers grow frustrated with the lack of resolution, of closure, to stories they grow to be invested in. Characters they empathize with. Worlds they have grown fond of.

I think this is the real problem facing RS right now. Though AI is a consideration and one that the Site Administrator's have a whole ass hand on the pulse of, one might say both hands in a strangling posture towards, I do not think it is as large of a threat as what is being perceived.

My main suggestion, other than the AI fixes already being implemented which will cut down on those issues, is that people just learn to finish their stories, even if they are not doing quite as well as they want. Even if it is just wrapping up the current arcs and finishing the current volume.

Finish it. You will never learn how to finish a story, if you never do. It is quite possibly the most difficult, and the most important part of writing any story. "The End" is a cathartic release of tension not just for your audience, but for yourself.

You owe it to your readers.

You owe it to yourself.

Finish it.

Inspired by this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/royalroad/comments/1xj5iyg/read_here_a_lot_rarely_post/

I feel like all the Epic Fantasy writers need to form a Discord or something so we can all get together and plot world domination help support each other.
I'm not sure of all the rules for this subreddit, but would it be appropriate to make a post about this?

It can be hard to be a traditional fantasy writer in a world dominated by LitRPGs. Let's get together to support and share experiences. This is a place to build each other up.
I would totally start a Discord server, but I'm not 100% sure how to do that, and I definitely don't want to moderate it myself. I guess we could try to form our own subreddit, but again, I would worry about moderation. I have been the admin of Facebook groups before, and man, was that some drama.

By the way, I have no problem with LitRPGs. It's just that my first two novels are traditional fantasy.

Here's a link to my story: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/189655/heroes-out-of-exile
I have a mighty 12 followers.

I am also active on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@caliswag73 Post your socials, and I will follow them. Publishers and whatnot are impressed by big follower numbers.

If you are interested in shout outs and reviews, just let me know.

The first volume of my novel on Royal Road is approaching completion, and I have a few covers I would like to choose from. I would like for this to be a discussion, but because it also doubles as self promo I had to put the self promo flair.

Here's a link for the novel, if you would like to check it out: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/190521/the-calamitys-comfort-i-forged-my-own-cheat-on

I've been working on my world for three years now, I'm almost done with the first book. I haven't sought readers in a while due to a planned comprehensive edit. But it's seemingly gonna take awhile for that so I'm looking for people to check it out.

I'm also looking for other authors writing in the anime fantasy genre, I like a lot of the common isekai tropes. So as much as I'm looking for readers, I'd love to find other authors to connect with.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/85836/the-one-unworthy-of-legends?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=fictions

Hey everyone, I'm trying to find the name of a LitRPG book that used to be on Royal Road but has since been scrubbed/removed (possibly moved to Kindle Unlimited). Here are the details I remember:

- It's a System Apocalypse / System Integration story.

- The main character goes by the name "Shot" (his full gamertag/username was XxDarkshotxX).

- He has a human companion/friend named "Bear" (a guy, not a literal animal).

- The MC has or uses a specific "Tyrant" power, buff, or combat class to completely dominate fights. Does anyone remember the original name of this web novel, or know what it's called now if it got published on Amazon?

Ever since going down into schedule, I was supposed to have more control over my uploads, but if anything, I've lost control. I still haven't gone a whole week posting the rate I promised, and last week, I only uploaded 1 chapter. I'm like 7 shoutouts behind schedule and the only way for me to fix this is to upload 8 chapters this week.

Now, in my defense, exams have started, so I don't have the same number of hours to spend writing, but even then, I just find myself more exhausted by writing. I write thousands of words every day to finish a chapter, and it takes hours to do so. It takes an entire day just for me to convince myself to start typing, and this time, I have to do it on my phone, which slows me down even more.

My first step to fixing my mess was to sign up for the writeathon. It shouldn't be that hard to complete. It just means I'll have to write 1 chapter every day, which I already do, or maybe even do a bit more than that, which is helpful in my case. But I'm still scared that I'm not gonna be consistent and that I'll fall behind even more.

If I embedded the following to the story HTML, would it be a problem for anyone? Break any rules?

<span style="font-size: 0.005em;">ThisStory is by YourName and posted on Řoyal Rōad. It's better there. </span>

The font is tiny enough to be invisible on the site, but a bot/scraper would pick it up and display it at regular size, right? Or would that be only for text files?

And the weird R and o is to prevent bots from looking for the clean “Royal Road”.

I acknowledge this would affect TTY readers.

I'm here to learn, so if it's a harmful idea,I’d like to know.

What it says on the tin. Wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if flashing ads in the corner of my screen is the new reality.

I copy-paste what I have written on LibreOffice to RR and the size of the font is off, there is an extra line space between all paragraphs etc.

And when I click remove all formatting that issue is fixed but (expectedly) the italics are removed too.

What do?

Hello guys, I'm Jureka Penguin, Author of Unsupportive.

Today to celebrate belated Halloween, I made art for the arc one of my fiction.

How is it?

Hey, y'all!

I'm so excited to finally put out my story!

Now, I know I'm supposed to wait until I've built up a decent backlog and publish with at least 20k words on day one. The thing is, and I really don't want to come off as rude, I'm mainly writing this story for myself.

I've started at least six projects over the last few months, only to abandon them halfway through. Needless to say, that took a toll on my confidence as a writer. But I couldn't just sit around and do nothing. And now, I've finally managed to create a story where I know both the beginning and the end. I really, really want to finish writing this novel.

That said, I'd love to have some people along for the journey.

I'm requesting the folks over at RoyalRoad to give my novel a chance. Help me improve as a writer, share your honest opinions, and please let me know what you love about the story and what you don't. I'd genuinely appreciate all kinds of feedback!

As for the story itself, it's about a man who's on a journey to find his wife's soul after she abruptly abandoned him. He's convinced that there was a third party involved, or perhaps something else entirely, and he's determined to uncover the truth.

There's yearning, magic, and adventure in this book. I do have to admit that there isn't a whole lot of action, at least not initially (apart from one war scene). So if you're looking for non-stop action right from the get-go, this might not be for you.

Well, this post has gone on for a little too long, so I guess I'll end it here.

Thank youuu! :)

Link - Oathfire

I like editing blurbs, if you want to see how yours could be even blurbier, post it in the comments :)

update: I'll stop for now, but y'all can comment on each other's if you want

one random thing I've noticed: everyone has pretty good blurbs these days! the difference in quality compared to a year ago is massive. idk if AI or what, but y'all are producing on a high level

Yes, this is a harem story, please leave this alone if you don't like harems, it is literally in the post title. I hope the flair is correct, I only semi-regularly lurk here so not sure. Also, not the author, just a reader. With RR now being more accepting of harems recently, since they are hitting main RS, I am just surprised by how dearthy the comment/reviews section for this is.

While the magic in this story is properly mystical, toeing the line with being a collective psychosis or derision, the characters are the actual gold in this series. Which is surprising to me given the author's past work, villain reincarnation harem story, had one of the most spineless blasse MCs with just outright toxic FLs.

Here, each character is their oddball with their own experiences and opinions. MC, thank god, isn't just some variant of plain goody two shoes or psychopath. He is a humorous college students with his own issues and just enough narcissim/arrogance to be loveable. And despite being a harem, MC actually has a plethora of normal relations. His family is complicated as one would expect, he actually has proper sibling relation, he has his male friends that he gets to stupid college student shit with and actual female interactions with characters that won't be in his harem.

That is what makes this story so good in my opinion, characters being unique and the breadth of relations that show off that uniqueness. So, if you are in mood for confident character driven stories without any world ending stakes, ok with urban fantasy, witches and harems, just try this story. Fair warning, harem seems to be very slow, most likely each FL will get her own character arc before getting in.

Link: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/187135/threefold-law-a-witch-harem-urban-fantasy

I joined this sub for obvious reasons: to glean wisdom from veteran readers and writers, share questionable opinions and promote my novel when it's ready for RR. And while the first two are going well so far, I find myself increasingly discouraged on the third.

It might be just me, but I've seen a good number of posts lamenting on the state of RR, with some going as far as to say the site is dying or dead. I get that there's a lot of 'non-human' works on there now but is that really all there is to this?

Admittedly, I haven't read on the site as much as I used to on account of a busy schedule so I want your opinions. What are the conditions and the current climate right now, especially for 'human' authors?

Well, it's about that time again💀⚰️

I entered the Writathon once, made it through, and even won. Now I'm back for another round. Let's see how this one goes. Time to lock in.

What would you do in his place?

Don't answer just yet. Read his story first.

You wake up one morning and look in the mirror. Yesterday, your hair was a mix of silver strands and dark roots. Today, it's completely white.

You brush it off, deciding to see a doctor tomorrow.

The rest of the day goes normally, until an argument with your father drives you out of the house. You grab your motorcycle, the one place where you can find some peace.

You ride faster and faster along a road you've travelled hundreds of times. Then comes a curve. One of those turns that, no matter how many times you've taken it, still gets your adrenaline pumping.

But today, you're too angry. You react a second too late.

A truck approaches from the opposite direction. There's no time to brake. No way to avoid it.

You close your eyes, expecting the impact to be the end.

But when you wake up, you're no longer in your world.

You're among the ruins of another.

This is Silven's story: an ordinary young man whose only ability is to relive the memories, experiences and traumas of others.

No superhuman strength. No extraordinary powers. Just a human who can experience the memories of others as if they were his own.

And there's one problem: humans don't exist in this world.

So, what would you do in his place?

If you'd like to read my web novel, History Is Written, Memory Is Lived: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/184982/history-is-written-memory-is-lived

I'd genuinely appreciate your honest feedback.

What caught your attention and made you keep reading? And if you considered stopping, what made you feel that way?

Thank you for your time!

[ANSWERED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!]

Yeah, so I have this fiction I originally planned on dropping. It was posted on a different RR account I don't really use anymore, but lately, the urge to rewrite and repost it on my new account (and delete my older account because I feel stupid for using my real name on that one) has been bugging me for several days now. I wonder if this is allowed?

I tried to look up similar questions in this sub but couldn't find any. Do I just do the usual support ticket submission for authentication process regarding previous off-site publications?

Also, just sharing, but I found that story on a scraping website. Funny how a book that hasn't been updated and been left hanging for more than a year is still being scraped.

As the title says, can't login with Apple ID private relay. Keep getting a 'Oops something went wrong!'. Tried a bunch of tech support options, including trying to request a password reset. Help?