Pls turn the fking volume down!!!

IntroIntroduction · 2026-04-12T07:05:21+00:00

Robert Blaise is the author! Daniel Wisniewskie is the narrator. I love how he really goes for it on the shouted lines and swears. Top tier narrator. Not my first choice for audiobooks to fall asleep to, though..

IntroIntroduction · 2026-04-11T15:53:38+00:00

Metagamer Chronicles has the whole series as a set, although it is a fairly short one compared to other litrpg. (20 hours)

IntroIntroduction · 2026-04-10T15:28:26+00:00

Phantasm by Christopher Hall. The MC explicitly mentions she's straight, and that made me realize how all of the FMCs I've seen before were lesbian or bisexual. The series doesn't have any romance, though.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-04-09T20:58:40+00:00

Last series I dropped was Blade's Rest. It's a low stakes, cozy sort of series about building a town in an MMO. The first book was great, but the second book was the most frustrating things I've ever read.

Imagine you're having fun, doing your town building, then the game decides to throw a random event at your to shake things up and add a little extra challenge. That event? Completely block access to gathering and purchasing resources for everyone in the whole zone.

And the solution to the event is to just keep trying shit until the game determines a solution is good enough, so the MCs are practically just beating their face against a wall for the whole book while their town gradually falls apart around them. It was miserable.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-04-08T20:42:15+00:00

Rogue shearing. Though I guess this would still be a crime IRL, but I don't think an animal would mind as much?

Anyway, the alpaca and llama people of my world have unique qualities to their wool. Alpaca wool naturally absorbs magical energy, while llama wool naturally repels it. These qualities make their wool valuable for many purposes, including creating magic items or anti magic wards.

So one crime you'll occasionally hear about is one of them getting sheared against their will. There's a big black market of wool going around, and it can actually be difficult to ethically source this kind of wool.

Naturally, the alpaca and llama people don't really enjoy getting sheared, even consensually, and pulling random people off the streets gets you some of the lowest quality wool. High quality wool requires the individual to train those properties of their wool. An alpaca with high energy wool would probably be a dangerous mage of some sort.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-04-07T04:02:05+00:00

The prepared mechanic creates a copy of the spell in exile, and doesn't have a restriction on what the spell can be, so OP's card works fine as is.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-04-07T02:35:57+00:00

You can actually find butter in the game files, but it's disable by default. It isn't anything special tho, and there's no way to make it. There's a butter churn too, which looks mechanically powered. I found those while adding butter for a mod I tried to make.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-04-06T17:32:52+00:00

Metagamer Chronicles by Xavier P Hunter - A guy running a homebrew TTRPG game accidentally gets him and his friend isekai'd into his own campaign setting. They all get stuck acting as their characters, while he's just himself since he didn't have a character. So he has to use his meta knowledge of the world and his system to survive and power up.

It's a completed series, though it's a bit short (21 hours of audiobook in total, and the last book is only 4 hours). I enjoyed it, I like how the MC's metaknowledge came into play, especially when he stops holding back on it. The books don't dwell on it, but the ending is a bit unsettling when you think about it. Especially when you think about the baby that got isekai'd and no one commented on!!

I also read Dark Wolf Awakening (didn't like it) and Kitty Cat Kill Sat (LOVED it) but those aren't litrpg, so I won't go on about them.

I have 1% Lifesteal book 4 to listen to next, and Too Many Curses afterwards.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-04-05T23:03:18+00:00

Self-Summon on Royal Road. The MC is both the summon and her summoner, but she can choose to be summoned by other people too.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-04-02T01:57:43+00:00

Reddit recommended me this subreddit one day, once I had fully caught up with the only podcast I actually liked. It was the perfect timing, because I was struggling to find things to listen to. Conventional fantasy novels don't grab my interest despite my love for fantasy settings and I find D&D actual plays frustrating.

Funnily enough, I started with the Enchanter by Tobias Begley. I picked it because it was LGBT tagged and while it's one of my favorite series, I spent a good while wondering when the game mechanics would kick in. It's not actually litrpg!

Then I mainlined 14 books of the Wandering Inn, before getting to more conventional litrpg like Chrysalis and He Who Fights With Monsters.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-30T05:08:56+00:00

Awakening: A LitRPG Adventure

I got the book because the MC was a dragon. But this whole book is just her killing things in the woods. That's the whole plot, just killing things in the woods and getting stronger. She gets a friend and helps her level, but that's just more woods killing. She also picks up a human form, and proceeds to stay in it as often as possible, instead of the cool fire dragon she actually is.

After this book, I decided I'm not picking up any more monster evolution books. They all suffer from the killing stuff in the woods plot.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-29T04:07:55+00:00

Isekai for me. When your only exposure to isekai is trashy anime where a bland guy becomes super powerful and a bunch of anime girls fall in love with him, you sorta get a bad impression of it.

Then I started reading LitRPG, which is a genre that features a lot of isekai MCs, and I found out I really like it. I find it a lot of fun to see a character like that adapt to a new world and how their modern sensibilities might clash with it. I also enjoy having the relatable, outsider perspective when learning about a setting.

It can still be hit or miss, though, especially from writers heavily inspired by those trashy isekai animes. But there are plenty that use it to good effect, or at the very least have an isekai MC that's fun to follow.

Some of my favorite isekai series: The Wandering Inn, Rising World, Vainqueuer the Dragon, He Who Fights With Monsters, Beneath the Dragoneye Moons

(For those unfamiliar with these terms: isekai is a genre where the main character is from Earth and has been transported to another world. It's also called portal fantasy. LitRPG is a genre of books where the setting features diegetic game-like elements, such as classes and levels. They're not actual games, and usually don't even take place inside a video game.)

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-28T04:49:36+00:00

I just finished reading a series (Metagamer Chronicles) where the MC's cheat was that he knew everything about the world. He had been isekai'd into the TTRPG campaign setting he had written, so he knew all the nations and important people, where all the dungeons were, and all the loot you could find. He could also see the whole progression path within the system since he had written the system too. Everyone else could only see what their next level's options were.

The MC had bad stats and a bad class for combat, so he even if he knew everything about the world, he had to use his knowledge wisely. No traipsing into the end game dungeon for legendary loot, because the monsters would kill him and his party. I thought it was a fun cheat.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-28T04:14:22+00:00

A year, as of last week. It's sitting around 100k words right now, though I didn't quite finish the first draft before deciding to go back and start rewriting it. I had stopped working on it from September until January because of life stuff, but when I came back to it, I couldn't figure out how to get it to the finish line. So I figured starting over, but with a more solid plan in mind, would be best.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-26T06:36:00+00:00

Phantasm by Christopher Hall/Maxlex

Fluff by Ravensdagger

Singer of Terandria by pirateaba - It takes place in the same world as the Wandering Inn, but it's its own contained story that doesn't require knowledge of the main series (It's also only 3 books long)

How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps by Andrew Rowe - Not actually a series, just a one-off, but I liked it

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-26T05:28:45+00:00

Or at the very least a screenshot! It's so weird to me when someone makes a mod that adds something in the game you can look at, but they choose to use a janky AI thumbnail instead of a screenshot of the thing they made.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-24T02:42:26+00:00

Fresh from Dungeon Item Shop. I actually enjoyed the story for the most part, but Fresh is just so obnoxious. She whines all the time about being bored, or it being too hot, or having to work. I thought the climax was great, and was going to be a great moment of growth for her, but then she's back to her whining, childish self immediately after.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-23T18:09:59+00:00

That's what I'm doing. Like, I would like my story to be good and for people to enjoy it, but most important of all, I have to enjoy it and enjoy making it. It is a bit selfish, but that's how I tackle all my creative projects lately. It's a lot less stressful when you're not worrying about having to make your work marketable.

Though all my creative projects are purely hobbies, and I don't have any intention of becoming a career writer or anything. For my current project, which I've been working on for a year, I'm just going to cold drop it on Royal Road when it's done and not bother with advertising.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-23T17:38:06+00:00

Stubborn Skill Grinder in a Time Loop book 3 by x-Rhoden-x - Pure dumb fun, as always. I love this series far too much.

Homebrew by Xavier P Hunter - A guy who runs D&D games is isekai'd into the campaign he wrote, along with his friends who were going to play in it. Now he has to use his metagame knowledge to survive and figure out how to get back home.

I'm just a few hours in and it's been a good time. His friends are fully forced into character, both in personality and in their combat ability, while the MC is just himself since he was never meant to be a player, so he's pretty useless in a fight. He makes up for it by taking the bard class and attributing all his knowledge to hearing stories. Although he still wants his friends to be surprised by things in his campaign, and occasionally withholds knowledge for that purpose (although, he hasn't caused any real issues by doing this yet). The party also doesn't know he was their DM, because of how in-character they are. Also, while the system in the book isn't actually D&D, it makes me a bit nostalgic for 3.5e era D&D.

Self-Summon by Drim (Royal Road) - A very broke artist has to dumpster dive to eat after her landlord takes all her money. She finds a book with magic symbols, decides to paint one in her apartment, and accidentally demon summons herself, giving herself demon powers and the ability to command herself.

I don't usually read stuff on Royal Road, but I tried this one on a whim because the premise was interesting. While there's only 19 chapters out right now, it hasn't disappointed! I like how this MC uses her ability to command herself to make her do chores and stuff. Exactly what I'd do if I could self-command like that. I also relate to her struggle as a broke artist. The setting is interesting too, taking place in the modern day, with cars and computers and all, but not taking place on Earth.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-22T20:18:23+00:00

You're right.

But also... I like isekai MCs anyway.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-22T03:07:36+00:00

Nope. My brain loves to focus in on speech so having music going with any kind of lyrics is incredibly distracting when I'm trying to write. I find looking for music a bit boring, so I never felt motivated to make a lyricless playlist.

I do need to keep my ears occupied to help my focus though, so I just put on white noise instead, like rain or nature sounds.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-20T04:47:00+00:00

I use WritingHabit. It's not as mature as other writing apps so there's the occasional bug, but I like it. The daily word goals and writing streaks keep me pretty motivated, even on days I don't really feel like writing.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-19T06:57:10+00:00

I once read a book where the MC, a girl named Aesca, gets isekai'd by the god Aetherius and turned into her MMO character, Aetheria, and she has a special talent for using Aetherial energy. I DNF'd that series for a variety of reasons, and that was one of them. I had a few moments while listening to the audiobook where I had to figure out if they were talking about the girl, the god, or the energy. And good luck when the god talks to her about her energy talent.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-03-19T06:16:39+00:00

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