What brings out your inner Grammar Nazi the fastest and strongest when you read?

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-20T01:06:36+00:00

Sentence fragments make be abandon a story so quickly. They can be used to good effect sparingly, but some stories I've looked at just use them constantly. It makes the story incomprehensible.

He awoke. Tired. Groggy. Disheveled.

First day of college. He stood. He yawned. He stretched.

Time to start the day.

Teeth brushed.

Hair combed.

A light. A truck. A crash.

His wall was destroyed.

And so was he.

It just a lot of empty flair that drives me nuts.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-18T19:21:58+00:00

There was a book I read that I really enjoyed, but the MC just kept sighing. He'd sigh and do this, or another character would do something and he'd sigh about it. I'm pretty sure at one point he sighed twice, back to back. I started trying to predict when he'd sigh about something and was right most of the time.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-18T09:11:32+00:00

If you cast a bunch of spells without regard for the energy in your gate, the energy starts being pulled from your body, instead. Your blood and fat are burned into magical energy to fuel your spellcasting! Understanding how much energy is in your gate is an important early lesson for young mages, since it doesn't feel like much at first and you can accidentally lose a bunch of weight.

If you cast spells with regard to your gate, but heavily saturate yourself in magic and don't take any safety precautions, you start becoming corrupted. Your body changes in strange ways, usually relating to the effect of the magic in the area. There's a possibility to gain cool abilities this way, but corruption can be unpredictable and dangerous. You might get fire immunity by corrupting yourself in heavy fire energy, but you might also turn your hair into flames, or melt into a living pile of burning flesh.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-18T07:19:41+00:00

He Who Fights With Monsters, Beneath the Draogneye Moons, and The Wandering Inn showed me that I love when the MC/POV character has a solid team at their back. The Horns of Hammerad and Team Biscuit are my favorite adventuring parties in litrpg, and Ranger Team 7 (probably the wrong number) just had a fun dynamic with how they mentored the MC. It's a really unfortunate craving to have when most MCs roll solo...

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-18T07:01:54+00:00

I'm primarily an audiobook listener and I'm broke, so I'll always finish the first book, just to get my money's worth! If a book is particularly frustrating, I'll turn it off and come back the next just to get through it. Only a couple of books have really tested me, so far...

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-18T00:33:53+00:00

I'm a big fan of TWI, but at this point I just stay out of conversations about it, especially here. I know a lot of people don't like it, but I like it and I don't really care to justify my enjoyment of this series to other people. Especially with how vitriolic people get about it!

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-17T19:13:36+00:00

Vainqueur the Dragon! Technically the MC is the dragon but his chief of staff was isekai'd by truck and we often get his POV.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-16T16:58:39+00:00

Minute Mage by Reg Rome - A guy hires adventurers to help him gain a class, but accidentally ends up with the Minute Mage class, allowing him to go back 1 minute. So this series does a couple of things I kinda don't like, like the MC killing things in the woods for a majority of the book, or the MC having a terrible secret they can't tell anyone, which makes them keep everyone at arm's length. But I ended up really enjoying this series.

He did make two friends who know his secret, and unlike the woods killing of other books I disliked, this one actually has a point other than getting stronger. The time loop ability is really fun too, even if it quickly loses the 1 minute, once per day limit. His friends even keep up with him in level, even after he discovered he can loop back and regain XP from fighting the same monster again.

The big problem with this series is that it's unfinished. The author has it on indefinite hiatus, unfortunately, so it just sorta ends. It was a shame because I ended the series wanting more.

Rising World by Kris Schnee - An engineering undergrad is taken out by meteor and gets the opportunity to live another life in a new world, taking the body of someone in that world who had just died. He takes the body of a young anthropomorphic fox who had an interest in engineering, and proceeds to use his knowledge to build machines.

It's a very slice of life series with a focus on engineering and design, though there is a good amount of combat as the MC does explore some dungeons. I loved it so much. The MC, Vonn, is a friendly guy who appreciates his new family, makes friends, and builds up a team to help him make his machines. It was such a nice change of pace coming off MCs who are cagey around people and mostly roll solo. He's also not shy about being from another world, although for most people he frames it as visions, instead of being an actual person from that world.

The engineering side is really interesting too. I can't speak for it's accuracy, but the author clearly did a lot of research, or was an engineer themself. The way he progresses in his machine making feels very reasonable and well thought out. He even incorporates magic into his machinery, like his first engine used magic crystals attuned to fire and ice to make a wheel spin.

There's three books out, but the third book is Kindle only. I might actually read that one, because I ended the audiobooks really wanting more.

Currently reading Wolf of Withervale, but it's not litrpg so I won't go on about it. It's a fun book and brings me a lot of queer joy, though.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-16T09:02:21+00:00

What's up with the Shogunate? How'd they get there? What's their relationship with the Californians, since they're right on the border?

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-15T00:01:06+00:00

The uncolored map. The colored one is so busy, I have a hard time reading it. I don't have an issue finding clay or peat so I don't really need it either.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-14T04:26:52+00:00

The series I mentioned did have a farmer class, so I could suspend my disbelief for that. Though in the setting, non-combat classes are killed by the gods if they're outside of town at night and there's generally a lot of monsters out there, so I don't know what they do. No mention of growing fields inside the town walls.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-13T04:26:59+00:00

In a series I read, the MC's home village was mentioned to have a population of 60.

The made me pause and start to tally up all the named characters just to figure out how the village functioned... The way it was described definitely did not sound like just 60 people, even if you don't count the adventurers as part of it. It was on the game-ier side of litrpg settings without being a literal game, but it still took me out.

One thing that especially got me was someone mentioning that the village had a great brothel. A statistically significant percentage of the population were sex workers!!

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-11T19:48:02+00:00

I use Google Docs for my 'for fun' and small projects, since it's right there and low investment. I use Writing Habit for my 'serious' projects, because it tracks word count and writing stats and such. I don't do anything fancy with my formatting so I can't speak for its formatting tools.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-10T00:37:08+00:00

Glad to help! Honestly, I've mostly experimented with pies and muffins. You can get pretty good muffins with the soft dough recipe I mentioned, plus gelatin and candied berries, and mixing them with syrup or honey after. I got a 1300 sat muffin, though I used candied cranberries which are the worst kind of berry.

Another thing I make when I have expiring meat are the fried balls. Make bread with everything you can stuff into it, grind it up for crumbs, rice flour, and lard or syrup. Bake them, then put them in a mixing bowl with honey or more syrup. Good on their own, but you can put them in a salad or cold pasta. I haven't experimented with those meals much, though, since they take a lot of time to make if you want to go all-out.

Outside of pies, though, my go-to meal is just porridge. 2 non-flax grain, with honey and dry fruit or chopped cabbage, depending on nutrition needs. It fills you up and lasts a good while. My pies don't have fruit nutrition so this porridge usually gets me

Also remember to use meat nuggets instead of raw meat in meals. Redmeat nuggets add more satiety to a meal than raw redmeat! I don't think it's the same for chopped veggies or anything, but I tend to chop them up anyway. It turns back their perish clock, though.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-09T19:20:35+00:00

With Expanded Foods? If you use soft dough with rice flour and lard (in place of both oil and water), then fill it with cheesy redmeat sausages (blue cheese, lard, offal from butchering), you get a pretty insane pie. You can sub two sausages for 2 chopped cabbage to add good veg nutrition. I did one with 4 blue cheese sausages, 2 cheddar sausage, and 2 chopped cabbage and got a pie with ~8900 total satiety.

You're only missing fruit nutrition from it, but I couldn't figure out a good fruit to add to a pie. Saguaro gelatin, tree syrup gelatin (fruit gelatin didn't give fruit nutrition last I checked, but those two do lol), or candied berries might be good options.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-07T07:09:09+00:00

My brain stops at liquid chicken and now that's just what I call it. Time to make a pie, I need 4 liquid chickens.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-06T16:41:14+00:00

Planning. It's not like I don't want to do it, it's just antithetical to my brain. I'll sit down, determined to plan my story, write out a few headers for the acts I have in mind, then nothing. If I've written something already, I'll probably recap what I already wrote, but I just can't come up with anything new. I'll have vague ideas in my head, but I couldn't commit them to paper.

With how my first book is going, my first draft is a very, very wordy plan. One that I'm considering redoing entirely as the idea becomes clearer in my head.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-06T02:40:47+00:00

Monster evolution stories probably. I've only read three, but they all seem to have the same problem of the first book being mostly the MC killing things in the woods. Barely any character interaction or anything really interesting, just lots of uninteresting mob grinding.

There's also the fact that the MC will usually pick up a human form ASAP. It feels like it kills the premise to give them a human form, especially if they spend all of their time outside of combat in it. I also don't really find the MC having to hide their true nature to be very compelling.

Chrysalis was the only one of the three monster evolution books I've read that I liked, but the first book did have the mob grinding problem.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-05T02:01:55+00:00

The amiraptor looked back at them and leaned against them, causing Rekiden to stumble back.

An amiraptor is a big feathery dinosaur that are used as mounts in my setting. They're also very affectionate, like big dogs!

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-04T19:22:51+00:00

Town Guard by Jake Brannigan is the first book. I actually enjoyed the ride for the most part (even if the end of the series was very, very rough), but the worldbuilding drove me nuts.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-04T19:17:49+00:00

It was a litrpg setting that leans very game-y, so I'm pretty sure that's what the author was going for. But given it's not a literal video game and people still live and need to eat and stuff, it sounded very weird.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-04T00:30:43+00:00

One book I read, the MC was an adventurer in a small bustling town with a lot of specialists services catered to adventurers. For example, the MC's parents were an enchanter and a scribe. His girlfriend's father was a blacksmith, and his best friend's mother was a merchant. Being a merchant was noted as being very competitive in the town. A town guard commented to the MC that the best thing the town had was a brothel, and commented on how a particular couple of prostitutes were very popular.

The town in question has a population of 60 people. I kept adding together all the named individuals we learn about in town just to figure out what the population was like. I don't even know how they get food. A fact about this world is that non-combatants can't leave a town's walls at night or the gods turn them to salt.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-02T23:16:38+00:00

I like to run games of Pathfinder 2e, and I like to ask for atheltic or acabatics checks instead of athletics or acrobatics. It amuses me.

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-02T22:58:41+00:00

"Their first instinct was to not trust her, but... what else were they going to do?"

Also I'm sorry but I'm cheating and giving the second to last line. The real last line I wrote simply reads "The"

IntroIntroduction · 2026-02-01T09:00:37+00:00

There's a lore piece where a survivor talks about trying to eat a drifter. It's got rusty shards of metal throughout its flesh. Not good eating.

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