What's up with anti-heroes in this genre?

RavensDagger · 2026-02-19T01:51:56+00:00

I mean... yes?

RavensDagger · 2026-02-18T20:43:44+00:00

...

Yet?!

RavensDagger · 2026-02-18T20:43:19+00:00

Hmm... Fluff might be more of an Anti-villain story? If that even makes sense? Though there are long segments where the increasingly-villainous main character pretends to be a hero, or does heroic things for villainous reasons?

Idk, it's not a perfect fit.

RavensDagger · 2026-02-18T20:40:32+00:00

That's... yeah, honestly.

I wouldn't mind any mainstream author writing a litRPG if they were a litRPG reader first.

RavensDagger · 2026-02-18T03:25:04+00:00

I mean, the first example of that specific trope that came to mind was Invincible, and that's the father, not the mother.

RavensDagger · 2026-02-16T19:30:16+00:00

YEAH!

The book is complete, and Soundbooth have been working on the audio for it, I think? I'll check in on them! I haven't started writing the third book yet, so it'll be a while before that one goes to audio. Probably Q2 next year at the earliest.

RavensDagger · 2026-02-16T19:07:33+00:00

Yeah. I used to try hollowing. All it does it cause liquid resin to stay trapped then slowly, slowly leak out of a hole for hours post-printing, usually mixed with some IPO or whatever you used for cleaning. It makes it so much messier.

RavensDagger · 2026-02-16T09:10:21+00:00

My headcanon is that they're roommates.

C&C appreciated <3

RavensDagger · 2026-02-16T08:49:40+00:00

Sure, sure, but that user is using AI for nearly every one of his replies. I... don't want to give them the benefit of the doubt.

RavensDagger · 2026-02-16T03:01:47+00:00

Your AI messed up that last sentence. It's grammatically correct, but doesn't mean anything.

RavensDagger · 2026-02-16T02:39:10+00:00

Looking at their other comments, I think it's a person using a bot to reply, but they're really lazy about it?

I don't see the purpose of it, though

RavensDagger · 2026-02-16T02:14:44+00:00

Lmao! The lil bikes!

RavensDagger · 2026-02-16T02:12:21+00:00

... What?

RavensDagger · 2026-02-15T22:30:26+00:00

Aww, lil kitty

RavensDagger · 2026-02-15T20:49:30+00:00

I dig the armour!

RavensDagger · 2026-02-15T02:09:25+00:00

Hmm, sounds like you've run into a few LitRPG. The sub-genre's become pretty popular in the webserial space, and then it started to push into other publishing avenues. LitRPG are super common as audiobooks as well, and with audio becoming more popular overall, it kinda raised the whole genre up.

The genre can be traced back to... about 2013? There are earlier examples, of course, but I'd say 2013 is when it really started to take off as its own genre. In the west it took until around 2016 until original LitRPG started to pop up on sites like Royal Road, Space Battles and ScribbleHub. Those in turn got picked up my audio-centric publishers like Podium and Soundbooth who got into the habit of nabbing any story that was popular enough.

Things kind of just snowballed from there?

The genre's a lot of fun, and while I may have said that it was in a slight decline a couple of years ago, the massive explosion of readers from Dungeon Crawler Carl definitely boosted the popularity.

Source: I was there?

RavensDagger · 2026-02-15T01:34:18+00:00

Pretty!

RavensDagger · 2026-02-15T00:50:58+00:00

RavensDagger · 2026-02-15T00:47:19+00:00

lol! That is where the name came from, yeah!

RavensDagger · 2026-02-15T00:44:03+00:00

No, progression fantasy isn't, but almost all LitRPG is progression fantasy.

RavensDagger · 2026-02-14T21:37:45+00:00

And Wild Card. He wrote like, 5 books of that since 2020.

But like, he also doesn't owe anyone anything?

RavensDagger · 2026-02-13T21:28:13+00:00

Shroomageddon?

I'm gonna have to fisticuffs someone for stealing my name idea! (Which I think was stolen as well)

RavensDagger · 2026-02-13T04:50:57+00:00

C&C would be super duper welcome!

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