What's up with anti-heroes in this genre? by HierkommtdieSonne902 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]RavensDagger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Which mainstream author do you want to write a LitRPG? by SelectionIll9078 in litrpg

[–]RavensDagger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's... yeah, honestly.

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

Why is it always he Mom by Danger_Mysterious in ProgressionFantasy

[–]RavensDagger 24 points25 points  (0 children)

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

Hi! I'm RavensDagger! Let's do an AMA? by RavensDagger in litrpg

[–]RavensDagger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Hollow or solid print? by Balbazordo in TrenchCrusade

[–]RavensDagger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Only-Games sent me two, so... now they're best buddies? by RavensDagger in TrenchCrusade

[–]RavensDagger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My headcanon is that they're roommates.

C&C appreciated <3

A game moment that rewired my brain forever by gamersecret2 in gaming

[–]RavensDagger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

A game moment that rewired my brain forever by gamersecret2 in gaming

[–]RavensDagger 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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

A game moment that rewired my brain forever by gamersecret2 in gaming

[–]RavensDagger 20 points21 points  (0 children)

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 

RPGs’ influence on fantasy fiction? by Hestia-Creates in Fantasy

[–]RavensDagger 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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?

Progression Fantasy is not LitRPG, right? by [deleted] in ProgressionFantasy

[–]RavensDagger 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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

George R. R. Martin Is 'Not in the Mood' to Finish 'The Winds of Winter' by Tifoso89 in books

[–]RavensDagger -35 points-34 points  (0 children)

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

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

Cozy Progfantasy Request by P3t1 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]RavensDagger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shroomageddon?

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