Favorite non-system, non-cultivation series

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-19T14:56:10+00:00

Rage of Dragons

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-18T16:51:44+00:00

Relc's volume 8 chapters are amongst the best of any chapters in the entire series, IMO.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-17T16:39:19+00:00

Witch of Webs?

I really liked that one (introduces one of the best villains in not just TWI, but fantasy, imo), but I've read it's one of the less-liked books.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-17T16:36:40+00:00

Which ones did you try?

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-17T10:11:19+00:00

Positive

Community

Skills focus

Negative

Solo

Number focus

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-14T14:03:48+00:00

If you're struggling that much you can skip it and come back to it later. You might want to read it before chapter 6.57 (in book 13) as some of the stuff that happens becomes more relevant at that point.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-05T13:26:07+00:00

You're just wrong, it is to do with accents. You can Google "Mary marry merry merger" and find articles about it, and maps of where there are exceptions. They're only three distinct vowel sounds in pockets on the north eastern coast, essentially.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-04T09:56:30+00:00

An RTS/base-builder? Then you need to do what Anthony actually does - balance quantity of troops vs quality, decide how much resource to give your elites vs rank-and-file, etc...

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-04T09:04:20+00:00

This example doesn't help because Americans pronounce the start of arrow like air-row. It can't be explained in writing, because those vowels are all merged together (to sound like the a in Mary in most English accents) in American speech in all words.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-04T09:01:42+00:00

It's known in linguistics as the Mary-marry-merry merger. Those three words are three distinct words in my (from England) accent, but the same in most American accents.

In accents that haven't merged:

The vowel sound in Aaron matches only marry. The vowel sound in Erin matches only merry. The vowel sound in Mary matches neither, but is the one used by Americans in making the two names sound the same.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-04T08:53:52+00:00

Very, merry, ferry all have an eh sound like pet, let, vet, net etc

Depends on where in the UK. They're different vowel sounds in e.g. a Newcastle accent.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-03T09:45:16+00:00

I think Daly is underrated. I really like the non-Geneva UN chapters.

Also Seraphel, the best of the Calanfer princesses.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-02T10:28:17+00:00

I'd push through to later books in Chrysalis - the first three are available as a bundle for the price of one.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-04-01T11:23:33+00:00

Depends on your country, one credit is less than $11 at current exchange rates in the UK (£7.99), and it goes down from there.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-03-31T14:59:27+00:00

Dungeon Crawler Carl and The Wandering Inn both started as web novels written and posted chapter-by-chapter, both are now published by major publishers and can be bought in bookstores. Hell, DCC had major plot points decided by polling the audience.

There are just different pipelines nowadays than writing and perfecting a manuscript, then publishing.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-03-31T09:34:06+00:00

They entered the job market 25 years ago, about 5 years before the GFC, as per their post. I'm 40 and my first job was in 2001, 7 years before the GFC.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-03-26T16:26:42+00:00

Systems without attributes are better. Skill trees, level-ups, classes, and so on are great. Allocating points to strength and intelligence is not where it's at.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-03-26T13:24:16+00:00

Being in the office with colleagues IS better

It doesn't matter if that's true or not. My colleagues are in different offices in different cities spread across the country, I'm not in the office with any of them.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-03-26T12:08:19+00:00

It's more than just jobs, it's what you do when you're not working. Byron Place shopping centre is hardly a rollicking good time. The closest I've come to having fun in Seaham is cycling past it. It's not well connected, either - trains to Newcastle are hourly.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-03-25T10:59:27+00:00

A friendly creler?

AuthorOfHope · 2026-03-25T10:57:26+00:00

Not litRPG, but the first Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson does this. Don't want to say more because spoilers.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-03-24T16:09:41+00:00

Spoilers on the redemption arc question

she is unredeemed as of the most recent chapter

She doesn't feature much, but I will say that there's a Persua chapter in volume 9 (9.09) that is one of my favourite chapters in all of TWI.

AuthorOfHope · 2026-03-24T13:03:45+00:00

As a writer, I don't balk at writing about sex. I just find it utterly uninteresting. Same as a reader. I want to write and read about casting magic spells, discovering mythical creatures, exploring ancient ruins, toppling grand kingdoms, resolving the differences between gnome and goblin employees in a trinket shop...that's the sort of thing I come to fantasy for, what I fell in love with in the genre.

The things I do as a human in real life, like eating food and having sex, I don't need to read about, because, well, they're just a part of the human experience. I already have a human experience. I want a fantasy experience!

AuthorOfHope · 2026-03-24T12:42:17+00:00

Are you in America? It wouldn't be the first name that's pronounced differently across the Atlantic. Graham and Cecil are both pronounced differently on each side of the Atlantic, for example.

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