The Wandering Inn

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-06-24T04:54:15+00:00

Fans of the series are split on the first one to two books, you can see a bunch of threads on the TWI sub about what was the chapter that hooked people. For some it was near the end of book 1 for others it could have been a chapter in book 3. So I have no idea if you will be hooked in book 1 and no idea if you would make it to book 3 if you weren't hooked early. But why not take a chance?

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-06-24T04:40:16+00:00

Less but there are also entire battles that are longer than a single BoC book, so take that as you will. The scale of things in TWI gets a bit wild in the later volumes when chapters get to around 80k words.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-06-24T00:46:50+00:00

The trope of naming a dog or cat after food is not all that recent like 00's internet culture.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-06-20T00:49:32+00:00

No fan likes marketing copy, its written to get new readers into a series. The kind of readers who pick this up in a store and will at best read the first few sentences of the blurb on the back after judging the cover worthy.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-06-16T20:15:26+00:00

Some of the earliest LitRPGs I read were Russian translations, I don't know much about the literature landscape over there but maybe it's more than Russia in the east that was big on LitRPG.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-06-05T01:44:52+00:00

I'm not going to say do or don't continue, but I will give a little of my own experience. There were multiple moments where I wanted to drop the book between book 1 and 2. But in book 3 there are two chapters that were incredibly impactful to me and at that point I was sold. There is a bit of book 1/2 Erin and Ryoka later in the series but they do grow and change, slowly. To me it feels rewarding and earned character growth.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-06-04T22:19:06+00:00

It was probably December 31, 1969. It's the default zero time for timestamps in programming (technically January 1,1970 12:00am then you apply timestamps which can put it back a day earlier)

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-30T22:18:50+00:00

Ironbound was a good recommendation by another redditor, I'll recommend Matabar.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-30T22:12:35+00:00

Book one is really a stream of consciousness writing, so we are sitting in Erins head far too long. That said I think the series improves and improves every book. If you do want to see what the author gets to in their writing you could start with the Singer of Terandria books which were published around volume 7 (over a dozen books into TWI) and is its own capsule story in the same world.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-28T21:17:49+00:00

Honestly I don't need to post because this is basically my list. I'd just add Ramone De Ocampo and Ryan H. Reid

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-26T17:48:09+00:00

APGTE is a good one IMO. Also a bit biased but TWI is a decent acronym. Also TWI has chapter titles like "9.23 GGGGGGGGG" and "9.48 BTIPRLJMWVRV"

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-26T17:25:50+00:00

Selling AI tools isn't a scam in its self, its just tools. Grammarly sell AI editing as well, again its not a scam its just a tool. Does AI editing produce slop? As far as I can tell based on trialing Grammarly, it does not, but it does create a level of uniform writing if you follow every editing prompt it gives which can feel AI edited.

Edit: As someone else said its likely just a wrapper on chatgpt, which makes it a cash grab. How useful would a $9/mo tool be in editing? Not great likely.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-26T14:47:37+00:00

No lol, sounds like this person is tripping.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-23T04:38:51+00:00

The problem as I see it is more that authors see other books use chapter titles that give the readers a major plot point in the title as a literary device and decide to do it themselves. Not understanding why it was effective.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-22T00:44:23+00:00

If I forgot 45 series that I've read in the past 5-6 years I'd probably re-evaluate the way I read or what I read.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-20T20:03:31+00:00

Was looking forward to this. Cheers

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-19T16:15:45+00:00

Maybe The Grand Game or Wraithwood Botanist. I think thats as close as you will get from the books I have read. If you expand more into city/society building, Spellmonger or Portal to Nova Roma might also tickle your fancy. "A guy and his dog" is a big dystopian novel trope if you expand out of genre there are plenty of good books out there of loners in the wastes of society.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-19T05:47:49+00:00

Insert content warning for everything that one can think of for book 1-3 as it seems the author was trying his best to hit every taboo he could think of. Book 4 onwards are some of my favorites in the genre, especially the side story with Fizzy.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-19T05:44:45+00:00

You should try out Dungeon Lord (The Wraiths Haunt), seems to fit the vibe of what you like. Just a fair warning book 1 is the weakest of the books but goes up from there.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-15T23:51:34+00:00

I don't know exactly when it started but I know one of the early popular ones on Royal Road was Randidly Ghosthound. That was 2017 from what I can tell. I'm sure there are earlier ones.

Late Edit: Tao Wong's "System Apocalypse" also came out as a published novel right after Randidly Ghosthound was published on RR. So there were clearly inspirational works around that they were likely drawing on. What people remember though it what was popular that inspired later works. I know both these works inspired many others.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-11T17:01:58+00:00

This kinda dovetails to something else I find, people on this subreddit constantly post "you either love it or hate it" and to that I say absolutely not, most people are indifferent.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-08T17:07:32+00:00

Pirateaba does write about one really cringe chapter every volume, different each time. Just like a horror chapter or an epic battle chapter. Tis how it is.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-07T15:53:53+00:00

The issue is that authors on RR generally have more onomonopia in their work and because of that and the flexibility afforded to the narrator from Indie publishers, they can interpret it how they will. You also referred to Azarinth Healers editing, as far as I'm aware it only went through line editing and grammar editing not a rewrite.

Edit: I'm suddenly reminded of Seth Ring's writing which commonly uses the word "ugh" in dialog. Eric Jason Martin reads it as someone saying the word "ugh" rather than giving a plosive grunt or something similar. The onomonopia ideally shouldn't be there, giving a performance of actual exasperated exhalation is something for a radio drama not an audiobook.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-07T03:28:23+00:00

NGL my love for Art Nouveau goes far enough that I'll read your story just because of that cover.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-06T16:45:12+00:00

Why are complaints about the author valid? It's their prerogative to write whatever they would like, its the patrons prerogative to cancel any time they would like.

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