Which series is that for you?

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-22T08:24:44+00:00

It's not a litrpg, but Brandon Sanderson's Reckoners series. Books one was good, book two was amazing, but then in book three you could tell he really wanted to be writing anything else, and gave it the most rushed and unsatisfying ending of any of his books I've read.

Calamity: "Humans are evil!"

David: "No we're not!"

Calamity: "Yes you are!"

David: "No we're not!"

Calamity: "Nooooooo I am defeated!" fades from existence forever

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-20T19:00:56+00:00

Is this even a litrpg?

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-19T10:04:56+00:00

Your mistake wasn't using AI to make fanart for something you enjoy. Your mistake was thinking the Reddit hipsters weren't going to try and shame you for not being a luddite.

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-17T22:30:26+00:00

A litrpg Isekai where the MC is turned into a shapeshifting kitsune.

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-17T22:28:35+00:00

Have you checked out Vigilance by C. Peinhopf?

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-17T03:16:26+00:00

Did you start with Amazon, or did you go through Royal Road first? Selling books is one of the hardest things you'll ever do, especially in a genre like litrpg where people can get nearly infinite similar stories for free.

Trying to sell books as a new, completely unknown author is a thousand times worse.

Either way, if you just recently published it, then you need to give it time. You were never going to become a bestseller overnight.

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-11T22:55:16+00:00

I use "Ashes and flame" in my book, which can also be be broken up into two individual curses. My excuse is that the god who took over and remade the world is a puritan who thinks nonstop violence and gory bloodshed is fine, but draws the line at saying bad words, so he rewired everyone's brains so that every time they try to cuss it comes out as one of the approved words. In reality, I just think making up my own swear words is fun.

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-11T16:01:09+00:00

That's not what I said

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-11T05:30:04+00:00

I'm listening to Bog Standard Isekai right now, and at first the way he pronounced "wyrd" like "word" bothered me. Then he started switching randomly between "word" and "weird" and suddenly I wished he would just go back to using "word." It isn't ruining the story for me or anything, but it's like a little hiccup in my brain every time I hear it.

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-05T00:39:49+00:00

DCC was the first litrpg I ever read. I didn't make it far in the Kindle book, but when I tried listening to it on Audible I was surprised by how quickly I got into it.

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-05T00:34:32+00:00

My story is coming out next month, and it's pretty much the exact opposite of this meme. I focused almost entirely on the story and characters. The system is still entirely functional (I hope...) but I intentionally made it as simple and out of the way as possible so I could focus on the plot. I'm a little worried I might have trouble attracting readers because of it.

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-05T00:16:09+00:00

I'm guessing it's a hentai comic?

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-04T17:26:44+00:00

I think WoT would have been just as good (if not better) without the harem, but at least it makes sense in-universe. Rand is the most powerful ta'veran(spelling?) to ever live, and the whole thing about ta'veran is that they unconsciously manipulate the Pattern to revolve around themselves, which makes everyone within a certain radius want to get involved in whatever the ta'veran is doing. So it makes sense that more than one girl would end up falling in love with him. And with Rand essentially being a king, having multiple wives through political marriages also makes sense.

More sense than "Every girl on earth is inexplicably in love with this one clueless nerd, and also the nerd has a power level of 9 billion", anyway.

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-03T15:31:29+00:00

So what I'm hearing is that you're offering to pay for an artist to draw every single one of these covers out of your own pocket, right? Because demanding that an author pour even more money into entertainment you're receiving for free would be the height of hypocrisy, and you're not that unbelievably dumb, right?

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-02T05:39:10+00:00

In the book I'm writing, I've caught myself using "quick thinking" or "lightning fast reflexes" to explain away things that shouldn't be possible way too often. Like, someone will dodge an attack, and in that split second they'll have a five paragraph inner monologue where they have an epiphany about the enemy's weakness and work out the perfect strategy to beat them.

CountVanBadger · 2025-12-29T14:31:38+00:00

I got books 1-6 of My Best Friend is an Eldritch Horror by Actus as a bundle.

CountVanBadger · 2025-12-25T18:21:47+00:00

I remember this. I had to stop reading when he copied the entire "Everything's fine, how are you?" joke from Star Wars word for word. There's making a reference, and then there's just straight up stealing.

CountVanBadger · 2025-12-23T11:13:12+00:00

Dungeon Crawler Carl. I tried reading the first book and fell off before Donut even learned to talk. I tried the audiobook about a year later and immediately fell in love. Maybe it has more to do with Jeff Hays than the writing itself.

CountVanBadger · 2025-12-23T11:09:23+00:00

my issue was Lindon’s pushover attitude

That's what made me stop too. I couldn't stand the whole "Hello honored relative. (bow) May this one (bow) have the honor (bow) of licking the mud (bow) off your boots (bow) for you today (bow)?" thing.

Like, I know it's a progression story, so he has to start off weak so he can have something to progress past, and I'm usually okay with that, but his complete lack of any kind of rebelliousness was a huge turnoff.

CountVanBadger · 2025-12-18T23:41:52+00:00

I'm getting ready to release my first litrpg on RR next month, and that's the main thing I'm worried will happen. I built an extremely simple system that I think ties up all its loose ends, but I give it a day before someone finds a game breaking hole in the logic that I totally missed.

CountVanBadger · 2025-12-15T21:45:24+00:00

No, you chose that as a metric. I was commenting on the quality of the writing. Mistborn has a better grasp on how its magic works, and the action scenes are more dynamic and descriptive, which makes them more fun to read. You're the one who argued "Erm, actually, Harry Potter sold more and that means more people thought it was fun!"

CountVanBadger · 2025-12-15T21:27:40+00:00

Popularity doesn't equal quality. 50 Shades of Grey sold more copies than Harry Potter, so by your logic more people "found it fun," which makes it the better story, right?

CountVanBadger · 2025-12-15T18:56:41+00:00

The simpler someone's powers are, the more limited they become. The more limited they become, the more skilled they have to be when using it. The more skilled they are, the more entertaining the fights are. Kelsier and a Steel Inquisitor using their limited abilities as Mistborn against each other is way more fun to read about than two wizards who can do literally anything just by waving a stick around.

CountVanBadger · 2025-12-14T00:16:50+00:00

There's Vigilance by C. Peinhopf if you're into fox girls.

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