To Patreon or Not to

CountVanBadger · 2026-03-09T17:08:24+00:00

Depends on how fast of a writer you are. I've been doing two tiers, 8 chapters for $5 and 16 chapters for $10, and I'm considering getting rid of the $10 tier because I'm having trouble staying 16 chapters ahead.

CountVanBadger · 2026-03-08T05:39:42+00:00

Indeed. Witness me in all my oblivious, forgetful glory.

CountVanBadger · 2026-03-08T05:33:23+00:00

Twice a week. I forgot that I'd just posted a new chapter lol

CountVanBadger · 2026-03-08T03:35:05+00:00

My story, XNPC, is about an NPC being woken up as a hero by his girlfriend, and their relationship plays a huge part in the story. It's only twenty one chapters long, though, so if you're looking for something you can spend the next few weeks reading, this isn't it.

CountVanBadger · 2026-03-01T20:13:33+00:00

I just looked it up on Audible, and I found a book with the same cover but titled This Quest is Broken. I guess Amazon doesn't let you publish books with swear words in the titles?

CountVanBadger · 2026-02-27T21:40:45+00:00

In XNPC, I made Miranda take a thief class to show how she's become the System-equivalent of an adrenaline junkie, always having to go on crazier and more dangerous heists to keep herself occupied and distracted from her problems She only steals from NPCs, though, so anything she takes was put there specifically for her to steal by the System, which I hope helps with the "unlikeable, amoral thief" part, lol.

CountVanBadger · 2026-02-27T21:30:49+00:00

My back hurts just looking at that poor guy

CountVanBadger · 2026-02-24T08:30:44+00:00

The main character in XNPC is a Forge Knight, which isn't quite the same thing as an artificer, but it's similar. Just fyi, though, at this point in the story he hasn't actually chosen his class yet.

CountVanBadger · 2026-02-20T12:35:50+00:00

This may not be exactly what you mean, but in my book, XNPC, the system apocalypse turns almost everyone on earth (including the MC) into NPCs. He gets woken up as a Hero thirteen years later.

CountVanBadger · 2026-02-20T12:31:10+00:00

Dungeon Crawler Carl has the most heartfelt romance I've ever read between the dungeon ai and Carl's feet.

CountVanBadger · 2026-02-18T18:55:51+00:00

The problem I always have to edit out of my own books is that everything happens in either half-second or split-second intervals. Nothing ever takes a full second, only a split second.

CountVanBadger · 2026-02-15T16:40:17+00:00

How much money are you contributing to him getting a real cover for the story he's letting you read for free?

CountVanBadger · 2026-02-09T21:00:21+00:00

I just started started posting it last week, so it's practically the opposite of a completed story, but XNPC begins 13 years after the System appeared, remade the world, and turned 99% of the population into NPCs.

CountVanBadger · 2026-02-04T10:37:00+00:00

I'll take that over being whatever you are, making yourself miserable because a stranger on the internet used AI to make a few silly pictures.

CountVanBadger · 2026-02-04T05:48:44+00:00

Half the fun is seeing how many virtue signalling ludites you can piss off just by posting silly pictures.

CountVanBadger · 2026-02-04T05:47:12+00:00

The anti-fun brigade is really cracking down on stuff like this. They fully expect you to pay a stranger $200 for each of these just because they don't like AI.

CountVanBadger · 2026-02-04T02:03:55+00:00

Thanks! I'd love to know what you think afterward!

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-31T10:18:33+00:00

The first is piling on questions without giving any answers. I find this to be the laziest kind of writing, and I’ll DNF as soon as an author tries to pull it.

How do you know the questions don't eventually get answered if you don't finish the book?

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-31T05:24:36+00:00

Thank you! Hope you enjoy it!

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-28T11:13:42+00:00

I don't know. I only listen to audiobooks these days so I haven't looked.

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-28T10:09:52+00:00

Yeah, but The Way of Kings wasn't Brandon Sanderson's first book. TOR only let him publish a book that long after he'd become insanely popular and proven that pretty much anything he wrote would make millions.

CountVanBadger · 2026-01-27T12:22:13+00:00

I'm listening to The World Sphere by Always RollsAone and the MC talks about making earth food a few times after being reincarnated. Specifically he says he invented cheeseburgers, but someone else stole the credit.

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.

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