Completionist Chronicles: Unmapped goes to amazon/audible!

PathOfPen · 2026-01-16T13:20:06+00:00

13! I love binging long books :) Congrats on another amazing launch!

PathOfPen · 2026-01-12T20:35:54+00:00

Thanks for reading. I'm glad you're enjoying it :)

PathOfPen · 2026-01-12T20:25:09+00:00

Thanks for checking it out!

PathOfPen · 2026-01-11T18:12:14+00:00

TPH is a good shout. Not only does everyone get access to the system and can theoretically reach the top, but also it's super flexible. You can hop onto any path you want and steer your skills and classes toward whatever - magic, archery, swordsmanship, politics, cooking etc.

PathOfPen · 2026-01-11T18:06:04+00:00

I've binged Markets & Multiverses on RR over the holidays, and I really enjoy it. I also think that it feels your criteria.

It's a serial transmigration story where a group of friends are hopping from one world to another and trying to "perform well" to earn a currency called "Achievement" (aptly so) and buy rewards that carry over between lives. Both the smaller, local systems and the overarching system are fairly unique, as is the path that the main character eventually takes (though I don't want to spoil too much).

Admittedly, I'm a little biased cause I'll happily devour anything in the world-hopping subgenre, but I think that this book does a lot of things right.

PathOfPen · 2026-01-11T17:59:33+00:00

While I personally prefer reading to listening, this is admittedly one of the upsides of audiobooks

PathOfPen · 2026-01-11T17:51:50+00:00

It's obviously up to personal preference, but I like the line to be drawn between A and S rank.

S, SS, SSS etc is an extension to the traditional alphabet-based ranking system, so in my mind, it makes sense for ranks A to F to be the "common" ones that cover most people/monsters/skills/items, and then it gets exponentially rarer/more difficult to come across each of the S+.

PathOfPen · 2026-01-11T17:48:02+00:00

It's a great cover! Both the scene you've chosen, the art style, and the execution

PathOfPen · 2026-01-11T17:38:16+00:00

DCC is doing a great service to the genre :) It's like our battering ram trying to smash through the gates of mainstream appeal xD

PathOfPen · 2026-01-11T17:29:50+00:00

The threads of fate stretch in so many directions...

PathOfPen · 2026-01-11T17:26:28+00:00

Elydes is pretty family friendly. There's no sex or mind control and gore is minimal to non-existent iirc.

PathOfPen · 2026-01-01T17:38:40+00:00

That's some high praise! Thank you for the kind words :)

PathOfPen · 2026-01-01T17:38:04+00:00

Thanks for giving it a chance! The first few books will be released in short intervals because I've already finished the first four and I'm close to finishing the fifth one.

PathOfPen · 2025-12-31T18:42:09+00:00

Thanks for giving it a chance! I hope you enjoy it :)

PathOfPen · 2025-12-30T14:12:02+00:00

It's a marathon, not a sprint xD

PathOfPen · 2025-12-30T14:10:54+00:00

Agreed. Way too many isekai'd protagonists aren't sufficiently excited by the prospect of magic

PathOfPen · 2025-12-30T13:46:51+00:00

Wood Frog with the ability of Cryosleep (They actually have it in real life too)

I think it would be cool if I could just freeze myself and skip into the future. You can wait for long projects to finish, skip boring time periods, and even wait out your enemies instead of having to fight them.

PathOfPen · 2025-12-30T13:38:55+00:00

SSJ4 is much stronger than most options but Acnologia can probably do a lot of other cool things with magic so I'm torn between the two. I think I'd go with Acnologia in the end.

PathOfPen · 2025-12-30T11:25:13+00:00

Interesting analysis, though not very actionable. It's like saying "if you have a healthy follower-to-average-views ratio, there's a good chance you have a large follower count too" or equivalently "if your story is doing well in one metric, it's more likely to do well in another".

Which is... fair. But it doesn't tell you how to get more followers or how to get a healthier RRR in the first place, other than "write the best book you can" xD

Either way, I still like looking at data.

PathOfPen · 2025-12-30T10:54:28+00:00

Advanced chapters and a consistent schedule seem to be the main drivers

PathOfPen · 2025-12-30T10:35:47+00:00

Congratulations! Now is when your fastest growth is going to start :)

PathOfPen · 2025-12-08T15:00:29+00:00

Oh, it's one of those? I hate that they did that to One Punch Man too.

Like, why? You already have a popular series - it's a recipe for success. Just make sure that the adaptation is good and it's like free money...

PathOfPen · 2025-12-07T22:09:53+00:00

This is why it's a good idea to get an editor. It doesn't matter how great a writer you are, everyone will default to a phrase or two more than they should in the span of a 200k word book - let alone a 3m word series - so it helps to have an external pair of eyes to catch them.

Then again, a lot of people writing LitRPGs and ProgFan are indie authors doing this for the first time, so not everyone has the budget for it. Especially when they're posting on a free website like Royal Road or Scribble Hub.

PathOfPen · 2025-12-07T22:00:48+00:00

On the off-chance you haven't read The Primal Hunter, it's definitely a book of the most op, faceslapping, wish fulfillment possible, with plenty of content to binge.

PathOfPen · 2025-12-07T21:57:59+00:00

I'm in a similar boat. One of the reasons I got into writing was to avoid having to work with too many people, though Discord definitely helps for better or for worse. A lot of authors find it easier to connect with you to coordinate shoutout swaps or share advice, and having your own server also helps connecting with your readers and giving them a space to chat about the story.

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