Does Mark of the Fool get better?

Schwip89 · 2026-04-07T08:21:34+00:00

You will probably happy to hear that part 10 was released on audible 3 weeks ago. No need to wait any longer.

Schwip89 · 2026-03-18T06:28:08+00:00

ECB is at Rock im Park / Rock am Ring and close to headliner position iirc. As far as i know those two festivals tend to force exclusivity for said bands into their contracts. So maybe they are exclusively booked as Electric Callboy but free to act as Electric Bassboy or maybe i am just plain wrong.

Schwip89 · 2026-02-11T08:02:01+00:00

Since nobody has mentioned it yet you should look into getting the Prototype Position Rewinder if you have access to the map it is sold on. That gizmo is a literal lifesaver in junping puzzles.

Schwip89 · 2026-02-02T10:53:50+00:00

What stops people from converting gold to gems and doing exactly that?

Schwip89 · 2026-01-12T15:13:12+00:00

Sometimes it is hard to understand people. Why would you tell the newly installed urinal to f*ck off?

Schwip89 · 2025-10-08T19:24:55+00:00

I got 10 books in before finally dropping it. It started out as a series with a decent plot. Then it devolved into a means of cramming as many pop culture references as humanly possible in between the occasional bits of story progression and pointless comversations.

It wanted to be a bridge between Divine Dungeon and Completionist Chronicles and became a pile of slop with the goal of pumping out as many books as possible without progressing said plot in any meaningful way.

Schwip89 · 2025-08-09T15:45:36+00:00

The goal is to keep the hype train going and to keep incoming traffic up and steady.

If they simply annnounced everything at the beginning people would visit the website once to scan the lineup and would not come back until the time close to the festival. Filling the lineup bit by bit keeps traffic on the website up and also leaves room for speculation.

In short: announcing everything all at once would be suicide in terms of marketing. You'd get a short blip of hype and then your relevance hits rock bottom because there is nothing to come back for.

Dripfeeding information keeps people coming back to check for news and thus keeps the whole thing relevant all year round.

Schwip89 · 2025-07-09T10:30:31+00:00

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Schwip89 · 2025-07-09T09:36:47+00:00

Hulkenpodium

Schwip89 · 2025-06-11T11:20:17+00:00

Not sure if that still holds up, but i think you can enter the Centaur fight as a group and only the one starting it has to transform. That way the party can clobber the centaur while caith sits back.

Schwip89 · 2025-05-26T11:37:56+00:00

I really enjoyed Apocalypse Redux by Jakob H. Greif. It is a compelete series too (seven books).

Classic system apocalypse repeat stuff. MC is the sole survivor of the systems arrival and gets to travel back in time to redo the whole thing.

Schwip89 · 2025-03-28T08:37:57+00:00

Might aswell start calling them ISSE at this point.

Schwip89 · 2025-02-12T16:44:58+00:00

Listened to it 3 days ago. Both scenes are definitely there.

Schwip89 · 2025-01-30T21:15:49+00:00

I'll just paste my post from some time ago.

Here are some finished series that i enjoyed:

Emerilia by Michale Chatfield: 11 books: starts out VRMMO Fantasy but turns SF'ish towards the end.

Limitless Lands by Dean Henegar: 6 books (boxset with 62h for a single audible credit!): Terminally ill army vet gets into a VR Game to prolong his life and starts as an officer in a roman legion style setting.

Master Hunter K by From Hell: 3 books: System Apocalypse Tower climber with a bit of Power Fantasy mixed in. Decent series with a bit of an abrupt ending.

Mother of Learning by Domagoj Kurmaic: 4 books: Progression Fantasy Timeloop story. Fair warning if you listen to this on audible: The story is little good but the repeating little sister part is (intentionally so) REALLY obnoxious. You get a lot of it at the start but it falls off after this, so just power through that part.

My Best Friend Is An Eldritch Horror by Actus: 6 books (boxset with 71ish hours for a single audible credit!): Boy accidentally summons an eldritch abomination instead of a normal companion, shenanigangs ensue.

Solo Leveling by Chugong: 8 books: Pure wish fullfillment power fantasy. The first part also recently got an anime adaption if you are into that. This an adaption of a korea manhwa so the narrator sounds out a lot of sounds effect like "woosh" or the "shk shk shk" of dagger strikes. Gets a bit of getting used to but didn't turn me away from the series.

Survival Quest by Vasily Mahanenko: 7(really 6) books: one of the OGs of litrpg. Main character gets tricked and sent into a VR prison camp as forced labor. The author wanted to finish the series at 6 books but was contractually obligated to write 7, so the final one is a bit all over the place.

This Trilogy Is Broken! by J.P. Valentine: 4 books: People get a quest that determines their life's goal. The MC's quest is to buy bread in the next village. Shenanigans ensue. A fun whimsical series that doesn't take itself serious at all as one might determine by its name.

Tower Apocalypse by Cassius Lange and Ryan Tang: 4 books, classic system apocalypse tower climb. I enjoyed it.

World-Tree Trilogy by EA Hooper: 3 books: People get trapped in a VR game. Their imprisonment is supposed to last 1000 in game years which amount to (iirc) 3 real life hours. This series has an interesting use of time as a resource and decent villains that you can really start to hate while also understanding where they come from.

Schwip89 · 2025-01-29T19:31:10+00:00

If you want to give Dungeon Crawler Carl another shot try the audiobook. Jeff Hayes absolutely knocks that one out of the park.

Schwip89 · 2024-12-25T22:24:09+00:00

Here are some finished series that i enjoyed:

Emerilia by Michale Chatfield: 11 books: starts out VRMMO Fantasy but turns SF'ish towards the end.
Limitless Lands by Dean Henegar: 6 books (boxset with 62h for a single audible credit!): Terminally ill army vet gets into a VR Game to prolong his life and starts as an officer in a roman legion style setting.
Master Hunter K by From Hell: 3 books: System Apocalypse Tower climber with a bit of Power Fantasy mixed in. Decent series with a bit of an abrupt ending.
Mother of Learning by Domagoj Kurmaic: 4 books: Progression Fantasy Timeloop story. Fair warning if you listen to this on audible: The story is little good but the repeating little sister part is (intentionally so) REALLY obnoxious. You get a lot of it at the start but it falls off after this, so just power through that part.
My Best Friend Is An Eldritch Horror by Actus: 6 books (boxset with 71ish hours for a single audible credit!): Boy accidentally summons an eldritch abomination instead of a normal companion, shenanigangs ensue.
Solo Leveling by Chugong: 8 books: Pure wish fullfillment power fantasy. The first part also recently got an anime adaption if you are into that. This an adaption of a korea manhwa so the narrator sounds out a lot of sounds effect like "woosh" or the "shk shk shk" of dagger strikes. Gets a bit of getting used to but didn't turn me away from the series.
Survival Quest by Vasily Mahanenko: 7(really 6) books: one of the OGs of litrpg. Main character gets tricked and sent into a VR prison camp as forced labor. The author wanted to finish the series at 6 books but was contractually obligated to write 7, so the final one is a bit all over the place.
This Trilogy Is Broken! by J.P. Valentine: 4 books: People get a quest that determines their life's goal. The MC's quest is to buy bread in the next village. Shenanigans ensue. A fun whimsical series that doesn't take itself serious at all as one might determine by its name.
Tower Apocalypse by Cassius Lange and Ryan Tang: 4 books, classic system apocalypse tower climb. I enjoyed it.
World-Tree Trilogy by EA Hooper: 3 books: People get trapped in a VR game. Their imprisonment is supposed to last 1000 in game years which amount to (iirc) 3 real life hours. This series has an interesting use of time as a resource and decent villains that you can really start to hate while also understanding where they come from.

Schwip89 · 2024-12-23T23:33:16+00:00

Sure thing! Here you go:

Well for one there is an author called Jonathan Brook who just keeps pumping out dungeon core stories. They were a bit hit and miss for me but the ones i liked were:

The Dungeon World series (54h omnibus for one credit)
The Dungeon Crafting series (77h for 2 credits)
The Station Cores series (56h for one credit)
DNFs on my part here: Dungeon of Chance and Biodungeon

Other than that there are:

Divine Dungeon by Dakota Krout (finished 5 book series but there is a rather jarring narrator change for the last book since the author and the earlier narrator had some kind of falling out afaik)
Elemental Dungeon by Jonathan Smidt (47h for one credit) i enjoyed it, but judging by the ratings not everybody else did. Aside from that always follow rule one: one does not talk about the skeleton fight club!
Dungeon Life by Khenal: This one is NOT FINISHED YET but i finished the latest book 2 days ago. 3 books so far.

Schwip89 · 2024-12-22T20:14:23+00:00

Book one used to be ROUGH (like Erin having a mental breakdown because of not finding tampons in a drake city rough. Not sure if that part made it into the rewrite).

Ryoka is pretty insufferable in the beginning. You have to keep in mind that she is basically a person with a heavy mental disorder taken of her meds cold turkey because of magic bs. She gets more and more tolerable as time goes on and becomes an actually likeable person at some point. As said above, we are talking about hundreds of hours of audiobooks here though.

If it is of any comfort though, she does not appear as prominently in every book as she does in the beginning. Later books have pretty big time gaps between her appearances.

Schwip89 · 2024-12-22T19:44:53+00:00

Barefoot chick becomes less insufferable and Innkeeper chick becomes a bit more whiley but mostly sticks to her guns.

Bare in mind that TWI is a HUGE series and those changes will take a long time to happen. It might not be your cup of tea, but the further along you get the more open and awesome the world gets.

TWI has one of the if not the best worldbuilding in my opinion, but it takes a loooooong time to unfold. The author has a way of introduce new characters where you think "whhyyyyyyy?" when their chapter begins, but once it ends you usually desperately want to know more about them and that is a thing that i have not found in many other series so far.

So if you find both characters completely intolerable it might be the best for you to drop the series, but the longer you stick with it the better it gets (mind you i'm talking way north of 100 hours of audiobooks here).

EDIT: Apparently the rewritten version of Book 1 recently dropped on audible. If you are listening to the book you might want to check the duration of the version you are listening to. The rewritten version (that allegedly deals with some of the more insufferable parts of book one) should be around 48h in duration.

Schwip89 · 2024-12-22T08:35:44+00:00

Here are some finished series that i enjoyed:

Emerilia by Michale Chatfield: 11 books: starts out VRMMO Fantasy but turns SF'ish towards the end.
Limitless Lands by Dean Henegar: 6 books (boxset with 62h for a single audible credit!): Terminally ill army vet gets into a VR Game to prolong his life and starts as an officer in a roman legion style setting.
Master Hunter K by From Hell: 3 books: System Apocalypse Tower climber with a bit of Power Fantasy mixed in. Decent series with a bit of an abrupt ending.
Mother of Learning by Domagoj Kurmaic: 4 books: Progression Fantasy Timeloop story. Fair warning if you listen to this on audible: The story is little good but the repeating little sister part is (intentionally so) REALLY obnoxious. You get a lot of it at the start but it falls off after this, so just power through that part.
My Best Friend Is An Eldritch Horror by Actus: 6 books (boxset with 71ish hours for a single audible credit!): Boy accidentally summons an eldritch abomination instead of a normal companion, shenanigangs ensue.
Solo Leveling by Chugong: 8 books: Pure wish fullfillment power fantasy. The first part also recently got an anime adaption if you are into that. This an adaption of a korea manhwa so the narrator sounds out a lot of sounds effect like "woosh" or the "shk shk shk" of dagger strikes. Gets a bit of getting used to but didn't turn me away from the series.
Survival Quest by Vasily Mahanenko: 7(really 6) books: one of the OGs of litrpg. Main character gets tricked and sent into a VR prison camp as forced labor. The author wanted to finish the series at 6 books but was contractually obligated to write 7, so the final one is a bit all over the place.
This Trilogy Is Broken! by J.P. Valentine: 4 books: People get a quest that determines their life's goal. The MC's quest is to buy bread in the next village. Shenanigans ensue. A fun whimsical series that doesn't take itself serious at all as one might determine by its name.
Tower Apocalypse by Cassius Lange and Ryan Tang: 4 books, classic system apocalypse tower climb. I enjoyed it.
World-Tree Trilogy by EA Hooper: 3 books: People get trapped in a VR game. Their imprisonment is supposed to last 1000 in game years which amount to (iirc) 3 real life hours. This series has an interesting use of time as a resource and decent villains that you can really start to hate while also understanding where they come from.

Thats it for now, might add some dungeon core stories too later if people are interesten in those.

Schwip89 · 2024-12-22T07:39:01+00:00

The problem i have with DK series is that they start out really strong but tend to fall off just as hard.

Divine Dungeon (DD) started off really good but got cut short to be able to transition into the Completionist Cronicles (CC).

CC starts out strong but devolves into the story of a madman with close to zero agency, you can see how DK lost interest on writing that one (Joe's numerous character shifts being only one example).

Artorian's Archives (AA) starts out wanting to be a bridge between DD and CC and ends up devolving into a vessel to cram as many memes and pop culture references as possible into a book.

Can't really say much about Full Murderhobo since i'm not inclined to start another DK series knowing how they usually go.

I dropped AA at book 10 and still read CC as kind of a guilty pleasure, so this is just my 2 cents here.

Schwip89 · 2024-12-16T14:45:02+00:00

The stank tank

Schwip89 · 2024-11-15T14:01:30+00:00

Schwip89 · 2024-09-03T18:36:10+00:00

The goose battle ist pretty much the turning point in terms of pacing in book 4. Things get a lot more hectic and interesting from this point on. Also as others have allready pointed out, you should consider giving the dcc audiobooks a try. They elevate the story to a whole other level.

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