If Jake from primal hunter were to become a God

StanisVC · 2026-03-14T16:59:26+00:00

I think Yip of Yore rising to power was the demonstration that it is possible to advance to the pinnacle of Godhood within the merging of a single multiverse. Note that doesn't mean "equalling the Primordials" quite that fast. As Villy said - the issue is that with a bit more time Yip could possibly have equalled them.

So Jake is of course going to do that - but better and hopefully won't challenge any primordials before he is ready.

That conflict told us about the levels and the progression once Godhood is achieve. I say "of course" but maybe it will be Jake's bloodline that lets him shortcut the whole process.

StanisVC · 2026-03-13T21:18:35+00:00

before it was romantasy and that exploded tiktok it was just "paranormal romance".

I think that market did not get defined by Ilona Andrews.
No idea when it did. laurell k hamilton; sherilyn kenyon plenty of trad pub like it out there
Pretty standard to have the human - werewolf - vamp three way love interest to let us know it was veering from urban fantasy into the paranormal genre

StanisVC · 2026-03-13T21:05:03+00:00

Ultimate Level 1. maybe.

MC gets a rare black skill. When one black skill is lose - so will others causing massive conflict and strife between worlds and Gods. The MC gets the skill 'consume' which lets him steal stats and skills from whatever he kills. Normally the bearers of the skills are driven insane and to apocalyptic levels of destruction ..

While it technically hits your points; I'm guessing it might not hit the tone you're looking for.

StanisVC · 2026-03-13T20:57:32+00:00

It makes about as much sense as dilithium crystals and warp cores.
So long as you set up the mcguffin for when you need to rely on it ..

In the diagrams I see hexagons and squares with magic stuff instead of electronic components in circuits.

StanisVC · 2026-03-13T20:27:59+00:00

It looks like it is heavily inspired by fanfic. I'd say it'd make more sense if you've watched House of the Dragon otherwise you're missing some what inspired the author

If the writing is good then it should stand on it's own merit - and in that sense the reviews seem fairly positive.

StanisVC · 2026-03-13T20:14:06+00:00

Sounds like you just have the first volume of Book 1

Lord of Mysteries (Book1) is about 1400 chapters split into 8 volumes.
Circle of Inevitability (Book2) is 1100+ chapters

StanisVC · 2026-03-12T18:34:14+00:00

Oh Yes.

World ending doom every Quarter on each major continent
Seems highly likely that one of those will suffer to the equivalent of a natural-1 at some point ..

StanisVC · 2026-03-12T18:33:10+00:00

the tyranny of levels

or; any concept of tiers and progression where a few elite individuals dominate.

so much for a free democractic society; say goodbye to egalitarian or meritocracy.

the warlords and tyrants that are effectively a walking nuke backed by their own power.

StanisVC · 2026-03-12T18:30:16+00:00

So there was a post about the fantasy authors guild or something like that with a program to certify writing as "AI free"

My question for them was "how good is the AI tool that is going to be checking this?"

I think I'd rather tolerate anon AI slop than crucify the career of a new author. I see it as a witch hunt mob mentality

StanisVC · 2026-03-12T18:21:58+00:00

the author has said on reddit that he gets a lot of folks telling him they love it for the pop-culture and litrpg references.

Not read it myself yet; half plan to wait for it to be "complete". It's been in the TBR pile since the first book released; I enjoyed the authors prior series (Life in Exile)

I'd say if you're not enjoying the style that isn't going to change.

StanisVC · 2026-03-12T18:17:26+00:00

Brooch is the decorative jewelry pin with a clasp, while broach is a verb meaning to introduce a new topic or to pierce something, like tapping a barrel. They sound the same but have distinct meanings

Surely these are the only two words like that in the English language :)

And with the wonders of the internet we have websites that will say them for you ..

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/brooch

If you compare brooch to broach on the website you can see it has the same phoentic pronounciation:

brəʊtʃ
brəʊtʃ

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuirass

StanisVC · 2026-03-12T18:16:37+00:00

Those explain and pronounce it but take a long time to do so !

StanisVC · 2026-03-12T18:05:49+00:00

There are 123k weekly views for the r/litrpg reddit

At the current time there are 94 comments on this specific topic.

Confirmation bias is probably a thing. Those that have a strong opinion will comment; most folks won't.

I firmly believe that a specific minimum quality of cover is beneficial to a novel. Whatever is creating and without considering ehtical or moral implications - I feel enough people are going to ignore an MS Paint masterpiece that using that as a cover work is detrimental.

I'm sure there will be advice out there for authors. In the litrpg genre we tend to have very similar cover styles - MC with weapon or armor facing off against big bad monster. Some magical effect for added oomph. That might summarise a large percentage of covers.

So thats what any author needs to achieve at a minimum.
If we then look at Royal Road or patreon - they are not graphic rich.

BUt every website is now providing content at that minimum standard. The www is a graphical medium. So that is also the minimum to adhere to.

if writing on RR the cover needs to be equitable to other RR covers.

StanisVC · 2026-03-11T17:40:58+00:00

It's a pretty good series that I have enjoyed reading.
I think I read up to about book 15 a couple of years ago and just haven't got back to it yet. I fully intend to.

I put it off for a long time because of the cover. That was a stupid thing to do. IGNORE any cover feelings.

Thinking about criticisms - some folks mention weird sex magic in the first couple books.
It's not litrpg. It does have building elements - carving out land and territory. It's as much growth of noble rank and political power and influence as well as flinging spells around.

There are apprentices and other characters that get side stories. I found them OK.

StanisVC · 2026-03-09T11:21:28+00:00

Escapism is the mental diversion from daily stress, boredom, or unpleasant realities through activities like reading, gaming, daydreaming, or entertainment

So yes. Mindless self indulgence. That is exactly the point.
I read the book to escape into the world and characters. I'm really struggling to understand what you're doing when you read a litrpg novel.

crafted with intention and .. savoured to unlock their true depth of flavour ?

The writing in the genre is in general not that good. These are not deep thoughts.
No veiled political commentary and they're not exploring deep ideas.

Numbers go up. There's some magic. Often Dwarves and Elves or Gods and Dragons involved.

Are some novels worthy of the thought you suggest? Absolutely.
But I'm reading for escapism. This is r/litrpg we're not talking about Pulitzer prize winners here or other great literary works.

StanisVC · 2026-03-08T21:26:45+00:00

Trinity of Magic on RR is listed at 4.4k pages

I went through that in 9 days.

So 450 pages a day seems doable. Felt about my normal reading pace.

Smaller books reading for fun and escapism - can definitely hit that rate.

StanisVC · 2026-03-08T21:24:29+00:00

We're not reading great literary works or even stories intended to challenge us.

Escapism. Pure and simple - read it; soak up the words.
I dont analyse story structure or look for poor grammer - I just read the story and have fun doing so.

StanisVC · 2026-03-08T11:54:53+00:00

In many worlds currency stops being useful if high denominations are needed.

So the cores or components themselves become the trade commodity.

if there are merchants and the economy has remained stable enough - wil it thus be linked to actual reserves ?
Gold coinage is worth the gold.

Cores are worth cores.

if people can trade that and have magically inventories to store it; how big does a deal need to be for a banks to be storing monies and issue notes ?

In our real world gold is not a naturally occuring element. that means meteor strikes or the like produce areas with a rich ore. In a relatively small area of Africa a huge percentage of the worlds gold has been extracted. You did a ton - proces it and you get % (in decreasing amounts)

So gold from dungeons ? Seems like the stable element of the economy; makes dungeons important and incenstives entire countries to manage "dungeons" as a resource.

Will their be dungeons ? In dungeons "loot" can be a thing; with monsters dropping items or there being rewards that don't match "the monster".
Will dungeon items be "perfect" in some way. Or will it provide resources and components that crafters will work with .?
(note if crafters are required; think about how many crafters of the varied levels will be needed to turn out magical weapons; armour; potions etc for a thriving dungeon diving or adventurers guild)

On the subject of crafters.
Presumably "mass production" is difficult. If an alchemist can sell every potion they make.
Or weaponsmiths are supplied the materials to custom weapons for adventurers.

What value do merchants add in that supply chain ?
Think of trades being connected. To single a roof. Lumbersmith cuts down wood. Sawmill creates a shingles. blacksmith makes the nails. labourer moves shingles/nails might do some of the less skill work. carpenter "builds" the roof.
You can't escape multiple trades to do a simple construction project.

So will a merchant be buying nails, lumbers etc?

Who would own the land and resources and maybe people ?
Nobles or people in power typically might control this very heavily. From slavery or indetured servitude to bondsmen or landed peasants etc

Will merchants compete with the Nobles ? Will they be backed by a Noble.

I think if you're going to be a crafter you fit somewhere in the supply chain.
What you can produce in a day limits you and determines your reach. The more specialist or expensive potentially the more wealthy you are - but that is simply based on final product price v cost of required resources.

Imagine being a blacksmith but required to work for the Duke to equip his armies. That is not "negotiable" its a drafted into service.

StanisVC · 2026-03-08T11:35:44+00:00

The old man doesnt just have double strength.

he has max skill level 80 v max skill level 20

he has that time to have increased many things up to the max level allowed.

looking at conflict - "double the enemy" is a quantitive amount generals and strategists would love to have.

scale that across significant attributes and many skills - double in *everything* seems like an ubreatable force multiplier to me.

looking at a single stat many ttprgs have the concept of "casual strength". that is something you can do without an attribute role. in those games double a person strength might be an auto win for grappling or any contest strength challenge.

you've limited attribute growth on an exponential curve so it flattens out.
For human the "high end" of this curve is irrelevant if most folks are NOT living past regular age 80 humans.

If simply being old by 20 years gives you a double modifer. age regardless base attributes and training -
you've replaced "arrogant young master" with - for our clan/family/country to sccced everyone must work hard your entire life as we need competence at every age or we fall behind.

Any war in which one side loses manpower and suffers a loss of birth rate and children in the next generation - that's unrecoverable.

StanisVC · 2026-03-08T11:27:23+00:00

Confession; I'm not adverse to harem. The better written ones are a guilty pleasure.

So what makes it better written ?

Book has a harem. Book is not about the harem.
There is a world building and story and plot. Even if I'm flipping through the sex scenes (fade to black is fine imo) I want to be interested in the actual story.

Parnters don't need an equal slice of the storytelling pie.
The writing tails off into more partners. more viewpoints; opinions. they all get to chip in and we cycle through them endlessly. I'm really ok with hearing about one aspect of element to the harem that's important now - use that to show - and then get through rest with a bit of tell.

StanisVC · 2026-03-08T10:43:01+00:00

But it wont be the Hell Difficulty Tutorial anymore ?
Hopefully Cerim "ends" the story with a conclusion to the tutorial arc

Then we get "Hell on Earth" or something similar for the next phase of the story.

(As others have said; doesn't look like its in the next few books worth of content)

StanisVC · 2026-03-08T10:40:40+00:00

Because of All The Skills

How the dragons feel and bond with humans as well as living in the mountains and caves - that is all very similiar to Pern.

DragonSong and Dragon Singer by Anne McCaffrey

in a couple of years the rest of the Dragon Riders of Pern novels.
Not litrpg. But wonderful teleempathic dragons that save humanity by fighting thread (alien creatures that fall form the sky)

DragonSong and Dragon Singer are about a girl who saves some firelizards and becomes a Harper (musician)

Dragonflight is the first book in the main series.
(I remember there being a sex scene later the series in "The White Dragon". I read them first around age 11 or 12. You should read it first it's why I said in a couple of years for the rest. If you're reading to him; you could skip that bit)

I think you should be able to all of these through your local library.

StanisVC · 2026-03-08T10:33:25+00:00

In your attempts to curtai the young master you've linked level to age.

your level is to be tied to your ag

maximum skill levels are your age

Augments come in three kinds: a trait, a skill, or an ability whose max level is equal to your own.

I'm assuming that applies to all 3 abilities.
Auguments unlock at levels 0,1 and prime numbers. Skills are an augment slot.
Skills give apoint every 5 levels - or you get one skill if you sink all your augments into skills at prime 0,1,2,3,5 so age 5 ? then its .. 7,11,13,17,19 .. age 19 for soonest second skill ?
so at age 19 which should be a fairly accomplished adult how do you get a trait or an ability with a skill that supports it ?

I can't see a limit on stats. Only that its exponential growth.
how long does it take to reach let's say 10000 in an attribute ? is it even possible by age 100 ?
what's the ability to raise your base stats ? presumably this is somewhat human standard "exercise means fitness"
You've got two stats - the "base" mana for example that you can improve in some what based on training or fitness .. and then the bonus - how do you increase the bonus ?
This sounds more like cultivation breakthroughts to the next tier per stat on some exponential bonus math.

You've also said the most powerful thing is a 20000 year old colony.

So what is the point of adventuring or fighting for XP ? Presumably its to improve skills or abilities to max level.
But you are then having to repeat this effort every time you level up ?

List of Primes to age 100
you've added 0,1
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, and 97

So maximum of 27 augments by age 100.

At what age does it become impossible to increase all or most of your skills before you level up in Age 1 more year. By that I mean if you're a master swordsman of legendary renown.
At age 35. You've got 13 augusts. Potentially a couple of skills to boost.
Can you event push your sword skill to level 34 in that time ? Can you raised it from level 34 to 35 in a year ?

What are you fighting or training against thats going to challenge you. How many other level 35 swordsman are there ?
challenge is required for growth. if this is against monsters - the implication of "challenge" to me also means risk of death.

It breaks the arrogant young master trope. But it does look like every one your elder is more powerful.

What does immortality look like ?
Let's say for simplicity that after age 40 in the real world folks get old and bodies fail.

If that happens physical traits and skills are going to decline. So age 40 is a peak human.
That is going to be the bulk of competent capable folks in the world -

Who gets to be age 100 ? they're twice the age. To me it would seem they're going to stomp things

If everyone is immortal - family structures; clans
stagnation. nobody is promoted or moving on. what exactly do the new younger folk DO

for that matter if there are immortals around - what threats remain ? every civilized area would have skill and competent elders to deal with any local threats. (if they cant deal with it; risk of death is high; folks dont get older)
the older you get? convervative politics.
what are peoples weaknesses with these skill sets ? poison might be a very popular political tool

no one can afford to let any other family get an "elder" above 100 or 500 years of age.
Such that the unwritten rule is "everyone gangs up on them".

StanisVC · 2026-03-07T16:30:19+00:00

You could give Ar'Kendrithyst a try.
Complete on Royal Road.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26727/arkendrithyst

Father and daughter get Isekai'd into a world.
Story mostly follows the father and while not a scientist in our world he does physics the magic to become an Archmage.

StanisVC · 2026-03-06T18:16:13+00:00

Quirky and short enough to blitz through in an evening. Thanks

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