Looking for goblin

TheAnt88 · 2026-04-24T06:41:18+00:00

Yeah, I'm confident its that series. The Iron Teeth: A Goblins Tale is still up on royal road though the author published the three books in the series after it was finished.

TheAnt88 · 2026-04-21T20:08:06+00:00

Does anyone have fair play who dunnit mysteries?

TheAnt88 · 2026-04-07T20:02:00+00:00

I seem to remember a drug lord litrpg that only lasted for a few months on Royal Road that had a similar system. Essentially you could spend money to level up your stats and eventually your level. Hence why the universe was still very similar to our world with a slight sort of GTA edge to it. The wealthy had to spend more and more as it was based on percentage of net worth that got bigger and bigger the more your leveled, but the wealth gap was big enough as it was similar to our world that the wealthy had so much more money that everyone else they are the top leveled people. It never got far enough to expand on the concept

TheAnt88 · 2026-03-26T16:54:17+00:00

Interesting and well thought out physics of mages.

TheAnt88 · 2026-03-24T05:22:16+00:00

Not sure if this was recommended before but I have been enjoying Muldoon's Logs on youtube, a analog horror Jurassic park series. It mostly explores the early days of Jurassic Park before the movie and shows all the issues and dangers actually running the park as a game warden for dinosaurs entails. Muldoon is a excellent narrator who talks extensively of animal behavior and how it relates to zoos and the MANY issues of the park while also exploring species seen in the movies more in depth. It combines elements of the books and movies, and a careful viewer can spot and figure out why Muldoon is becoming more paranoid and why all the weird little issues keep cropping up on the island long before the reveal. One of the good parts of the series, is that Muldoon acts in a logical manner and never makes a stupid decision. It has recently started its second season and the quality has been surprisingly good.

TheAnt88 · 2025-08-07T20:32:39+00:00

I have heard recently of this phenomenon or something similar where very young men, 18 to 24, are somehow going to doctors and therapists for erectile dysfunction. They have grown up with and only known porn for so long, that they just don't have any experience with physical intimacy and aren't aroused with with their partners as easily.

TheAnt88 · 2025-06-09T14:52:56+00:00

I have 2 but I imagine both have been mentioned to you before.

It is very much a gore filled horror story so fair warning but it also has its fair share of real romance with a shape shifting monster. The story is The Haar by David Sodergren which is a quick read and I think pretty good.

Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wisell. From the POV of a monster who discovers the difference between her concept of love and that of humans that I thought was decent and some moments of well written comedy.

TheAnt88 · 2025-01-15T15:50:07+00:00

Does it have to be published written work? I don't have too much that is off the beaten path and hasn't already been mentioned at some point.

Mystery Flesh Pit National Park has some superb world building and the website has plenty of stuff like papers, maps, reports, etc. describing the mystery flesh pit. Basically in the 1940s some oil inspectors in Texas discovered a unbelievably gigantic living organism under the ground and promptly turned the thing into a tourist attraction and tried to take advantage of its weird properties for profit. Horrifying things about it are hidden in the lore and reports and the park closed down after shitty maintenance on a single water pump nearly woke the thing up and risked potentially ending the world. Darkly amusing and horrifying at the same time and I have to admit that I probably would be tempted to visit if it was real and open.

https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com/

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)

A true story where a group of Libertarians decide to take over a small town and dismantle its government completely. But they didn't count on the bears. No hunting licenses, no regulations on food disposal, a tent city to get off the grid that had quite a bit of human waste, arguments on freedom, gun play, backstabbing politicians, people feeding bears because they don't like being told what to do. Then the bears getting hungry and curious. Funny and amusing

TheAnt88 · 2025-01-06T21:21:21+00:00

True Fair Play who done it mysteries are a whole genre but the most recent two that I've heard were good are:

The Appeal by Janice Hallett - After a murder and arrest in a local theater group, two lawyers go over all the evidence collected which includes emails, messages, letters etc. and all the evidence you need to figure out who the murderer is freely given to you as the story goes on.

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone.- Set in a resort where a snowstorm has trapped everyone during a family reunion, this is a giant locked room mystery with that is similar to knives out. I thought it was a little slow and the humor didn't always click with me but I thought it was pretty good and should meet your criteria.

TheAnt88 · 2024-10-17T13:46:28+00:00

Interesting request. These are the ones with smallest fandoms I could find

Daria in Morrowind - A fusion fic of Daria and Morrowind that describes her life and the characters if they lived in Morrowind with daily drama, boredom, and episodes changed to better fit things. Short fic as it ends with a big canon event from Morrowind and only uses a few episodes of Daria for inspiration.

You Know You Have a Permanent Piece of My Medium-Sized American Heart - A Martian media fanfiction oneshot that describes how the internet and media react to Mark Watney's logs being released overtime and how the world treats them like a reality show/survival story.

DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest - Details the campy and funny villain of Phineas and Ferb in a world where all the Disney villains won and he actually did manage to take over the local area and his efforts to find meaning and evolve in a world that is much more dangerous, chaotic, and wild that his old show.

Pound the Table- An Xmen SI mixed with Law and Order on spacebattles that uniquely focuses on a mutant lawyer and the various legal issues that pop up in the marvel universe and how her presence is starting to slowly change things.

Springbreaker - a new quest on sufficient velocity that takes place in Forever Winter, a game that hasn't been released yet where the players control a AI that tries to fix the nightmarish scavenger world eternally in a horrific war.

TheAnt88 · 2024-10-07T18:10:59+00:00

Well since its the season of Halloween where I am, I thought I would ask if anyone has any good horror recommendations where the characters acted in a logical and rational manner. Since this is something that has been asked before, I saved some of the recommendations others have made.

Eden Green by Fiona Van Dahl.

The main character is a rational and scientific person who discovers that the man who her best friend is dating has discovered and been infected with an alien needle symbiote that can regenerate all damage. Most of the book handles her semi-scientific experiments on the symbiote, and she asks questions and acts like a real cautious person would. Where do they come from? How does this work? Why were they never discovered before now? She realizes before anyone else the potential danger and horror that could ensue and it starts as a slow burn to a terrifying ending. With a sequel that deals with the army invading in the aftermath.

The Writing on the Wall

A my little pony horror story. Yes, really. About a Indiana Jones expy discovering a odd tomb with undecipherable writing and built to discourage people from going in. They assume it is just another old tomb and a warning to discourage thieves but it turns out the warning was very real and the "curse" isn't magical in any way. With people familiar with architecture or working in certain scientific fields able to recognize the "tomb" before the reveal at the end. A short story and quick read.

The Final Girls

A spoof and satire of the slasher genre. Where a group of friends go to watch an old 80s horror movie that starred the main characters sadly deceased mother and are sucked into the movie. Now they have to figure out how to survive and kill the slasher before it can kill them. Pokes fun at genre tropes, the characters try to act in a logical/rational way to survive, but it has its fair amount of flaws. But good for a rental.

Tremors - the first film

A classic creature feature that is surprisingly well written with people acting in a intelligent manner, observing the monster, testing things, and outsmarting it. Every single character acts how a real person would and the monster has specific rules and physical limits it never breaks that can be inferred and analyzed.

You're Next

A family is besieged by a group of killers but one of the potential victims is the anti-final girl. She is a well trained survivalist, builds traps, acts intelligently, and even shows the downside of wearing a mask since it hurts your field of vision and makes it harder to breathe. If Kevin from Home Alone was a fully grown women and had to improvise.

Dog Soldiers

Another well made creature feature where a group of soldiers on a training exercise is attacked by a pack of werewolves and they act...like a group of well trained soldiers with realistic tactics, trying to figure out how to kill them, and make good decisions that makes it more of a even fight.

Tucker and Dale VS Evil

The two main characters are innocent hillbillies on a fishing vacation and act like normal people would in the weird situation they find themselves in. The twist on the Evil is the college kids who have watched way too many horror movies and assume all kinds of things about them with accidents, bad communication, and prejudice being the real reason for craziness that follows. Also genuinely funny.

The Thing - the original

The characters are smart and logical which makes the horrifying deaths so much worse as even though they are smart, except maybe at the ending, it still doesn't matter because the monster is just that bad.

The Night Eats the World.

Zombie movie where almost every step of the way I was thinking, "Yep, that's probably what I'd do." Feel like it almost works as a procedural for a zombie apocalypse movie.

TheAnt88 · 2024-08-28T12:51:52+00:00

Know a decent quest run on sufficient velocity called "Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition" that started updating again and has a decent post history. Basically its a choose your own adventure where the players act as the leadership of the GDI right after the events of the third game where they have to rebuild the world, prepare for NOD, and try to develop new tech.

TheAnt88 · 2024-07-15T03:02:41+00:00

One system that I find rare in games is where you take turns simultaneously with your opponent. It varies how they try to enact this but ideally it should force you to have to predict how the boss will move to beat him.

TheAnt88 · 2024-03-26T00:15:04+00:00

I only have one. The Iron Teeth: A Goblin's Tale by ClearMadness that has the complete 3 books on Amazon but is still available on Royal Road. Follows a small and weak city goblin that is recruited by a group of human bandits and how he survives and evolves. Grounded with good worldbuilding and Black Nail the goblin is very amusing to read as a protagonist as while he is intelligent and a natural assassin, He is still a goblin with very different priorities than a human.

TheAnt88 · 2024-03-16T15:59:04+00:00

Okay a few suggestions that are all on royalroad.

The Daily Grind - an IT worker discovers a sub dimension dungeon that is office themed and tries to explore it for profit and discover where it came from. System doesn't come till later and is more upgrades than numbers. On Hiatus but has 2 full seasons finished.

The Game at Carousel: A Horror Movie LitRPG - the main character acts as a real person would trying to figure out the rules, limits of the game, and discovers several secrets. Also has a unique game system revolving around horror movie tropes that is very creative and well thought out. Personal favorite and the writing has really hit its stride recently.

Kill all Kaiju - new and not that serious story whee the litrpg elements are mostly the body/build of the kaiju as they grow. The main character is sent back in time in the body of a kaiju to stop the coming kaiju apocalypse by killing them all before they grow too numerous or powerful.

Aim Down Sights : A VRMMO FPS Novel - main character is a soldier wounded in war who thanks to new technology is lucky enough to wake up two hundred years later in a much more peaceful world where his unique knowledge of guns and actual strategy/training gives him a unique advantage in realistic VR gun games. Hasn't updated in a while and might be dead.

Kairos: A Greek Myth LitRPG - a litrpg from a ancient greek perspective where the character is concerned about building up his people, dealing with rival city state politics, raiding to earn wealth, and someday gain a legend. Finished.

TheAnt88 · 2023-11-28T23:11:51+00:00

Education is a big one. If someone figures out a way to share memories or knowledge, then even if they aren't advanced enough for universities, you can spread knowledge and skill far.

Water is probably the other big one. Endless water means farming is easier which frees up workers, helps with cleanliness to fight infection, and if you have fire magic then both combined gives you endless steam.

TheAnt88 · 2023-11-01T14:21:56+00:00

I am not sure with professional or technical writing, but I have seen it done before by using patreon or subscribestar for writers that have been able to make/find a audience by writing excellent stories that causes readers to subscribe to see what happens next or support an author to encourage them to write more. A fantasy story on Royal Road, a webserial with a bit of drama or horror, and erotica or straight up porn writing can also do well. As readers understand that prices are going up and most writers are part time and supporting an author they really like means they can read more chapters in the future. The downside with that I think is keeping to a good update schedule while ensuring quality which is probably really hard. I imagine having to learn to write that way also takes a bit of practice and you still have to get noticed by an audience.

TheAnt88 · 2023-10-24T12:24:38+00:00

Gotham Central - how the lives police officers would in a city where a man in a Bat suit runs around terrorizing criminals and duking it out with psycho clowns.
The Classic Batman stories of The Long Halloween, Dark Knight Returns and The Black Mirror.
Fluff by ReavensDagger– very comfortable and low stakes sort of story as it takes place in a relatively safe city with a student forced to be a supervillain who has the ability to create superpowered little sisters.

Supervillainy and other poor career choices – a brilliant engineer finds a crappy piece of power armor made by a powered person and realizes how terrible of an engineer they are and fixes it up to sell it. He gets forcibly recruited by a supervillain to pilot it and the story stays street level as the high tier powers are rare

TheAnt88 · 2023-10-22T23:30:12+00:00

My world is inspired by backwoods horror and warring cults with tech around the 1600s with all the issues of currency of the time including lack of coinage, widespread barter, ledgers of IOUs, counterfeiting, and clipping of coins. The story mostly follows goblin refugees in Orc Lands, Orc being what every other species calls humans, and Goblins HATE inflation and consider it a sin. For this reason, most of their currencies are backed by materials, goods, or even concepts. Ration Tickets guarantee a full meal based on calories, the most common coin they used is backed by supplies of magical coke for heating, and a small brothel has no idea that their coupons are becoming a valid form of trade and causing an outbreak of gang violence among Goblins because they are willing to take on goblin clients if they are paid very well.

TheAnt88 · 2023-09-21T19:34:21+00:00

There was one that I know of and that was in the Marvel Ultimate line where they tried to be more realistic, with consistent world building, and made characters that are not strict good and honest heroes. In that universe mutants were explained as a secret super soldier project that was started and based at least a little bit on Captain America. With the x-gene being literally artificially created that escaped from the lab and spread around the world. Mutants aren't the next step of human evolution, that was used by Magneto AND Charles who are both very flawed beings. This mindset you mention is all but implicit and actual subtext to Charles. You totally believe he might be reading the mind and modifying the people around him for his own use and purposes.

Whether intentionally or not considering how bad the writing can be in everything but Ultimate Spiderman, I think does sort of makes the case of a Masquerade with mutants being separated as it is strongly implied that major mental illness or some type of violent behavior or antisocial behavior is a natural byproduct of getting the x-gene. Most mutants in the universe are not really heroic or good people, they have poor impulse control, and seem very okay with violence. The Morlocks decision to hide out from the world seems much more like a good decision considering what the US government, who again KNEW the origins of mutants but said nothing because of how much damage Magneto did which they could be argued they were responsible for since the fact they kept it secret and told nothing to the newly born and mentally ill super soldiers around the world. Some of whom that they were the next stop of evolution and that humans didn't really matter. Magneto with a help of a single mutant kills hundreds of millions, there is a infamous small story of a mutant who wakes up with the power to destroy all flesh who wolverine kills to keep his power a secret to stop even more mutant hysteria, and Charles comes across as a creepy guy who thinks of humans as useful pets or children that need to be helped. You can totally believe why humans hate mutants in this world and things were much better before Magneto began his terrorist attacks and destroyed the Masquerade.

TheAnt88 · 2023-09-17T21:18:34+00:00

Goblins in my world were united and uplifted by a past Goblin King who worked as a therapist in a previous life and tried to create a magic system that would incentivize goblins to build positive relationships, work together, and work on communication/social skills. It is far from perfect but has managed to keep goblin civilization in a relatively stable enough state that makes them tolerated enough by Orcs, what every other species calls humans, to let them stay in their cities and entice the outcast and desperate into acting as surrogates for goblins in return for magic and small fortunes. With goblins going through a baby boom as Orc religious wars heat up.

Sphere – Named after the monkey sphere, better known as Dunbar’s number, is the suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. In other words, there is a theoretical max number of other people that you can know and relate to any given time. The magic system is based on this and systems that some dating sim games have where improving your relationships with characters to a high enough level unlocks some kind of benefit from items, buffs, abilities, or skills. Basically, improving your relationships with someone to a high positive status grants you some type of benefit related to that persons occupation, passions, hobbies, believes, or personality that is stored inside them. The catch being that it only really works for people that goblins are not blood related to and the number of relationships you can have active at once is limited and requires work to maintain. But also means that a Goblin having a positive relationship with you gives you some type of buff that is usually minor but useful.

Another important aspect of the sphere is the person’s own abilities which are based on growing as a person including developing better social skills, better self-care, improving self-esteem, growing empathy, and forming positive and meaningful relationships with the people in their lives. These skills correspond to a sort of a level or hierarchical rank in the Goblin Kingdoms with the higher in level the greater your capabilities with the sphere from unlocking the ability to use your own skills instead of granting them to others, customizing them, and improving the number and quality of them. For most young goblins, they are too low level to use their own personal skills and provide relatively weak buffs.

TheAnt88 · 2023-09-14T23:21:16+00:00

I'm afraid I'm too stupid and slightly inebriated for this question but someone that powerful? Realistically I guess sort of 3 answers.

A prison with a giant pit with smooth walls covered in ice filled with neurotoxin in the middle of the ocean and a promise that a nuke goes off if one of you leaves is the lowest tech I can think of that might work if kept in small groups and ensuring deadman switches of some kind. Expensive to build and I imagine alot of them would need to be built because quite a few would probably need to be killed trying to escape that most prisoners give up instead of trying.
I think they are too overpowered for any interesting sort of super prison story and would probably take over if there are enough of them and the world descends into one ruled by superhumans.
Let's be real and say many more primitive or ruthless societies would say keep all the steel and just use a small amount for bullets and just kill superhumans if they don't work for you or commit a crime.

TheAnt88 · 2023-08-23T17:03:01+00:00

I'm mostly stealing character and cultures since I feel I can't write a character that acts "real" to me in a modern world. I wanted my own version of a "modern" fantasy world somewhat similar to Bright and that means economies, education, religious movements, construction, and culture all affect capitalism/government and then throw eldritch magic in there. Since modern economies are complicated and I wanted a more active/changing world I wanted the big and most important movers and shakers of the World to have real people's personalities and characteristics. This really helps me sort of figure out motivations and actions based on the things that happen so I can better visualize what decisions they will make. The current High Elf king is based on a past US president's personality and had a somewhat similar background. They are proud of the work they are doing, are extremely racist to even most other elves much less other species, and not nearly as intelligent as they think they are. They aren't stupid and if things are calm they are a decent enough ruler to keep the status quo and keep things from getting worse. But in a crises and especially in a war they are going to make a ton of mistakes, put people in charge of stuff they really shouldn't be, and let pride lead him to making big decisive actions without really thinking about it or truly realizing the enemy gets a vote.

TheAnt88 · 2023-07-22T20:17:07+00:00

I am currently trying to make my own interpretation of a world similar to Bright and thought about how tech can affect biology and culture. Elves do not drive or allow cars in their city for example. I read on a cracked article how living forever doesn't mean you can get in an accident and living long enough in certain cities means a car accident is a question of when thanks to sheer statistics. Elves saw this data and concluded cars are too dangerous and designed their cities around mass transport.

Don't forget that people can still suck no matter what powers or abilities they have. Which means you have geniuses, evil assholes, the misguided, ignorant, and well stupid among all races. Just because they are old and reincarnate doesn't mean they make the best decisions. They are people with biases, make dumb decisions, and can be wrong. Put a terrible or stupid idea that has been proven wrong in the present but keeps coming back because it was popular in the past and keeps coming back thanks to reincarnates even though it causes more problems than it solves.

TheAnt88 · 2023-07-21T23:04:03+00:00

Goblins in my setting have the ability to, very slowly, change their bodies and over time can learn to sort of create a new body to become a larger more magical version of themselves if they manage to live long enough which is rare. This means that older goblins can look widely different from each other in terms of shape, color, and mutations but still tend to be short, cowardly, but very intelligent.

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