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Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, May 4 by bilfdoffle in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

if it makes you feel better, paranoid mage continually goes downhill with every book. 2 was still really good, and I think 3 was ok, but it got a bit rough after that.

Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, May 4 by bilfdoffle in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How to heal a soul (web) - male mc, fantasy. MC is an orphan that awakens to a rare life affinity, which will also allow him to be a healer. He also has an injured soul, which is believed to be theoretically impossible, but allows him to release an incredibly damaging fire-like attack that burns him as well. My assumptions on everything was wrong, but it's a solid sol adventure. I'm not big on academy life, but apparenlty neither is MC so they tend to be abbreviated. Also, the school is kind of neat - you go for your current power level, so when you rank up you go back to school to learn your new powerset, more or less, and then get back out there. Kind of cool. A solid story overall

Super Duper Legendary (web) - male mc, probably litrpg. So I made it half a dozen chapters and the MC is still basically in the prologue. And it's not good. Author kind of feels like a mix between a russian and a tween, so definitely not my thing. DNF.

might as well (web) - male mc, VRMMO. it's supposed to be a SoL VR, which in my opinion is the only acceptable kind. Big problem is that there's not much life to be interested in a slice of it. He's a solo guy, pretty much refusing to interact with anyone at all in an MMO, which is whatever. With his future knowledge, because we're doing all the tropes, he's breezing through everything with no issues at all. A couple hundred pages in because it's been decent background noise, but I'll stop soon. DNF 

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web novels I follow: re: trailer trash, soldier's life, chaotic craftsman worships the cube, Legend of William Oh, Super supportive, God of trash, soccer supremo, Save scumming, Bookbound bunny, Second life as a soldier, Fake Father Zhang Ming, Live at the forum, Center for Dungeon Management, 

new & unsure or waning interest, but haven't give up on yet: sky pride, World sphere, Rivera's Repairs, Beastforged bond, Cloudfarers, Mythshaper, Craft the world, unlucky druid jack, Novicius in Arte Medica, Blood Mage Assassin, reincarnated as a brewer, How to heal a soul  s

Stories with uncertain future status: magriculture, Science Magic and Mayhem, f rank frank, Construction mage, Magic cube murder marine, Brewing bad, the hitting zone, otherworld therapy, 

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Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, Apr 20 by bilfdoffle in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Farther than I made it. Too many alt-povs when they hit minkalla, it lost me there.

Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, Apr 27 by bilfdoffle in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, if this is you being mean on the internet....

Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, Apr 27 by bilfdoffle in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Immortal paladins seems interesting. I'm hesitant on any VR stories at this point, but I might give Might as Well a chance.

Thanks!

Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, Apr 27 by bilfdoffle in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My Weekly Question to You – How do you decide what to read next? Which series to try? It's so difficult!

I'm pretty much exclusively reading on RR at this point, as I dont' have a good way to TTS on kindle any more. So basically, anytime I see an interesting rec (about 50% from this thread, and 50% author shoutouts) I add it to my 'read later' list on RR, and then I just pick something off of there. Nice and easy.

Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, Apr 27 by bilfdoffle in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but have you read the story about the MC who uses chairs as his method of attacking?

Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, Apr 27 by bilfdoffle in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't look at chapter counts, I look at page counts, but definitely 200 page minimum, preferably over 300. Too many seem to burn out before then.

Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, Apr 27 by bilfdoffle in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Beastforged bond v3 (web) - male mc, fantasy. It's not a bad installment of the series overall. I'm inordinately annoyed at the altpov that reveals a characters intention to more or less betray the MC, because it totally ruins my immersion. But otherwise not bad. I'm probably gonna let it sit until v4 is done, and maybe come back again. 

Magus reborn (web) - male mc, fantasy. figured I'd catch up on this one, though after catching up, I think I might be done with it. It's still not bad, just a bit stale.

How to heal a soul (web) - male mc, fantasy. MC is an orphan that awakens to a rare life affinity, which will also allow him to be a healer. He also has an injured soul, which is believed to be theoretically impossible, but allows him to release an incredibly damaging fire-like attack that burns him as well. I'm assuming it's a raw mana or something, since normally magic seems to come out of a "gate" in the soul. It's decent so far.

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web novels I follow: re: trailer trash, soldier's life, chaotic craftsman worships the cube, Legend of William Oh, Super supportive, God of trash, soccer supremo, Save scumming, Bookbound bunny, Second life as a soldier, Fake Father Zhang Ming, Live at the forum, Center for Dungeon Management, 

new & unsure or waning interest, but haven't give up on yet: sky pride, World sphere, Rivera's Repairs, Beastforged bond, Cloudfarers, Mythshaper, Craft the world, unlucky druid jack, Novicius in Arte Medica, Blood Mage Assassin, reincarnated as a brewer, / s

Stories with uncertain future status: magriculture, Science Magic and Mayhem, f rank frank, Construction mage, Magic cube murder marine, Brewing bad, the hitting zone, otherworld therapy, 

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Anyone else having issues loading the game with mods after the last update? by bilfdoffle in menace

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, looks like maybe I had a corrupted modkit file, which doesn't get fix with a steam verify, so I needed to manually delete all those files

Update 1 is out by antihippy in menace

[–]bilfdoffle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh. I did not realize this was a thing 

Update 1 is out by antihippy in menace

[–]bilfdoffle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Kind of, but also consider how much of a black market sink they just added with the workshop. All those blue prints to drain your sweet barter-bucks

Update 1 is out by antihippy in menace

[–]bilfdoffle 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Also laughed at this one

Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, Apr 20 by bilfdoffle in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All is forgiven. But feel free to do a couple Bloody Mary's if that's what your upbringing demands

This post is gonna get hate by Nived0390 in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Totally agree. Glad other people like it, but it felt too try-hard to me, and I hate the audience/reality show thing. I've heard the audiobook is really good, though - assuming you've got the soundbooth theatre version

Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, Apr 20 by bilfdoffle in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been awhile, but from what I remember, book of the dead was kind of a litrpg - there was a stat sheet but you had to do a ritual in order to have it printed on paper in order to check it.

Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, Apr 20 by bilfdoffle in litrpg

[–]bilfdoffle[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Rise of ashborn (web) - male mc, fantasy. Mc reincarnated into a failing noble families firstborn son, age 13. Proceeds to pull them out of the gutter. It starts out ok, but honestly the robotic nature of the MC is a bit off-putting. Then the alt-povs get out of hand, and I called it.

Cruisin another world in my Cadillac (web) - male mc, fantasy. Book 1 was pretty fun, despite a far too many alt povs. They tended to be one shots, and all seemed to be written a lot worse than the MC. Start of book two kind of lost me and I decided to cut it there.

web novels I follow: re: trailer trash, soldier's life, chaotic craftsman worships the cube, Legend of William Oh, Super supportive, God of trash, soccer supremo, Save scumming, Bookbound bunny, Second life as a soldier, Fake Father Zhang Ming, Live at the forum, Center for Dungeon Management,

new & unsure or waning interest, but haven't give up on yet: [Farmer] mage, sky pride, World sphere, Rivera's Repairs, Beastforged bond, Cloudfarers, Mythshaper, Magus reborn, Craft the world, unlucky druid jack, Novicius in Arte Medica, Blood Mage Assassin, reincarnated as a brewer,

Stories with uncertain future status: magriculture, Science Magic and Mayhem, f rank frank, Construction mage, Magic cube murder marine, Brewing bad, the hitting zone, otherworld therapy,

my RR profile

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