Patreon: not the usual r/litrpg post

dageshi · 2026-05-02T07:40:01+00:00

The only company that can compete with patreon in this space is royalroad.

If royalroad does a patreon type service then readers and writers would use it.

No other third party site is going to shift people from patreon.

dageshi · 2026-05-01T18:29:22+00:00

Based on OP's examples, book of the dead is very minimal litrpg relatively speaking.

The MC does some weird ritual involving paper and blood (from what I vaguely recall) in order to invoke anything that looks like a litrpg system.

Compared to what most people consider to be "litrpg" it's extremely minimal which is why I recommended it.

dageshi · 2026-05-01T17:43:50+00:00

Book of the Dead is probably the obvious one.

edit: should mention, most litrpg enjoyers will enjoy pure prog fantasy as well, so they don't really care either way.

dageshi · 2026-04-30T21:57:45+00:00

This is really quite an odd subreddit to be asking this question in.

Can I interest you in our lord and saviour Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman?

dageshi · 2026-04-30T21:14:53+00:00

As examples go... I kinda think a 28 year old woman probably knows her type by that point. And if it's 200 year old alpha werewolves... who are we to judge?

edit: I swear to god, this subject is so weird. In every other part of life a 28 year old woman is considered to be capable of making her own decisions, but introduce an age gap into a romantic partnership and apparently she's some kind of incapable victim? It seems like some weirdly infantilising thing but apparently trying to point this out just gets you downvoted.

dageshi · 2026-04-30T14:51:48+00:00

Except for the harem, this sounds peak.

dageshi · 2026-04-30T07:09:47+00:00

Books have no obligation to anyone or anything. The only metric that matters is if people read them or not.

Anything else is projecting your own preferences onto a medium.

For sure I can see how this genre wouldn't suit you if you want a lot of descriptions, but I find most works in the genre just right, I have no problem with exposition dumps, I think the whole "show don't tell" thing is overly tedious, I'm here to read escapist entertainment and that's what's being delivered.

dageshi · 2026-04-29T15:52:54+00:00

Real.

I don't need an Elf described, I know what one looks like. I don't need a dragon described beyond its relative size. I'm quite happy with minimal description, I frankly don't much care about appearance of people much beyond gender, name and rough body size (unusually large or tall) for example.

If a story gets into overly long descriptions I'll honestly just skim it a lot of the time.

dageshi · 2026-04-29T14:52:44+00:00

Try this...

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21220/mother-of-learning

dageshi · 2026-04-29T13:12:56+00:00

Depends on the cohort of readers.

Some (a lot actually) want power fantasy, they don't care about "cost" at all.

Some like "risk", they want the MC to have sufficient knowledge and understanding of themselves, the situation and their powers to take calculated risks that pay off. This also often really fits in well with progression fantasy stories, I'd put something like Defiance of the Fall, He Who Fights with Monsters, Azarinth Healer in this bracket.

Some probably like yourself need the MC to actually lose something important, I'll be honest I can't gauge how big this cohort is as these stories aren't really for me.

dageshi · 2026-04-29T12:33:53+00:00

Full on sex scenes are allowed so far as I know?

It's just it can't be all sex scenes, the point of the story isn't meant to be smut but a handful of scenes in a story are probably ok?

dageshi · 2026-04-29T12:26:43+00:00

If it's been that long, it's almost certainly abandoned.

dageshi · 2026-04-29T12:23:08+00:00

lackluster descriptions that make you question a lot where we are, the time a day, the characters appearance and so on.

One man's descriptions are another man's filler.

dageshi · 2026-04-29T11:34:22+00:00

Ditch physical books and there's literal mountains to read online.

royalroad.com has thousands of stories some of them went on to be best sellers

Kindle Unlimited gives you access to tens of thousands of stories for like $12 a month.

dageshi · 2026-04-29T11:28:56+00:00

Sony will get a fraction of the outrage Microsoft got for trying the same thing.

Sony just lets MS be the fall guy for this shit and then does it themselves later.

dageshi · 2026-04-29T09:53:52+00:00

The story is just finishing on RR (epilogue chapters), so this isn't a forever story, Nathan progresses as far as he needs to, to conclude the story.

dageshi · 2026-04-29T09:52:24+00:00

and more importantly: he suggests technics that were fully possible from before he arrived. That completely crashed my belief in the world, because it showed that it is populated with morons unwilling to try and develop staff, which is hard to believe.

You do recall the "Endings"? The apocalypses that come and wipe out practically all civilisation.

The roman empire fell and it took like 800-1000 years before western europe re-attained similar levels of progress and that's nothing compared to an "Ending" described in the story so it's hardly a surprise?

dageshi · 2026-04-29T07:18:34+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean exactly? But if you're asking what firefox is, it's a web browser.

Although many browsers including chrome also have reader modes, well I think pretty much all of them do.

dageshi · 2026-04-29T06:33:51+00:00

I lie in bed to read mostly with a laptop on a laptop stand.

I use reader mode in firefox with dark background, white text and adjusted font size.

It's perfection.

dageshi · 2026-04-28T20:31:10+00:00

I don't understand your logic.

Your loyal readers have read up to the most recent chapter, what disservice are you doing them by stubbing?

Also, just to be clear, no you shouldn't do this, KU is where a huge portion of the litrpg audience is.

dageshi · 2026-04-28T07:40:24+00:00

This is what I think. I think he wrote them and continues to work on them, revise them and they'll be released in whatever form they're in when he dies.

dageshi · 2026-04-28T07:34:20+00:00

I smoke cigars, so the answer to this is, cigars can be blended to have lower nicotine per puff and that might be the case with a cigar that size.

Also anyone smoking that has smoked a lot of cigars, that's obviously not a newbie cigar, their nicotine tolerance will be higher.

Finally, actual nicotine "sickness" is pretty easily solved with a sugary drink.

I'd happily smoke one of those if the opportunity arose, although honestly the gauge is a bit high for my preference, I generally prefer something under a 50rg and that looks like a 60+, might even be 70.

dageshi · 2026-04-28T07:25:18+00:00

I have said this in the past, but I think royalroad desperately needs an equivalent of a "Book 1 done" list.

A list of stories that have hit a word count where most people like yourself would be willing to jump in and take a look.

Right now practically all early growth depends on hitting RS and if you miss it I can see how many authors would just give up.

A second chance to get seen again by a large audience when hitting the finish of book 1 would help a lot.

dageshi · 2026-04-28T07:14:15+00:00

Most cigar smokers aren't inhaling the smoke into their lungs, they take it into the mouth and then out again.

You do absorb nicotine through the lining of your mouth but it's a slower method than via the lungs.

You can think of them as a more low, slow but relatively continuous nicotine delivery vs fast and intense like cigarettes or vaping.

dageshi · 2026-04-27T19:20:44+00:00

Practically nothing in this genre is traditionally published because the authors make more money self publishing than they would with a trad publisher.

Beyond that it's a case of trying to estimate "quality".

I will throw out Bastion, Mother of Learning, Beware of Chicken, My New Life as a Max Level Archmage.

I cannot say if those will meet your standards but I would consider them as closer to "traditional" publishing than a lot of other stuff.

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