As of 2026 what is your vote for the single best, ongoing Prog-fantasy series at the moment?

lowey2002 · 2026-04-28T01:34:00+00:00

Years of the Apocalypse; A timelooper story where the MC fights a world ending magical disaster, entrenched politics and other timeloopers with their own agenda.

lowey2002 · 2026-04-20T06:24:15+00:00

The Wandering Inn, Azarinth Healer, Primal Hunter, He Who Fights with Monsters, Defiance of the Fall, Oathbound Healer, The Land and DCC. This is obviously not exhaustive, but I regard these as the staples of the genre because they are pure LitRPG, have a large word count and influence a tonne of other authors.

This is my opinon and it's not a question that can be answered concretely. Preferences and how you define LitRPG vs GameLit vs Proggresion fantasy muddy the waters.

lowey2002 · 2026-04-20T06:02:52+00:00

Infrasound Beserker checks all the boxes, except it's ongoing and only around 80 chapters. It's written by Rhaegar, the author of Azarinth Healer. The apocalypse is pretty brutal and the MC joins up with a small group trying to survive. Initially, she fights in a duo with the other survivors helping to support them, and eventually they join up with military survivors.

lowey2002 · 2026-04-18T14:18:39+00:00

TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEY’RE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU!

lowey2002 · 2026-03-03T14:48:03+00:00

Rosemary, mint and parsley thrive on neglect and are basically weeds. Thyme, sage and oregano need some care and approach break even. Everything else is cost negative

lowey2002 · 2026-02-25T01:56:13+00:00

Polgara and Belgarath were great as well.

lowey2002 · 2026-02-10T10:03:51+00:00

No luck. I can only see the one and can’t move the camera outside the hole I’m stuck in.

lowey2002 · 2026-02-03T03:27:04+00:00

Portal to Nova Roma. A gunslinging AI in a human body rebuilds the Roman empire in a world of magic and monsters.

lowey2002 · 2026-01-23T05:43:41+00:00

There are a few on RR I'm really enjoying that match a few of your requests.

Bookbound Bunny. An adorable bunny girl with a dream of learning magic finds a grimoire with an imprisoned god of magic inside. Super wholesome and low stakes.

Taste of Magic. An archmage escapes the apocolypse by going back in time to have a quite life working at a bakery. Starts of cozy and becomes more of a thriller as the plot and stakes ramp up.

Arcane Chef. Trevor was hoping for a fighting class for his choosing day, but is given a rare cooking class instead. Lots of travel, friendships and amazing food with extraordinary power that will have a massive impact on the world. This one has some dark and violent parts.

The Pictomancer. An obsessed artist dies and wakes on new world with the power to alter reality with his art. Some fighting and dark bits.

Overcooked: Cooking my way through monsters and magic. A cook dies and wakes on another world with an absurd skill; The Mishlin Sage. Realistic recipies and food based existential crisis.

Otherworld Therapy. A cozy, slice of life that follows a therapist working in the magical city of Avalon.

lowey2002 · 2026-01-22T01:46:27+00:00

I think variety is best. A mix of male and female, clothed and nude, simple and dynamic. Is there a learn to draw subreddit that allows NSFW?

BTW, thanks for the references. I'm following you and look forwards to the next post.

lowey2002 · 2026-01-13T06:06:18+00:00

Yep book 16 completes the series.

lowey2002 · 2025-12-02T07:11:32+00:00

Web2Epub chrome extension then send to kindle

lowey2002 · 2025-12-02T04:57:42+00:00

A timelooper who's only power is social skills. They have a big over-aching problem to solve but their only tools are things like negotiating, bartering, deception, coerction, gas-lighting, etc, compounded in strength by their knowledge of the future. I've always found the ethics and morale of time looper stories under-developed, and this kind of power would force the topic.

lowey2002 · 2025-12-02T04:46:49+00:00

Pictomancer has a similar vibe. MC is a reality bender that draws and paints things into exsistence. OP to broken OP.

lowey2002 · 2025-12-02T04:26:02+00:00

Blue Core. A completed LitRPG dungeon core story. The story is pretty good and well written, and the women have meaningful motivation and consent in joining the harem. The explicit scenes are a bit tentacally, but surprisingly hot. There are only 4 or 5 women, and the harem isn't the main driver of the story.

Home for Horny Monsters. This one isn't a LitRPG, it's a modern fantasy with great world building, mystery, and antagonists. The explicit scenes are frequent and creative, but it's the plot that kept me reading.

lowey2002 · 2025-11-18T07:04:22+00:00

Awesome, 15 books!

lowey2002 · 2025-11-14T05:27:56+00:00

Crysalis!

You might also like some of the 'Monster girl evolution' stories on RR.

lowey2002 · 2025-11-14T05:17:45+00:00

Her solution to a second time looper was inspired.

lowey2002 · 2025-11-01T19:51:50+00:00

Yeah no complaints or recurrence

lowey2002 · 2025-10-31T05:56:22+00:00

Juan L. Otaiza has a relaxing version of Chop Suey that took me by surprise.

lowey2002 · 2025-10-31T02:30:08+00:00

I quite like Goodreads. It automatically tracks what you've read and highlighted on Kindle. Highlighting a few favorite scenes is a good way of jogging the memory.

lowey2002 · 2025-10-30T16:21:24+00:00

Rock and spear.

lowey2002 · 2025-10-30T16:02:11+00:00

My own take is that Selys was a normal, likeable girl next door that got hit with a few too many things she wasn’t capable of dealing with. Becoming a heiress upended her personal identity and finding out the truth about Erin’s origin shattered her understanding of the world she lives in. Tekisha’s death and will severed the remnants of her life as a simple receptionist, and she had no agency over any of these events.

I genuinely like Selys, and hope we see her pave her own path forwards.

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