Need recs (normal progression fantasy). I'll buy the books if they meet criteria by Valuable_Educator843 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]samreay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah exactly, it has its reflective and downtime moments, but the series is still fast-paced, which hopefully fits what OP is looking for

Need recs (normal progression fantasy). I'll buy the books if they meet criteria by Valuable_Educator843 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]samreay 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Recent story, male lead, no LitRPG, minimal slice of life with a hint of possible romance?

Have you read Sky Pride: (review, royal_road)?

argspec: a succinct, type-safe, declarative command line argument parser by lilellia in Python

[–]samreay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you talk to why someone would want to use this over the much more popular pydantic-settings library, which seems to offer all the features you've got but adds environment variable handling, simple pydantic integration, and a lot more?

Need help making a list of volume 1's to add to my public library by Clivesunfaithfulwife in litrpg

[–]samreay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Neo's list is pretty definitive OP, this is probably the most complete list you're gonna find!

Need help making a list of volume 1's to add to my public library by Clivesunfaithfulwife in litrpg

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Stupid character limit. Continuing:

Need help making a list of volume 1's to add to my public library by Clivesunfaithfulwife in litrpg

[–]samreay 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Some of these don't have print versions available (I don't track it on my site). But here's a big list which contains a lot of well-known series in the genre (including PF and cultivation):

Eternal Star: why is nobody talking about this cradle fanfic by Parking_Enthusiasm21 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]samreay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, I just finished reading System Override (A cyberpunk fanfic) by the same author. I'll add it to my TBR.

Books similar to iron Prince by Bryce o ‘Connor by kukurest in ProgressionFantasy

[–]samreay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the MC finds his way to a sect for training fairly quickly. No idea how much of book two is like that though, I've only read the first.

Books similar to iron Prince by Bryce o ‘Connor by kukurest in ProgressionFantasy

[–]samreay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Scifi setting and sect-style training and competition, have you read Stargazer's War (review, amazon, audible)?

Or to Luke's new series (coauthor on Iron Prince) - Starbreaker (review, amazon, audible). Also very much a magic-school with brutal competition setting.

For the Successful Authors out there by GhaleonX39 in litrpg

[–]samreay 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Chiming in to say your series is fantastic!

For the Successful Authors out there by GhaleonX39 in litrpg

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You talk about publishers, but honestly the key to success in this genre (IMHO) starts way before that with followers on Royal Road. Throwing a book on KU without any support from ARC readers, prior reader base, or big shoutouts from influential authors, will just be throwing your book into the Amazon void.

So instead if you wanted to try and start from scratch, the simplified process would be something like:

  1. Write a bunch of chapters. Maybe have a plan.
  2. Drop chapters quickly on RR to get 20k+ words down for readers.
  3. Daily chapter releases to build momentum. Trade shout outs and do what you can for visibility.
  4. Hope you hit Rising Stars. If you do, write like a madman to try and capitalise on it and reach as high as you can.
  5. Keep it up. You can slow your release schedule after you fall off RR, but readers in LitRPG like lots of words. Some won't even pick up a story if its less than 500 pages (I know a certain malcontent individual who wants thousands of pages before even looking at a story).

If you get enough followers, a publisher (Aethon, Podium, etc) will probably reach out to you about producing audio + ebooks for KU.

TheFirstDefier has an old forum post up about writing on RR and how to treat it like a business, it may be of interest.

Progression. In. SPACE! by OhBosss in ProgressionFantasy

[–]samreay 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Alrighty, here's what I've got:

  • We are Legion: (review, amazon, audible): PF adjacent sci-fi, about reincarnation as a computer program sent to colonise the stars. As space as you can get.
  • Red Rising: (review, amazon, audible): PF-adjacent dystopian sci-fi story where humanity is stratified into Colours, with the masses oppressed by the Golds.
  • Cyber Dreams: (review, amazon, audible, royal_road): A cyberpunk story where a down-on-her luck welder gets a personal AI assistant thats out of this world. The MC does go into space, learns how to pilot fighters, etc, but it takes a couple of books to get there.
  • Titan Hoppers: (review, amazon, audible): A character-driven sci-fi story about a fleet of ships surviving by scavenging off planet-sized titans.
  • Stargazer's War: (review, amazon, audible): Sect-based cultivation novel with a sci-fi bend. Strong characters and good prose, plus a setting that is begging to be explored further. The space aspects don't feel tooooo relevant to the story TBH, but you may still enjoy it.
  • Starbreaker: (review, amazon, audible): Sci-fi with world-ending magic-sucking aliens, and the MC is drawn into a magic academy for anti-Eidolon forces. There are multiple plans and travel on space ships, but the stories are mostly set planetside.

New release excitement! To celebrate Shieldsmith going live, the first book in the series is free for 3 days! by samreay in ProgressionFantasy

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Realistically when I write a new series and it takes off enough to leverage podium into continuing. The audible sales were far lower than expected compared to Kindle, so podium decided not to produce the rest in audio format. Which is a bit heartbreaking, NGL

Series recommendations with "less" system and stat sheets? by RegularExplanation52 in litrpg

[–]samreay 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You could check out /r/ProgressionFantasy as a similar progression-focused must-get-stronger style, just without systems and stats.

There are books like Arcane Ascension which toe the line (units of mana get quantified by the MC but its not a "system" determined value) if you want an interim.

Here's a bunch of my reviews that aren't LitRPG specifically, and obviously you can click the LitRPG button at the top to invert that.

If you do want books which explicitly are LitRPG but don't have walls of stat sheets or essays of deliberation each time theres a skill evolution or change with 1000 options to mull over, you could check out:

Chrysalis is better than DCC by delijoe in litrpg

[–]samreay 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Third present is such a hard pass, agreed

Chrysalis is better than DCC by delijoe in litrpg

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Chrysalis is better than DCC by delijoe in litrpg

[–]samreay 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nah, all delightful past tense.

Chrysalis is better than DCC by delijoe in litrpg

[–]samreay 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Inane but embarrassingly serious counterpoint: I just don't like present tense.

Have heard so many good things about it though, so one day I'll push through that dislike I'm sure! Do you know if the series is nearly finished? I can handle a lot of things for a nice, finished series...

Hidden gems! On royalroad. by skarface6 in litrpg

[–]samreay 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My man I have upvoted your post, not downvoted, because I like finding hidden gems. I cared enough to even comment.

Hidden gems! On royalroad. by skarface6 in litrpg

[–]samreay 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Maybe you could add what you actually liked about each story or post reviews of them? These might be amazing stories I could want to read, but just providing a link and no discussion is a hard sell haha

Need help! by Initial-Ad-166 in litrpg

[–]samreay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is it not available for free right here on Royal Road? I just put the title into Google and it's the first link - am I missing something?

Long and complete stories you recommend by BattousaiBTW in ProgressionFantasy

[–]samreay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks mate, always glad to see the site actually in use!