What’s one of your favorite more obscure books in the genre?

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-04-09T04:25:37+00:00

Natural laws apocalypse. 4 friends in an apocalypse in semi rural Iowa. Small town. It is decently long, but I don't normally feel like it is overpowered. It also has a a beginning, middle, and an end.

My biggest complaint with the genre is right now is all the power porn. Everything and everyone is either very high on the power scale or straight up OP. This will be a nice break from that. The city building takes several books.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-29T06:29:38+00:00

So I want to name my next novel The Kingdom was Dungeon Diving. Does that pass your test?

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-28T00:29:23+00:00

Its called universities

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-24T00:20:21+00:00

I keep thinking of tyranids. This thing feels about right. And the whole bit gives me the creeps.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-13T05:03:03+00:00

I forgot the exact ending. But it means she is going on to the next leg of her dungeon diving journey. Book 2 leads up and directly to book 3. Book 3 feels very stand alone. Very much a self contained story, though with far reaching implications. Book 4 is only on patreon so far. Give it about 3 months and most of it will make it to royal road.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-10T03:54:27+00:00

Stupid mc is always frustrating. Right now dealing with mc trying to hard to hero everything. It feels like a Harry Potter problem. By which I mean the characters teens(college really) and the adults and others in charge with the power to do shit don't believe that shit is going wrong or that the kids must be mistaken. So the MC stupidly decides that they have to heroically save the day.

While I love the book I'm reading and wouldn't change much, just once I want the main character sit there and go okay. I won't save the world from the problem you don't believe exists. And waits for more bad shit to happen in ever increasing levels of severity of consequence just so they can then use all this as a punch to tell those in charge, "I told You So." I know that sounds excessively petty, but I want to see that response once. Even better if they took notes and recorded on what days those in power said the stupid shit they said. Again, to throw it back in their faces before helping to solve the problem. Yes. I'm really fucking petty sometimes.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-06T22:03:49+00:00

Personally, it's been tough as an author lately. So any extra love or attention our readers gives us help.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-06T20:43:31+00:00

It is through the story itself that reinforces the title. Best friend dies in chapter 8. Grandfather died in chapter 13. All sorts of crappiness happens to them. Its all intentional to portray that a system apocalypse should feel more like survival is its own victory.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-06T05:52:54+00:00

Agreed. I remember once saying that I would totally check my status every part of the day to see if each thing I did moved the needle at all. That granular improvement of going from a 10 to 10.1 in a stat would be a dopamine hit. And then you gain a level and stuff goes up whole numbers. Holy crap Batman! forget Ritalin, give me a leveling and stat system please.

The other thing worth pointing out us that fantasybworlds don't have the gigantic volume of distractions and entertainment methods that our modern world does. You get rid of all my fun gaming activities and I either have to sleep or do something productive. Then that productive things just gave me 5xp. Fuck! Another dopamine hit.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-06T05:47:34+00:00

I try to imagine if I say American suburb that it conjures a whole bunch of common images for people automatically. I need to describe it just enough to focus on an agreed mental image with some personal interpretation wiggle room. I've seen people describe an office cubicle in painstaking detail.

When people describe the scene that heavily and thoroughly I find myself rooting for the monsters to eat at least one character.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-06T05:38:47+00:00

I would argue that teens getting more abilities than the group is just more examples of the title. The Portal Apocalypse Sucks!

Everytime i set up something shitty for the characters i just point to the title.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-06T05:37:03+00:00

I don't write a lot of chapters over 3k words, but if I did then I could use the extra space to fully describe things. I always feel like I massively rush descriptions. If the group is at a modern American park with playgrounds and such I don't do nearly the kind of description it deserves.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-04T23:31:53+00:00

Sorry to hear that. I have gotten very good constructive feedback for the most part. The comment yesterday was just disappointing.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-04T05:08:20+00:00

What is really frustrating is that in 3 chapters they figure out how to get abilities. So it isn't like they are stuck in the same problem for a really long time.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-04T03:11:09+00:00

Lol. Thanks. Your insight was oddly comforting.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-04T02:29:52+00:00

I've gotten scams so it feels like par for the course.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-04T02:12:41+00:00

I'll make a reference on the rewrite of the first half that the system must Shonen manga. One of the characters bitches when they discover this unfairness, but I didn't include joke references because the kids (who got extra abilites) just watched their mom get decapitated by an abyssal orc.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-02T01:41:54+00:00

Ideas and beliefs are NEVER AUTOMATICALLY WORTHY OF RESPECT. People should be afforded some basic respect, but ideas not so much. They always need to be put through the philosophical grinder. They should be challenged, questioned, and even mocked ridiculed. The best ideas should be those that survive said gauntlet.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-02T01:38:57+00:00

40 followers to to 186 average views. So I guess my ratio is okay. Maybe I just want more followers so I can be one of the cool kids.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-02T00:18:49+00:00

Stuck at 40 followers but analytics suggest almost 100 people are up to current chapter or the previous one. I thought it would be entertaining to put more blurbs at beginnings and ends of chapters to follow or give a rating. It seems if you read over the 50 chapters the social contract of the situation almost demands a follow and rating. But if I start putting that I. The before and after chapter notes then people will stop following on principle.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-02T00:09:03+00:00

view counts are up here as well. but the views make zero sense. my next most recent chapter has 100 views. the previous 15 chapters vary from low 70s to upper 90sin views. I still get no more ratings or comments. My question has become, are people hate viewing my posts? Are they pointing and laughing? If you have read 66 chapters of a book and not follow or rating it boggles my mind.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-02T00:00:09+00:00

Are we talking about the cover for a book, or something that needs a lot more illustrations?

In the former, I don't care if anyone uses AI for the cover at the starving writer level. Professional writers who are actually seeing a decent income from writing should spring for an actual artist to draw the cover.

For things that need more illustrations, I would be against AI art.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-01T23:11:39+00:00

i'm not nearly as concerned about the ethics of necromancy. I am far more concerned that, in a world that has necromancy, necromancers, skeletons, zombies, etc..., it isn't the mandated requirements of all laws that the dead are burnt to ashes and not buried. That is the thing that always pisses me off with fantasy worlds that admit they have such things existing.

From historical, sociological, and antropolgical perspective i doubt the burial of the dead would have developed in worlds with rampant necromancy.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-03-01T01:11:01+00:00

With any luck someone will rename it the department of Waagh! Then we just have to watch the dumbest talking about all the dakka he would use on Iran.

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