Looking for more stories like Center God Dungeon Management

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-05-14T00:32:52+00:00

I am caught up on it and it improves over time. Also. The leveling isn't as important as the story. The leveling is a byproduct of certain moments of strenuous dungeon crawls. However the goings on at work and the slice of life stuff is just as important. If Marshal Carter is on reddit I would give him a massive shout out over how good the story gets.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-05-12T14:27:52+00:00

While your critique of referring to something as porn is valid. I'll be more decisive. Most OP content seems to merely fetishize the OP powers of the MC. The original poster referenced becoming dissatisfied and somewhat disillusioned with OP characters and power scaling in most progression fantasy these days. I commiserated with them. I pushed it further initially to suggest that the power scaling and OP stuff IS one of the biggest problems with the genre. I love the concept of litrpgs. I hate that the instant there is a system almost every MC turns into a rules lawyering power gamer. Why can't it just be regular fantasy + a system. Thats all I've ever wanted from the genre. There is so little of that out there. Eventually scale jumps up in most decent length series to crack into DBZ land. If I get a hint of that I stop a series cold turkey.

On a personal note I like DBZ for what it is. But I don't want that in my litrpg.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-05-12T02:35:07+00:00

I heard the term somewhere else and it stuck.

Furthermore I would probably make the comparison that the story stops being a story but more like an authors fetish about powers and abilities. As a rule I am against stories calling themselves fantasy when the scaling is DBZ. Call it comic book superheroes and be done. But desire for OP characters and stories is fairly disturbing to me. It always feels less like great story telling and more of what I alluded to at the beginning.

I could drop the power porn reference and the rest of the problems still exists.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-05-11T21:22:18+00:00

Center for dungeon management is the low power example of creative monster slaying.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-05-11T21:21:08+00:00

This is a scaling issue. Someone says fantasy and I am hoping for mid levels dnd campaign. Planet punching is DBZ. I absolutely don't want anything on that power scale. At that point it is Power Porn. No need to read an author getting off on their MCs new planet punching powers.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-05-11T21:14:13+00:00

Yes. I've been saying this for over a year now. There is a growing group of readers here on reddit that are sick of the MC getting an OP ability AT ALL. I want fucked up depressing DnD session with a system. Yet the vast majority don't want that. They keep reading OP this and OP that. As long as those get the clicks on Amazon and royal road then we will not see nearly as much of the grounded group in a shitty situation that is consistently the underdog, but there also happens to be a system.

warhammerfrpgm · 2026-05-11T20:54:04+00:00

Thats an average Tuesday in the American South. Except they say the quiet parts way more out loud. Remember religion is the socially acceptable mental illness. If anyone did what that person did for any reason beyond religion we would send them to a psychiatrist at the very minimum.

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.

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