I started this sub 12 years ago, because I love this genre. I love the books, I love the authors, I love the community. I have been here for the first couple years when there was noone, this sub had a membership of under a 100 people and I watched as other people found something I loved and they loved it too and the community grew. As we grew we needed mods to make the place run and I looked for passionate people with the interest and spare time to help mod this place. We had our fair share of drama, but I think we have done about as well as a mod team can over the years, we have had some excellent mods.

Tonight I was removed as top mod without whisper from anyone. My flair in the discord shows inactive on the mod list and that is how they where able to remove me, but I have been active behind the scenes communicating with the mod team in the discord. I have mostly left the post and comment moderation to the people I trusted.

This "level up disocrd" and my removal as discord owner was all done because a couple of our new mods, poeple who have only been members of the sub reddit for a couple years at most disagreed with the political views of one of the mods who has been here since the beginning. They removed him as a mod, demoted me and stripped me of permissions and are starting a new "discord" because the person they disagree with owns the current discord. They did this without a word to me or him, I found out I lost this sub when the post about the discord hit.

There are very few things I have done in my life that I am proud of. That I could "brag" about. This sub reddit, this community is one of the things I have done that I am most proud of. I am hearbroken at this turn of events and am probably going to step away from the community completely. If they allow this post to stay up, know it was an honor and a pleasure this last decade.

Hey! Does anyone know of any Western LitRPGs? to be clear when I say western I dont mean like... Western game dev and the such. I am referring to yeehaw. Cowboys. Showdowns at high noon type stuff. I figure its probably a really niche thing but I am genuinely pretty curious if anyone has made anything of note.

I read the other three and just finished the most recent victor of Tucson and wondering if anyone has heard about vainglory book 4.

Sry the survey wont’t let me add more option, I would’ve added a 50-60 and 60 or more option and replaced the 40 or more option

Anyone else hate when the mc does something crazy because they’re outside the power system and the side chat are just like “that’s so (Jason/silas/drake)” or whatever. The whole litrpg genre is meant to create a hard magic system. One where you shouldn’t be able to circumvent it. I get that hwfwm is more like an overlay than an actual system. But the plot shouldn’t be that the whole purpose of the genre doesn’t matter to the mc.
It’s also pretty cringey.
Still the whole basic premise of the trope is annoying

Trying to format this on my phone is a nightmare so expect a lot of edits but basically after reading a couple of books promoted in this subreddit specifically only to find I spent money on a fantasy book that calls itself a LitRPG because that's what is popular right now. I could go down a list of more than 10 series but really dont want to put out all that negativity. I will instead just use one example, Aetherborn. It was specifically promoted to this subreddit as a LitRPG by the author but when you read it, the only game/TTRPG/videogame thing that EVER happens is maybe every 3 or 4 chapters instead of the narrator saying "the MC had lied so may times he was really getting good at it" instead it says "He got a notification that his lying skill hit level 5" and that's it. No other LitRPG elements. It reads like Robin Hobbs Assassin Apprentice with the word "level" thrown in and called a LitRPG. At this point it feels like these "LitRPG in name only" are becoming every other series I read and I would be fine if they were honest and just said it's a fantasy, an urban fantasy or even the wider parent genre of LitRPG: progression fantasy.

Like what are we doing? In Harry Potter they go from one grade to another and have a house point system, so is it a LitRPG? It has number go up! And when Gandalf the Grey became Gandalf the White that's clearly a class evolution so LoTR needs a LitRPG sticker too.

IDK, what do y'all think? Am I way off base here? I think there should be a more concrete list of criteria and a numbered threshold for being a LitRPG similar to what was established for games that call themselves Rogue LIKE versue Rogue LITE.

EDIT: headed to bed so won't be replying/checking till a bit after I wake up. Thanks for keeping the discussion civil and not the knee jerk "see different opinion hit down vote." Still of the opinion that this sub needs healthier gatekeeping of the term but see how touchy/triggering/subjective/oxymoronic the phrase "healthy gatekeeping" is after reading your comments.

PS: I will defend my Mediterranean Sea metaphor to my dying breath.

I just started a job where I'm staring at spreadsheets all day and I needed something to keep me focused. I always meant to read the singer if terrandia series but never got around to it. It's actually good and compelling to listen to.

When pirataba sticks to a plot line they can really cook

Vol 10 has felt extremely meandering and unfocused. It's like pirataba decided to put the wandering inn on hold while every side story sitting on the shelf that they have been meaning to write finally got added in.

Hey guys, this came out a lot quicker after narrators Anne-marie Lebeur and Jack Smith finished recording, to my surprise. 35+ Hours! I knew it'd be long since it was 285k words, but this was still longer than I thought. Bonded Summoner 9, Forging the Crucible, is the longest book in the series!

As you can likely guess from the cover, this is harem, and it is a cover of Bree, a dinodog beastkin that transforms into a giant beast of the same--she's more than 15 ft tall (the mc is ~10 ft now, so it...works out). It's the 9th book in what is going to be probably 15+ books, and this is a truly epic series with kingdom building, real progression for the mc and all the girls, and plenty of fun and romance to go along with all the typical litrpg tropes fans of this genre loves. The explicit scenes and intimacy are within their own compartmentalized chapters, allowing people who are not fans of them to skip a lot of it. A lot of litrpg fans love this story, and they can choose to enjoy the story the way they would like to enjoy it.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Forging-the-Crucible-A-Summoner-Fantasy-LitRPG-Bonded-Summoner-Book-9-Audiobook/B0HN35Y44F

I got Soul Knight 5 almost done, so you'll be seeing the Ebook Pre-order for that soon enough.

For those who haven't begun the journey, there is 2 Omnibus that get you deep into the series!

Books 1-3, 48 hours:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Bonded-Summoner-Omnibus-Books-1-3-Audiobook/B0DVZTTSP5

Books 4-6, 62 hours:

https://www.audible.com/pd/Bonded-Summoner-Omnibus-2-Books-4-6-Audiobook/B0HDWGCQKK

Blurb:
The traitors are broken. The real war has just begun.

Jake and Hearthtribe crushed the Obsidian Blades, exposing the rot within the Alliance. But executing a Divine Aspirant and saving a single world won't stop Tartarus.

To secure their empire before the War Trial begins, Hearthtribe must rescue three more dying worlds. While his forces battle parasitic insectoids and rogue necromancers, Jake takes on a divine-level engineering project: pulling a dead ocean world into orbit to make a world whole again.

The duel with Bree’s arrogant demigoddess sisters is still pending, getting between Jake and his Savage Forgemother. Fighting a massive war with Alliance nobles scrutinizing his every move, Jake must push his family to the absolute peak of the Second Tier. By crafting Mythic gear and forging new Hearthian Bonds, he just might unlock the secrets of divinity itself.

The War Trial is coming. It’s time for Clan Hart to plant their banner and claim their empire–or burn trying.

COVER ARTIST: AI created and Waifu edited.

AI USAGE: None, aside from cover.

Note about me, different from previous posts: It has now been 4 years since I began the journey of writing this book series, and I'm deeply grateful for how many people have enjoyed it and supported me on Patreon and so on. I intend to continue until this book is done, and leave all my fans satisfied with the result.

Author doesn't have another way to say something is stronger than what was faced 5 pages ago that was already dangerous.

Slap the good old "on another level" on there!

Half joke, half thinking of making it a drinking game!!

Particularly where the VR game world isn't on/in earth and earth bust be traveled to, otherwise that's just a fancy robot without magic.

Now that I've made this connection, I can't get it out of my head. If you gave Coach Beard an australian accent the way they talk seems really similar. Am I crazy?

I'm not shitting on the series, its fairly fun, I mostly like the mc, and some of the side characters are interesting. And I very much like that its getting into politics and nobility some.

That said, the grammer and writing have been... rough at times. A lot of misspellings or just odd Grammar that almost makes it seem like a pov change when there wasn't one. The info dumps are also getting to be a bit much. Does any of this improve as the series goes on? I'm only mid way through book 2 so I'm still hopeful as that's fairly early in a series but would love an answer.

COVER ARTIST: AI-generated AI USAGE: AI helps me with the writing

Hey r/litrpg — first-time serial author here, running a weekly sci-fi with progression bones.

The Sevenfold Ascend: a lunar vault cracks open and 8 billion people wake up holding reality-warping rings. Overnight there's no economy, no rationing, no purpose — and the story follows AJ and Anthony, two Bay Area friends who decide the only sane response to godhood is to train like idiots in a garage and figure out what humans are actually for now.

The progression hook: power runs on three pillars — how fast you can render constructs, how fast you react, and how fast you can improvise the right solution on the fly. Rings are equal; wielders are not. The fastest and most adaptable become a natural aristocracy, and panic kills adaptability first.

The mystery hook: a deep-space signal is counting down.

• 2 chapters live, chapter 3 "The First Dojo" drops Sunday Oct 18
• New chapter every Sunday, ~1,000+ words each
• Read it here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/197633/the-sevenfold-ascend

Genuinely looking for feedback from progression readers — poke holes in the power system, I'd rather hear it now than at chapter 30.

Are there any good stories where the mc finds a abandoned castle or similar and rebuilds it ideally some combat

Also want to mention 74 of the 307 days was epic and high fantasy sprinkled with a little bit of sci-fi. Beyond that has been exclusively litRPG with a smattering of progression. I have listened to nothing but for around 3 1/2 years, I’d guess.

Edit: I’ll check back in at a year!

The battle’s end is just the beginning. Jade is leaving her mark on the world, but it’s left scars on her.

With the invasion of Mianach concluded, Jade now has to pay the price for temporary peace. Torn between her desire to improve the world and facing the results of her actions, she searches for a path to recovery and restoration. But time is taking its toll, and she’s racing the clock of her own mortality to find a cure. She’ll have to walk a thin line between creativity and caution, because some changes are permanent.

Jade will have to balance the bonds of friendship as she steps onto the path of dragons and gods to forge her own. But growing power comes with growing pains, and there’s only so much of her to go around. Time is the one resource she can’t hoard, no matter how thin she spreads herself. Adapting alchemy and crafting to make her own improvements provides a foundation for Andara’s future. She might only be one person, but she isn’t alone.

Even the smallest light can become a beacon of hope if you’re creative enough.

Available on Amazon today! <3 Hope y'all have a fantastic day! May you find joy in the little things of life. <3
https://www.amazon.com/Domain-Fantasy-LitRPG-Touch-Power-ebook/dp/B0HJDLY6RQ

COVER ARTIST: Sandara Tang

AI USAGE: None

This isn’t limited to litrpg in fact it’s more prevalent in cultivation but I really love systems where it ends up with them building worlds/galaxies within their bodies/soul spaces. Looking for more books that dive into this kind of thing road to mastery by valerios is a good example of what I’m looking for

Like I've listened to multiple audio litrpg where it talks about monsters spawning in like magic and such. But never exactly touch upon if it despawn material as well. So I would kinda like a story on that premise where like some space station got built using mostly metal from some common shield that only dropped from a southern continent of a planet

So many of you are going to gasp in shock when I say I have held off on starting Dungeon Crawler Carl. I know, I know, how can I call myself a litrpg fan and not have taken a delve into the Dungeon. Simple answer: I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

The thing is, I was about to BUT now it's getting a TV series.

I'm one of these snobby people who is never happy with film/TV adaptations. I get a seriously mad! So the point is I'm glad I held off cause now I can enjoy the show without knowing if they're screwing anything up😁. That rare for me. I will, of course, delve into the books when the show is done. Just glad for this rare opportunity. Is anyone else thinking the same or am I the only one here late to the party 😆.

Hi! This is my first time doing this(promoting), so, I'm a little clueless on if this is right, but! If you'd like to read a cutesy story about a gremlin(alchemist) living their day-to-day life, I think you'd enjoy!

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Blurb

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Awakening is the dream of many—Riches, fame, knowledge, and power, by climbing the tower you can earn it all!

But I...Don't particularly care about any of that?

Why did I awaken? And why did my gender change?

Alchemist? Gallery?

It seems I've awakened. As a cute girl nonetheless. Guess I'll climb the tower and make potions.

...Why is this kind of fun?

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What To Expect?

* Gremlin, Chaos-Bringer MC

* Alchemist MC

* Physically Weak MC

* Majority Slice of Life and Comfort

* Feel Good Story

* Wholesome G/G Relationship

* Slower Paced

* Explosions

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Info

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Royalroad Link - https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/169720/worlds-cutest-alchemist

Scribblehub Link - https://www.scribblehub.com/series/2357420/worlds-cutest-alchemist/

COVER ARTIST: ME!

AI USAGE: None!

Tags - Gender Bender, Girl's Love, Slice Of Life, Cozy, Tower!

Pages - 1,150

This is a lite LitRPG. There are no stats, but, it does have a system, skills, traits, and a tower to climb!

I would like recs for World hopping novels. I've already read System Universe, He Who Fights with Monsters and The Primal Hunter. Didn't like Defiance of the Fall tho and I've tried.

Aest Belequa here again, this time announcing Stormblade: Volume Three on Audible! It’s been a long wait, and I know from comments on my other posts that there are a few people who’ve been waiting. Sorry for the lack of communication. Everything happened very quickly right at the end on this one!

People seem to really love the first two books, and I’m super excited for Book Three. Aaron Camacho and Onyx Volcan did a great job with the audio again for this one. Have some links. 

Links:
Stormblade Volume Three on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited

Stormblade Volume Three on Audible

And here’s a blurb:

Kade must reforge his core.

Kade’s victory over the Paragon of the Hurricane has cost him dearly, but his weakened state is temporary. The God of Thunder has a method to rebuild his core—a necessary step along his Path. Meanwhile, part of the expedition to Carlsbad has stayed behind to quell the S-Rank portal in the caverns. While one of Kade’s enemies steps into the power vacuum, another finds himself running out of time and in need of assistance. 

Meanwhile, Ellen’s conflict with her father, the wealthy head of the Traynor Corporation, reaches a boiling point, and Jessie’s got her heart set on a guild building—a pricey one. As Kade rebuilds his core and pushes to catch up with Ellen, his eye is focused on home. 

It’s not the only one. 

Major powers are on the move, and Earth is their focus. When the Carlsbad expedition is defeated, Phoenix finds itself under siege and outmatched. To shore up its defenses, the Governing Council organizes a tournament for the city’s up-and-coming delvers. The prize? Entry into a unique portal world. Kade must claim that world’s power. 

COVER ARTIST: Kart Studios 

AI USAGE: None.

I finished the book awhile ago but for the life of me I can't remember what happened in book 4, but want to start book 5. If someone could just give me a brief break down of what actually happened it should jog my memory. I appreciate you.

See lots where they are an adventurer but would kinda like to see one from a politics and nobility side of things. Thanks!