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Aardvark! posted:I've enjoyed the 3 cultivation series I've read (Cradle, Mage Errant, Thousand Li) Painting the Mists by Patrick Laplante is pretty good if you skip over the vaguely libertarian interludes in the Yama King's realm that have nothing to do with the plot. They're nowhere near as clever as he thinks they are.
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Telsa Cola posted:Juffowup my nipples grow turgid. The Forever Fantasy Online series? It's not really a traditional isekai though for a lot of reasons (which makes it a better story IMO) so depending on strictly you want to stick to the genre it may not suit you.
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Captain Monkey posted:No. Those are the three best and, imo, Mage Errant is a distant third. I read unrepentant crap though and Dungeon Crawler Carl is intensely stupid but somehow also fun. I think because he’s mostly It's cuz the man is actually writing a narrative first and a stat sheet a distant 10th, if you can even say that book has real stats in the way a litrpg does. I'd argue it doesn't, really.
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Captain Monkey posted:I read unrepentant crap though and Dungeon Crawler Carl is intensely stupid but somehow also fun. I think because he’s mostly Carl is completely over the top and I love it.
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Telsa Cola posted:Juffowup my nipples grow turgid. Well, the MC in He Who Fights With Monsters certainly has issues with some of his family members, but ultimately he still loves them and we get to meet them and see their reaction to how he changed.
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Aardvark! posted:I've enjoyed the 3 cultivation series I've read (Cradle, Mage Errant, Thousand Li) I'm reading Hollow core at the moment, it's not as good as Cradle but you might enjoy it. You could also try the Arcane Ascension/Weapons and Wielders books.
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Jul 3, 2021 11:09
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Aardvark! posted:I've enjoyed the 3 cultivation series I've read (Cradle, Mage Errant, Thousand Li) Way of Choices is always going to be the standard I judge other xianxia by, I think. But it seems to have been snapped up by Qidian, so you're going to need to either grapple with that bullshit or find... workarounds. 
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Megazver posted:Well, the MC in He Who Fights With Monsters certainly has issues with some of his family members, but ultimately he still loves them and we get to meet them and see their reaction to how he changed. Oh hey I got the first volume with my audible credit, started listening the first hour yesterday. Seems fun, so far. Got a chuckle out of the spirit coins.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Way of Choices is always going to be the standard I judge other xianxia by, I think. https://www.amazon.com/Way-Choices-Book-Youths-Schoolmates-ebook/dp/B0788YZZM3/ref=nodl_ ??
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Captain Monkey posted:https://www.amazon.com/Way-Choices-Book-Youths-Schoolmates-ebook/dp/B0788YZZM3/ref=nodl_ Yeah, but they've only done a fifth of the story like that and they seem to have stopped published them in 2018. Not sure what's going on there tbh.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Yeah, but they've only done a fifth of the story like that and they seem to have stopped published them in 2018. oh well.. at least this is a convenient enough way to get the first part so i can decide if i want to gently caress with 
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Jul 3, 2021 17:52
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Aardvark! posted:I've enjoyed the 3 cultivation series I've read (Cradle, Mage Errant, Thousand Li) For LitRPG's, I like Wraith's Haunt. It starts out moderately above average for LitRPG's, then steadily gets better.
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Aardvark! posted:I've enjoyed the 3 cultivation series I've read (Cradle, Mage Errant, Thousand Li) If you liked Thousand Li you could try System Apocalypse by the same author, it's a LitRPG and it's not bad, I like it more than Thousand Li. It's a decent introduction to the "apocalypse caused by turning earth into an RPG" genre at least.
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Thanks for the reccs all, I got Way of Choices downloaded and will look at the rest. However I picked up Dungeon Crawler Carl on a whim with little expectation last night and I'm actually loving it. Normally I get nervous when a new author starts trying to be funny but this.. actually isn't cringy and indeed is just pure fun
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Aardvark! posted:Thanks for the reccs all, I got Way of Choices downloaded and will look at the rest. he's not a new author. it's not even his first book in the genre. dominion of blades pwns
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Larry Parrish posted:he's not a new author. it's not even his first book in the genre. dominion of blades pwns I'm so glad I originally posted how good Dominion of Blades was when it was one of his first books. I could tell something was special about it from the first like quarter of the book. Edit: The Dungeon AI's foot fetish in DCC is hi-loving-larious even if some of the prose describing those moments gets a bit clunky.
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I automatically assume anyone who writes LitRPG is a New Author  The foot fetish thing was something I was going to single out as being particularly funny, agreed. Going to recommend this to my friends that might willingly brave the genre.
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It's definitely nice how there's always a laugh to distract from existential dread and anger. Matt Dinniman is based.
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I will add to the Dungeon Crawler Carl recommendation, though even then it does have its weak points around (a) fictional-even-in-the-story exposition that neither we nor the characters actually give a poo poo about and (b) "grinding" moments where stuff gets described just to fulfill the needs of the rules system but again neither we nor the characters actually give a poo poo about the details. Also, the subway layout in that one book was completely incomprehensible to me as described and that really didn't help in trying to make any sense of what was going on overall.
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Forge of Destiny Book 2 is out on Kindle and Audiobook now. Love the cover's colors. FOD seems to have very striking covers, IMO.
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Just finished book 4 of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Jesus christ was it good. Best of the series so far IMO. The Special Event near the end was one of the funniest things I had read in the series so far.
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Victorkm posted:Just finished book 4 of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Jesus christ was it good. Best of the series so far IMO. The Special Event near the end was one of the funniest things I had read in the series so far. My favorite part was the AI's new fetish Carl: *escapes from fish monster's mouth* AI: I think I felt it jump a little
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I'm also enjoying Dungeon Crawler Carl, half way through book 3 now. Assuming 4 isn't the end of the series, do we know how often new ones come out?
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Darkrenown posted:I'm also enjoying Dungeon Crawler Carl, half way through book 3 now. Assuming 4 isn't the end of the series, do we know how often new ones come out? I looked earlier and both 3 and 4 came out this year, which is pretty nuts. I too am half way through 3, and I'm actually holding off from devouring it all in one sitting just so I have something fun to read before bed for a while
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Jul 7, 2021 23:22
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wow the first one came out September 2020, this guy is a machine.
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It's a web serial that gets posted to Royal Road if you want to read along as it goes. There might be some vague editing that goes into the kindle books, but I'm skeptical given the speed.
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The first chapter of the first book was posted on Royal Road 18 months ago. He puts out a new update every week or two. It's a crazy fast update schedule. But I think it won't be quite as fast now that the series has more moving parts, and he can do things other than sit at home and write. e: sort of beaten. There are also alpha chapters on his patreon. The royal road updates get some tweaks, and the published ones get some more, but I haven't sat down and done a thorough comparison. It's not a huge amount, but sometimes it is noticeable. Dr Subterfuge fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Jul 7, 2021 |
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This does make me curious, does anyone know (or perhaps there's a thread about it?) what the revenue stream from kindle unlimited is like? Is DCC more likely to be making the author rent money or beer money?
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This is by the Thousand Li guy and explains it, though it's kind of outdated. TLDR; KU reads pay them much less than what a sale does, but can still sometimes be worth it in volume or in not cannibalizing sales too much. edit: To actually answer your question, I get the feeling that most of the more successful LitRPG and other pulp fiction authors pumping out 3+ books a year on KU are pulling in like... mid-five to low six figures, at least from the "I quit my day job to write full time, check out my patreon!" afterwords I'm seeing. Most of the authors who aren't so prolific are probably just getting beer money. Question Time fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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Aardvark! posted:wow the first one came out September 2020, this guy is a machine. I’m pretty sure there’s a note at the end of 4 that says 5 is almost done too.
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Book 5 is underway but it isn't close to done. When book 3 was published all but 10 or so chapters of book 4 were already on royal road. There are only 3 chapters for book 5 on there now.
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Dr Subterfuge posted:Book 5 is underway but it isn't close to done. When book 3 was published all but 10 or so chapters of book 4 were already on royal road. There are only 3 chapters for book 5 on there now. Sounds like at least a few months away then.
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Yeah more than a few. At an update per week, one month is 4 or so updates. A DCC book is something like 35 updates. So at the present pace and with what's already written we're talking at last 8 months from now for everything to go up on royal road. Then another few for that to go to a kindle book.
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Butt Discussin posted:This is by the Thousand Li guy and explains it, though it's kind of outdated. TLDR; KU reads pay them much less than what a sale does, but can still sometimes be worth it in volume or in not cannibalizing sales too much. Thanks!
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Aardvark! posted:wow the first one came out September 2020, this guy is a machine. Apparently ghost writing is common on the Kindle scene so it might not just be him. A friend was asked to write for that goofy weretiger space marine harem Mass Effect knockoff series but even if he thought it was worth doing the actual contract was offering a pittance.
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Dawgstar posted:Apparently ghost writing is common on the Kindle scene so it might not just be him. A friend was asked to write for that goofy weretiger space marine harem Mass Effect knockoff series but even if he thought it was worth doing the actual contract was offering a pittance. The difference is authors like the weretiger guy are a) cranking out several series in parallel and b) the writing is dogshit. This guy is writing a single series with a pretty distinctive style, so he's probably just a fast writer.
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there was actually a link to Matt Dinniman's dayjob. he designs the kind of kitschy art you find at pier-1 imports https://www.etsy.com/shop/collageOrama
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Aardvark! posted:there was actually a link to Matt Dinniman's dayjob. he designs the kind of kitschy art you find at pier-1 imports Somehow this does not surprise me in the least. Edit: Though I kind of expected a bit more of a radical leftist bent to the art before I clicked.
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About a third into The War Throughout the Dungeon(and Those Who Love and Hate) which is the sequel to The City and The Dungeon. Its pretty dry much like the first one and much less detailed about the mechanics of the world. I also cant help but feel like the plot is aping the Prequel Trilogy a little bit. I guess I'll see. For anyone unfamiliar the Dungeon is incredibly based on Nethack though the rest of the system isnt unless nethack has changed a whole lot since last time I got into it. Anyone who has read the first one might want to reread a bit for a primer cause i do not remember much of the terminology and the sequel doesnt do any favors by reintroducing concepts. Victorkm fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Jul 9, 2021 |
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