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How about an Isekai where the MC cheat ability is a Gutenberg Press that they use to disseminate information to the feudal populace. As they educate people, it levels up to be a high-output modern press and they start using paper as a weapon for some silly fight and/or spreading the obscure weaknesses of their enemies quickly. I call it Read or Isekai
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Fellis posted:How about an Isekai where the MC cheat ability is a Gutenberg Press that they use to disseminate information to the feudal populace. As they educate people, it levels up to be a high-output modern press and they start using paper as a weapon for some silly fight and/or spreading the obscure weaknesses of their enemies quickly. I would back this kickstarter.
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Apr 19, 2022 05:34
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NinjaDebugger posted:It started in 1983, Guardians of the Flame, Joel Rosenberg. Whoa, that brings back memories. These books were oddly enough some of the first fantasy books I ever read. So weird thinking of them now as isekai stories  .
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Apr 19, 2022 22:46
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Fellis posted:I call it Read or Isekai Great loving title and please have a biblophile character with conspicuous glasses for my sake.
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Apr 19, 2022 23:05
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Hello. I have sought out this thread in order to share my realization that Mazinger U.S.A. (1988) by Go Nagai is technically an isekai. Goodbye.
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AgentHaiTo posted:Whoa, that brings back memories. These books were oddly enough some of the first fantasy books I ever read. So weird thinking of them now as isekai stories Yeah the whole basis of the plot of the first one is to try to get home to their college that their Dungeon Master sent them from. The whole anti-slavery thing comes in and expands in the later books but the MC still frees a few in the first one. Unfortunately the author's books are no longer in print after he died a while ago.
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Apr 20, 2022 02:49
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the first book was an absolutely generic isekai story, but old enough that it might have inspired some of the cliches. still, 'pnp rpg gamers travel to a different world where they become their game characters' is a really obvious concept. then the later books got kind of weird. i'm not sure how well the series holds up now.
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Well then im gonna have to looks these up. Is the whole series good? https://www.goodreads.com/series/42300-guardians-of-the-flame
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Jackard posted:Well then im gonna have to looks these up. Is the whole series good? I remember liking the first two but not liking them enough to bother tracking down the rest of the series.
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Apr 20, 2022 06:13
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Here's another one that's basically isekai - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/640181.The_Warlock_in_Spite_of_Himself Spaceman with a cyberhorse goes incognito on a fantasy planet.
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Jackard posted:Well then im gonna have to looks these up. Is the whole series good? Yes, but be warned, the first book is rough and includes some rape. It was written as a reaction to shiny happy isekai of the time, so they kind of get sent to a lovely world.
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I just remembered the Wiz Biz series (https://www.fictiondb.com/series/the-wiz-biz-rick-cook~10189.htm) which involves a late 80s programmer getting isekaid into a classic western fantasy setting and obviously turns out magic is like programming. I recall it being goofy fun but it was some years ago so I'm not sure how it holds up.
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If we're going to post 80s western isekai there's the Spellsinger series. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellsinger It's a comedy series by Alan Dean Foster that relies on a lot of music pun stuff (the MC sings and magic happens) and is on the goofier side of things.
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NinjaDebugger posted:Yes, but be warned, the first book is rough and includes some rape. It was written as a reaction to shiny happy isekai of the time, so they kind of get sent to a lovely world. Yup, this is also the first dark fantasy I remember reading, so it got burned in my memory. warning, lots of spoilers They have a friend who was playing a rogue, who immediately on coming to the fantasy world tries to pickpocket a noble and fails, and dies horribly with a spear to the chest. Then they all get captured by slavers later on, and the two female party members get repeatedly raped by all the slavers. Their dwarf friend dies by dragon fire right when they are getting back home, and comes thru the portal back to earth, as a burnt corpse. So many bad things happen to them. I know the MC even gets killed later, I think while fighting more slavers from the slaving guild, as they are very powerful on this world, and hire assassins to take him out.. There is cool stuff though, like how one of the party members is an engineering student and brings his books with him, and so starts a new engineering guild, and make gunpowder and trains. They became so powerful with their technology they can create their own community free of slavery.
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Apr 21, 2022 01:27
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the wizard guild is also the slaver guild.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:the wizard guild is also the slaver guild. Since when has this been a thread about Harry Potter?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Since when has this been a thread about Harry Potter? Always has been. This isn't the wholesome thread.
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I mean, Harry Potter is basically isekai. Loser with no skills is suddenly brought to another magical world where everyone loves him for reasons that have nothing to do with anything he's done. Edit: Also slavery, obviously.
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Apr 21, 2022 06:54
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british boarding schools are indeed a strange, unearthly places full of danger.
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Slavery is okay in the Harry Potter universe because the house elves want it. I'm very glad I was too old to grow up with those books
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pnumoman posted:Slavery is okay in the Harry Potter universe because the house elves want it. Congratulations instead you grew up with the works of Orson Scott Card or Terry Goodkind
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pnumoman posted:Slavery is okay in the Harry Potter universe because the house elves want it. The Pottermore website had an (since-deleted) article written by Rowling debating whether it was good or bad to keep enslaving house elves.  https://twitter.com/shaun_vids/status/1487032910578429954?s=20&t=KUKgvpnY78HDqJOkK2PJYg Here's the full article for those morbidly curious: https://web.archive.org/web/2019100...lls-of-activism
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thetoughestbean posted:Congratulations instead you grew up with the works of Orson Scott Card or Terry Goodkind Lol, tried one book of each as a kid, was more than enough. Terry Pratchett was the only Terry that raised me
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pnumoman posted:Terry Pratchett was the only Terry that raised me  ?
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I stand corrected
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Apr 23, 2022 13:11
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 Idiocracy is an isekai btw
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Yes I have so far written 7 pages of stories and I am almost done with chapter 2. I have also written and drawn 18 pages of ideas, plot outlines, geographic information, cultural information, technology information, and countries information. Like I wrote how a nomadic nation named The Golden Horde was renamed the Golden Commune because a anarchist radical exiles (from a nation called Socialist Workers Republic of the plains, formerly Kingdom of the Golden Plains_ influenced its leader, named The Golden One, to brake up his armies into communes and found a city, Asbecome, in the north shore of Lake Sha'vul an inland fresh water sea. Is this nation involved in the story? No because they are on the other side of the Spine, a massive mountain range where the numerous Dwarven City states can be found... 
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It's probably too violent for the wholesome thread but did you like Reincarnated as a Sword? Do you wish it was a double isekai? Check out this spin off!
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RareAcumen posted:It's probably too violent for the wholesome thread but did you like Reincarnated as a Sword? Fran has a very wholesome attitude towards running every slaver she sees through a blender. I'm liking this Those Who Hunt Edit: Finished the chapters to-date. It's very good. Fran talks more and has more independent moments, and the focus is more on butt-kicking and less on game stats micro-management. Myok fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Apr 27, 2022 |
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I am not finished with my bullshit as Chapter 2 is up
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Found this at my job (I work at a Barnes and Noble) “You got BDSM in my Minecraft isekai!” “You got Minecraft in my BDSM isekai!”
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thetoughestbean posted:Found this at my job (I work at a Barnes and Noble) It’s actually a pretty fun series with people freaking out over his Minecraft powers (and also pretty horny but that’s a given).
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thetoughestbean posted:Found this at my job (I work at a Barnes and Noble) What the gently caress Barnes and Noble still exists?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:What the gently caress Yeah, people still like going to bookstores to buy their books. Sometimes they buy a coffee too
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thetoughestbean posted:Found this at my job (I work at a Barnes and Noble) The funny part is that this is just barely unwholesome but the cover image makes it look far worse.
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thetoughestbean posted:Found this at my job (I work at a Barnes and Noble) Please don't bring those up, I somehow get stuck on those every time inventory comes up
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thetoughestbean posted:Found this at my job (I work at a Barnes and Noble) https://twitter.com/wiillowbelle/status/1516210552128692224?t=o9WhIoeviuxD--yyT0WMPA&s=19
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Wait there's multiple volumes of Dick Fight Island? I would have thought it was just a one shot based on the premise.
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