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NaNoWriMo's here and I've decided to try out LitRPG. I know plenty of others are going to as well because it's the internet's best kept secret. I've never seen so many books by first time authors push 500 copies in a week before. And just as a heads up, there's 50,000 EXP going to the first person who writes a LitRPG about someone roleplaying as Bernie Sanders, as long as his party includes Peter "Steele" Panther.
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just a heads up, encouraging people to kill themselves is prohibited in gbs.
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Oct 30, 2017 02:29
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Wtf is a litrpg
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Oct 30, 2017 02:31
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Yuli Ban posted:NaNoWriMo's here and I've decided to try out LitRPG. I know plenty of others are going to as well because it's the internet's best kept secret. I've never seen so many books by first time authors push 500 copies in a week before. Wtf
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Oct 30, 2017 02:32
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:Wtf is a litrpg It's what you get when you sell your WoW logs and attach an unrelated cyberpunk dystopia at the start. In all seriousness, it's like writing down a video game. Surprisingly addicting stuff.
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Oct 30, 2017 02:35
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  Mike, we've been noticing that you've been having a lot of problems lately, and we're afraid that you're gonna hurt somebody, and we're afraid that you're gonna hurt yourself. So, we decided that it would be in your best interests if we put you somewhere where you could get the help that you need.
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Oct 30, 2017 02:36
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Oh so it's that ulillilia book
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Oct 30, 2017 02:36
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quote:So, while Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is a fantasy novel, a book about people creating avatars and interacting in a Lord of the Rings MMORPG would be a LitRPG novel.[2] my dude
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Oct 30, 2017 02:37
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Of all the literature ever written, all the ideas put forward and the depths of humanity explored, you're going to spend your time reading about video game avatars?
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Oct 30, 2017 02:47
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I prefer cybersex RP LitRPGs myself, 50 Shades of GUI was really erotic.
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Oct 30, 2017 02:55
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I actually own a copy of The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters
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Oct 30, 2017 02:56
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I'm not a huge fyad fan or anything but the nanowrimo threads in there are always gold
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Oct 30, 2017 02:57
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Breakfast Feud posted:Of all the literature ever written, all the ideas put forward and the depths of humanity explored, you're going to spend your time reading about video game avatars? I mean, it's either gonna be that or gay Yeti erotica.
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Oct 30, 2017 03:04
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honestly gay yeti erotica sounds better
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Oct 30, 2017 03:06
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certainly more socially acceptable
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Oct 30, 2017 03:08
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oh, so it's ready player one. great. just what i wanted more of. woo hoo
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Oct 30, 2017 03:10
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I'm not denying that, but there are only so many ways Sasquatch can impregnate the Honey Island Swamp Monster or write about how the two dads raise their cryptozoological child in the Himalayas.
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Oct 30, 2017 03:12
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maybe they could move to hawaii instead and have tropical adventures?
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Oct 30, 2017 03:18
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President Trump stepped up to the podium to address the nation. He had a particularly somber expression as he looked out over the quiet and subdued audience. Trump adjusted the microphone and sighed heavily. He tugged at his collar, buying time. Then a brief smirk came across his face and Trump leaned into the microphone, finally ready to speak. "I'm Bernie Sanders" he began, a smile creeping across his tired face. The crowd stared with eyes wide open, expectant and hungry. They knew what was coming next. "AND I WOULD HAVE WON!" Trump screamed. The crowd went wild with cheers of elation as chants of "BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE!" broke out. Peter "Steele" Panther looked on from his private viewing room, far above the crowd. His forked tongue quickly darted out and back in, tasting the warm air. "All is happening as foretold." he hissed. "Lord Xenu will be most pleased".
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Oct 30, 2017 03:20
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But what was his HP?
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Oct 30, 2017 03:25
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Thanks OP. I think i can safely speak for most of gbs when i say that i have to decline on the grounds that this all sounds dangerously retarded. Have you tried asking the imp zone?
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Oct 30, 2017 03:27
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So its wasting money on crappy authors you'll never read while complaining about how hard it is to be a writer and continuously and jerking off.
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Oct 30, 2017 04:09
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*check ops avatar* yeah you seem like the kind of person that'd like that
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Oct 30, 2017 04:24
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Is that like a Choose Your Own Adventure?
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Oct 30, 2017 12:05
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Cubone posted:
all i wanted was a pepsi! AND SHE WOULDN'T GIVE IT TO ME!
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Oct 30, 2017 12:21
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I'm going to write the most exciting novel about a charismatic American hero shitposting in GBS.quote:Sweat pooled at the seat of Colonel's chair as he typed his magnum opus. "I'm", the mechanical keys thundered like drums, " gay".
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Oct 30, 2017 12:27
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shouldn't this be called RPG Literature instead? a literary RPG is like a Harry Potter D&D variant
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Oct 30, 2017 12:39
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So this is for people who don't have enough friends to play rpgs with but are are too far down the gamer hole to write about anything else? Between this and the haunted cartage creepypastas, I'm terrified what the next generation of publishing will look like. What's next three volume epics transcribed from twitch streams?
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Oct 30, 2017 12:53
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Still seems like an improvement over Sonic and Star Trek fanfiction of the yesteryear.
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Oct 30, 2017 13:09
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He rolled the dice and then smirked at his companions. The fools had no idea that the very game they played held the world's fate on stake. "Morons," he thought to himself. "Okay," said Randy. "I know I'm just a master of the dungeon. But this time, I get the feeling the very fate of our world will be decided with this next dice throw. Tread carefully, my warriors." "Oh no. Foiled again," thought the bad guy who was definitely not on the side of light!
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Oct 30, 2017 13:11
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So its not an rpg meant to help you write? but to read?? i think the writing game sounds fun. are all the books nerd books? does fanfiction count?
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Oct 30, 2017 13:15
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It's not an RPG at all, bud. It's a literary genre where the writers write a story about a bunch of nerds playing role playing games. This is literature at its peak. Dostoevsky was working towards this.
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Oct 30, 2017 13:18
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i want to read a novel about someone writing LitRPG
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Oct 30, 2017 13:27
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this thread is like a random monster encounter and I'm selecting the flee option
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Oct 30, 2017 13:39
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The Renaissance was a mistake
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Oct 30, 2017 13:49
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:Wtf is a litrpg Lit B)
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Oct 30, 2017 13:50
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I'm reading the description of litrpg and have to keep going back over it because my brain just starts dying and now I'm severely retarded sedn helllp
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Oct 30, 2017 13:53
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Looking forward to moving excerpts from future nobel prize winning novels talking about sick lvl ups in friendship and dildosmithing
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Oct 30, 2017 13:56
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LitRPGs are pretty gross but there is money in it (there are a few on Patreon that make a few thousand a month). There's a surprisingly big number of people who'll happily shell out money to you if you basically write down your MMO experiences with threadbare prose. Bonus points if your characters literally talk about gaining experience points and 'leveling up'. It's fiction written by people who only really consume MMOs and anime. Basically, they probably think Ready Player One is high literature. edit: The typical 'LitRPG' model is to publish chapters online (with Patreon bonuses) and then, every so often, publish collections as 'books' through Amazon.
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Oct 30, 2017 14:02
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Milky Moor posted:Basically, they probably think Ready Player One is high literature.. The slippery slope is real
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