I have gone through a couple of series and something that I have noticed is the use of the metric system, even by American authors. Is this a standard for the genre or are have I just happened to pick the odd ones out?

The best moments in this genre for me are when the MC breaks a fight or a system with some loophole nobody else saw. But the exact same trick can land completely differently depending on the setup.

Earned version: the rule was established chapters ago, using it costs something real, and other characters could have done it but just did not think of it. You get that 'oh, of course' feeling and immediately want to reread the earlier chapter.

Cheating version: the loophole shows up in the same chapter it gets used, or the system suddenly has a convenient blind spot it never had before. Feels less like the MC outsmarted the world and more like the author reached in and flipped the board.

For me the dividing line is usually whether the exploit creates new problems. A system that gets abused should push back somehow. Patches, attention from the wrong people, side effects. If the exploit is free and permanent, it usually reads as cheating even when it was foreshadowed.

What is an exploit moment that completely earned it for you? And one that felt like the author cheating?

For me, my absolute favorite thing is when things on a character sheet combine. Merging skills, fusing mutations and changing your race, proficiencies merging to form a broader one, you name it. It gives my brain a tiny dopamine boost every single time.

My dad got really into lit rpg audio books, enjoying series like:

Defiance of the fall-thefirstdefiler, jf brink

Magic Eater- Sean ozwald

Rise of mankind-jazz cajio

Welcome to the multiverse -Sean ozwald

The completionist chronicles-dakota crout

He who fights with monsters- shirtaloon , travis deverell

1% lifesteal- Robert Blaise

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And a few more series related to these authors.

Hes gotten realy iritated abt the unfinished series so had me and my mom look for completed ones, but we gave him a lot of book with 3-6 books and he completes them too fast so now hes looking for completed longer series.

Anyone have recommendations?

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Hes looking for ones with some comedy, action, and maby a system but not required. He wants it to be a lit rpg and completed long series. Preferably 10+ books

Any recommendations on audible would me much appreciated!!

(My first redit post, am I doing this right?)

What (if any) are the best litrps that focus on creating a town and building it up from book to book?

Bog Standard Isekai

Primal Hunter

Book of the Dead

All 3 came out with new volumes today (at least on audiobook)! How do I choose?? How could they do this to me??

Not saying the MC was necessarily bad or anything. Sometimes it's just that the rival, the mentor, the crafter, some random side character you weren't even supposed to care about, they end up in a way more interesting situation than the person the story's actually about. If a finished series got one extra story, would you actually want to see what happens next for the original MC, or would you rather follow someone else in that same world instead? And what actually makes a side character interesting enough to carry their own story? Is it their situation, their personality, the fact that you don't already know everything about them?

Hello everyone,

It is a Bog Standard day! The next book in Bog Standard Isekai is out, and man, this is a big one. Warbound is the book that takes everything to the next level. You can expect bigger battles, badder bosses, higher highs, and lower lows. Brin is on the battlefield with the greatest heroes and the most terrible villains, and while you're still going to get those huge, bombastic battles where the heavy hitters come out to play, there's also a lot for Brin to do, and he's not going to watch from the sidelines. I pulled out all the stops for this one, and I think you're really going to like how it turned out. I get excited for every release, for sure, but this book is the one that I honestly think is the best I've ever written.

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So anyway, Ask Me Anything. I'll be around to answer questions so fire away!

Oh, and if you want to chat some more, the easiest way to talk to me is on Discord. I'll link both discord and the book in the comments.

i discovered LitRPG's a couple months back, and have been obsessed and reading them non-stop. but since my discovery, i see a ton of books on Amazon that look like they may be written by AI. is this a thing? it might just be that the genre seems to be a bit over-saturated right now.

might also just be that i am always on the lookout for AI slop now, due to the state of the world.

Disclaimer : English is my third langage so if there are error deal with it lol

Okay I need to rant. So in the 4 books Cat is protecting the city from a wave of hundred of thousand of alien. She have basically more than 20k point right now and way too much ennemy. What does she choose to do ? A few shitty turret and a few bomb. At max it must cost her like 500 point. WHY ? you have token. You have point. You have everything to kill a lot easily. Why not just go to tier two for the bomb and have bomb that are far from the future ? Why not spawning 1000 bomb next to you instead of only throwing a few ? Why does she use the shitiest weapon when she have so much point and token ? And don't tell me usefull weapon cost too much. Only a few chapter before she bought a bomb that made a crater of 100m of radius for 350 point. She have 20 000 points right now. And she use like 10 shitty turret who cost 20 or 50 I forgot.

Also the system in general. The system is just not explained enough or though about enough by the author. How far can you command a bomb or a weapon since it is teleported near you ? It can be pretty far since she bought a whole flat right ? And you can buy already striped grenade since it has been done before. Why not buy like 10000 grenade and make them spawn in the ennemy face, you ask your ultre intelligent IA to calculate all that and, boom, done. Why not go near space buying just some block and do an orbital strike for just the cost of a few construction block ? Why does some pack cost more than others. The one for healing wa slike 50 and one for laser weapon was like 250. Does every pack can go to tier 2 ? Is it really much better since she bought like 2 different pack tier two and for now we got almost no difference. Okay she heal a little better but come on it was said as thousand of years of developpement between each tiers. And I'm not even gonna talk about tier 3 since the story is at the same time slow as hell and doesn't really expand on how the world work enough.

And the mc too is frustrating. Why does she use her point so badly ? You paid in total like 12k point for a flat. But you have an armor who costed like 500 points ? You still use the weapon who costed 20 points. She's all about helping her kitten but does she buy them something ? No a quick heal and go fuck yourself. What you have shitty aug filled with viruses ? How about you look at how much point I used on that cat wall ! She took three fucking books to buy an aug for her girlfriend that had one so bad it was bad even for an orphan in a shitty orphanage.

Oh and the stealth too. I need to rant about it too. Why did the author add it ? It is useless. Cat used it one time to put some bomb in a hive discretly. And after that more for fun than necessary. Okay there is no problem if the author don't really want stealth in his story but I was waiting for a samurai full silence, tactic to go in ultra dangerous zone in invisibility for info or to destroy important hive. Here ? Nope. She just throw grenade everywhere. And of course only the one she used since book one. After all why change just because you have more point right ? That was sarcasm btw.

And nothing is explained, everyone in the comment is happy about the story, I feel like I'm the crazy one. I like the story, the romance and the world but god damn does it lack any though or explanation behind it. And no, just saying that the MC is too lazy to spend her point well is not enough when she have an IA so advanced she can have a year long discussion in a second. No. Just no.

Oh and also a little point but do a freaking time skip no ? It have been 4 volume for litteraly like 8 days in the world. Like come on I want my character to evolve, think, progress. But here ? No. Your MC doesn't know how to shoot ? Well she never will. She is a newbie ? Well in 4 volume she still is one. I don't ask for years long time skip but just a week between books no ?

And looking back it's normal since the author have like 5 story that he is writing at the same time, of course he can't think about his world or how his system work. And it's just so frustrating since it had potential. I quickly understood that it was a light read but even without thinking too much it frustrated me to no end. It was probably not the story to read after worm since it was passing from a 5 star meal to some pasta without salt. Yes it could be a great meal but nobody put salt or sauce in it.