Ritley
Bronze Baron of the Realm
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Hatorade
A nice asshole.
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Onto book 11 of Defiance of the fall, some pacing issues throughout the series but so far worth the read. Biggest complaint is main character never fails, dude just continues to fall upward. I get why and that is literally his luck but starting to not feel like their is any danger.
Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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A common theme in LitRPG is that the "old monsters" who are at the top have watched generation after generation of prodigies be birthed, rise to moderate power and then either die or stall out and become irrelevant. Something that DotF kind of touches on is Zac going through this, but I think it could be more pronounced. We know that Zac isn't going to die or have his growth halted before he concludes various plotlines, but we don't know who is going to make it through any given arc. There are so many secondary/tertiary characters, letting several die or plateau (and then die like Sap Trang) would be fine and would increase the stakes.
This is a problem I have in a lot of long-running fiction though. After a certain point, likable characters around the lead character are immortal.
This is a problem I have in a lot of long-running fiction though. After a certain point, likable characters around the lead character are immortal.