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Making your own tier list and asking for recommendations might provide better advice! My tier list is based purely on what I enjoyed, not what I think the general litrpg fan would enjoy.
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Ritley
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Finished The Lost Cube, 3rd book in Immortal Great Souls series. Overall I thought it was pretty good, he needs to run it through AI or something though if he isn’t going to get an editor just to clean up the typos and grammar. I still don’t like Naomi’s character though.
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I just finished it the other day as well. It is book 4 btw. It started a bit slow for me, but it really gathered my interest as it went along. I don't dislike Naomi, but yeah he played it up a bit this book. Thankfully she wasn't really in it a lot. Nox is still the best character. I would read an entire book from his pov.
I completely agree about the editing. Kind of jarring at times. I'll still eagerly await the next book though.
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Harshaw
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Tuco
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DirkDonkeyroot
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Ritley
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I didn’t know it was coming out and wanted to do a reread first since it’s been awhile, on book two now and it’s amazing how franking great Frank is.
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I finished the MoL series and I'm not as over the top about it as some people here. I love many elements but he really needed it edited down. It should have been 3 books tops. Often I'd start a section and after a page or two is realize it was completely irrelevant filler, remaking a point that had already been made often. The LotR style ending was a bit much as well. Other than that I liked the series.
Now to find something else.
Now to find something else.
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TJT
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I think Sky Pride does a good job of using the Cultivator setting.
The Direct Disciples (as the series calls them) and Sect Masters don't really care about earthly affairs and are loathe to involve themselves unless they are completely forced to for whatever reason. This being a driving element of the series. As the aloofness of the upper echelon of cultivators around the world has led to the series conflict in itself. As they failed to even consider the far reaching implications of mundane trading schemes.
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Hateyou
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Where did they even come up with the retarded cultivator idea that it’s so prevalent in this genre? It’s not in any video game rpg I’ve ever played, that I can think of anyway.
Dudes just sitting around meditating for insights which somehow improve the shit out of them.
Dudes just sitting around meditating for insights which somehow improve the shit out of them.
Tuco
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Maybe Legends of the Swordsmen from Mount Shu
From 1932?
Wuxia, Nascent Souls, and a brief history of Xianxia and Xuanhuan
The illustration below is for a wuxia novel called《冷劍娥眉》(Cold Sword Beauty) by Xiao Yi 蕭逸 which was serialized in Wuxia World magazine《武俠世界》issues #585-586, November 7-14, 1970.
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I'm just finishing the Ends of Magic series by Alexander Olsen. It's pretty good, nothing amazing other than it not having the modern day audience tropes (mostly). The writing is ok although switching perspectives is a little weird sometimes. It suffers from the usual litrpg problem of too much filler. I liked it overall though.
I'm editing and adding to this because I think it might be up some peoples alley. I've read the 5 books that are out, I haven't looked if there are going to be more. This is about a scientist that is just getting his PHD in some sort of molecular science (don't remember exactly, doesn't matter) and he gets transported to a magic world, he quickly gets an anti magic ability, and we're off. If you guys remember hard science fiction, this feels like a fantasy spin off of that. It suffers most of the issues that LitRPG has, but often does a much better than average job of making the power creep seem less creepy and more balanced, at least until the end of the 4th book. That being said the 5th book was my favorite. One thing it does really well is the group dynamic. I know you are going to read that and think I mean that the main character is balanced with the rest of the group, mostly not. He's just better with them.
I'm editing and adding to this because I think it might be up some peoples alley. I've read the 5 books that are out, I haven't looked if there are going to be more. This is about a scientist that is just getting his PHD in some sort of molecular science (don't remember exactly, doesn't matter) and he gets transported to a magic world, he quickly gets an anti magic ability, and we're off. If you guys remember hard science fiction, this feels like a fantasy spin off of that. It suffers most of the issues that LitRPG has, but often does a much better than average job of making the power creep seem less creepy and more balanced, at least until the end of the 4th book. That being said the 5th book was my favorite. One thing it does really well is the group dynamic. I know you are going to read that and think I mean that the main character is balanced with the rest of the group, mostly not. He's just better with them.
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TJT
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Chinese fantasy. Like actual Chinese fantasy literature called Wuxia as a genre. China did not take on the whole wizards and warriors in the sense that we do in the West.
Good old Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is essentially a Wuxia fantasy.
DirkDonkeyroot
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Yeah it's been in Wuxia since there's been Wuxia.
Been reading these Russian litrpg series
Ideal world for a sociopath
A shelter in spacetime
The Village
They're dumb turn your brain off kinda books, fast reads.
Been reading these Russian litrpg series
Ideal world for a sociopath
A shelter in spacetime
The Village
They're dumb turn your brain off kinda books, fast reads.
Like most of Sky Pride, it's an interesting take that makes considerably more sense than the common tropes.
The common fantasy of being 'boss of everything' is all power and no responsibility, but that's not a structure that actually works in reality. If the boss doesn't know shit about what's going on, his minions do whatever they want. When you go the other way, it's pretty obvious there's a fundamental conflict between one-with-the-universe tranquility and putting up with other people's bullshit problems.
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