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I've seen a lot of people say good things about ripple system, but I'm like 30% through the first book and really struggling
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It's got ups and downs. The bad guy being a stereotype doesn't help. I'd say the first book is a good representation of the series. There are good things and stupid things. I liked it enough to finish it but i almost stopped several times.
 
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Elder Cultivation is excellent whoever recommended that. Much appreciated.

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I love it when authors take little jabs at other books.
Like The Ripple System book 3...

Darling: "This better not be some foot thing"
Frank: "Nah, wrong AI for that."
 
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Mage Tank book 5 is like a primer in how to handle the administrative shit every hero eventually has to deal with. I know this series is no where near finished but it does raise the question, has any series like this had an actual ending that was satisfying and felt like a sensible place to end things? I think I've only read one that had an end point and it was shit.
 
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Guurn said:
Mage Tank book 5 is like a primer in how to handle the administrative shit every hero eventually has to deal with. I know this series is no where near finished but it does raise the question, has any series like this had an actual ending that was satisfying and felt like a sensible place to end things? I think I've only read one that had an end point and it was shit.
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Ending a LitRPG seems to be a weak point to be sure. The ones I've experienced came suddenly and often use time skips to get to where they envisioned the series ending.

Everyone Loves Large Chests was like this. Unbound too, to a point. Blue Core was the most satisfying ending to a LitRPG I've read so far, but even it was a bit sudden.
 
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Ending a LitRPG seems to be a weak point to be sure. The ones I've experienced came suddenly and often use time skips to get to where they envisioned the series ending.

Everyone Loves Large Chests was like this. Unbound too, to a point. Blue Core was the most satisfying ending to a LitRPG I've read so far, but even it was a bit sudden.
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Wait, Unbound finished? I didn't read the last couple because I was getting bored, but if it finished I'll make sure to.
 
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Is Worth the Candle any good?
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It started well enough but over time it became distasteful, the interactions with the characters that accompany the main character are often long and tiresome and left much to be desired. At one point he gets raped by a living house, which is also a woman/companion and then the author decided to delve into the trauma of that experience and the reactions to it and that's when I gave up on it completely. Also worth noting is that the entire world exists to let Joon play out his pen and paper fantasy life within it because some god was really into his game nights on Earth with his boring friends for some reason, which is a topic that comes up way more often than it should.
 
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Wait, Unbound finished? I didn't read the last couple because I was getting bored, but if it finished I'll make sure to.
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Yeah the last book just came out. It's in the regular places.
 
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It started well enough but over time it became distasteful, the interactions with the characters that accompany the main character are often long and tiresome and left much to be desired. At one point he gets raped by a living house, which is also a woman/companion and then the author decided to delve into the trauma of that experience and the reactions to it and that's when I gave up on it completely. Also worth noting is that the entire world exists to let Joon play out his pen and paper fantasy life within it because some god was really into his game nights on Earth with his boring friends for some reason, which is a topic that comes up way more often than it should.
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Raped...by a HOUSE?

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Reading he who fights monsters because I’ve gone through pretty much everything that was on my plate. Trying to decide if this humor annoys me or not. It’s getting laughs from me, but it’s like reading a novel length dad joke.
 
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Guurn said:
Mage Tank book 5 is like a primer in how to handle the administrative shit every hero eventually has to deal with. I know this series is no where near finished but it does raise the question, has any series like this had an actual ending that was satisfying and felt like a sensible place to end things? I think I've only read one that had an end point and it was shit.
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Reading he who fights monsters because I’ve gone through pretty much everything that was on my plate. Trying to decide if this humor annoys me or not. It’s getting laughs from me, but it’s like reading a novel length dad joke.
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Stick with it, it's a great series. Book 6 (if I remember correctly) got a little rough for me but the series is worth it.
 
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Done work Mage Tank 5 and Primal Hunter 16. Both were pretty good with Primal Hunter being the better of the two even though it was all setup for the next arc. It is a bit weird how careful the author is to make sure he doesn't just forget characters, but then he misses whole plot points (hello, visit the dungeon, (not a spoiler:emoji_nose:. I know, maybe it's part of the story to come.

I'm out of series atm. Maybe it's time for He Who Fights With series.
 
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Started reading Branden Sanderson's Mistborn, I only got a few chapters in and despite the writing being better than most LitRPG and the series being so litrpg adjacent (Low-power hero becomes the MC through getting some OP super rare skill) I found myself pretty quickly bored by it and am not sure why. I had trouble even bothering to listen to it this week and switched to listening to the Solo Leveling audiobook which, despite being not even a real book (but is instead a web novel / manga), has me locked in.

There's just something about this genre that is extremely engaging. I don't think it's the numbers, I think authors should move away from numbers and more toward S through E rank (or whatever) stats that are scaled with the character's tier or level. I think it's just that there is a system in place and a focus on progression and mechanics that grounds the entire plot. I also think the more I read the less I enjoy multiple POV stories, which LitRPG rarely has. I think it's also that totally broken mechanics, items, monsters, etc are simply expected and normal. Going back to even progression fantasy, everything just feels flat and one dimensional.
 
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Started reading Branden Sanderson's Mistborn, I only got a few chapters in and despite the writing being better than most LitRPG and the series being so litrpg adjacent (Low-power hero becomes the MC through getting some OP super rare skill) I found myself pretty quickly bored by it and am not sure why. I had trouble even bothering to listen to it this week and switched to listening to the Solo Leveling audiobook which, despite being not even a real book (but is instead a web novel / manga), has me locked in.

There's just something about this genre that is extremely engaging. I don't think it's the numbers, I think authors should move away from numbers and more toward S through E rank (or whatever) stats that are scaled with the character's tier or level. I think it's just that there is a system in place and a focus on progression and mechanics that grounds the entire plot. I also think the more I read the less I enjoy multiple POV stories, which LitRPG rarely has. I think it's also that totally broken mechanics, items, monsters, etc are simply expected and normal. Going back to even progression fantasy, everything just feels flat and one dimensional.
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I would recommend Mistborn just for the ending alone, the pay off is magnificent.
 
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Tuco said:
Started reading Branden Sanderson's Mistborn, I only got a few chapters in and despite the writing being better than most LitRPG and the series being so litrpg adjacent (Low-power hero becomes the MC through getting some OP super rare skill) I found myself pretty quickly bored by it and am not sure why. I had trouble even bothering to listen to it this week and switched to listening to the Solo Leveling audiobook which, despite being not even a real book (but is instead a web novel / manga), has me locked in.

There's just something about this genre that is extremely engaging. I don't think it's the numbers, I think authors should move away from numbers and more toward S through E rank (or whatever) stats that are scaled with the character's tier or level. I think it's just that there is a system in place and a focus on progression and mechanics that grounds the entire plot. I also think the more I read the less I enjoy multiple POV stories, which LitRPG rarely has. I think it's also that totally broken mechanics, items, monsters, etc are simply expected and normal. Going back to even progression fantasy, everything just feels flat and one dimensional.
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I get how addicting the rpg aspect is, and it has been forever since I read Mistborn so I might have a tainted memory of how good it was, but at least Mistborn was solid all throughout and had a satisfying ending. That happens like 2% of the time in litrpg. Maybe less.

And you have to read Mistborn if you want the Wax and Wayne follow-up series to make sense, and from what I know of you, I would bet you like that series more than Mistborn.
 
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