Read the first Randidly Ghosthound book over the weekend. Aside from the stupid fucking name, it was ok so far. I was a little annoyed for awhile because once he found out he could learn skills pretty much at will, I was thinking why the fuck isn't he burning himself, freezing himself, etc? Eventually he started fireball'ing himself for fire resistance, but he still hasn't done blatantly obvious ones like cold, electricity, maybe even damage resistances like piercing, slashing, crushing, etc. Maybe they don't all work and are just part of endurance or whatever, but why not try? In a world where you regenerate health easily, just keep fucking stabbing yourself and see if you get piercing resistance. He can already cast fireballs, why not learn how to shoot ice or lightning or even weird shit like webs maybe? Hell, even try holding your breath for as long as you can, see if you get a skill for not needing as much oxygen. I'd be obsessed with picking up every random skill I could for the points, and no one in the world seems to have thought about that. Even Randidly, who sort of does it, hasn't gone anywhere near as far as I would. They've already said that you can forget some later if you encounter a better skill you want to gain once you have a class and a cap, so why not have shit like the aforementioned vegetable cutting skill to swap? (And yes, I read the part about becoming a Jack of All Trades and maybe being weaker. Seems pretty apparent you can still guide the choices somewhat if you try.)
Aside from that, I see there are already a ton of books, so I wonder if he's going to keep the classless thing the entire time or eventually he takes a class. Don't spoil it for me, but just wondering. It seems like if he does take one it will change his whole schtick, but at some point he should run low on things to gain/improve and he'll have so many bonuses built up that once he takes a class, every level will give him monstrous stat gains.
Oh, and is every single litrpg author a social retard? That's the only reason I can think of for so many main characters having social anxiety and shit, or deciding "must get strong, no have time for people." It is getting annoying.
Still, liking this series well enough for now. Hopefully it doesn't fall into any of the traps that so many of these series do. At least the meditation stuff is brief and glossed over, he isn't spending 48 chapters building his fucking core or consolidating his gains. I'm ok with this level so far.
