Man, wht a shit ending battle in Superworld. I was able to hand wave away the time travel shit, but the most recent chapter makes no sense given the rules that he had set for psychics in previous chapters.
He went from pulling like $8k a month to $1300 a month despite doing nothing for a solid half year.He said he's publicly re-reading and then posting the prior patreon chapters to get in the right mindset for continuing the story. I was actually surprised at how positive the RR comments were on the return, but I guess it still has a lot of fans.
It’s so disappointing. I really liked the first half to 2/3rds of the story, but it really went sideways. The author is getting so much shit in the RR comments section.Unlike regular psychic powers, thoughts&prayers™ works through TV 8)
I’ve already been reading jackal among snakes, and I agree it definitely leans toward mother of learning in style. Story so far isn’t quite as engrossing, but still a decent start.With a bit of extra reading time over the xmas break, I've read through a few more serials.
Stories in early days, for when not having an seemingly insurmountable backlog is a plus:
Paranoid Mage - Urban fantasy type setting - successful architect gets caught up in a supernatural shootout and then is immediately arrested for being an unregistered mage. Finding out a bit more about the secret and increasingly suspicious organization governing magic leads the MC to immediately nope out, then take the first opportunity to escape and go on the run.
One of the best starts to a series I've run across on RR, and from an author that actually finished something, overall good signs for a new series.
Jackal Among Snakes - Isekai of the 'wakes up in a game they are familiar with' variety - the MC ends up as a minor villain and decides that given he's stuck there, he might as well go about saving the world following the game's general plot.
Nothing super original, but I found it engaging and entertaining so far. Kind of like Mother of Learning in tone, with using future knowledge of events and people to manipulate things.
Had a look at the Patreon after he released an extra chapter.Paranoid Mage - looool
Spatial magic has limited combat applications and is mainly used for transportation - aahahahahahahahahaa.
While it's possible all of GAR are fucking idiots, that they are scared shitless of the spatial archmage suggests that there may be some minor disinformation going on ;p
IDK man, a black market spatial mage will be able to fetch a pretty penny.I’ve already been reading jackal among snakes, and I agree it definitely leans toward mother of learning in style. Story so far isn’t quite as engrossing, but still a decent start.
Paranoid Mage I hadn’t seen before, so read it. It’s still very early (5 chapters) but I’m with you so far, it’s great. He’s definitely going to get caught and end up back with the magical gestapo
the other favorite i have HWFWM but i have no idea how much he makes, but figure the 5 dollar is the average patreon, then he is doing around 25k a month. he has 20 chapters in advance.
He needs to pump out more than a chapter every week or two for $15k a month.The guy writing Paranoid Mage had his Patreon explode too, I’m not subscribed or anything but it looks like he made a post on Jan 6th that he finally hit $5k/mo stretch goal to write full time, and as of now he is already up to $15k/mo in that short bit of time. I wouldn’t subscribe to it because the pricing is mega retarded, but it’s kinda crazy how fast some of them grow.
So Kosnik4 has now released all 101 chapters on Royal Road. That's good stuff, and he said his first "new" chapter will be out on Thursday. I wish him luck.And chapter 80 was released this morning. So at least he's holding true to what he said he'd do.
He's up $300 now. He never dropped below $1,450 the entire time he had quit, so he's only gained a little bit of trust back. The rest are probably people that didn't even realize they were subscribed to his patreon.He is regaining patreon subscribers pretty quickly.