How do I give my days some meaning now? Really, like, what am I supposed to do, what are my goals, why should I even wake up in the morning?
Yup, I finished DCC book 8 😭

Any other recommendations to bring joy back to my life with the same "they will not break me, I will break them" smash the system with a found family vibe? Bonus if the audiobook narrator is amazing.

So far I got: Soul Fraud and Starter Vilain (it has a cat on the cover so yeah obviously).

#Books #LitRPG

Help me figure out if this exists:

So I do like me some #litrpg, in particular dungeon crawler Carl.

And like, that’s evidence that the thing I think I want should exist.

Does anyone know of a list of media that are directly translated RPG campaigns?

I don’t want “session logs” from #ttrpg sessions, or, rather, that’s not what I’m talking about. I read a lot of those and enjoy them. But…

Think “The Legend of Vox Machina”. I think Rat Queens is also one.

A group plays an rpg. One or more of them sit down after the fact and edit the story into an actual book. Or epic poem. Or whatever. Any media, really, except maybe video games (I think this is a common enough thing in video games so as to not be that special, personally).

Not litrpg, despite me very much liking it, but more like “we’ve extracted the story and edited it so that it’ll make sense but we kept the whacky shit that always happens in a game”.

Now, of _course_ a lot of books are like this, but I’m looking _specifically_ for this sort of “almost but not technically an actual play” story, like vox machina.

Ich hab die Dungeon Crawler Carl Serie für mich entdeckt und suchte gerade das zweite Buch (von 8 😍) durch.

Das Genre LitRPG (Literary Role Playing Game) kannte ich bisher gar nicht: Fühlt sich an wie ein Computerspiel, allerdings ohne schlechtes Gewissen, seine begrenzte Freizeit am Computer zu verbringen 😅.

#Bücher #litRPG #Büchersonntag #buchstodon

Beyond the Shelf: 4 Subgenres Reshaping What We Read

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by Brian Andrews Genre fiction is always evolving, and sometimes change can be a beautiful thing! Today’s Career Author’s post highlights four hybrid sub-genres that are winning over readers, new and old. Publishing has always moved in waves. But something different is happening now. Readers aren’t just migrating between genres — they’re colonizing the spaces […]
Beyond the Shelf: 4 Subgenres Reshaping What We Read Brian Andrews…
https://careerauthors.com/beyond-the-shelf-4-subgenres-reshaping-what-we-read/

#Craft #cozymystery #DarkGrim #genrefiction #LitRPG

There is a sub-genre of isekai (異世界, other world) which involves arbitrage between the world of today and the historical/fantasy other world.

• (Charles Stross, The Merchant Princes) A clan of secretive world-walkers have been using their abilities to build an empire spanning two worlds. An American gets unexpectedly drawn into intra-clan conflict, the U.S. government's covetousness, and the irrationality in assuming there is a highest natural number.

• (FUNA, #Saving80000Gold for My Retirement) After receiving a blessing which saved her life, diminutive teenage orphan Mitsuha decides to amass a fortune sufficient to retire to either world. Luxury-obsessed nobles, plucky young villagers, and a company of flexible-minded modern mercenaries help her establish a foothold.

• (Makishima Suzuki, Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!) Since childhood Kazuhiro would dream of a fantasy world. When he and and elf are killed while exploring, he learns that his dreams are real and falling asleep or dying allows him and the person he is touching to move back and forth. Cultural and economic exchange transpires.

• (Ren Eguchi, #CampfireCookingInAnotherWorld with My Absurd Skill) The absurd skill is Amazon (actually Online Supermarket).

• (Hiiro Shimotsuki, Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want!) Pretty on the nose.

• (Hirukuma, #RebornAsAVendingMachine, I Now Wander the Dungeon) A sapient vending machine accepts coins in a magical world to restock with items and upgrades from our modern world and the main character's love of Japanese vending machine culture.

#Isekai #LitRPG #LightNovel #Arbitrage #Economics #SciFi #Fantasy #CharlesStross #TheMerchantPrinces #FUNA #WelcomeToJapanMsElf

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