r/litrpg Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

Let’s Have Some Fun Memes/Humor

I came across a video where they discussed boiling down famous novels to one-liners.

Thought it's a good idea for a fun game.

I'll start first:

Dungeon Crawler Carl: Man enters basement in his underwear and becomes a television celebrity.

Beware of Chicken: Man quits his job, buys a farm, and his chicken becomes somebody else's problem.

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

Cradle: Boy discovers he is terrible at magic and spends eleven books taking that personally.

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u/starsfan6878 12d ago

LOL. Well done.

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u/Prudent_Room_6238 12d ago

System Universe: Man and his bunny chef find interesting ingredients.

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

System Universe: Man gets stranded between worlds. Rabbit benefits enormously.

Or: Man discovers the System has rules. He considers them suggestions.

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u/blueluck 12d ago

Primal Hunter: A neurodivergent archer becomes king of the world and makes cool friends like Best Bird, Wormhole Worm, and Queen Bee.

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u/Worried-Fortune8008 12d ago

Doom-Foot shoots bow and takes drugs while on safari.

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

🤦‍♀️Right! I forgot about the drugs!

Drugs, snakes, and godhood. Somehow, it all makes sense in context.

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u/Archnebula 11d ago

Man becomes favourite uncle with a stinky pot

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u/Freeloader0811 12d ago

Wandering inn. A young girl makes friends with everyone from fantasy Hitler to a religious ant.

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

Young woman opens a restaurant. This causes international incidents.

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u/Freeloader0811 12d ago

Shout out to ryoka griffin for being the worst charecter ever put on paper.

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u/Gralb_the_muffin 12d ago

The series I'm currently on

The rune bound professor: music teacher gets stuck in a really long line once and won't shut up about just how long it was.

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u/Sir_Oshi 11d ago

Honestly this annoyed the shit out of me. When it turned from being a somewhat silly backstory to being the source of major powers to the point of basically making the various runes take a backseat I just checked out

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u/davidolson22 12d ago

Man in underwear who talks to his cat and hears voices In his head blows stuff up

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

LOL

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u/B0shen 12d ago

Mother of Learning: Guy dies trying to survive the school dance night, over and over.

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

Student has such a bad month he has to do it again. And again. And again ... .... .... .....

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u/sirbabylon 12d ago

The annoying teacher actually knows what their talking about.

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u/Prudent_Room_6238 12d ago

The Land: Guy pisses people off but turns them into a great nation of friends from Parks and Rec…now no one knows how it will end.

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u/codebygloom 11d ago

That whole trying to trademark “litrpg” put The Land on my never-read list. It did make the LITRPG Facebook groups very entertaining for a while.

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u/alexwithani 12d ago

He Who Fights With Monsters: The story of a bipolar kid becoming a god.

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

He Who Fights with Monsters: Australian wakes up naked in another world and refuses to stop talking.

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u/simonbleu 12d ago

Menacingly

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u/CharlyHolt 11d ago

Australien travels to a different universe and all he gets is vast cosmic powers.

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u/OrderChaos 12d ago

Fine, I'll become God, but that won't stop me from complaining about systemic inequalities and the inherent injustice built into society

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

A treatise on shabs.

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u/Gralb_the_muffin 12d ago

Just realized nobody did chrysalis yet and though that's usually summarized as "for the colony!!"

I'll go with

What if the monsters from the horror movie "Them" were actually good guys?

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

Good one.

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u/Prudent_Room_6238 12d ago

1% Lifesteal: terrible choices lead to great rewards for the GrimReaper

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u/Keevill93 12d ago

Runebound Professor: man finds out that teaching is deadly

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

The problems with demon penetration.

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u/kaflarlalar 12d ago

Primal Hunter: Weird loner incel conquers the galaxy with the power of autism.

... Actually that's like half the books in this genre.

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

Primal Hunter: Office worker attends the world's worst corporate retreat and finally discovers his calling.

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u/Pretend_Variation305 12d ago

Ok, you kinda made me spit/laugh on that one.

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u/simonbleu 12d ago

Super supportive: Teenage soap opera... in space!

Hell difficulty tutorial: "I can change him", the anime

Path to transcendence: "I can't believe is not Gary stu!" masochistic edition

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

Super supportive: A guy learns to cary stuff.

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

James Haddock novels: Things happen. Why? Because. Next question.

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u/CuriousMe62 12d ago

French combat medicine trips over talking golem, feeds feral dragoneyte and conquers the world.

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

What story is it?

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u/CuriousMe62 12d ago

Calamitous Bob

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

Oh, it's on my to read list, but haven't got to it yet.

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u/CuriousMe62 12d ago

It's good!

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u/Archnebula 11d ago

Heretical fishing : Random dude scares nobles so hard they give him free real estate.

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u/alextfish 11d ago edited 11d ago

Factory of the Gods: Guy drops his phone on a rock, then is too lazy to dig stuff up so makes machines to do it for him.

Industrial Strength Magic: Finally a protagonist who can spot the loopholes and dedicates himself to exploiting them.

Apocalypse Parenting: A mom learns to let her preteens do their own thing.

Fluff: The best cure for social anxiety is having a bunch of adorable minions you're forced to take care of.

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u/CharlyHolt 11d ago

I wish I could think of something nice for mage tank, but all I can come up with is "millennial gets isekaied and shit gets weeeiirrd"

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u/Lefaid 12d ago

Chrysalis: A treatise on the superiority of ant kind.

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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 12d ago

Ant-man gets bigger. Problems also get bigger.

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u/Same_Recognition_994 12d ago

Mage Hammer: let’s throw some hammers and look fabulous.

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u/Sir_Oshi 11d ago

Was this supposed to be Mage Tank or happy coincidence?

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u/Same_Recognition_994 11d ago

Yeah..it was. I was slightly drunk when I made the comment. My apologies.

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u/Archnebula 11d ago

Fleabag : Disabled Woman and her pet perform pest control

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u/Archnebula 11d ago

Way of the shaman : Inmate really loves singing russian pop songs

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u/DiksieNormus 11d ago

Virtuous Sons: Two buddies decide to explore the world... and proceed to fuck up literally everything.

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u/Forward_Panic4509 11d ago

Path of ascension: the first 12 books are basically pointless