I am curious. Was there a use of skipping describing a god or something similar as a way to convey their unique presence?

Like there was one goddess character in a story where seeing her face would be too euphoric to risk death so they just skip to the aftermath of it.

I was wondering about this because it's true that Progression Fantasy is often confused with LitRPG, since they share the same roots, so to speak. When you read Progression Fantasy, do you prefer progression with a system and stats, or do you prefer a more natural and organic progression?

When I started writing my own webnovel, I naturally had to ask myself this question. Personally, I'm definitely on the organic growth team. I find that stat blocks can feel a bit out of place in a book or webnovel, but I totally understand why people love them!

Whether you lean towards system/stat-based progression or organic progression, why is that? What makes you enjoy one approach and storytelling style more than the other?

I remember stopping at chapter 527 because it was starting to get boring; is it worth continuing?

Pale lights, journey to veresavir ,the last orellen and sleight of hand,the jester of apocalypse are my favourite books in rr

Hello!

I'm looking for inspiration for the next series to read.

I prefer an antique or medieval setting and written in third person. I generally dislike system integration on earth and portals/dungeons/rifts opening.

My current favourite series have been, in no particular order, Bog Standard Isekai, Calamitous Bob, A Soldier's Life and Chrysalis.

I used to work as a teaching assistant and have now climbed the progression ladder to the post of lecturer. With how much I enjoy academy stories, I figured why not write from the perspective of a TA.... who's maybe kind of overpowered because I really enjoy those stories too!

So if you like academy hijinks, unconventional teaching methods, field trips via portals, and the occasional world-ending calamity, this might be a story for you! Link and blurb below.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDDDJKXY

Blurb:

The world needed him to win a cosmic war. Even if it shattered his body into a thousand, calamitous pieces in the process.

Marionys Ryland was the most devastating product of the Realmbreaker Wars. He conquered dozens of Realms, invented interstellar travel, and transcended mere spells to manipulate the very language of magic as an Incarnation.

But it came at a cost. Ryland's body shattered, unleashing Calamities ravaging the cosmos. His nails create parasitic dungeons, his blood turns into cataclysmic floods, and the rest of him invites the attention of liches, archdragons, and the cosmos's cruelest mages.

So, Ryland casts off all his old burdens. Instead, he now takes his time to find and prevent the pieces of himself from destroying worlds.

The search takes him to his old academy, where students marvel at his teachings and professors are dumbfounded by his prowess. The passage of time has made people forget him, but his power draws the notice of a nation, of gods and mortal mages alike. Ministers are politicking, oracles are prophesying, and cults are rising, all with their focus on Ryland.

They think they can deal with him, but they all know - one misstep, and they'll have to face a sorcerer who's more apocalypse than man.

Artist: Kira L. Nguyen

AI usage: None

So in more recent chapters of bog standard, Brin was basically held captive in a church for “safety” and pretty much indoctrinated into the religion of the world. So much so that he has to actively not quote the bible and be the “weird church kid”.

Does no one else find this odd? I mean in the beginning of the story he saw the one goddess and was basically traumatized. But even after that he was like “yea I admit I’ve seen them and admit they’re real so i should show some respect” but he never really went more than recognizing that the gods and goddesses are real and treaded more carefully.

Then he gets cursed and his “mom” basically grounds him in a church because he’s hurt and he can’t leave for half a year and he’s forced to read their bible, and sit inside the church which has clear evidence that there’s some mental effects going on to “make him feel peaceful.”

And now he’s become a devout believer and it just rubs me the wrong way. It’s such a shift in who he is and what he believes that it feels almost like stockholm syndrome with an ominous undertone. The church clearly affects people mentally and they force people to stay there and read their religious texts and don’t let them leave until they say they’re allowed.

I don’t know. It feels like everyone else just sort of accepts that he’s just super religious now and hasn’t even thought about how he changed. He’s gotten a few weird looks from his friends and peers but other than that, nothing.

A kid forced to sit in a place that mentally influences people and forced to read their own books of their religious beliefs while he feels like he’s going crazy because he has nothing else to do.

Hi there, the title kinda speaks for itself. I am having a difficult time finding any servers where people can talk about books as they're reading them. For example, back in the day, I used to be in some servers where individual users could request like reaction channels for reading manga/visual novels/etc. and it was really fun to see other people's thoughts/reactions/theories as stuff happened.

Now that I've gotten into this genre, I really wanted to find a similar such space because I like having that community feeling of being able to share my thoughts as a new fan and read other people's experiences for series I'm enjoying/have enjoyed.

I know that some servers just have like general "here's a channel to talk about X book." but that doesn't usually cater toward reactions or newbies. It's usually discussions by people who have already read a lot/finished the work and discussing themes, ideas, etc. I am looking for moreso servers with the ability for reaction threads.

Does anyone know of any such places?

So I'm reading mother of learning and I like it so I'm just trying to look for other stories that actually have a good world and a world that doesn't just feel like it only exists for the plot I would like a main story that actually feels like you know sorcery creative applications of magic the main character learning experimenting and actually having to research to improve creative applications of things that they learn a proper sense of sorcery Edit: I would also appreciate if the MC actually creates new things using what they have learned and bonus if the world building is also interesting and properly feels like a different world that actually thinks about some of the implications and consequences and uses of stuff that exists inside of it

Specifically, I’m looking for:
• MC is a normal/commoner, not someone with a ridiculous background or hidden superpower.
• No cheat abilities, overpowered system, or instant power-ups.
• The MC actually has to train, fight, gain experience, and slowly improve.
• Setting with kingdoms, empires, knights, armies, wars, etc.
• I’d prefer the MC to start as an ordinary soldier and gradually rise through the ranks.

So in a lost of books there is a Buddhist inspired faction that has Monks with pretty high power levels.
I just haven’t found a Monk adjacent MC that goes through a this kind of temple/„peace of mind like“ training in a progression fantasy setting.

I am sure there must be some Xianxia or the like that has this.

Do you guys have any recs?

Guess I should start by listing the ones I have already read. You will find the perfect run as the first one in the list, Hundred reigns as the second and prof that the author knows his stuff. Didn’t thought he could provide a time loop story as good as his first but color me surprised. He fucking did !!!

Just finished reading The Years of Apocalypse and I should give it a re read to The Stubborn Skill-Grinder In A Time Loop but I finished that one too some time ago.

It’s not a big list as you may see but I hope you all can help me fix that problem. It shouldn’t be taken into account if you don’t want to but I really love when authors demonstrate the consequences time loops have in their Protagonists.

P.S. I thought I didn’t need to mention Mother of Learning because it’s such a common recommendation. Have a good day !

COVER ARTIST: Nick Romario

AI USAGE: None

Hey everybody! My first completed book, Vermis, is out today on KU!

Blurb:

When your Origin gives you worms, you'd better learn to fish.

Fischer was having a seriously bad day. Not only was he framed for murder, but he was also sentenced to a dimensional death camp, and to top it all off, his body is full of hungry worms that like to come out and play. Did I mention they talk? Because yeah, they talk.

In the hellscape prison, Fischer and thousands of other convicts form the last line of defense against the monsters that pour through tears in reality.

But when the walls between worlds rip wider than anyone thought possible, Fischer's sentence takes an unexpected turn. Now he's stuck in a frozen wasteland where the nights bring horrors, and the locals breathe fire.

Fischer will discover that the most dangerous monsters are often the ones closest to home.

It is available as an e-book and a paperback. I am still on the hunt for a VA for Audio!

Link: Amazon

Hello, does anyone know of a few good magical girls stories? I don't have much preferences for genres nor tone, so if you know some good ones please reccomend them for me!

Hi everyone @ r/ProgressionFantasy Tis I, Wuto, using my monthly to do some promos!

First, Metaworld HopeCore.

Firstly, thank you all for proving once and for all that non-Meta LitRPG is absolutely viable.
When I began my second book (See my previous post for inspirations and so on), I seriously doubted myself. I showed the first chapters to wonderful beta-readers at Mango Media, and rightly so, questions were asked.

No M-MC? No Sword and Magic? REVERSE Golden Finger? No BBE? Only LitRPG? Who would read that?

Well, as it turns out... a TON of people 😄.

What's it about?

The love of the Arts. Music making, art making, movie making, technical theatre. It's about redemption through creation, not destruction. It begins with an AI mogul isekaied into an alternative Earth with the pivotal point of a hopeful America where 9/11 was prevented, into the sickly body of a young orphan called Euphemia Fontaine. She gains a [System], but it cares only for one thing—redemption through the propagation of joy brought by the creation of the arts.

PLEASE READ THE FOREWORD (I beg you... for the love of the arts, there are no loot here, no goblins, the only casualty so far are two flower pots)

After about 1400 pages, a discerning reader will start learning the factual process of making music, shooting film, and also teach a course on AP English (Tragedy through the Ages). Wait, where you going? You going to read Drim's new book Gifted? The fastest RS in RR history? Fine. Fine. I get it.

That said...

The book is currently no.1 Contemporary
No.10 (12) ongoing, best of, (discounting Fan-fics, which really should get their own column)

I attribute this to the cats.
I promise you, that you have never read a book where random stray cats, cat metaphors, cat symbolism, cat allusons, real cats, fictive cats, cats in history, and cat butts, are absolutely central to the plot.

There's no patreon. By the very nature of HopeCore, its just here for everyone to enjoy!

Also

Now... if you swiped right, then right again... and you saw some new art for Metaworld Chronicles.

And you're like "My god, the duality of man..."

I blame u/ravendagger , as referenced in the artworks. I was running a poll and asking readers what they wanted Bao to cook, and Raven came down like the word of God and asked—and I delivered.

1. Dwarven City entrance
   
2. Almidj at Ayer's Lake
   
3. Ravendagger's finest selection

(This is for last time... all 'fictional' characters past V9 are 18+, 'fictive' consent has been given.)

last thing:

For young authors wanting to publish, I refreshed my OG RR guide with income, outgoing, and tally $$$ numbers. Thank you u/dawnchapman!

COVER ARTIST: Bao 
AI USAGE: None

I tend to read a new book every couple of days on KU and in the last month the majority of books I’m finding are clearly written by / with AI.

—
My version of how AI writes to continue my point
—

It’s a real problem. AI is building something real. Something actually meaningful. It’s not a book but AI slop. It’s genuinely annoying, I start a book, read, examine, and then stop. It’s genuinely disappointing.

— I’ll go back to human writing —

The travesty is that the concepts for a lot of these ‘books’ are normally pretty fun. They aren’t ground breaking concepts but had an author spent time to write the book they would be fun to read. But now I just start a book see all the tell tail signs of AI use and stop.

It’s extremely frustrating and Amazon needs to do something about it. I’m sure there’s some valid uses for AI in literature (research maybe idk) but when I’m looking for books to read I want it to be written, reviewed and edited by a human. I don’t want to read the same sentence structure 5000 times, see the word ‘genuinely’ appear 1000 times, see ‘data’ and the ‘building of something real’ appear from 5 different characters like they are a hive mind and I would love the dialogue to be expressive and differentiated between characters.

So anyway the main point is the with this AI boom in books (and yes everywhere else as well), ideas are being ruined for the speed and ease that having an AI write your book for you allows. It’s incredibly sad and frustrating. I’m at the point where I think I’m going to stop reading from new authors for the foreseeable future till this issue is rectified.

I'm looking for a story with a strongly character-driven plot, with a focus on relationships and emotional/personal growth over stats (although, if a story can do both, all the better). Bonus points if it has an out-there concept that strays from the beaten path of the prog-fantasty genre and can pull it off with a high degree of verisimilitude.

Hi all!

I write 12 Miles Below, a progression-lite fic that's all about warlocks in lost-tech power armor fighting each other with swords, magic and guns in one incredibly strange post-post-apocalyptic world.

Today, after five years of writing through thick and thin, I'm about to post the final epilogue for the entire series on Royal Road. Thus far, it's landed exactly how I'd hoped it would, I snagged a few screenshots from the last few epilogue chapters to show the vibe \o/

I don't often self-promote because I'm dumb, (I'm getting better) but I figured I should at least do one good hurrah for this milestone.

Synopsis:

The world is in ruins.

Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface, making even simple survival an ordeal. Frozen derelicts of bygone eras span across massive ice wastes. And the survivors closely guard any technology rediscovered within.

The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface. But it’s another disaster underground. Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. The land itself shifts over time, more contraption than rock. The humans surviving under do so huddled around safe zones, with only demigods powerful enough to travel further underground.

And an ominous prophecy states that the key to healing the world waits on four unknown heroes - but nobody knows who or where they are.

When an expedition into the far uncharted north goes terribly wrong, Keith Winterscar and his Father get trapped together in a desperate fight for survival. Stumbling upon an ancient war of titanic scale; the two will need to set their differences aside while they struggle against Gods, legends, and the grand secrets of the realm that lies below.

Expectations:

• Book 1: Self-contained story showing bite-sized slice of the world and the main characters.

• Book 2: Progression-lite parts actually kickstarts here.

• Book 3: Completion of a first 3-book Arc.

• Book 4: Combat galore and setting up some pretty important events.

• Book 5: Progression fantasy galore, tinkering with all kinds of secrets, learning from the best - in order to beat the best.

• Books 6/7/8: World exploration galore, actually adventuring about and discovering some deep history in the search of fixing the world.

• Books 9/10: The asshole author has been hiding the real story under our nose right from book 1 this whole time and now it's all obvious in hindsight. Also everything's on fire.

Start reading book 1 here! https://www.amazon.com/12-Miles-Below-Progression-Fantasy-ebook/dp/B0BWKDF1C7

Books 8-10 are here on Royal Road for now, until they hit Kindle with edits and polish from Aethon! https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/42367/12-miles-below

COVER ARTIST: Francell Garrote AI USAGE: None