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Thecla's personality overpowers Basedverian until he realises that he always wanted to be a little girl. >She gets feminised by Dr. Talos, replaces Jolenta in the play and sucks Typhon off with such gusto the Monarch can't handle it after the chiliads of nofap. After bunch of further vulgar adventures, >she fails the test at Yesod, but at that point Missie Sevvie doesn't mind. Back on the dying Urth (hence renamed Uwurth), she dons a gown of rhodon, a colour pinker than pink, and runs the House Azure by all by herself.
I'm finishing up Gibbon's Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire and am thinking of picking up a somewhat long series, is Realm of the Elderlings any good?
>title page for Mage Errant 6 isn't centered embarrassing
>700 pages of filler and world hopping to set up the final book/battle
Give it to me straight, are Dune sequels worth reading? I liked Dune but I didnt love it. First half was better than the second, the fremen shit was obnoxious and gay
Villain isekai/transmigration novels are the pinnacle of civilization.
Sima Yi and Zhou Yu were better
I'm only on chapter 4 but that doesnt sound too surprising. Many such cases especially with the book intentionally split and extended from 6 to 7 books.
I literally skimmed/skipped Hugh and co chapters, and only really read Alustin pov chapters. By the time I reached the end I didn't get the sense that I missed anything important. If you're a worldbuilding junkie the 500 pages of filler is up your alley, but not mine.
I like the worldbuilding and the sense of comradery between the main cast but I'm already reading about a gay female dragon great power so the eyes have begun to roll.
Think this faggot's cinematic universe will be anything worthwhile? I'll read this quick because I find myself wanting to get back to Infinite Realm lol
>Books/Series has a thought out, well explained magic system with certain rules and limitations
>Too ADD to try and understand it or internalize it
>make an effort to understand or memorize it, ends up forgetting everything about it by the time the next book rolls around or the hiatus ends
Many such cases
I feel like I would have enjoyed the book more if I read the previous 5 a short while beforehand, might have not enjoyed it because I'm too burnt out from reading. A huge chunk of the plot was centered around the multiversal filler bullshit which I did not enjoy
I’m trying Malazan again. Wish me luck
Are you doing it with the reading guides/PowerPoints that some people made to make it easier? I'm not sure if I'll make it through Gardens of the Moon if I ever try Malazan
I do feel like rereading the last 10-15% of book 5 would have helped. I guess I'm curious to see how the multiverse stuff works since there hasnt been much mention of it so far. I don't care for multiverse itself since that is a dead horse in fantasy nowadays but at least the mentions and tidbits so far feel... properly paced? Not too much or too little Idk it's enough for me to be mildly curious. Not excited about waiting however long for book 7 though.
No, should I?
One reason I didn't like the multiversal shit is because it feels like it was ripped straight out of Cradle. You have space mongols and other dudes who go around razing planents and shit, and some multiversal organizations/cabals opposed to them, one of which the party is sure to join at the very end of the series. Also the main character party gets this super expansive power up that raises a lot of questions and seems abrupt to occur before the final book with little time for the characters to train their new powers in question.
I don't mind multiversal stuff if that's sort of the clear bent of the story early on, Cradle zooms out real early on and so there's no issue with multiversal stuff cropping up. Mage Errant meanwhile barely acknowledged other universes for a couple books and only outright talked about the crossovers between them about halfway through, and it's like "We've barely explored this one world why are we going multiversal".
What are some scifi books with cute girls?
actually good chinese lightnovels:
Mao Ni's books
Warlock Apprentice aka Super Dimensional Wizard
I think that's pretty much it
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Someone in the last thread mentioned how Dungeon Core genre is autism incarnate, and it's hard to disagree with that. The most popular DC that I know is 'Blue Core,' NSFW core story with tons of engineering and trying to exploit system and science in a very number crunchy way.
It's very similar to Base Building, but I hate Base Building with passion, especially in LitRPGs. If you want to make a story about a protagonist rising in power, then why the hell do you make me read about myriad of random schmucks who build things for you? This is a ridiculous, self-harming behaviour from writers. It's especially baffling when writers themselves don't appear to do base building but they do so nonetheless, like 'the Primal Hunter' or 'Defiance of the Fall.'
Strangely, cultivation novels don't appear to suffer from that, characters tend to act in Hunter&Gatherer mindset, I can't recall a single story in which protagonist founded a sect or a kingdom. Even in Infinity Realms one of the main characters merely took responsibility for one, and in Cradle Lindon's new sect was basically a footnote. And yet LitRPG wiriters keep pushing it on us.
actually actually good chinese webnovels
>lord of the mysteries
>release that witch
and maybe cultivation chatroom, but i never tried it myself.
Lindon's sect in Cradle is more incidental. Eithan just kinda makes it up on the spot because Eithan is like that. And it mostly serves the purpose of the moment of Lindon's sister's match-up being Little Blue.
I hate transmigration so much it's unreal, it can go rot in the same hell as Systems (especially those where MC is the only one with one or they talk back) and being reborn in the past. There's transmigration in Warlock Apprentice as well but just the MC's teacher.
was this shit an allegory to platos cave?
that's rather prejudiced, it's just another framework for a story, just like many others.
try LotM at least. it feels wholly unique imo.
Transmigration with systems!
And cultivation. And necromancy lmao
Why is it always necromancy, or other death-related powers? Is nobody just a guy who shoots fire anymore?
Hey frends. I am looking for any books that deal with savages, tribal, more primitive cultures, in a fantasy setting.
It doesn't have to be cave men, could be like early bronze or late neolithic type settings, or just savage people in who are on the fringes of a more civilized world, nomads. Could even by from the perspective of Orcs and other monster races in a high fantasy kind of setting it doesn't have to be humans.
Framework? More like skip button so you don't have to think about how to start your story or how to convey information
>oh he just got transmigrated from modern day Earth, imagine if the MC was you!
>now everything is new and can be fed to the reader with minimal effort!
thread's face when Infinite Realm's rpg system is literally called the Framework
>And cultivation. And necromancy lmao
I wish I knew one good story about necromancers. Only good necromantic content I know is TWI, and still only episodicaly. Where are all those necromantic novels?
Guys, give me some good Necromancy recommendations.
Gideon the Ninth
There’s barely any necromancy in Scum Villain, just Cucumber’s soul bouncing around bodies and the Holy Mausoleum zombie dungeon crawl.
Mo Dao Zu Shi. It’s Rule 63 Gideon the Ninth!
How violent and lewd is this series?
It is what inspired Malazan if thst gives you any indicators of content to expect.
What are you reading and/or what are you planning to read /sffg/?
I'm reading Street Cultivation right now. I'd expected some weird xianxia in modern seeting, instead I got American Capitalism with mystical powers. You guys know that movie with Eminem where he ends up going from poor to having a normal job and rising a bit in the social ladder? That's exactly what this is.
The Etched City. I'm surprised the broad never published anything again since it's one of the last fantasy books I ever liked.
Robert E Howard's works, specifically the Kull, Conan and Bran Mak Morn stories, also the Hyperboria stories by Clark Ashton Smith.
It's shit. The author is too much of a sister-con, and the fucking cellphone credit score(culti score) integration was horrid.
>It's shit. The author is too much of a sister-con, and the fucking cellphone credit score(culti score) integration was horrid
It's not amazing, but decent. But right now I'm at the part where the protagonist was thrown to the demon realm and a fucking succubus is whining to him that the economy is in shambles and her mother is badgering her to find a job. This alegory for cultivation capitalism was taken a bit too far, but boy it's entertaining at times.
I just thoroughly dislike the protagonist because he's quite possibly the most reactive character I've seen. He takes not a single step to do anything for himself, everything is him reacting.
You read book 2? I dropped the author and series after I finished book one.
I'm not some anime fag who find sister shit moe.
It's Ground Zero for Grimderp, but comes across quite tame when compared to today's super edgy Grimderp.
The Testament of Tall Eagle
What did people think of this? I mostly enjoyed it, though I was never quite sure if I was meant to sympathise with Tau or just sort of pity him as he slid down a shitty path. The world-building was a little lacklustre, and the proper noun overload got a bit much, especially with the names being Xhosa-esque and thus nigh-impossible to remember.
That's fair. I did find it a little odd how Tau's supposedly lacking in talent, yet after less than a year of training he's besting his teacher. And that's before he's doing the crazy "dying in the underworld to train even harder" thing. I can buy him besting some of the people he did beforehand with an unorthodox fighting style and an absurd training regimen, but that teacher made the damn regimen. The romance with him and Zuri was also very nothing. We have no idea why they really like each other, she likes him because ??? and he likes her because girl pretty. It's well-written, but it feels a little empty at times. Characters also seemed to flitter between reasonable and normal and "HOW DARE THIS SOLDIER BE EFFECTIVE AT COMBAT" and I get that's meant to show how fucked up their society is but it just feels forced.
Yeah, a lot of the discussion at the time was about similar issues to those. I copypasted my end of the discussion into the relevant thread in the Goodreads group. Looks like this one was of the few I copied into the thread as well. A few examples can be seen in this thread and probably the next few after this one.
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Finally getting around to reading The Book of the New Sun. I'm about 100 pages into Lake right now and I love it. I didn't read much about it before reading it so the change in style from New Sun caught me off guard a bit, but it's great.
Well I'm a retard, I'm reading Book of the LONG Sun, I've already read New Sun.
The person calling it YA feels funny because there's just a sex scene in it that feels really sudden and a little jarringly out of place, which almost feels like it's there just to not be YA.
Well, as far as I know, YA can have sex scenes without there being issues. That's part of being an young adult for a lot of people. Of course, it's just a marketing term as well. Most of the discussion was in the discord server at the time, though that isn't really the case any longer.
A popular example, which I haven't read, is that twilight has sex scenes, pregnancy, and childbirth. I don't know how common that is overall though.
Doesn't YA trend towards more "implied sex scenes" or broad strokes stuff? Rage of Dragons has an explicit, descriptive, albeit short one.
Is there such a thing as good /sffg/ erotica?
I feel sex scenes would be a lot more fun to read if the lewd involved some alien/fantasy creature
Almost all Sci-Fi/Fantasy erotica stuff is threadbare porn-plot stuff with passably-written sex scenes.
There HAS to be some good stuff out there
Or is most of it eaten up by fanfiction of specific IPs?
If there's anything good I haven't found it. The popular one for it seems to be Dante King and his stuff is passably okay from what I've read.