Every other week, I will be sitting down with the authors and audiobooks narrators that bring the litrpg, gamelit, and fantasy genre to life. We will be doing a deep dive into the inspirations for their stories, their introductions to the genre, and a little bit of eveything else.
Anthony wakes up as a giant ant and somehow that’s the start of one of the funniest monster-led LitRPGs around. We sit down with RinoZ to get specific about why Chrysalis works: the decision to keep Anthony fully monstrous, the joy of a globe-spanning dungeon that gets wilder the deeper you go, and ...
A brewer dies, wakes up as a dwarf, and finds out the most famous beer culture in the world is stuck drinking terrible “sacred” ale. He then decides to begin his quest to bring the dwarves better beer. The challenge ahead is that the dwarves that brew the "sacred" ale consider it sacrilege and will ...
The fastest way to understand Jay Krauss’s books is to hear how he thinks: character first, world second, and a writing process that feels closer to tabletop roleplay than careful outlining. We talk about Will of the Immortals, his cultivation LitRPG progression fantasy series where Leon Jeager, a 1...
A quarter life crisis turns into a dungeon crawl, and somehow the most confident member of the party is a banana slug. We sit down with Reck Well to talk about Stumbling Up: A Loser’s Guide to Progression, a LitRPG progression fantasy that leans into messy friendships, bad decisions, and the slow, a...
We kick off with The Four Treasures, a high fantasy LitRPG trilogy shaped by real Irish, Welsh, and Scottish lore. Then we downshift into Get Trucked, where the Bureau of Afterlife Dispatch are responsible for the people driving the trucks that isekai people into other worlds. To make the story more...