What about awaken online? Been awhile sense i read it but i remember great writing. If i recall correctly he was also a technical writer.

The intro is the worst part of the book.

Another good kind of litRPG is the Daniel Black series. Book one has some more adult theme parts so if you can't read that or get offended by it then i would skip the series. But i think over all on of my all time favorites.

I wouldn't classify the Black Coven series as litRPG - more fantasy based - similar to the Portals of Infinity series by John Van Stry - where a person from our world gets sucked into an alternative world / universe by a god (or some other 3rd party) to save that world......would also include works like Delvers LLC, and the Destiny's Crucible series by Olan Thorensen in this...

There is no concept of character leveling or quests in these works, which is what sets the litRPG genre apart from the standard fantasy stories

Finished the Awakened Online book - was ok, but I wouldn't put it in my Top 5 books / series in the litPRG genre

Maybe if we ask TAG very nicely - he could create a new category in the Forum for General (non-Astlan) related discussions - we could start a thread to list recommended books / series to read while waiting for the next installment of Astlan.

I'm a book-a-holic, read about a book a day....and finding it hard to find good books to read...

Started out reading High Fantasy about 30 years ago, have progressed through Military Sic-Fi & Urban Fantasy..

Only stumbled upon the LitRPG over the last couple of months when looking through Author discussions on Amazon for new books to read that where recommended by other readers.

1. Ascend Online by Luke Chmilenko
2. Realm of Arkon series by G. Akella
3. Chaos Seeds series by Aleron Kong
4. Mirror World series by Alexey Osadchuk
5. Number 5 is a toss up between "LitRPG: Play to Live" series by D. Rus or "The Selfless Hero Trilogy" by William D. Arand


As I mentioned, I've only just stumbled onto LitRPG in the last 6 - 8 weeks - so this is my Top 5 list so far....although I have read a lot of it in that time....some I just haven't been able to get into due to the poor translations from Russian.....others the start of the book turned me off and I didn't get any further into the book

Lol tizzy, so territorial :P

Yeah, in the first book there was a definite Tom+Jenn Vibe. Then that went completely out the window in book 2 where the Jenn+Gastrope ship was launched. I was kinda looking for a Tom+Tamarin thing in book 3, but that fell flat when Tamarin+Vaselle started up. I guess at this point the only thing I can still look forward to is Tom+whoever rupert's mother actually is. Or maybe Tom+Bess?

Yeah, well, not sure Lilith is a good idea, remember, Antefalken, "Tom's Bro" was dating her. And you know the Bro Code.

One of these days, Tom is going to have to sit Rupert down and tell the story of "How I met your mother."

Now of course, being a djinn, Tamarin's plan (as it is with most young djinn) is to experience all material sensations, and do so with her master. However, he has been, to date, otherwise occupied.

On the other hand, Vaselle is Tom's Warlock (familiar and Tom can possess him). I'm thinking maybe T-A-G can do a "Demons After Dark" or maybe "50 Shades of Red" and get really kinky in the spin off series.

Of course, I still want to see the spinoff where we get over the distraction of "Unlife" and get to the real "EVIL" ---SparklyLife! I want to see the Force of Doom engaged in all out Unholy War to eradicate all the SparklyLife, you know--sparkly vampires, fluffy werewolves and such.

They are an abomination before me! Ooops...getting a bit carried away...