You forgot the most important part of having a Monster Protagonist: Giving your protagonist a new human body a quarter of the way through the series.

@creeperizak8971

6 ай бұрын

And then spending a considerable amount of time constantly reminding the reader that the character is a monster despite them spending almost all of their time in said human body.

@plumfadoodle4908

6 ай бұрын

I really hate that, or even a character just becoming bipedal and more human like when they weren't initially. It really takes out what made the concept unique. The Monster LitRPG's on Royalroad I've read have tended to not do this.

@chimaeraarts

6 ай бұрын

Kinda sick of it. Just have a main character who just happens to be a burly monsters who isnt cursed to be that way

@ironcladking3427

6 ай бұрын

smg4 moment

@mesotolioma5089

6 ай бұрын

>I'm in another world as a monster >Turns into a human and never goes back >I'm in another world and I'm the weakest >Gains an OP ability and is now the strongest (or were always the strongest from the beginning, people just underestimated them)

When confronted with a list of options, the protagonist must pitch a temper tantrum and get a secret power. Otherwise the reader might get *bored* watching them actually think.

@ribbonquest

6 ай бұрын

Always choose the option that unlocks the Edgelord class.

@Xiao457

6 ай бұрын

Gotta say, I mostly read Female MCs, but none do it as well as Salvos; it's interesting rather than a temper tantrum! I really like how the options are weighed and honestly, sometimes it's hard to guess what she's picking which is just great in my opinion since 99% of the time the selections are predictable, I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a silly female MC that is fun to read!

@MusicoftheDamned

6 ай бұрын

​@@ribbonquest "Unlocks"? You're clearly doing it wrong if the Edgelord class isn't the default class for your main character. Have isekai taught you nothing? /s

@ribbonquest

6 ай бұрын

Earlier this year I read one about a sea turtle whose first evolution was a choice between light, dark, and VOID. There is always room for more edgelord.@@MusicoftheDamned

@jackhazardous4008

6 ай бұрын

I want them to choose an option and lose hard later because of it's downsides

Some twenty years ago a classmate in my creative writing class wrote a story set in an RPG world. It had all the hallmarks of your standard isekai: a bland protagonist with OP stats, magic high school, female characters fawning over protag-kun. It was terrible and I clowned him for it. I never thought he was actually a pioneer of the genre

@hungrymusicwolf

6 ай бұрын

Many a teenager back in the 2000s and 2010s were pioneers of this genre that's for sure. Hormones + video games + anime would certainly guarantee that fact.

@GarkKahn

6 ай бұрын

It lacked copycat a mainstream character It was fucking everywhere during the early 2010s You just needed to change hair color in order to get the most original character of the decade

@scragar

6 ай бұрын

It's been a fanfic trope for a long time. People love how strong a shonen-style character is by the end of a series with constant power creep; and then write stories not realising it ruins in the attraction of a story if there's no challenge for the MC. Also Peggy Sues, utterly perfect self inserts because when people imagine themselves in the story they wouldn't make mistakes or have difficulty like everyone else did. I don't think we could ever find who invented the idea, it's likely to have been a thing since early storytelling, just not written down in a way we can see today.

@DemoniumKen

6 ай бұрын

there was a guy in my class 6 years ago.more specifically, he’s my BFF. He wrote a litRPG and it’s really good. The MC is an “anti-god” (kind of god that kills other gods to strengthen), he reincarnated with his friends into a world created by a guy named A (the strongest guy in the friend group) world during an accident. Because A enjoy seeing their power getting nerfed so he doesn’t release them( the world itself is a jail that greatly nerf the power of gods that fallen in it which make them unable to escape without beating the lessen version of A in the world to gain the wish to escape). the MC and his friends actually enjoy living in the world since as Anti-gods, they barely have anything to do and it’s boring but until a random day, A just cause power outage to troll the MC making him mad and he go on the journey with his friends to escape the world and beat A ass up in their god form (in the after story, I learned that they’re unable to beat A after escaping the world). The thing that make it good is the stats actually make sense, no over power abilities or items (the only OP thing is the “2 deaths, 1 win” strategy which was used in one chapter, the strat is to let the sword man guy use counter ability of the true drifter’s katana then let the mage who’s wearing a voodoo necklace use sacrifice ability which do infinite damage to an ally (here is the swordman) the swordman will die (he will get respawn after that) and the same time do a infinite damage sword hit at the mage, the mage will die but will reflect the infinite damage at all enemies in the fight and kill them all. they can’t do that again after the chapter because A patched it by removing the counter’s friendly fire in that chapter). The characters actually have to use multiple abilities in one fight, die and lose multiple times before actually win and abuse a strategy multiple time because it works. The enemies are smart, they don’t underestimate their foes and do really good teamwork, sometimes they even become emotionally, think of master’s words, get the power of friendships or the urge to protect loved ones then full heal, strengthen and then destroy the MC’s team, example: Lux Salvatoris, the hero of all lights which was commanded by the light emperor to stop the MC’s team from wreaking havoc the overworld (yes, the MC’s team were bad guys who do everything to escape the world) Lux was beaten after a long fight but he can’t let that happen so he becomes one with the light (die slowly and explode when died) and eradicate everyone in the team when they’re not ready. there’re a lot more unique things, Lores, mechanics, plots, ect. that I didn’t talk about but those were things that impressed me the most. My friend still writes and send chapters to me up till now (it’s bout to end) he says he may publish it if he feels like it’s good enough.

@DemoniumKen

6 ай бұрын

Oh, forgot to mention a thing that his light novel (or not light as it’s long af, I didn’t ask him if it’s a novel or light novel). It have a lot of fan service… it’s not what you think, it’s brutal violence like the MC slamming a girl’s head who’s trying to charm him at the table rapidly until she die in a bar ( it’s completely fine since 20% of the death in the bar is caused by other causes other than the shotgun roulette game). Any type of those “filthiest love” in his words, he deal with them by making the MC and some of his teammates violence toward things like that. Oh yeah, he also make me draw all the important female characters have the body of a skinny man, all those who have an attractive body usually die like every other unimportant characters(literally flat= strong plot armor)… I love that!!! (apparently he’s into girls like that, no wonder why)

As a Webtoons reader, this is like 99% of the comics in the Action and Fantasy category.

@captaincanterberrystudios6920

6 ай бұрын

It drove me away from numerous webtoons.

@Urekyu

6 ай бұрын

Read Omniscient Reader it's actually good.

@NeonGlowMan

6 ай бұрын

Pick Me Up (Infinite Gacha) is good too. From the same studio as ORV

@justaperson8381

6 ай бұрын

Most of the litrpg webtoons are just pure wish fulfilment which is boring asf. Main character is the most op thing in existence and beats everyone up for 300 chapters. Also everyone is attracted to them.

@konstantin3001

6 ай бұрын

May I suggest Eleceed? Or The Greatest Estate Developer, for a less combat-oriented story?..

LitRPG is _especially_ painful in audiobook form because the narrator reads the character sheet every time it shows up in the book.

@manidavis4126

6 ай бұрын

So what I'm a spider does that too.

@lemo8986

6 ай бұрын

completionist chronicles 😔

@antoniogaravo9289

6 ай бұрын

@@manidavis4126 i mean kinda like that one but dear god those F U C K I N G S T A T P A G E S

@lugiae

6 ай бұрын

I think I remember reading that one's mandated by the publisher. Which doesn't make it any easier to sit through, but they're not allowed to go off-script.

@voteDC

6 ай бұрын

@@lugiae It's more often because of Amazon. They like to have Wjispersync where you can swap between the ebook and the audio where you last left off. If they cut the stat pages then the book and audio wouldn't match.

I love how the actual SAO explanation for why the guy trapped everyone there was so bad that even JP couldn't commit to it and sprinkled in a reference to the abridged parody.

@g.f.martianshipyards9328

6 ай бұрын

Now I'm interested, what was the actual explanation?

@ZephSpiral

6 ай бұрын

​@@g.f.martianshipyards9328 that's the funny part, there's none.

@ALX112358

6 ай бұрын

​@@g.f.martianshipyards9328it was "I already forgot why I did that" or something similar

@hakairyu1

6 ай бұрын

@@g.f.martianshipyards9328The actual explanation really was “it’s been so long I don’t even remember.” The abridged went for extremely tight publisher deadlines which also made the designer stay awake for 500 hours straight, in which state what he did made perfect sense to him, and then he was just in too deep not to commit to the character.

@Xokoy

6 ай бұрын

​@@hakairyu1Exactly. They even poked fun of the original ending by having him originally say the same thing only for it to turn out to be a joke when the characters rightfully complained about how bad that was, then he piled on to that before giving a much better explanation which JP referenced of Metacritic roasting his pride and joy, he tried to get an extension but since his publisher was Bethesda, they didn't accept bugs as a reason to postpone the game further so he spent several days straight working on the game, and in his sleep deprived mind, thought that doubling down and holding the players hostage until he figured a way out was the best course of action. But yeah, in the original it was literally "I don't remember anymore", and that kind of fruit is already 6 feet underground and poking at fruit that low hanging isn't really all that funny to be honest. Especially since the parody did it far better than you ever could.

"My Build Was Too OP So the Devs Nerfed It" HAS to be a light novel.

@curiouslymirroring

6 ай бұрын

i can name you SEVERAL where this happens

@floricel_112

6 ай бұрын

I'm sorry, did you mean "I don't wanna get hurt, so I'll max out my defense"? For the record, it's actually real and word for word the title of the series

@windstormugly

4 ай бұрын

And its hilariously entertaining

@MetheusBatanir

3 ай бұрын

@@floricel_112 you wrote about Maple before I did

@Karak-_-

2 ай бұрын

​@@floricel_112 I've heard something about the story and that counfounded me the most. Why didn't the devs just nerfed her.

I remember my mom disdainfully describing Harlequin romance novels and the people who obsessively consume them like candy, and litRPG has struck me as the male nerd version of that.

@seifer447

6 ай бұрын

Hahaha thats amazing and sounds accurate.

@RagnellAvalon

6 ай бұрын

There's a huge female audience for it too

@TheBlakia

6 ай бұрын

Ahhh my favorite Genre. A few really amazing books out there in that genre and a lot trash that does every single cliché.

@SlapstickGenius23

6 ай бұрын

Most Harlequin romance novels are just huffing trash or fluffy little pieces of shit, but they weren’t as extremely terrible as they are now.

@some0one0unimportant

6 ай бұрын

​. And there is a huge gay audience for the harlequin romance novels, what of it?

What I find worse than "this person is the only one to discover this strat/that this skill is actually OP!" Is when the protagonist bumbles their way into a busted build by sheer accident. Because there's nothing more satisfying in a genre that's purportedly about strategy than watching someone brainlessly fail upwards through dumb luck! Edit: Yes obviously comedic stories are an exception to this

@starburst98

6 ай бұрын

Even worse is when they take the skills that everyone says are weak but the combo makes them super duper strong. Like one where the guy takes Stealth and Archery. Both of those skills supposedly suck in that story but they become busted when used together. Meanwhile, in the real world everyone knows stealth archer is a busted build and every single build would have been tried in days after the game came out with entire guilds formed around the idea of testing different builds to find esoteric super combos.

@mrszmatan2727

6 ай бұрын

@@starburst98 yeah especially that those combos always are so obvious. Like i'm sorry, but you need to be literal monkey to not realize that skill which gives you permanently increasing HP and skill that deals increased DMG the more HP you have, is obvious combo.

@zaingamingtv2242

6 ай бұрын

​@@starburst98irl people would go shitty classes just cuz they feel like it or are bored XD

@gunslingergirl2579

6 ай бұрын

Ah, yes, the "Oh noes! I tripped and accidentally grabbed Cleric boobies!" character build.

@chee.rah.monurB

6 ай бұрын

Like putting all of your points into defense.

I would unironically love if a book I was enjoying had a sex scene in it, and the whole thing was described with the word "Boobies" just copy pasted over and over again for a page and a half. Then the story just gets back on track like nothing happened.

@unicorntomboy9736

6 ай бұрын

I prefer to go for the method of purple prose lovemaking The book I am working on is going to include one prominent lovemaking scene

@lordbuss

6 ай бұрын

One web novel i read had sections with the dating characters discussing NSFW things in spoilers. Which i read, but good that there was an option to avoid. Then there was one sex scene between them, supposedly the most important one. Inside a spoiler. When you open the spoiler, this is just a line saying "and then they fucked".

@DragonRiderShiru

3 ай бұрын

​@@lordbuss thats honestly hilarious

Reminds me of in SAO's Gun Gale Online where the sniper girl to my knowledge is literally the ONLY sniper in the game. Like, are you telling me that in this massive online competitive shooting game NO ONE has ever tried to be a sniper before especially when they have such massive buffs, even tethering on GAMEBREAKING such as the first shot ability. Realistically, there would be SWARMS of players roofcamping every single surface of the map.

@Sorain1

6 ай бұрын

Given how advantageous that ability is, it'd be on every 'pvp viable' build out there. Heck, why isn't she using an AoE weapon with it like a grenade launcher? Doesn't matter if your trying to be a pistol toting gunslinger, a regular rifle soldier or a sniper, not having prediction line on first shot is an ability that just begs the question 'why would that not be in every build?'

@Bustermachine

6 ай бұрын

So this is untrue. Sinon isn't the only sniper in GGO. Nor is such ever suggested. She is an extremely good sniper with an extremely high spec sniper rifle that makes her services highly saught after as a merc. But snipers and designated marksman are pretty common. Especially in the AGGO spinoff where, just off the top of my head four or five named characters are fitted out for long range engagements. Heck, Pitohui pulls out a Barret .50 cal and bifurcates a couple poor saps at half a mile during the second Squad Jam.

@Bustermachine

6 ай бұрын

@@Sorain1 Part of it is that high end, exotic, and support weapons seems to be legit extremely rare in GGO by design. You either get really lucky. Grind really hard. Or shell out a lot of real world money. In the Gun Gale Alternative novels and anime one of the characters, Fukaziroh, is in fact a grenadier and specializes in lobbing her 40mm grenades as pocket artillery for her squad.

@mrdasgehtsienichtsan2020

Ай бұрын

Thats what got you? You cant even imagine the rage i felt when kirito was like "lmao i can port my OP stats from SAO and block bullets with my sword" in a GUN GAME I feel the anger swelling again

There are female-centric harems. They are just usually different, and often just love triangles like Twilight.

@pallingtontheshrike6374

6 ай бұрын

the only really good harem is apothecary diaries, where we get to see one in a semi-historical setting

@braindavidgilbert3147

6 ай бұрын

There is also villainess isekai, which is a really good female harem

@dragonturtle2703

6 ай бұрын

@@pallingtontheshrike6374Never said what I mentioned was good. Not really sure how to judge that. Just pointing out that it wasn't just a guy thing.

@goldenfiberwheat238

6 ай бұрын

There’s a Netflix series based off a wattpad fanfic called my life with the Walton boys where a girl’s entire family dies and in her moms will she says she wants her to live with her friends family and for whatever reason they have like 10 kids, all boys

@jasminv8653

6 ай бұрын

A love triangle is not a harem.

I’m getting worried, TWA where are you?

@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993

23 күн бұрын

Agree

@Delmworks

9 күн бұрын

He finally got isekaied

@AidanDaGreat

3 күн бұрын

D E P R E S S I O N

He overlooked the Part Betrayal, where the MC is in a party at the start, and is often abandoned and/or betrayed with their lover stolen by their main rival in the party. This normally causes the MC to strike out on their own and discover their hidden ability. Sometimes the ability has a downside that made them seem week, thus causing the abandonment/ betrayal.

@danielramsey6141

6 ай бұрын

Oh No! And then they Find out that their Suppose Former Love interest is also the One that Started this Betrayal Plan! All for very Shallow and Vague reasons!

@leileyaravencroft

6 ай бұрын

There is a messed up Manga that covers this. It is TRULY twisted on another level. But it wasn't so much just his rival, the entire party decided to use him, arrest him on trumped up crimes, then execute him through torture. He was resurrected by a goddess and given OP powers. If I recall correctly, the explanation was he sold his soul and every single person who betrayed him. He destroyed everyone, last chapter I read, destroyed the Devil and now is going to heaven to wage war on the Gods for allowing corruption to run rampant. I can't recall the exact title but remember I am warning you, it is REALLY messed up

@chee.rah.monurB

6 ай бұрын

I've only seen it (intentinally) done ONCE,and it's Royal Road's The Heart Grows. With Arifueta,the MC fell in a hole & was presumed dead,noone actually betrayed him.

@boobah5643

6 ай бұрын

@@chee.rah.monurB _Shield Hero_ comes to mind, with the caveats that the original party never quite forms and it's the (potential) lover that abandons and betrays him .

@minhkhangtran6948

6 ай бұрын

It's like a popular subgenre recently with how much I read about it, though mostly it's on generic guilty read I pour through just because I like to feel good one day.

I wonder if his next video is going to be about hiatuses

the funny thing is one of the guys IRL who has a reputation as one of the best swordsmen (Musashi) has a LOT of stories where him being the best translates to "I caught them unawares and/or unprepared and I was smart enough to stay away from anything that sounded like an attempt to ambush me". So apparently Swordsman is a class governed by the Ambush and Stealth skills and Wisdom as a stat, and the higher levels are locked behind Chaotic Evil.

@DeltafangEX

6 ай бұрын

As expected of the master oarsman

@notproductiveproductions3504

6 ай бұрын

The man was left handed, that’s the REAL reason

@marocat4749

6 ай бұрын

Not only, he was aüpearently really that good, but he also was cunning and was known for barely legal tricks like unnerving opponents by coming too late.

@battlesheep2552

6 ай бұрын

Well in life there is no respawn, so the only way to be the best is to not die

@antoniogaravo9289

6 ай бұрын

"miyamoto musashi, AKA the progenitor of being a hack" - sasaki kojiro

As a LitRPG author, I've been dreading/looking forward to this video for years. Thanks for skewering the genre without skewering me. Couple stabs came close, but I'm feeling mostly intact.

@Akira-ss6cm

6 ай бұрын

I see someone remembered to wear their plot armor for this video!

@bug5654

6 ай бұрын

Looks like he got him in the spine, cut the nerve's pain response clean out! Good hit, JP!

@deanospimoniful

6 ай бұрын

Criticism can be used towards the improvement of your craft. No reason to be afraid.

@Xiao457

6 ай бұрын

I'm an avid reader. Some of them were quite accurate! I really agree with the point about harems, it feels like every male MC I've ever read goes that route which is why I try to avoid them and stick to female lead LitRPGs. So far my favorite is Salvos, but Amelia the Level Zero Hero is a close second. They feel fresh

@supernatsu1191

6 ай бұрын

I was just taking a read through the comments and I'm happy to see Salvos mentioned! It's so good. I also really enjoy Awaken Online, that's a fun one too. ​@@Xiao457

"Life in a dysfunctional RPG" would be a trip! Having an "In-Universe perspective" of a poorly planned/optimized game as the developer(s) try to make the thing work.

@cwovictor3281

6 ай бұрын

Imagine being a scientist trying to figure out the world but then God drops a patch note that changes the mass of proton.

@marocat4749

6 ай бұрын

Its not a bad idea, if protag kun gets the short stick , ot at least has really broken useless things as hurdle that are very badly balanced, against him. And are real and have personality could be fun. Everyone loves an underdog.

@kaleeshsynth9994

6 ай бұрын

Protagonist kun gets transported in some newbie's RPG maker project

@Delmworks

6 ай бұрын

Look into "the Magic Circle" It's a video game proper, but it still fits the theme of seeing a bug-ridden mess from inside the mess

@mr.cup6yearsago211

6 ай бұрын

SAO Abridged did this. A lot of the comedy is derived from its version of SAO being just fundamentally broken in so many different ways. They even made the developers’ motivation for making it a death game be explicitly that he knew it was too buggy for a proper release and he wanted to delay the inevitable critical backlash.

I keep using this channel as an excuse to not write because i'm "learning useful stuff for when I actually write"

@psy-fi64

2 ай бұрын

*in J.P. voice* "I'm just studying for when I do write my book! Soon! Eventually! At some point..! When I get around to it..."

@finaldusk1821

2 ай бұрын

Well the channel appears to be on an abrupt hiatus right now, so you're excuse may have finally run out.

@gointomexico

2 ай бұрын

Yea, where'd he go? Hope he's ok.

Litrpg is such an underrated story idea because its almost always done in a really bad way. Rpg elements in a world would drastically shift the method and means of a given nation to consolidate power, the meaning and process of accrument of wealth, and the societal structures of its inhabitants. How would rpg power logically effect commerce? Social heirachy and interaction? Political, ethnic, and gender conflict?

@williamdrum9899

6 ай бұрын

Now I'm just picturing Wall Street botting Mercantile to 9999 through money laundering

@Arctic7985

6 ай бұрын

@@williamdrum9899 Wall Street is so rich because they pay people to camp all the best spots to farm gold from monsters

@Br1cht

6 ай бұрын

@@williamdrum9899Yeah… depressing 😢

@SangerZonvolt

6 ай бұрын

I would recommend "I am a spider, so what?". It´s a light novel, a manga and an anime. Though the later is not a good adaption at least on the human part of the story since that seems to be done by a different studio than the spider parts. But it does it quite well.

@realdragon

6 ай бұрын

I started reading Salvos which is litrpg about demon in hell. I found it quite interesting but author had to take interesting setting and throw it away because that demon got transported into typical fantasy Earth and most of the story is "Let's go grinding" literally. I read quite far but eventually stopped because author was pushing goal further and further away "We need to kill this thing" "We killed this thing but turns out we need to find item" "We found item but turns out we can't use it, we need to get lvl 100" "We got level 100 but turns out we need lvl 100 specialization"

It's been a while JP, much longer than the usual wait. I'm not sure if everything's okay on your end but I wish you all the best, whatever may or may not be happening (and a happy April Fool's day to you, not a joke for once).

Even addictions past masturbation would be more compelling. An OP anime protagonist who can't help but gamble at every opportunity sounds like somewhat fertile ground.

@oculttheexegaming2509

6 ай бұрын

Kakegurui in a nutshell.

@Reydriel

6 ай бұрын

@@oculttheexegaming2509 Kakegurui is more part of the thriller/death game genre tho

@thaylelee-logg7938

6 ай бұрын

The korean light novel Second Coming Of Gluttony has this as the protagonist's core flaw, especially apparent in later arcs. Seol is a washed-up gambler and initially unrepentant grifter. When introduced to a deathgame LitRPG world, he starts gambling his own life and the lives of those around him - to initial success and then eventual horrible consequences. Pretty much the only regressor-type story I've enjoyed as a person who hates overpowered protagonists. His only major starting advantage is an emotional wake-up call from his future self and a few spots of foreknowledge. Just don't read the manhwa. They butchered it by cutting a majority of the clever foreshadowing and struggling. honestly kind of impressive that they turned such a well-plotted story into just another power fantasy lmao

@olafgurke4699

6 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the webtoon Hardcore Levelling Warrior. One of his strongest skills was his constant gambling, and making use of even the worse results.

@Pleiades_Erret

3 ай бұрын

​@@olafgurke4699Oh you also read it? The earth game is out as well.

Once more, the cosmic, all knowing, all mighty, romantic tringular writer decends from the heavens to share a mere *droplet* of his knowledge to us _l o w l y_ pencil scribblers.

@seafoam6119

6 ай бұрын

i n s i g h t g a i n e d

I like how in Konosuba they make fun of the consequences of reality working off of video game rules, like having a magic school that doesnt actually teach magic since you aquire spells by spending skill points.

@marocat4749

6 ай бұрын

I love that , also kazuma has to use his game exploiding skills and tricks to make use of his overpowered but kinda useless and hopeless party . Who also are all friends.

@stm7810

6 ай бұрын

Also it doesn't have hitpoints! a level 40 person still breaks their neck and dies as easy as at level 1.

@floricel_112

6 ай бұрын

​@@stm7810that's because fall damage works off percentage rather than set value Edit: joke

@stm7810

6 ай бұрын

@@floricel_112 nah it seems to be very consistant about humans having organic bodies that obey physics, the shittiest cantrips can still cause great pain if used right, alcohol works off body mass, you don't just become more resistant to it through some poison resist and later on in the story ideas from his world are very effective.

It's been 4 months I hope nothing is going wrong. Really missed your videos.

@cardescomedioses3674

2 ай бұрын

Same, i got worried on if he is ok, jp is a beacon of light in this trying times

@danielramsey6141

2 ай бұрын

It takes time to animate and find new topics.

@oddtomato1049

Ай бұрын

@@danielramsey6141 It's all Greed's fault, he hadn't first increased the animation budget.

@cardescomedioses3674

Ай бұрын

@@oddtomato1049 damn you greed, such a hateable well written villain

@AidanDaGreat

3 күн бұрын

@oddtomato1049 hey do you like Kirby

Is nobody else concerned that JP hasn't posted in months when he's been on a pretty consistent 1 video a month streak for more than a year?

@milicadiy

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I noticed that too. I wonder what's up.

@Superkid33

Ай бұрын

Same D: I’ve noticed

@AidanDaGreat

3 күн бұрын

Depression strikes again, I guess.

@veggsbacon1891

2 күн бұрын

He could have some things to deal with. Job, family, moving, maybe health. Idk, I'm just throwing pasta. I really hope he's doing fine.

An issue that hurts litrpgs is that on sites like Royal Road there are many commenters that want the protagonist to be a gary sue who always wins and always makes the 110% most optimal choice. If the protagonist messes up in any way they go. "WHY THE FUCK WOULD I WANT TO READ ABOUT AN IDOIT!!?? YOU ARE A HACK AUTHOR!" Not to mention if the protagonist doesn't turn into a violent murder hobo because someone was slightly rude to them they go. "AGH WHAT A DOOR MAT SOI BOY!"

@FrostHollow

6 ай бұрын

So true, I see far far to many comments on anime episodes about weak protaganists who actually lose fights and don't just win everything. People are used to OP protaganists who never work for anything so when a good writer makes a character earn their strenght people don't understand it and assume the character is just weak and badly written.

@Some_Guy_In_Ohio

6 ай бұрын

It's my experience the story is better off once they inevitably move on. At least on the site I use (Fiction Live), there's always a new power fantasy where the author will get sick of writing before it even reaches the 6-hour-read mark, so I just let them move on to another shiny thing while I move on with the story. The version on this site however is that the majority of the stories use "Best of 3" rolling - where the GM//QM allows the players to roll and then takes the best of the first three people to roll. This obviouslly means it is rarely a matter of IF the character succeeds than how well. I tried sticking to one roll for a while, but it adds enough audience participation whent he story is live that I've instead started leaving the roll box open and then using ALL the results for upcoming rolls. I've found the splits the difference between audience engagement and "no really, you can fail" as best as feasible.

@heitorpedrodegodoi5646

6 ай бұрын

I have seen much of the second latter.

@1IGG

6 ай бұрын

Maybe keep away from children?

@carsineceremony

6 ай бұрын

@@FrostHollow(cough) re:zero (cough)

Fear of patching would be a hilarious explanation for why people don’t use exploits, and a funny power limiter

@stm7810

6 ай бұрын

Bofuri does this. though in other settings it's only coincidence that things map to numbers, after all technically they do here like force mass, comfortable pH range, accuracy and speed with various weapons etc. we just don't write them down.

@Bustermachine

6 ай бұрын

@@stm7810 Tbf in Bofuri the devs do nerf Maple. But they also actually WANT their game to be CONDITIONALLY broken, where strong players haave the opportunity to run into a situation where there power set will let them be a complete bad ass. The whole point is to encourage the players to explore and experiment.

@stm7810

6 ай бұрын

@@Bustermachine yeah, I love the show for that!

@Bustermachine

6 ай бұрын

@@stm7810 Bofuri is written by someone who understands game dev enough to understand how to break it.

the one time youtube gives me a notification for a channel i have all notifications on and it is 1 second after it posted

@Br1cht

6 ай бұрын

That should tell you his power level, he gives the Rothschilds pause.

People would absolutely pay for a game with real pain. Though I imagine it would start off as an option, then the gate keepers would start screaming you aren't real gamers without feeling your skin get peeled off.

@TheDoctorProfessor

6 ай бұрын

And as usual, they would be right. Counter-Spell that, nerds

@shooey-mcmossy

Ай бұрын

@@TheDoctorProfessor *brings ancient stegadon just to counter Slaanesh*

Are you all right TWA?

Where has twa been

hey uh JP? you okay, because you dont delay uploading that long. whats up?

Hope you’re okay, JP

The most important part of having stats and skills, _is to give the MC a way to bypass them,_ so they can cheese their way through problems while others have to solve them the hard way, thats the best method to make them look smart and skillful Moreover, having the MC actively trying to obtain those cheat powers may make him MC look greedy, so its much, much better to give them to him on the initial class, as an inborn ability or obtained by some random accident But above everything ese you must remember: *it doesnt matter what kind of stats and skills there are in the setting,* _the story MUST develop in roughly the same way as all the others_ It doesnt matter if the MC has fire powers, super strenght, antimagic, dragon powers (which are the three of them bundled together) or if he is a crafter, a healer, a diviner, a general, a tamer or a necromancer, have him kill enemies to become stronger, get special powers over the minors of achievements, unlock the special specialness of specialties with ust a little training and reach a level of power nobody believed possible before Original mechanics may scare and confuse new readers, so be sure to stick to the tried and true (i wish i was sarcastic about this one) If you dont know how to do this, *just send them to the battle academy and be done with it,* standarized tests are a simple way to have the MC overcome great odds, teachers are a stand in for systemic issues and classrooms and student clubs will do great as substitutes to actual social dynamics

hey JP you haven't uploaded in quite a while. Obviously you don't have to, but is everything okay on your end?

I feel like the main problem with LitRPGs is that they're usually written by and for people whose only experience with storytelling comes from videogames.

@mommalion7028

6 ай бұрын

Yup.

@cesarsuarez7538

5 ай бұрын

Indeed

@egoalter1276

2 ай бұрын

And not from videogames with stories worth telling...

hey jp is everything okay because you havent uploaded in a while. i hope everythings good on your end

Hey, what’s up man? No videos in 5 months? I’ll wait, they always make my day.

@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993

23 күн бұрын

Agree

Funnily enough, Sleep Deprivation and a deadline was Kayaba’s motive to trapping everyone in the death game in SAO abridged, the infinitely better version of SAO in terms of writing!

@Bustermachine

6 ай бұрын

My own -crack- Head Canon was that Kayaba used to DM tabletop and the intransigence of his players finally caused him to snap. Heathcliff - "It's enough to make you think that maybe what's needed to keep the game on track is to kill a few people." Asuna - " . . . " Calculates if she can make the door.

@danielyoutubechannel407

Ай бұрын

so THATS what taking J.P so long to make his next video

A litrpg pitch I keep thinking about is having the “op protagonists” are actually the video game’s devs-it would explain them having weird, world-bending powers and maybe some npcs randomly falling in love and accidentally causing a harem (“whoops, found a bug in the relationship development matrix. Gotta patch that …”). They’re op for now, but the plot involves the characters nerfing exploits, so they aren’t getting stronger, they’re just working with a more competent game.

@curseofgladstone4981

6 ай бұрын

Working title, "Alpha testing for a Fantasy world"

@user-ou9qd9no5n

6 ай бұрын

"Betatesters" maybe

@sdave304

6 ай бұрын

I know that "Trapped as an NPC in a Cursed Game" (webcomic name)/"Trapped in a Cursed Game, but now with NPCs" (webnovel name) has someone on the dev team as the protagonist. The gm team helps out at some points.

@user-ou9qd9no5n

6 ай бұрын

@@sdave304 NPC in cursed game? wow, sounds like as my life!

@elgatto3133

6 ай бұрын

That's awesome I would totally read that story

here lies TWA i wish you the best you are one of my favorite youtubers

Brave of you to call out an entire webnovel website like that... But you forgot the most important thing in a LitRPG: NUMBERS GO UP Without the sweet, sweet feel of stats increasing, the genre is nothing.

Hey guys I’m getting worried, he usually does monthly uploads but uhhhh, has anyone heard anything from him?

@bara9399

2 ай бұрын

i wish i could say i have but nothing on his blog or social media or anything it kinda feels null. im honestly a little worried tbh especially since although he wasnt always consistent with his uploads he still uploaded at some points when it can be reliable for him to upload at all. i just hope the guy’s alright

I'm really hoping he didn't burn himself out by including animations.

In "Defiance of the fall" the author decided HP just didn't work with his story, so he dropped it, everyone takes real damage.

Here’s hoping he returns this summer….

19:20 to quote Sword Art Online Abridged: Fuckin' Bethesda.

I wish more stories would play around with the idea that while the MC has extensive knowledge of the game mechanics they stumble a bit over how those mechanics translate to the real physical setting. Giving you situations where the MC's knowledge actually works against them despite normally being a boon.

@notproductiveproductions3504

6 ай бұрын

Imagine him training for months to throw a super powerful punch and his first fight he loses to an arm bar

@battlesheep2552

6 ай бұрын

Imagine a speedrunner who likes to glitch through walls finding out that doing that for real hurts like hell

@chee.rah.monurB

6 ай бұрын

Jackal Among Snakes actually has several moments like this!

@Sorain1

6 ай бұрын

An alternate way to use that is to let them have the knowledge, and need to figure out how to convey that to others to use, because they can't do it themselves. This also naturally leads to a supporting cast, which is handy.

@Delmworks

6 ай бұрын

An idea i';ve had is an ex-special forced guy teaming up with the typical nerdlinger isekai protagonist, and the clash between fiction logic and real life combat logic...reckon that could be a great series

In the realm of edge/needless violence, I made myself a simple 4 question ruling to determine whether or not a violent scene is needlessly excessive to the point of being detrimental to the story. I call it "the Tavernitis Test": A: Does the scene actively add to the plot or to the characterization of anyone involved? B: Is the heinous or potentially "edgy" action something which either would radically feel out of place within the rest of the work to the point where it would be a detriment, or something which comes wildly out of nowhere in terms of characterization? C: Could the action be replaced with anything less aggressively "dark" and not lose anything from the intention behind the scene? D: Is the event in said scene or the scene itself ever mentioned again, or ever referenced past it's initial point? Does it actively create a turn within the story or characterization? If all but A and D is answered with yes, then it's very likely that the scene is simply created as a way to shock the reader without actually thinking of ramifications of the shock itself.

@1IGG

6 ай бұрын

GRR Martin wants to know your location..

@waluigihentailover6926

6 ай бұрын

Wow!

LitRPG writer here. In designing these storylines, I've felt that the stats often hold back good storytelling, but it's sold much better than my other work. My attempt to make good material in this genre has been to downplay the detailed numbers and focus on tough choices and world-building. "You may now pick the power to talk to animals OR levitate!" If the world is going to run on game logic, it should look at what happens as a result, hopefully outside of combat. "This nobleman ordered his peasants to only take the Farmer class to min-max crop production, but then he gets sacked when there's a battle to fight." "The hero's got valuable economic news that the young prince has decided to dual-class in Engineer, which will affect national industrial output and the market for magic crystals for decades." I care much more about that than exactly how much damage the hero's gun does. Ideally the build choices are more about personality or gimmicks than numbers, like whether the hero wants to be the kind of guy wielding toxic blasts. So, show me the consequences of whatever game rules you've installed, not so much the numbers! Where that leaves my work weak is in the area of motivation. If the hero's permanently stuck in game-logic world, he can commit to finding a good set of skills/stats/guilds. But if the hero is playing a video game and it's established that no, it's not going to kill you for real or make you a billionaire, then why does the hero care? I did one story where the hero gets caught up in a "Ready Player One" styled contest, but as with a heist movie, it's not really about the prize so much as why he wants it. The AI characters will go on quests with you but they really do that as an excuse to help/manipulate the players. The "why should we care" problem is why I recently did a full isekai scenario rather than a video game. When doing the video game stuff the focus was largely on the interaction between that and the real world -- which might bore people who want more dragon fights. About others' LitRPG work: Reading the stat stuff is sometimes a guilty pleasure when I can fantasize about what I would do in that scenario. But I've found stories where the hero obsesses over build choices, then somehow blows through boss monsters far above his level with sub-par equipment, because his "tactics" and "teamwork" are so good. (They're not. Looking at a certain crusader rat protagonist especially... yet I still liked the series for cool, imaginative fights and hazards.) I also don't like the treadmill of the hero attaining Super Gold Soul Mystic Arts only to get sand kicked in his face by the Ultra Gold Soul Masters... yet I ended up reading several books worth of that, so how much can I complain about it? What I really don't enjoy even as guilty pleasure was when we get the game stats *and* the setting is miserable and depressing and the characters are unlikable. So it can be fun to read even a flawed LitRPG, but it's tough to put together something that can overcome the genre's tropes. (My work includes "Virtual Horizon", "Crafter's Passion", and "Rising World", on Amazon.)

@damaskusseraph6046

6 ай бұрын

Curious about that crusader rat story you mentioned. Got a name?

@krisschnee3151

6 ай бұрын

@@damaskusseraph6046 That's "Dungeons Of Strata" and sequels, by Penman. I enjoyed the two volumes that I've read.

@startingoverpodcast

6 ай бұрын

Strata sees you ... I agree with you on dungeon of Strata. The last book is out and it does what your critique points out in the end.

@damaskusseraph6046

6 ай бұрын

@@krisschnee3151 read all 3 books (listened on audible) and first teo were good, great at times but third one kinda flopped. Not super bad but not good as the first two

@Starsmasher287

4 ай бұрын

"Minmax crop production" This is unironically one of the funniest things imaginable and yet still makes perfect sense.

Haven’t seen you upload in a while, been checking nebula weekly to see if you have

@bara9399

2 ай бұрын

yeah i noticed that from checking his nebula basically every day for a couple of months. even sent emails to ask about his next upload but idk what happened. i just hope things are okay with him and his video production

12:40 made me think of a story where a character does find a glitch or something to be powerful, but then it's fixed and the story is how they have to earn their power like everyone else and work their way back up

@noble6752

6 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the Webtoon Hardcore Leveling Warrior. Kind of happens almost exactly like that only he became top of the world through more literal exploits (He's a gambler) and then in chapter 1 a glitch in the system resets him back to level 1. It was actually pretty good though because he never received any kind of random abilities and just used the extensive knowledge of the game he already had to slowly regain power only this time he did it without essentially scamming people and it makes him a better person.

@marocat4749

6 ай бұрын

@@noble6752 Yeah, and he does still exploits and broken abilities kinda, but does so, with his new friends. Also it explores why he was that toxic gamer in the first place pretty touching. I mean he sora and darks abilities kinda are broken, through they still have to learn to master them gradually. And its really nice seeing them bonding by scrapping up and go on misadventures. Good characters too.

@Backstabmacro

6 ай бұрын

Bug Eater is a WEBTOON with a similar premise, the MC exploits the shit out of the game for personal gain (he had a good reason) before being demolished by someone with powers like a Game Dev. Story is about him turning things around using his knowledge of the end game and quest progression as well as exploits and how to BEAT them instead of use them.

As a fellow author, I can say you're spot on. You know what I'd love to see you do? A video on bookcovers. Like all the YA book covers that all feature an attractive young woman posing and holding a fireball? lol

@notproductiveproductions3504

6 ай бұрын

I wanna see a book cover that looks like a Blind Guardian album

@cara-seyun

6 ай бұрын

Or have no discernible moment relating to the book Or even recognizable characters

@notoriousectotherm

6 ай бұрын

I want a book cover that just looks like a Yes album cover. My dream is to get a Roger Dean painting on the cover of a book.

@tsifirakiehl4250

6 ай бұрын

I hate when book covers are made by people who clearly haven’t read the book. For example, in the fantasy novel “The Two Princesses of Bamarre,” the titular princesses are described as being biracial. It’s stated that while the older princess, Meryl, has light skin like the king, her younger sister Addie has the queen’s dark complexion. There are two white girls on the cover of the book.

@cara-seyun

6 ай бұрын

@@tsifirakiehl4250 to be fair, it’s unrealistic to expect Artist McPainter to read your 700 page space opera instead of just reading the title and summary on the back Honestly, if you are an author, you are lucky to even have a comment on the cover art, since it’s the publishing company that controls all of it, and they don’t care about depicting them book accurately, just getting people’s attention

Overlord Books: Fear, impostor syndrome and world building Anime: Nazarick compilation to sell Albedo figurines and maybe the books too. But mostly Albedo figurines. They have a lot of Albedo figurines to sell and it is profitable. Also half the anime onlies complain loud and proud if there is a deviation from the Nazarick compilation formula in favor of adapting an arc from the books.

I do like that Edin's Gate turns the herem trope on it's head by having the romantic interests turn away as the main character takes too long to decide and continues to be unfaithful. The series has plenty of problems, but the herem is eventually not one of them

@chee.rah.monurB

6 ай бұрын

I've never heard of it before.

@LinkingYellow

6 ай бұрын

@@chee.rah.monurB it's a litrpg where players die when they put on the VR headset, and their consciousness is stored in the game world, which is powered by a blockchain to keep people from shutting it down. The game is a fantasy world where all the NPCs act like real people, and the players have to get used to the idea that they're not in a game, but are at the beginning of their eternal life with real lifelike NPC characters that they share the world with. And the people left in the physical world have to deal with the fact that there is a controversial device that could kill them, or potentially give them eternal life. It has a lot of cool concepts, and the series has been getting better, but it annoys me when the characters relapse on old mistakes that they should have already learned from for plot reasons. And as realistic as the consequences of taking addictive substances are, they're really uncomfortable to read

@chee.rah.monurB

6 ай бұрын

@@LinkingYellow Can you read it anywhere online?Because I was expecting to find it on Royal Road.

@LinkingYellow

6 ай бұрын

@@chee.rah.monurB I listened to it on audible

@MyVanir

6 ай бұрын

@@LinkingYellow I stopped reading halfway through the first sentence of your description.

This video made my appreciate "So i am a spider , so what" even more . JP : Sarcastic good point about a cliche In my head : wait , Spider actually did a good job avoiding that

@steverobbins5423

6 ай бұрын

I literally just started watching that series two days ago. The timing of this video is genuinely coincidental, but FEELS weirdly targeted to me specifically. :)

@alexandredesouza3692

6 ай бұрын

What's "So I am a Spider?"

@JGD714

6 ай бұрын

@@alexandredesouza3692 a Jap litRPG light novel that for some reason got popular enough to get a manga and anime and people think it's good and not cliched trash despite being cliched trash.

@braydoxastora5584

6 ай бұрын

@@alexandredesouza3692 anime/msnga isekai reincarnation story

@plumfadoodle4908

6 ай бұрын

@@alexandredesouza3692 'So I'm a spider , so what' is a LitRPG staring a Spider protagonist isekaid into a cave as the lowest species. Who then needs to go up from there.

So much joy watching him tear into this genre. Entirely motivated by spite, I admit. It brings a tear to my eye.

Are you okay?

@MEXICANSHARK8146

25 күн бұрын

I don't know , I have asked that myself for a long time. I think the videos help him release anger and annoyance that he has kept inside for a long time, the fact that there so many of them is surprising

@jaebrowne6780

7 күн бұрын

​@@MEXICANSHARK8146😅

@jaebrowne6780

7 күн бұрын

Bro is clearly pissed 😂

*Protag Kun:* "Hello, Cat Girl! I have saved you with my 99 STR/DEX/WIS/CHR/INT powers! You're welcome!" *Elf Chan:* "And I helped!" *Cat Girl:* _Rolls_ "Whoa, Protag Kun, you're so great, I think I love you!" *Protag Kun:* "Woah, that's really-" *Cat Girl:* "Oh, wait, I get a reroll in case of failure!" *Protag Kun:* "-Wait, wha-" *Cat Girl:* _Rolls_ "Whoa, Protag Kun, that slave collar on your Elf is actually a huge red flag! Thanks for the help, but, uh...bye!" *Protag Kun:* "..I KNEW I should have specced into Harem Re-Re Rolls!" *Elf Chan:* "-Wait, wha-" *Protag Kun:* "OH WOAH LOOK ANOTHER CAT GIRL BETTER GO SAVE HER!" *Elf Chan:* "..."

@marocat4749

6 ай бұрын

Oh its a catboy, hmm is that expanding by horniness in an unexpected way. Way too interesting, to the next catgirl.

Hey, TWA, how are things holding up on your side?

I've really gotten into reading LitRPG's on Royalroad within this year, that place has a lot of great ones. And it shows me how well this genre can work with far slower pacing. For example, the first story I read on this site, Tree of Aeon, it really feels like every level matters. Or a completed great story I read, Vainqueur the Dragon. And by extension these stories tend to have great power scaling with every victory being earned. No matter how powerful the characters become. Dungeon-core also fits into that, but I have only read like one of those types of stories.

@DavidSartor0

6 ай бұрын

Have you read Worth the Candle? If you're looking for RoyalRoad LitRPGs with "far slower pacing", it's just the story for you. Also, it's one of the best things I've ever read.

@plumfadoodle4908

6 ай бұрын

@@DavidSartor0 No, I've mainly stuck to Monster LitRPG's, but I'll consider this one.

@toiletpaper3394

5 ай бұрын

Vainqueur is a comedy tho so it doesn't take the litrpg genre seriously so it doesn't really count

_ Something a lot of light novel author misses is that f your world is governed by RPG stats it's not just gonna affect combat, but everything, every skill, every talen, every job(not just combat job) will have its own stats _ Video game & Table top use video game mechanic because it needs to. A non interactive story usually don't need video game mechanics, in these case the mechanic take you out of the experience & remind you this is fiction. For example HP bar & status effect are used to show the player the condition of the character because actually program every injury(the programmer has no idea what kind of injury a player will encounter so he would need to program everything from the severity to the location of the wound) into the character model & animation is very difficult & impossible in older hardware, but for a story the author decide where & what kind of injury it is & just have to make that 1 injury

Whenever he rags on Isekai all I can think of is that I've never been more offended by something that I agree with. 😂😂

In cultivation/xianxia novels, the problem of overpowered characters floating around the story is solved by restricting their actions and basically only making them appear very late in the story, now this is represented as the 8000 chapters meme, but in cultivation mythology this kinda makes sense since most cultivators have to go through "Tribulations", that is, literally heaven or "the system" trying to kill them for being too powerful, and when a character truly becomes too powerful the character is straight up transported (also known as killed and reincarnated) into a higher state of existance due to being too powerful, and so they start up from the very bottom again.

I want one where the protagonist get super OP abusing an exploit, but then get banned by the dev halfway through season one. Turns out everyone already knew about this bug, and just didn’t want to get banned, and now we have a new protagonist.

@marocat4749

6 ай бұрын

Or he is reset as punishment and has to actually work for it, i mean, coulfd be used for character growth.

@Bustermachine

6 ай бұрын

Why wouldn't the bug have just been patched?

@eeg-rh7jv

5 ай бұрын

​@@Bustermachinewaste of resources, I assume the company just decided to hard enforce it instead of patching it. Sure, it's a bad long term problem but corporation rarely think long terms

Glad to see another one of my genres covered. I did at least realize that I should show off some of my side character's skills more often. Also, math is hard. The more you add at the beginning of your story the more you'll regret the extra work later.

As a fan of visual novels, I feel like this video also covers a lot of tropes seen in those, particularly the parts about horniness and wish fulfillment

@sematy4948

6 ай бұрын

Speaking of which, I'd love for Visual novels to be covered soon. It's a unique artform that has sprites and background so character and scenery descriptions are no longer a must, but it's not a full-blown film so action and dramatic scenes need to be carefully worded out. I hope JP covers them next. 😅

@Little_Lepus

6 ай бұрын

This is why we need more Doki Doki Literature club.

@Reydriel

6 ай бұрын

It covers a lot of modern anime tropes in general lol

@sematy4948

6 ай бұрын

@@Reydriel I agree. 😅 But just from experience, I think visual novels still have untapped potential as an artform. Hopefully JP covers them since I don't recall any writing channel covering how to write visual novels in general. :)

@Reydriel

6 ай бұрын

@@sematy4948 It's likely he doesn't read a lot of VNs (not many do) so he probably doesn't have too much to say about it

One of my favorite novels ever the death mage doesn't want a fourth time does almost everything you have said, from explanations to everything (including the level/skill system) to what would really happen if some random people suddenly had broken abilities and what would people really do. The novel is awesome, and has variety on races not just plain and simple Tolkien, and they live in tribes as you would expect irl, understandable and sympathetic protagonists and antagonists.

@lousyllamma986

6 ай бұрын

I second this. Death mage uses the stats as a vehicle for the plot and creates intriguing story as well as engaging characters. Stats are secondary to the story of death mage. I agree with this take and put a stamp of approval on it.

@clauro6153

6 ай бұрын

And also go in the opposite direction of the monster protagonist by starting more humanlike and slowly becoming a eldritch abomination and we are still rooting for him

J.P? You okay???

@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993

23 күн бұрын

Idk

Did you leave the internet?

@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993

23 күн бұрын

No one knows maybe he is busy with some thing in his life

@davibrelazdealbuquerque5766

18 күн бұрын

I was wondering the same thing. Perhaps he's researching topics for the next videos, or he has a lot of stuff in real life to do 🤷

...Wait, *THAT* is all a LitRPG is?? It's just 'here's a normal book with some statsheets and the mention of numbers going up'?? I thought it was like a choose-your-own-adventure novel...

@shracc

6 ай бұрын

oh you are wrong, it's an excel spreadsheet with flavor text.

@RoflcopterLamo

6 ай бұрын

Thats just a VN or some sorta community voted for story setup on some novel site

The LITRPG got him 😭

Much like Isekai, I feel the real popularity of the genre is due to being far more fun to write than to actually read...edit: and from your description, one-handed... Speaking of, when are we gonna get other video-game subgenres? Like Lit-FPS. Or Lit-Racing games. Lit-Mario Party Ripoff could be fun...

@realdragon

6 ай бұрын

Concept is really interesting, I've read one litrpg where they explained why achieving max level and being OP is very hard and in a world they even had special job where person gave you advice what to level up and how depending on what you need. But rest of the story wasn't that interesting imo

@DriftingDestroyer98

6 ай бұрын

If Lit-4X becomes a thing I can die happy

@achmodinivswe9500

6 ай бұрын

Lit-cooking sim

@notproductiveproductions3504

6 ай бұрын

One genre that can actually work but will never take off is character action. Basically it’s the only genre in gaming that makes style points a gameplay mechanic. As for why it won’t take off, same reason the game genre isn’t, it unintentionally proves how uncool the guy holding the controller actually is (even when we’re talking about his gameplay performance)

@Delmworks

6 ай бұрын

@@DriftingDestroyer98 I mean, i'm sure a lot of space opera dips into that, but I could se that being game-lit, and not just as an after-hours report

I ironically love the harem trope. Stupid characters doing stupid things. Unintentionally hilarious scenes always come out of it. Several of my favourite moments watching anime is cracking down laughing at a show trying to take itself seriously as the women fumble over the main character. It's like that one scene in trolls "BECAUSE SINGING KILLED MY GRANDMA, OKAY?"

@marocat4749

6 ай бұрын

Harem can be really fun, if the main character has the barest of character, and the harem actually has a fun relationship or at least banter. Rosario no vampire actually has a pretty good harem that are friends. And get zoned out for the actual love interest gradually in the end. And are happy for them. Ranma is great but i didnt want to go for the obvious, but yes , harem can be fun, if they are not only about the mc.

@voteDC

6 ай бұрын

Harem can be fun but it's rarely handled well. All too often it becomes rape because the MC uses mind control or charisma powers to convince the women to sleep with him, when they clearly didn't want to before.

@DeltaEntropy

6 ай бұрын

Harem can be fun, and lot of my favorite shows are harems, but they’re all comedies who lean into the absurdity of it and utilize it for laughs, while I feel a lot of litrpgs just use it for wish fulfillment, which doesn’t work imo.

@yoursonisold8743

6 ай бұрын

What you enjoy is the cringe factor. And while that is bad taste, objecttively, nobody can stop you from giving this trash genre more traction, so keep enjoying it while the rest of us have to deal with the deluge each year...

@PengwinGaming205

6 ай бұрын

@@yoursonisold8743 oh no I hate the cringe, the masochism play is the worst part of the trope. I enjoy morons written by people who think they are artistic geniuses

I would love to see a “terrible writing advice” of multiverses.

none of his online profiles seem to have shown any activity since this video was uploaded.... Its been four months, its very unlike him

@baricanebasil

Ай бұрын

yeah ive pretty much noticed that for four months like a lot of the times i come to his twitter, facebook, nebula, etc. and still nothing got posted. its rather concerning tbh!

@Superkid33

Ай бұрын

I am also very concerned…

@jett_power

Ай бұрын

His website mentioned that he was writing a sequel to his book. Granted, the website hasn't been updated since the Comic Relief episode, but it might explain why he hasn't uploaded in a while.

@baricanebasil

Ай бұрын

@@jett_power It was actually my theory for a while. I was listing reasons why JP _could_ be on hiatus for that many months just a little while ago and i knew the idea he was finishing draft two, which i believe he hasnt finished in years, crossed me mind

Don’t forget to abbreviate everything to make it as confusing and hard to follow as possible but have the characters explain it like a walking book as it comes up

@quinsutton7097

2 ай бұрын

His HTC is reaching GOMT has exceeded his GIEM. For a period of time before her GIEM becomes less than TRAM EX. TYA EXP is smaller than FSH MSG HGH made smaller than the negative COVFEFE.

Would absolutely love a Terrible Writing Advice on Western stories.

@SlapstickGenius23

6 ай бұрын

Frigging yes!! Do bear in mind that the king of European Westerns, Karl May, must’ve wrote a ton of fairly nuanced 19th century fiction and a couple of amazing books, because his creation Winnetou made him money.

@Arphemius

6 ай бұрын

@@SlapstickGenius23 Karl May is great, there's more than a few amazing books there. And especially for the time it's amazing how he doesn't discriminate. He neither treats Europeans as the good guys, as most of his villains are some version of European, nor does he fall into the noble savage trope, with some of his villains also being native Americans. It's about two sworn brothers of different peoples coming together to fight bad people of all kinds, both with the deepest respect and love for each other. Those novels are great.

@SlapstickGenius23

6 ай бұрын

@@Arphemius I’ve been searching up some Karl May facts online. Unfortunately, despite his characters being very relatable, he was like Edgar Rice Burroughs’ just as messed up spiritual predecessor, albeit with better meant ideals.

@Arphemius

6 ай бұрын

@@SlapstickGenius23 Really? That's a shame. Then again it was the 19th century, for that time it was probably very cosmopolitan.

Creativity trumps game mechanics as written every time; And there is no need to munchkin it when you can make everything in character innovative. One of the ways I stood out in my old DnD group was to use cantrips (that’s lvl 0 freebee spells) to their maximum. Fact is, if you can break the laws of physics, even a little, you can manipulate basically the entire world. Example: Prestidigitation + dungeon spider webs = tiny mailable sticky flammable substances or in other words = floating fire bombs.

Oh, you want a battle couple? I highly recommend the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. The woman was writing this series back in the 80s, and trust me when I say, it's INSANELY ahead of its time. You want really, really good sci-fi, check her out. She's amazing. It also has a special place in my heart, because, back in summer of 2018, I was in hospital, and my sister thought I was going to die, so ALL SHE DID was eat, sleep, and read this series. She introduced it to me because it kept her sane.

"Afterall, a lot of the men also meet grisly ends in the story." This makes me wonder if there's any LitRPGs written by bisexuaI authors.

@SlapstickGenius23

6 ай бұрын

I think he meant grisly.

@boobah5643

6 ай бұрын

@@SlapstickGenius23 Well, 'grizzly' has to do with pale-colored ends, while 'grisly' has to do with viscera. So it depends on whether the men get old or disemboweled.

@purplehaze2358

6 ай бұрын

@@SlapstickGenius23Autocorrect goes wild sometimes.💀

"How can the ladies resist the temptation of a box" I was expecting to see a thousand year old white haired elf with a staff

LitRPG is my favorite type of story if done well, but it's mostly brought down by other genres being hamfisted into it without any thought of how to combine them correctly(also power creep is huge in litRPGs)[There has been a few stories I felt did the stat element of litRPGS decently like Reincarnation Paradise, but overall it is a matter of extreme balance and world building that few authors do right, especially if they go the complete LitRPG way]

@peddazz2365

6 ай бұрын

the biggest problem of litrpgs is that most authors don't know how to write, and I don't even mean write a plot, but basic stuff about sentence structure, not constantly repeating the same words, not making your shit read like a work mail. right after that comes that the plots also suck, that the characters suck, that the MCs are self inserts for losers, tbh I have only come across one half decent litrpg among the dozen something of the "best of the genre" I have tried and I can't consider it more than a guilty pleasure

@dezmas9332

6 ай бұрын

@@peddazz2365 pure litrpgs are hard to be good

@elpatoempatado2404

5 ай бұрын

welp, i hope mine goes well- (i hope)

@dezmas9332

5 ай бұрын

@@elpatoempatado2404 a couple words of advice, rvpe and harem are very much a turn off for readers, I don't get the obsession the chinese and japanese have with those tropes

@elpatoempatado2404

5 ай бұрын

@@dezmas9332 huh, lucky. mc wasnt getting a harem anyway. Also, do you happen to have any advice regarding formulas for experience...? (Besides making them consistent)

It would be funny if an oblivious male protagonist had a whole harem after him only for it to be revealed at the end that he’s gay. Of course the whole thing would have to be a comedic parody

@starburst98

6 ай бұрын

Depends if the reader knows the whole time. If they know then him being chased is funny. But if they also only find out at the end it becomes a awful twist.

@NoOne-jx6hw

6 ай бұрын

You could foreshadow the twist and make it decontextualise the story?

@Delmworks

6 ай бұрын

I've considered writing something like that, but it would be from the girl's perspective to keep it secret

@MrRedstoner

6 ай бұрын

Sorta the villainess isekai, where the MC isn't really looking for romance and even though she literally recognizes the phrasing of the "confession of love" thinks it's friendship

@MadAtreides1

6 ай бұрын

So it would basically be Legend of Korra

Dungeon Crawler Carl series is my call for best example of the genre. It has everything. An insane god AI with a warped sense of humor running the dungeon. A talking cat companion. High tier magical heart-y boxer shorts that grant Carl abilities too good to give up, even if they require his not wearing pants for the magic to function.... Oh, and he is not a horndog =p

@Br1cht

6 ай бұрын

OP as all hell tho

@jagson9

6 ай бұрын

God damn it Donut

@karmamont5184

6 ай бұрын

I was just about to comment this as well!! DCC has the best example of what a LitRPG can be (that I've found so far) Carl has to constantly come up with new ways to keep himself and everyone else alive in a extremely unfair environment. It some how balances great humour and heart-wrenching scenes so damn well

@iamcool544

6 ай бұрын

I mean... CARL isnt a horndog. The AI is literally drooling over Carls feet.

@Babbleplay

6 ай бұрын

@@Br1cht Yeah, though bosses tend to give him trouble.

Where did you go?! My lovely. I wanna kno-ow! Where did you go?! My lovely!

It's funny how not!Kayaba mentioning sleep deprivation and deadlines is literally his motivation in the abridged series.

My favorite litrpg is where abolitionist john brown get isekai'ed to a typical fantasy world. Its explore the real inpact slavery has on sociaty, as well taking jabs on common isekai/manhwa/wuxia tropes and cliches. Good read worth checking out.

Battletech does their novels well. They do not spell out the action like a game log, but you can imagine how each attack would appear on a unit's record sheet, as well as the implications of critical hits.

@boobah5643

6 ай бұрын

In the days before computer-administrated RPGs were the way most people interfaced with RPG mechanics, the conceit was that the game rules approximately described how the world worked, not that they were 'accurate' to the point that the laws of physics fell before them. You could say the same about _AD&D,_ _TORG,_ and _Dark Conspiracy_ novels, too. The point is, they're not LitRPGs; they're literature placed in a setting originally created for games.

I'd love to have a TWA for Multiple PoV writing or scene transitions. You have a good way to teach a ,,why" to an ,,how to" and I struggle finding the right solutions atm

Is this the last video??? 😢

twa come home the kids miss you

Please do videos on the following: Maguffins, Fantasy Quests, Martial Arts, Writing about Sports, Fantasy Weapons, Stories taking place in High School/ College, NaNoWriMo, and just for giggles writing for Disney Channel Original Shows/Movies.

Where did you go?

@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993

23 күн бұрын

No one knows

You should do an episode on writing speeches and political writing, i quite like those things and i think an episode on them would be nice

@professorcube5104

6 ай бұрын

@@p-__ you are wrong

@matthewrohde4198

6 ай бұрын

He did a propaganda episode back in 2020, that’s probably the most we’ll get.

@BlueminNight

6 ай бұрын

@@professorcube5104 It's a bot that somehow always in every popular video, just ignore it.

@professorcube5104

6 ай бұрын

@@BlueminNight good to know

@pickyphysicsstudent201

6 ай бұрын

JP is loathed enough to touch anything of "the culture war", that I think he wouldn't touch politics with a 20m sterilised pole being held by someone else. Maybe presentations would be ideal, as getting information across to a large group of people is tricky.

Hooray! Subtitles! It's important because many russian LitRPG authors tend to follow JP's every advice... to the letter.

16:35 In their defense, haptic suits exist and people buy them

@Delmworks

6 ай бұрын

yeah, there would be plenty of people masochist enough to humour it, and even if there's not enough streamers would 100% do it for the elusive purist of *CONTENT*

Ah man as an amateur author whose dabbled in litrpg before I laughed so hard at this video for its perfect accuracy that i think I woke my neighbours up. 10/10 did so many of these things during my first story that I can only look back on it now and smile, nice work J.P probably one of my new favourite videos that you've done.

Overlord is definitely an exemplar for lit rpg's, more focusing on the implications of the setting than anything else

@boobah5643

6 ай бұрын

In the anime, it's barely a LitRPG, for all that it's set in the classic LitRPG setting of 'MMO turned reality." No real power progression and the numbers generally don't matter (both of those because the protagonist was max level and his guild had conquered the game before the isekai.)

@hexzyle

6 ай бұрын

@@boobah5643 oh so the mechanics have to be more "hard" in order to qualify as a litrpg? I have been listening to Drew Haye's NPCs and was wondering if it falls into this genre but I guess its more like Overlord in that the TTRPG aspect of it is more of a world setting and the numbers and ability names are never mentioned

@Thatguy-fp7rh

6 ай бұрын

@boobah5643 exactly why it's the so good 👍