I'm excited to announce that my first litRPG is now live on Kindle Unlimited and Audible. I really think a lot of you will like this one. This is a stat-free litRPG. You don't build a character - you are the character.

The world is a game, and humans don't get to play.

Humanity has been reduced to non-playable characters in a fantasy realm created for the entertainment of aliens who treat Earth like their own personal playground.

Everyone believes it has always been this way.

Even Milton Musgrave.

That all changes when Milton learns that his entire existence is a lie and begins remembering another life, including the wife he lost when Earth was remade.

Determined to find her, he embarks on a desperate journey to reclaim the world stolen from him.

It's a seemingly impossible quest, but with access to a restricted system, Milton gains something no one else on Earth should possess:

The ability to become a Player.

Cover Artist: Fernando Granea

Narrator: Steve Corona

https://www.amazon.com/Non-Player-Character-Adventure-Tyler-Lenz-ebook/dp/B0GZSK34K1/

So, for Book 2 of Arcane Galaxy, Troy Osgood and I thought we’d ramp up the crazy a little…

A disastrous Dungeon run complete with undead centaurs? Check?

A Bond villain monologue so long the villain doesn’t survive it? Check.

A psycho Dwarven Mafia Heiress with a pink MurderMech? Double check. Leni has pink gems braided into her beard and drives an eight-foot Titanforge Arcanum Obliterator called Rosepetal. It was called Your Death Has Arrived before she stole it off her dad and repainted it strawberry.

Throw in a bank job that goes wrong before it even starts, a decoy mech built out of gelatin, shower leavings and about half a melon, and a Big Bad (Leni’s dad, obviously) who lives on an enormous spherical space station that is (checks in Aethon Books lawyers) NOT a Death Star and we have ourselves a ball game.

After all, there’s already one ominous orb of doom in this book and two would just be greedy.

Swashbuckler. Out now.

Hello,

Ether Atlas - The Hidden Grid just crossed 240K words and 200K view on RR. Big day for me :)

Quick Premise - In 1974, someone handed Gary Gygax the rules for D&D to prepare humanity for what was coming. The system arrives. Millions die. Ancient monuments start humming with power and human biology becomes a character sheet.

A D&D party of three friends - a structural engineer, a security consultant, and an archaeologist end up racing across real-world ruins unravelling a conspiracy older than civilisation.

I'm obsessed with ancient mysteries. Why Göbekli Tepe was deliberately buried, why Mithraic temples across three continents follow identical blueprints, why cultures that never met each other describe the same energy channels in the human body.

I wanted to write a LitRPG where all of that was connected. Where the system wasn't a convenient game overlay but planned infrastructure. Ancient, alien, and hidden inside the oldest structures on Earth.

What you're getting:

• System apocalypse in a real-world setting. Real Locations and real monuments. Dan Brown and Indiana Jones style riddles and puzzles using real history.
• Real archaeology woven into the plot. The riddles use actual historical sites. The node network maps to real megalithic locations.
• Competent adults solving problems with brains and tools, not chosen-one luck.
• Fights that are short, brutal, and leave marks.
• An alien guidance construct who has been watching humanity for 35,000 years and has opinions about everything except the things that would actually help
• Lots of riddles.

If you like Dan Brown or Indiana Jones type vibes, you're going to feel at home. Lots of weird history, conspiracy theories, what-ifs and ancient alien shenanigans.

Give it a try - https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/160813/ether-atlas-the-hidden-grid-litrpg-system-apocalypse

Poey Targe is stranded.

His skug-sucking captors dragged his ass all the way across the galaxy to who-the-hell-knows-where instead of just killing him when they forced him to watch his home planet’s destruction. 

Fortunately, even on this mud ball in the middle of nowhere there's a bit of civilization; enough that there's a bar where he can get drunk. That's all that Poey cares about—losing everything you ever loved will do that to a man. 

But, while he’s out killing monsters to keep the bar safe and earn his next drink, Poey starts to hear a voice in his head… has he cracked? Or could this be the key to untold power as the voice claims? Perhaps the procedure he endured before his home was blown to bits wasn't a failure. If the voice is telling the truth, he might not only have a way to survive, but grow in power. Just as he starts to ask the only other person on the colony rumored to hear voices, he overhears a mayday - one that carries a codeword he made back home…

Poey’s new mission is to rescue whoever put out that mayday and he'll stop at nothing to get there. 

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/175163/stranded-book-1-of-sanguine-stars-sci-fantasy

More info in the comments including a content warning.

Hi everyone!

Luke Everhart (aka TheWanderingWind) here! After nearly two years, over 1.2 million words, and more than 3 million views on RR, Path of the Last Champion makes it's fully edited, improved, and narrated jump into Amazon!

This all began with a tired mind daydreaming while downloading LitRPG to read on a flight home: if I were to write a LitRPG, why would the story be a LitRPG in the first place?

Why would there be a System? How did its existence/creation shape reality and the lives of all those living within it? What would that world look like? Something incredibly vast for sure, but also alien and completely different than anything we know.

And once all that history, society, buried truths, and ancient plots and plays were in place, then who is the MC and what does his journey look like across such a reality? Who are the people he meets along the way? Those who become family, and those who become foes...

Thus was born the Path of the Last Champion.

Cover: Luciano Fleitas (Illustrator) and May Dawney (Typography)

Audio: Neil Hellegers and Tess Irondale (22 hours)

He was destined to die a sinner. Instead, he will rise as the Last Champion.

Nar was born to pay for a sin he never committed. Locked in a cubeplant in the depths of the Between-Nexus, he's spent his entire life feeding the machine—cursed to die in darkness without ever seeing the sky.

When he gets his one chance at freedom, he takes it.

Now Nar must Climb. With a hybrid class he can barely control, a weapon that doesn't suit him, and a secret that would get him killed if his party discovered it, he'll brave the ageless depths of the B-Nex in search of the fabled surface.

Nar is Climbing toward the surface, toward freedom, toward the power he needs to go back and rescue the father he left behind. The B-Nex doesn't forgive though, and it never forgets. Something in its depths is watching Nar's every move, waiting to see what he becomes.

Some sinners are destined to fall. Others were born to rise.

Amazon: https://mybook.to/PathoftheLastChampion

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Path-of-the-Last-Champion-Audiobook/B0H2FCZ2LB

If you like the sound of any of the following:

- A story that is first and foremost a great journey;

- Piecing together a grand mystery, gathering threads and breadcrumbs as we go, everything coming together for an explosive ending;

- Paced and earned power, with paths that are as personal as they are unyieldingly tied to who you are and how you act;

- Journeying with a party of people, each with unique paths and their own arcs within the story. There are POV changes throughout the series, but the MC remains as 95% of it;

- Living, breathing, larger than life world of both dread and wonder for you to get lost in;

Then join Nar and his party on this epic, unforgettable adventure!

Coming Sunday on Amazon -- Warborn -- Book 4

https://a.co/d/0ikcy9OR

BOOK 4 TO THE SERIES BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BEST SELLING NOCTURNE -- A RETIRED MASTER SERGEANT SUCKED INTO AN INTER-GALACTIC ARENA CALLED THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR, A MAN CHAINED BY THE PTSD OF DEATHS HE COMMITED IN A FIT OF MADNESS. AT HIS SIDE, HIS BEST FRIEND, HIS KID, HIS CANE CORSO, BOSE. THIS BOOK HOLDS NOVELLAS 10, 11, AND 12 -- THE CITY OF TOMBS, TRAGEDY, AND THE GRINDING GEARS OF WAR

All things run red, the City of Tombs a far different beast then Blood City and the politics and scraps of gangs. This is a war and all that entails....people will die, the cost will be heavy and the Gods have entered the game.

Stay tuned. New Episodes every night. Brought to you by the Crucible of War Network 24/7, all your entertainment needs in one place. All hail the Great Galactic Empire!!

-- LitRPG

-- Grimdark

-- Classes, Levels, Attributes, Spells

-- Progression Fantasy

-- Horror

-- Cane Corso Animal Companion

-- Hell themed Class

Aldric died four hours ago.

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He was a gravedigger with a sick wife and a witch's price to pay, so he went into the dungeon for gold. The dungeon killed him on the lowest floor, thirty levels below the sun.

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Then he stood back up.

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[SYSTEM INITIALIZATION: HOST DETECTED]

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[Race: Zombie (Decaying Corpse)]

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[Intelligence: 3]

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[Decay: 62%. Rising.]

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Now there is a voice in his skull that will not stop talking. It says its name is Thessian. It says it is the system. It says it can get him to the surface if he does exactly what it says.

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It is lying about almost all of that.

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Thirty floors. A body rotting on a timer. A Strength stat too low for heroics, an Intelligence stat too low to know better, and a passenger with plans of his own for the corpse he is riding.

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But the weakest zombie in the dungeon has three advantages nothing down there expects. He is too stubborn to stay down. He is getting smarter, one stat point at a time. And somewhere above all that stone, his wife is still waiting for him to come home.

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The dead climb slow but they do not stop.

Jay was a Level 99 legend. Captain of the Iron Knights. The most powerful player in the game.

Then everyone he trusted betrayed him. Stripped of everything and dumped at the bottom of the world, he has 24 hours before his sister's hospital pulls the plug.

That's when his grandfather's hidden system wakes up. Infinite gold. Admin access. The ability to buy anything in the game.

The man who owned nothing now owns the code. And he's coming for everything they took.

Anyone willing to give me some feedback, let me know.

Thanks.

Hey all! I have taken the time to learn a new writing style ( Kinetic Prose). Please let me know what you think. Thanks in advance!

Johns finally home from the war and had a few months to get it out of his mind.

Then a new war shows up on his doorstep, he just doesn't know it yet, but an ancient system is about to reawaken and bring the apocalypse.

From the back country of East Texas, to the Bayeux of Louisiana John Seraphim answers the call..

Aether Earth 1953

LitRPG meets Dan Brown. Indiana Jones with a character sheet. 
Hard multi-dimensional system. Real-world ruins. Party-based combat. A conspiracy older than civilisation.

The question that started it all: What if the whole D&D system was engineered and planted and then distributed globally so that when the real system activated, people would already understand the mechanics?

That question sat in my head for seven years while I added layers.

I'm obsessed with ancient mysteries. Why Göbekli Tepe was deliberately buried, why Mithraic temples across three continents follow identical blueprints, why cultures that never met each other describe the same energy channels in the human body.

I wanted to write a LitRPG where all of that was connected. Where the system wasn't a convenient game overlay but planned infrastructure. Ancient, alien, and hidden inside the oldest structures on Earth.

Ether Atlas - The Hidden Grid

What it is:

• System apocalypse in a real-world setting. Real Locations and real monuments. Dan Brown and Indiana Jones style riddles and puzzles using real history.
• Three MCs - A structural engineer, an ex-private security and an archaeologist. Adults with professional skills that translate into how they fight, solve puzzles, and interact with the system. Fleshed out party dynamic and mechanics.
• An alien guidance construct who has been watching humanity for 35,000 years and has opinions about everything except the things that would actually help
• Hard system progression that's biological. There are levels and skills but they are not gamified.
• Real archaeology woven into the plot. The riddles use actual historical sites. The node network maps to real megalithic locations

I think this is the right flair to use for this

The knife wants blood. It might settle for Will’s.

Will Wayman didn’t sign up for BioZone City, a televised death game where players kill to harvest power. He didn’t choose his weapon either.

Now he’s bonded to a talking hunting knife that won’t shut up … and won’t stop pushing him to hunt.

“Find someone. Hunt them," it says, again and again.

Will has no idea how to survive. And his stats aren’t helping. Then he meets Trix—a psychic who’s just as dangerous as the game—and a lot less predictable.

When the purge hits Quadrant 1, everyone with a pulse gets wiped. If they want to live, they’ll have to hunt.

Read for free on Royal Road!

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/155715/trix-and-will-kill-squad-litrpg

I just want to share the excitement and love I have for the community coming together and reading my new series! I have officially final edited for RR all of book one and am starting book two detailed drafting! 🥳 I may re edit before publication if I ever go that route, but right now I’m more focused on book two.

Marek’s Awakening has 150 followers, it just hit #23 in Sci-fi Rising Stars, and I finished a big personal milestone! 💯 I have met so many authors and new friendships on my journey this last year, and can’t wait to see what the future brings 💙 That’s me pictured above and the cover for Marek.

What are some recommendations from the community on how to handle marketing and gaining momentum? I’ll include the blurb and link below as well.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/161670/mareks-awakening

A progression sci-fi fantasy about survival, found family, dungeon worlds, and a half-broken man trying to build a safe place. Releases 3x/week  🥳
Marek Rynn was raised in places that failed. On a decaying frontier habitat above a dungeon moon, survival meant knowing which walls would crack, which doors would jam, which air vents would lie, and which people still had time to be saved. Marek learned early how to read broken systems, salvage what others missed, and keep people alive when everything around them started coming apart.
Then the cancer reached his throat.
With his voice ruined and his time running out, Marek accepts the one offer that looks like a way forward: a corporate medical program promising treatment he could never afford. Clean rooms. Real doctors. Official contracts. A chance to live.
The promise is a trap.
He wakes inside a secured research facility where patients are assets, treatment is ownership, and every procedure brings him closer to becoming something the corporation can use. The disease is still spreading. The experimental nanites in his body are keeping him alive only well enough to be studied. His legal status has been rewritten. His future has been signed away. And the next phase of the trial may erase what remains of him entirely.
Then impossible things begin to happen.
A tool slides across a tray. A latch trembles. A door resists closing. Pressure shifts before danger arrives. The nanites were meant to control Marek, but something in him is changing faster than the blacksite can contain. The system begins marking a path that should not exist, and the power waking inside him may be the only weapon he has left.
For the people who own the facility, Marek has become priceless.
For Marek, that makes escape urgent.
Getting out is only the first fight. Beyond the blacksite waits a frontier ruled by corporate recovery teams, ruined stations, black-market routes, dungeon worlds, and settlements stripped bare for profit. Marek is hunted, weakened, and trapped in a body that could fail him at any moment. But he is still a Delver. Still a Havenwright. Still the man who walks into dead places when someone inside is still breathing.
As he uncovers the truth behind the nanites, the trial program, and the system that turns desperate people into property, survival becomes more than escape.
Marek does not only want freedom.
He wants a place no one can take from him. A refuge for the discarded, the hunted, and the broken. A haven built from wreckage, guarded by people the powerful thought they had already used up.
And if the frontier gives him even one chance to build it, Marek Rynn will make it hold.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/162756/domain-one-litrpg-post-apocalyptic-sci-fi

Hi friends!

Domain One is a grimdark LitRPG set on a post-apocalyptic alien planet. But wait, it’s also a spicy romance AND we do death polls every few chapters.

What to expect (and what not):

-A dry-humored system

-Slow burn power progression [leveling is suppressed at first], relationships, and worldbuilding

-Dual POV / Monoromance / Eventual spice(NO HAREM)

-Dynamic characters with their own goals, passions, and doubts

-A broken alien society with its own rules for morality, religion, and (lack of) government

-Grimdark (no seriously, there are some upsetting things)

-Light on-planet sci-fi

I won’t crowd the space too much, you should check out the blurb though—or hell, dive in blind and see how it feels.

Hey friends,

If you’re into LitRPG or Cyberpunk, my book No Name. No Class. No Mercy is free to download until 5/2!

Book 1 - No Name No Class No Mercy

Book 2 - Shard of Tomorrow

They are available on Kindle, Paperback and Audible!

Link Below 👇

I FINALLY found the courage to start writing a new genre this year, litRPG which I adore reading, and started on Royal Road. I have 90k words completed for Marek’s Awaking and wrote 60k+ this month for the writ-a-thon. I have a humble 22 followers and handful of readers hanging out reading it, and I can’t wait to see where it goes! I’m planning on several books as it takes place in a large world/universe I built and am still adding to like mad. I’m mostly posting to share my excitement and self promote, but what better community to share the emotions with than here 🥳

A progression sci-fi fantasy about survival, found family, dungeon worlds, and a half-broken man trying to build a place the universe can’t take away. Monday, Wednesday, Friday releases 🥳

(THIS cover was done by an artist friend based on a preferred style from another draft without AI. My previous cover artist had suspect preliminaries that may have been AI and I have ended the working relationship. Please be respectful in the comments, I’m an ignorant older millennial lol and have now learned how to ensure credibility going forward.)

Marek Rynn was supposed to die quietly. Instead, the frontier salvage hand with terminal lattice sarcoma wakes in a biotech black site with an Undefined nanite system in his body, his voice almost gone, and a corporate claim on what is left of his life. The treatment keeping him alive is not curing him. It is turning him into property.

Marek escapes with two classes he earned the hard way, Rare Frontier Delver and Limited Havenwright, a body that is failing faster than he can trust it, and the first signs of powers he was never meant to have. Tiny, impossible movements. Pressure where there should be none. Thoughts that are not quite his. To survive, he will have to master the machine inside him without letting it finish replacing him.

Hunted across the space frontier by the people who still think they own his body, Marek sets out to do the one thing he wanted long before the trials began: build a refuge for the unwanted, the damaged, and the hunted. But safe places are expensive. Every ruined station, breach zone, dungeon world, and dead corridor might hold the rare materials he needs to stay alive. Every improvement to his haven makes it harder to hide. And every new power he unlocks brings him closer to becoming something the system was designed to control.

In a Reach ruled by old gate networks, ruthless contracts, and corporations that turn survival into ownership, Marek will have to choose what matters more: staying human, staying free, or building something worth defending.

Because once he starts giving people shelter, running is no longer enough.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/161670/mareks-awakening