I'm pretty new to LitRPG, and only have Dungeon Crawler Carl under my belt. I feel Dresden Files will reaonate well with LitRPG enjoyers. It's about Harry and he's a wizard (but not THAT Harry), he's also a private investigator helping the police solve crimes related to the magical world.
An honorable mention: if you're into cozy fantasy, Legends and Lattes is cute.
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Not to long ago Gregor Hohpe published a blog post about how being an architect is the product of your skills rather than their sum. I belive this is true for all engineers (to some degree). I feel like your post is complimentary to that one.
Also, someone made an observation that if you're amazing at the technical side but your soft skills are 0 and nobody wants to work with you, you'll have hard time providing significant value.
And advising the character, I might say this is what happens when not scaling the difficulty and not scaling the impact.
The System rewards both. Being incident tech lead for a Sev 2 that's costing $100M a day that it's unresolved results not just in massive XP awards, but Titles and Achievements that can sometimes add a permanent passive XP multiplier, or even unlock new skill slots.
It's almost impossible to make it to Staff without Titles and Achievements, and absolutely impossible to ever reach Principal - that's 10,000,000 XP per skill.
Also watch out for unbalance: rushing to Staff in one makes one only a "Low Staff". "True Staff" needs three skills at Staff level. "High Staff" needs five. "Pinnacle Staff" needs seven.
The strange thing is that a Pinnacle Staff, and often even a High Staff, can defeat a Low Principal. Rushing for the next grade tends to be a slower and worse build overall. But this is the ancient dispute between specialists and generalists.
At 54 I'm a True Principal and pushing to High Principal. Couldn't have done it without those multi-million XP awards for major impact. My brag sheet says I've moved the needle by an average of $10M/month over the last ten years. At the usual 2% award that's 24M XP right there.
Nice read! I often daydream between debug sessions about how my life and career would look under a litRPG model.
As far as recommendations go, have you found the RoyalRoad website? Lots of interesting takes on litRPG there. Some good, some derivative, some absolutely amazing. Super Supportive, Magic is Programming, System Delenda Est, and The Factory Must Grow are all worth reading.
True to an extent but some don't need to, the patreon for super supportive has to be seen to believed, the dead tree legacy publish model isn't the only way! Mostly joking but there is a kernel of truth there.
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I'm pretty new to LitRPG, and only have Dungeon Crawler Carl under my belt. I feel Dresden Files will reaonate well with LitRPG enjoyers. It's about Harry and he's a wizard (but not THAT Harry), he's also a private investigator helping the police solve crimes related to the magical world.
An honorable mention: if you're into cozy fantasy, Legends and Lattes is cute.
Post related section:
Not to long ago Gregor Hohpe published a blog post about how being an architect is the product of your skills rather than their sum. I belive this is true for all engineers (to some degree). I feel like your post is complimentary to that one.
Also, someone made an observation that if you're amazing at the technical side but your soft skills are 0 and nobody wants to work with you, you'll have hard time providing significant value.
https://architectelevator.com/architecture/architect-skills-product/
Thanks for the recommendation (I've read Dresden files, but wsan't familiar with Legends and Lattes).
And thanks for the article, it's a great one!
I read this on LinkedIn and instantly thought "someone's been hitting the LitRPG..." :D
Also consider (series titles), varying degrees of silliness:
The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound
Beware of Chicken
Main Character Hides His Strength
System Universe
Cradle
and one of the best, as strong as Dungeon Crawler Carl and at its best even better:
Hell Difficulty Tutorial
Wow, thanks for all the great recommendations! All of them are new to me :)
And advising the character, I might say this is what happens when not scaling the difficulty and not scaling the impact.
The System rewards both. Being incident tech lead for a Sev 2 that's costing $100M a day that it's unresolved results not just in massive XP awards, but Titles and Achievements that can sometimes add a permanent passive XP multiplier, or even unlock new skill slots.
It's almost impossible to make it to Staff without Titles and Achievements, and absolutely impossible to ever reach Principal - that's 10,000,000 XP per skill.
Also watch out for unbalance: rushing to Staff in one makes one only a "Low Staff". "True Staff" needs three skills at Staff level. "High Staff" needs five. "Pinnacle Staff" needs seven.
The strange thing is that a Pinnacle Staff, and often even a High Staff, can defeat a Low Principal. Rushing for the next grade tends to be a slower and worse build overall. But this is the ancient dispute between specialists and generalists.
At 54 I'm a True Principal and pushing to High Principal. Couldn't have done it without those multi-million XP awards for major impact. My brag sheet says I've moved the needle by an average of $10M/month over the last ten years. At the usual 2% award that's 24M XP right there.
Nice! Fully agree with all the additions.
Origianlly I wanted to also add titles, achivements and some classes to this short story, but felt most people won't be interested to read it :)
I know, I know, keep it simple, keep it relatable. Still. I’m so distracted now thinking of what could be done with it…
Definitely, I think there is a lot of potential :)
Nice read! I often daydream between debug sessions about how my life and career would look under a litRPG model.
As far as recommendations go, have you found the RoyalRoad website? Lots of interesting takes on litRPG there. Some good, some derivative, some absolutely amazing. Super Supportive, Magic is Programming, System Delenda Est, and The Factory Must Grow are all worth reading.
Thank you!
I heard about the website, but never tried it. I feel like getting to publish the book is a 'barrier' that the better books need to pass 😅
True to an extent but some don't need to, the patreon for super supportive has to be seen to believed, the dead tree legacy publish model isn't the only way! Mostly joking but there is a kernel of truth there.
Loved this article! A great mental model honestly
Thank you Arpan!