/lit/ - Literature

>>22093650
>[Non-progression webnovel]
Consider 'This Used To Be About Dungeons' by the same author as Worth The Candle. From what I've heard it's a cozy story about a young guy coming to a city away from the capital to start a dungeon delving team, except it's in a semi-advanced world made of hexes(?) or something like that. Mostly character drama, as far as I know. As in title, little actual dungeoning.
Haven't read more than a few dozen chapters, though. But heard only good opinions.

>Worth The Candle
Btw, read the online version. The version on amazon has some changes due to copyright problems. Can be found on AO3 or RR.

>>21211249
You might be interested in Worth the Candle by Alexander Wales, it's a meta fantasy about a guy literally being a chosen one isekaied to another world...but the one he created for his DnD campaigns. And he isn't the first one, because hid death friend was first, and he got trapped in 'Degenerating Cycles' of conflict, which you call looping. Fascinating series.

>>20565744
>Anyone have a recommendation for some that takes abit from progresssion/rational type novels into adventure filled with magc? Maybe some apprentice slowly growing into an archmage while figuring stuff out.
>I havn't read much besides Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, and basiaclly ask for a more mature Harry potter with more of a power fantasy and less of a friendship fantasy.
>Is there maybe some general description for this kind of fiction to look some stuff up myself?
Sounds very much like Worth the Candle, one of the best webnovels ever written. I strongly recommend you to check it out, it's much deeper than it appears at the first glance. Don't let the beginning fool you into thinking it's just another wish fullfilment LitRPG, it's the polar opposite of that.

>>20451991
>Never heard of Worth the Candle. That recommendation list I tend to post are all the series that have been kicked my way in one form or another, most of my pick-ups are based off of recommendation or things I remember from several years back. I'll check this out but I haven't been a huge fan of the 'horrible person' protagonist so far. Fang Yuan being my entry point while Reincarnation: Threads of Fate was... an attempt.

I might have mislead you by saying the protagonist of Worth The Candle is 'horrible person,' he's not supposed to be 'evil,' he's just...an unlikable person with problems. To explain this would take too long and it's better to be read, but let me sell the story to you.

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Worth the Candle is an isekai story about a young man called Juniper who, by unknown means, wakes up in fantasy world...on an airplane full of prisoners, who are supposed to be dropped into an exclusion zone full of undead for their crimes. He didn't suddenly appear, a Juniper Smith was trialed and sentenced. It's him. Except he has no memory of it and a minute ago was falling asleep in a classroom during a lecture. Some time later he learns that his memory of the entirety of his life were a sickness known for making people think they had an entire life on Earth. It happens to some people, except it's extremely rare, and the memories are, of course, false.

Except that the 'new' world he's now in is not unfamiliar to him. Nor are the races, or the magical artifacts. After all, he'd made them as a Dungeon Master over his entire life. Oh, and he also has an interface that shows him his Skills, Attributes and Options. No one else has. Yes, it's as terrifying as it sounds.

It only gets weirder from here.

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It may sound like a usual young male litrpg wish fullfilment story. It's not, the opposite in fact, and saying more might be a spoiler. Suffice to say that I believe Worth the Candle to be not only one of the best webnovels ever written, but also one of the best stories I've read in my life, period. Check it out, it's worth it.