I demand more none of those picture books just keep them coming
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me reading a bunch of litrpg slop on royalroad and catching up to the most recent chapter
You've intrigued me what is royalroad I do like RPG stuff
RoyalRoad is just a site, kinda like AO3 or your Fanfiction.net, where writers post stories/web-serials.
LitRPG is just a genre. I'd call it a subgenre of isekai fantasy, where it blends a lot more of the RPG aspects of like DND. Think like, classes/stats/skills/leveling. Usually some sort of 'system' that gives out this stuff and shows it to the main character.
The Wandering Inn is like, what I'd call the hallmark of the genre, but it isn't as focused on being a 'LitRPG' story as like your average RoyalRoad slop is. There are Classes and levels/skills, but there's no stats or anything like that. Wandering Inn is very long, about a girl who suddenly finds herself in a world with levels and gets the class [Innkeeper]. Really well written (well, most of it - don't ask me how I feel about volume 10 so far, which is the most recent volume). Really long - like it broke 10 million words a few years ago, most chapters are over 20,000 words and the author releases them regularly. 9/10 imo and the one web-serial I'd recommend to like, people who like fantasy but maybe never have read anything quite in the realm of LitRPG.
RoyalRoad has a ton. Mother of Learning, Dungeon Crawler Carl, etc. Mother of Learning isn't really LitRPG. DCC is, but I think it is the highest echelon of slop. The LitRPG stories that focus more on 'I'm gonna break the system and become the strongest' or 'every chapter has 2,000 words dedicated to explaining how some stat works' are the worst imo, I'd rather read a story where levels/skills are part of the world but aren't really the plot itself. If I had to recommend a currently on-going LitRPG from RoyalRoad it would be Super Supportive which is just about a teenager who lives on an Earth that was granted a system by alien wizards and wants to become a 'support' superhero after he's saved by one.
If you're interested in a non-LitRPG RoyalRoad story - highly recommend Pale Lights which is currently on-going and about a bunch of people contracted to various gods/spirits joining The Watch, which is like the in-world organization dedicated to ensuring various gods don't just destroy the world. If you like Pale Lights you might like their previous work, Practical Guide to Evil, but ehh...in my opinion it is only good up until a certain point where it goes off the rails.
Wander West in Shadow is a recently completed one on RoyalRoad, just about a wizard and a witch.
I've saved/starred this comment thank you for the juicy recommendations, I've so about this shit. I used to read a fanfic based off a web comic called the gamer that I absolutely loved so I know I'm gonna get lost in these
They're all really good!! I personally am the type of person who loves reading on his phone when I'm just sitting somewhere, eating, etc, so I have a whole Web Serials tab group on my phone for various RoyalRoad stories and other web serials. Nothing better than being really busy one week & checking in on a bunch of new chapters that weekend.
I really do recommend Wandering Inn, lots of good worldbuilding. One of the few web-serials where I actually prefer when the author completely forgets about the main character(s) and fan-favorites & instead does a random chapter introducing some new or previously undeveloped character. I actually re-read the first 15 chapters on a whim yesterday after linking it in my comment and forgot how good the beginning is. A constant drip-feed of stuff that gets really fleshed out during the next two or three volumes.
Worm is another famous web-serial (held in the same regard as like Wandering Inn), although not lit-rpg. More sci-fi than anything else I guess since it's a superheo novel, but I'd recommend it if you're just looking for other really well written web-serials. All of Wildbow's stuff actually - Worm, Pact, and Twig are all really good.