Reddit reviews Siphon: A Fantasy LitRPG Saga (A Touch of Power Book 1)

Dante’s Immortality involves people going to a magic/battle academy and it’s real good. Strong possibility the second book won’t come out, but I still recommend it.

Adventurer Academy by Daniel Prince is another good one.

I haven’t read it yet (high on my list tho), but I’m pretty sure Siphon by Jay Boyce has a magic academy vibe as well

I strongly recommend a KU (Kindle Unlimited) subscription on amazon, typically there are deals this time of year

the genre is blessed in that practically every litrpg book of note is available on KU

among KU, I'd recommend starting with Life Reset and Ascend Online

for online litrpg, as mentioned Royal Road is a great source. Some of the ones of note there:

• Azarinth Healer - brawling tank (female protag, and don't let the title fool you, it's a bit of a running joke where people underestimate her because she's 'just a healer', then she beats the crap out of them)
  
• Delve - deep dive into the math and system geekery
  
• Chrysalis - reincarnated as an ant
  
  adjacent to litrpg is progression fantasy, which is all about, well, progressing from weak to strong and small to big
  
  on KU the Cradle series is based on eastern cultivation novels and Divine Dungeon is a fantastic intro to the dungeon core genre
  
  on RR, Mother of Learning is absolutely stunning
  
  
  there aren't many with female protags, but of the ones there are, practically all of them are OP, including Siphon and Metaworld Chronicles. Among the ones that aren't, you have Stonehaven League and Forge of Destiny (also cultivation like Cradle, you can keep up with the original quest here)

Agreed, crafting is probably my favorite part of any game-lit book and the item upgrade system is likely my favorite of those systems I've found. It's just very rarely used it seems. Other than the translated novel I mentioned the only fan-fiction I know off the top of my head that has made some form of progress is a Naruto fan-fiction called "Kenji the shinobi craftsmen" or some such which is still in it's early days.

To be honest I really wish there was a book that was just focused on a guy getting either this item upgrade system or some other crafting power and it just being a story of him either traveling around and crafting stuff or a story about them just starting a small shop in the middle of nowhere and it some how becoming famous. It gets tiresome reading the same story about how he gets this power and becomes the most amazingly powerful person or goes on to save the universe/etc.

A solid example of what i mean is Siphon by Jay Boyce. The main character is great at magic but so far she seems to want to be in the background providing the research/items that make others powerful and let them go on to do things. I'm unsure if that will change in later books as only the first one has come out so far though.

I do believe I am rambling. I just want a more crafting intensive/in-depth book and less op adventure.

Siphon by Jay Boyce

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