âDeath is temporary. The fine print is forever.â Core Concept & Initial Impressions: In our ever-growing partnership with Bardic Planet, IâSilas Quibble, reputable spokesgoblin for Dubious Derivatives⢠Limitedâhave been invited back to co-author this First Impressions review of Paragon of Weaponmasters.When I first dug into the work, I knew I was the right goblin for…
Core Premise & Initial Impression: Stay with me, dear reader, because this one might bring up some awkward memories. For the lads, you know exactly what I mean. Iâm sure itâs no less true for some of you ladies as well. Throw yourself back to when you were thirteen. A pimply youthâhormones aflame, eyes wandering…
âWelcome to Kyrus Academy: where the obstacle courses break bones, the bullies draw blood, and the Sorting Hat explodes if youâre talented enough.â Core Premise & Initial Impression: The magical academy: a staple in any young childâs life. I remember my wizarding daysâhow weâd laugh while Professor Slughorn oinked furiously from pupil to pupil, desperate…
âItâs a murder mystery where the biggest mystery is how the priest hasnât burned the church down yet.â Core Premise & Initial Impression: What can I say about The Partisan Chronicles? Well, I can tell you this: I wanted to like this one. I really did. On paper, it has so much going for it….
âSpace may be infinite, but A Pioneerâs Blood makes it feel like four walls closing inâand thatâs the thrill.â Core Premise & Initial Impression: Space. The Final Frontier. Finalânot because thereâs nowhere left to go, but because space itself would rather like to kill you. At least thatâs true in the latest serial novel Bardic…
âTurns out, when gods get bored of eternity, they donât take up golfâthey isekai themselves into a galactic war.â Core Premise & Initial Impression. Galaxy of Gods is a book that I read. It has words⌠English words. Though if you translated it, itâd be in that language, I guess. It has characters and stuff….
âMagic runs on emotions. Fabrisse runs on pure, undiluted embarrassment.â Core Premise & Initial Impression: Take a young man, and shoot him up with heavy doses of pathetic. And I donât mean street stuff: the pitifulness of an unheedful galoot, fumbling on the floor, glasses knocked from his head having strolledâwith purposeâinto a lamppost while…
âHe died for art. But that won’t stop his vision” Core Premise & Initial Impression. The Pictomancer is a LitRPG unlike any youâve ever read before. Unless youâve actually read one beforeâ Then yeah. Then itâs just like that. Across the twenty-two chapters Iâve read, it rarely strays from the genreâs staples. With one notable…
Have you ever done something you truly regret? I donât mean the casual, âAh, I couldâve handled that better,â kind of regret. I mean the real kind. The kind that wakes you up in a seedy motel room at two in the afternoon on a workday. You scan the room; empty Bud Light cans litter…
âIt doesnât reinvent the wheelâbut it drives it straight through a dungeon wall.â Core Premise & Initial Impression. Slave Origins wears its LitRPG badge proudly. Itâs got all the classics: levelling, monsters, dungeon crawling, magic weapons, loot, and a familiar cast of non-human racesâelves, orcs, beastkin, lizardmen⌠and humans. (Yeah, I knowâhumans are technically human….