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S4E10 - LitRPG and GameLit Books - “When you get punched by a skeleton you feel it”

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Support this Podcast in 3 Clicks! In This Episode: We talk about the LitRPG genre of books in a listener-sponsored episode from Patreon!  Thanks for the idea and the support of the podcast Ken Murray! If you've never heard of the genre, that's okay! We dig into what makes up the LitRPG genre, and how it's kind of a subgenre of the GameLit category that's popped up over the past few years. In general, it is a little hard for us to define the genre in specific terms. The best we can really lay out (aside from the books that we talk about in this episode) are Sword Art Online, .hack, and maybe Ready Player One.  After we stopped recording, Beej thought about potentially For the Win by Cory Doctorow, but still...that's a little different. And so is REAMDE by Neal Stephenson. They're at the very least LitRPG-adjacent. General Thoughts on LitRPG We both generally like the genre, and the books Ken got to us were chosen specifically for our tastes. Void got Dungeon Born by Dakota Krout, and Beej read Ascend Online by