Title: Peculiar Soul Author: TMarkos Rating: M Genre: Action, Adventure Status: WIP Library Category: Original Fiction Chapters: 44 Wordcount: 200k Link: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/42433/peculiar-soul Summary: Not everyone gets a soul. The rise of industry and mechanization has sent the world's population booming upward, striving relentlessly for the fixed handful of souls that level armies and steer the fate of nations. The remnants of a crumbled empire fight in a grinding, bloody...

Title: The Primal Hunter Author: Zogarth Rating: M Genre: LitRPG/Adventure Status: In-Progress Library Category: Original Fiction Pairings: N/A Summary: On just another normal Monday, the world changed. The universe had reached a threshold humanity didn’t even know existed, and it was time to finally be integrated into the vast multiverse. A world where power is the only thing that one can truly rely on. Jake, a seemingly average office worker, finds himself thrust into this new world. Into...

Title: The Perfect Run Author: Void Herald Rating: M Genre: Adventure/Comedy/Mystery/Superhero Status: In-Progress Library Category: Original Fiction Summary: Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, superpowered criminals, and true monsters. It's a...

Title: Threadbare Author: Andrew Seiple Rating: T? Genre: LitRPG/Adventure Status: In-Progress Library Category: Original Fiction Summary: Meet Threadbare. He is twelve inches tall, full of fluff, and really, really bad at being a hero. Magically animated and discarded by his maker as a failed experiment, he is saved by a little girl. But she's got problems of her own, and he might not be able to help her. Fortunately for the little golem, he's quick to find allies, learn skills, gain...

Title: Beware of Chicken: Book 1 Author: Casualfarmer Rating: T Genre: Adventure Status: Complete Library Category: Original Fiction Pairings: so far, Jin Rou/Meiling Summary: In which a transmigrator decides the only winning move is to get the hell out of dodge. Link: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.910799/ (Spacebattles) https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/39408/beware-of-chicken (Royalroad) So we've been talking about this for ages on the Discord, and...

Lately I've been reading trashy shit again, part of which is LitRPGs, so I started thinking about how I'd write one. Leaving aside the questions of plot, setting, and all that other rot, though - how would you design a LitRPG's game-like system? Obviously the biggest part of these stories is watching Number Go Up, much like they would in a real RPG. Question is, which numbers or stats to include? Do you institute limits like level caps, stat caps, etc? Do you have HP and MP, and if so what...

Title: Daybreak on Hyperion Author: Aorii Rating: unrated Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Genderbender, Action, Military (Strategy), Politics, Romance (Slow) Status: WIP Library Category: Original Fiction Link: https://krytykal.org/daybreak/ Summary: Born into noble prestige and gifted with genius intellect, Pascal was a promising officer cadet who rose to national fame before even graduating. At the mere age of nineteen, he had everything a young man could wish for... Except his habitual...

Title: Summus Proelium Author: Cerulean Rating: M Genre: Superhero, Urban Fantasy Pairing: None so far Fandom: Original Universe (spinoff of Heretical Edge) Chapters: 95 Worlds ~300,000 Updated: May 11, 2020 Published: March 4, 2019 Status: In-progress Link: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/summus-proelium-table-of-contents/ Given all the positive feedback coming in about Cerulean's webserial Heretical Edge, I figured it was time to put this superhero spinoff up for review. --- To...

Title: Heretical Edge Author: Cerulean Rating: T Genre: Urban Fantasy, Detective, Action/Adventure Pairing: None Fandom: Original Universe Chapters: 500+ Worlds 1.5M+ Updated: February 4, 2020 Published: October 3, 2015 Status: Work in Progress Link: Year One Table of Contents + Chapter One Author Summary: Most easily classified as an urban fantasy/detective/action, Heretical Edge revolves around Felicity 'Flick' Chambers, a teenage girl who is brought into the hidden world of the...

Title: Lord of The Mysteries Author: Cuttlefish That Loves Diving Rating: T Genre: Lovecraftian, Fantasy, Mystery, Isekai Status: WIP Chapters: 776 (More if you can read moon runes) Fandom: Original Fiction Summary: With the rising tide of steam power and machinery, who can come close to being a Beyonder? Shrouded in the fog of history and darkness, who or what is the lurking evil that murmurs into our ears? Waking up to be faced with a string of mysteries, Zhou Mingrui finds himself...

Title: RE: Trailer Trash Author: FortySixtyFour Rating: M Genre: Time travel, Slice of life, Comedy Status: WIP Chapters: 14 Fandom: Original Fiction Summary: In the year 2045, an MRI mishap transmits Tabitha Moore's mind back into her body in the past. Now it's 1998, she's thirteen years old, and she has to confront her long, miserable lifetime of failures—and once again being trailer trash—all over again. ...Or does she? Link: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21322/re-trailer-trash It...

Title: Bitter Author: V. Moody Rating: T Genre: Fantasy, LitRPG Status: Technically Complete Chapters: 601 Fandom: Original Fiction Summary: VRMMORPG has arrived, along with: bugs, exploits, OP classes, over the top nerfs, p2w, ridiculous RNG, lockboxes, raging players, broken mechanics, limited bag space, tedious crafting... and then there's the goblins and ogres. Britta isn't cool. She isn't popular, she isn't pretty. School life isn't much fun, but that's the way the world is. Which...

Title: Reverend Insanity (also known as Daoist Gu) Author: Gu Zhen Ren Rating: M Status: Ongoing Length: 800+ chapters translated Library Category: Original Link: Here be the chapters. Here are some reviews. Summary: Humans are clever in tens of thousands of ways, Gu are the true refined essences of Heaven and Earth. The Three Temples are unrighteous, the demon is reborn. Former days are but an old dream, an identical name is made anew. A story of a time traveler who keeps on being reborn. A...

Title: Forty Millenia of Cultivation Author: Enlightened Master Crouching Cow Rating: M Status: Ongoing Length: 1017 chapters, roughly 2000 words per chapter Published: Sept 29, 2016 Library Category: Original Link: Link for summary and reviews, Link with all chapters so far Summary: In a world teeming with cultivators, Li Yao, who makes his living collecting scrap metal, encounters the soul of a titan powerhouse from forty thousand years in the past. I've been reading this and I figured...

Title: Unsong Author: Scott Alexander Rating: Probably M. That is to say, there's no official rating, but one or two chapters deserve trigger warning: torture Genre: Fantasy, AU Earth Status: Complete Fandom: Original Fiction Pairings: None/ Irrelevant Link: http://unsongbook.com/ Summary: Aaron Smith-Teller works in a kabbalistic sweatshop in Silicon Valley, where he and hundreds of other minimum-wage workers try to brute-force the Holy Names of God. All around him, vast forces have been...

Title: Metaworld Chronicles Author: Wutosama Rating: T (no official rating) Genre: Action/Adventure Status: Work in Progress Fandom: Original Fiction Published: Sept 22, 2017 Pairings: None Link: Here, First Chapter Summary: Gwen Song awoke in a new world where all that she was familiar with had disappeared and she must begin from zero. A 21st-century tale of an Earth ruled instead by magic, where humanity lives in enclaves shielded from magical beasts and otherworldly beings. Follow Gwen as...

Vampires are depicted across fiction in all sorts of formats to point where the only commonality between them seems to be "thing which drinks blood". So which version do you like best? Are they susceptible to sunlight, can they transform into bats, do they have powers, are the newly turned automatically bonded with their sires, etc. Secondly, what sort of vampire do you want to see more of? What kind of vampire society worldbuilding interests you most? I enjoy a more... chaotic setting,...

Title: The Life of a Magister Author: nomdeguerre Rating: M Genre: Action/Adventure Fandom: Original Universe Chapters: 6 Words: 170k Updated: January 28, 2017 Published: December 1, 2016 Status: Abandoned Fiction.Live Link Author's Summary: The Imperial Magisters of Thruna are among the most powerful spellcasters in the known world, but despite their magical might the empire to which they offer their services is slowly rotting due to its own decadence and corruption. This is an Original...

Title: The Iron Teeth - A Goblin's Tale Author: Scott Straughan Rating: T Genre: Fantasy Status: WIP - on book four, with 3-4k updates twice a week Fandom: Original Fiction Summary: These are the Iron Teeth. This is the north proper, the very knife edge of civilization. Here among the stark mountains and endless forests there are undiscovered treasures, amongst countless unmarked graves. Here, monsters stalk the night and outlaws gather. It is the land of the desperate and the foolish. A...

Title: Worth the Candle Author: cthulhuraejepsen Rating: T Genre: litRPG, Adventure Status: Complete Fandom: Original work. Summary: It's a self-insert litRPG portal fantasy, loosely based on my personal experience of falling into a portal to another world and discovering that I had a character sheet attached to my soul. Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11478249?view_full_work=true Mirror: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/25137/worth-the-candle So while the summary is factually...

Title: The Wandering Inn Author: Pirateaba Rating: M (no official rating, so I'm basing this on the violence and coarse language. Mostly it is T but I think some of the later chapters push it into M) Genre: Action/Adventure Status: Work in Progress Fandom: Original Fiction Published: July 27, 2016 Pairings: None Link: Here, First Chapter Summary: An inn is a place to rest, a place to talk and share stories, or a place to find adventures, a starting ground for quests and legends. In this...

Title: How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis Author: Mooderino Rating: Unrated Genre: Action / Adventure Status: Work in Progress Fandom: Original Fiction Words: 200 chapters and counting. So loads. Summary: What if you were transported to a fantasy world with no special abilities, no OP weapons and no status screen to boost your stats? Never mind finding the dragon’s treasure or defeating the Demon Lord, you only need to worry about one thing—how to stay alive. A group of young...

Title: Chrysalis Author: BeaverFur Rating: N/A Genre: SciFi Status: Complete Fandom: Original Pairings: N/A Summary: None posted by author. Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/55v9e1/chrysalis/ I know this isn't the typical story posted on DLP but I think that it deserves to be read. I am typically not a fan of all the HFY (Humanity, Fuck Yeah) stories since they seem to repeat themselves all the time. Humans are scary and smarter and more insane than everyone else seems...

I stumbled on this story a couple of months ago and it's been great. I think this place can maybe help the universe grow as there are plenty of active writers around. The premise is that humans make contact with aliens, and I won't say more and let you find out for yourselves. It is generally filled with moments of awesome, which the one thing that hooks me to a story. This link is the chronological collection of the stories so far....

Title: The Gods Are Bastards Author: D.D. Webb Rating: M- Probably it's not really states but that's what I'd give it. Genre: Fantasy/Adventure/Western Status: WIP (several books complete, book 10 in progress) Fandom: Original Fiction Pairings: Some develop but I don't want to spoil. Summary:Evil is rising. The world is rent by strife. The gods have turned away from us. In times past, heroes of sword and sorcery have always risen to turn back the tide of darkness… But what will become...

Title: A Practical Guide to Evil Author: Erraticerrata Rating: YA Genre: Action/Adventure Pairing: None Fandom: Original Universe Chapters: 50+ Words: 150k+ Updated: April 13, 2016 Published: April 18, 2015 Status: Work in Progress Link: Table of Contents +Prologue Author's Summary:The Empire stands triumphant. For twenty years the Dread Empress has ruled over the lands that were once the Kingdom of Callow, but behind the scenes of this dawning golden age threats to the crown are rising....

Title: I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service (SAR). Author: searchandrescuewoods. Rating: T. Genre: Horror / Mystery. Status: Complete. Fandom: Original. Pairings: None. Summary: Weird things go on in forests, and this SAR officers want to share. Link: Reddit series: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Final. This is in a different style than the regular stories posted to DLP. They were posted in separate parts on nosleep and contains the sometimes...

Title: Lackadaisy Cats Author: Tracy Butler Rating: M Genre: Crime/Adventure/Mystery/Humour Status: In progress, updates maybe once per month Fandom: Nil (Original fiction) Summary: Taken from TVTropes A webcomic by Tracy J. Butler set during Prohibition-era St. Louis, Lackadaisy follows the exploits of the Lackadaisy crew, a formerly prosperous crime gang fallen on hard times after the murder of their boss, Atlas May. Now under the leadership of Mitzi, widow of the 'businessman', they...

Title: Gunnerkrigg Court Author: Tom Siddell Rating: K+ Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure/Urban-Fantasy Status: In progress, updates three times per week. Fandom: Nil (Original fiction) Summary: Taken from Wikipedia The comic tells the story of Antimony Carver, a young girl who has just started attending a strange and mysterious school called Gunnerkrigg Court, and the events that unfold around her as she becomes embroiled in political intrigues between Gunnerkrigg Court and the inhabitants of the...

Title: The Change Storms: Induction Author: eaglejarl/David Storrs Rating: M (none provided, but seems appropriate given violence/gore) Genre: Superhero/Action Status: Complete Fandom: Original Fiction Pairings: None Summary: The Change Storms will give you superpowers, but they might kill you or turn you into a horrific monster. The Changed--the people with superpowers--are themselves miniature Change Storms; being around them will eventually cause you to Change, with all...

Title: The Anglo-American Nazi War Author: Jon Kacer Rating: M Genre: Alternate history/military Status: Complete Fandom: None - original fiction Summary: What if the Third Reich had managed to defeat the USSR? How would the US and Great Britain have reacted? What would have happened to Europe if Hitler and his evil minions had gotten the change to pursue their mad schemes to Germanize the Continent? If after an uneasy truce the war had reignited, but with the vastly more powerful...

Title: The Gam3 Author: Ephemerality Genre: Adventure,Fantasy,Sci-Fi,Virtual Reality Fandom: Original Universe Published: 23/01/15 Status: In Progress Summary: The Earth is changing. Aliens invaded, bringing with them social upheaval, advanced technology and an armada of peacekeeping robots. But Alan, a college student pursuing a now-useless degree, cares little about all of this. He has only one thing on his mind: the Game. A fully immersive virtual reality, the Game appears to be a major...

Title: Coiling Dragon/Panlong Author: I Eat Tomatoes Genre: Adventure/Action Summary: Linely Baruch is a young six year old boy in the Yulan Continent who hopes to become a great Warrior or Magus of the Saint Rank, an encounter with one of the supreme experts of his world leads him to the Coiling Dragon Ring, a supreme artifact. Link: http://www.wuxiaworld.com/cdindex-html/ Coiling Dragon has been on my mind for a very long time ever since it was reccomended in the Other Fandoms...

Title: Continue Online Author: Steven Morse Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy Word Count: For now 3 books with about 120,000 words each. Update Rate: Twice weekly, Tuesday and Friday Summary: Grant Legate had a good life. Eventually, Murphy’s Law kicked him in the teeth. Just once was enough to set him back for almost three years. He lost his fiancee, was fired from his prior job, and is only now stable enough to stand on his own two feet. Meanwhile the rest of the world moved on, growing enamored...

Title: Oglaf Author: Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne Rating: NC-17 Genre: Fantasy/Humor/Silly Porn Status: WIP Summary: Oglaf is an often seriously NSFW webcomic by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne. Most of the episodes (called "stories") are single non-sequential pages, though some stretch out longer; the very first one was eight pages long. The comic started out as a gag-a-week work, but slowly started including longer Story Arcs, most of the time focusing on Ivan and his never-ending...

Title: The Obamadammerung Author: Random Acts of Shark Rating: T/M Genre: Action/Humor Status: Complete Fandom: American Political Satire Pairings: None Summary: No summary given, but "the 2008 election, but steampunk and as an epic." Link: http://randomactsofshark.blogspot.com/2008/11/table-of-contents.html With the end of Obama's eight years coming up, I think it's instructive to dredge this old work back up. It's amazing to see a vision of Obama's 2008 campaign - before the...

Title: The Order of the Stick Author: Rich Burlew Rating: Roughly T Genre: Adventure/Humor Status: WIP (980 "pages" in) Fandom: Original Webcomic, based on (to some extent) the Dungeons and Dragons system. Summary: Taking place in a magical world that loosely operates by the rules of the 3.5 edition of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), the comic follows the sometimes farcical exploits of six adventurers as they strive to save the world from an evil lich sorcerer....

Title: The Zombie Knight Author: George M. Frost Rating: M Genre: Horror/Dark Fantasy Status: WIP Fandom: Original fiction Summary: A young man dies, and a grim reaper offers to revive him in exchange for servitude. Responsibilities include saving other people’s lives and occasionally fighting unspeakable horrors. But this particular young man is cripplingly shy. No, seriously. He can barely even speak to people. It’s really bad.So I was reading this not too long ago, and despite the...

Name: Twig Author: Wildbow Genre: Undetermined Rating: M Status: WIP Link: https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2014/12/24/taking-root-1-1/ Summary: [spoiler] We have a new entry from Wildbow now that Pact is finished. We don't have a genre for it, but from the summary I'd go with biopunk; one of the options Wildbow gave us for the next story after Worm ended. Looks pretty creeptastic so far and we've got an inkling of a strong protagonist group to start off with, which would cover the...

Title: Undying Happiness Author: Zelkats Genre: Slice of Life, horror, humor, romance Rating: PG13 I’d say Fandom: Original Fiction / Original Webcomic Published: 2015 (though the first part was drawn in 2012) Status: Work in Progress Summary: Summer break's here and Naomi's dying to leave her house to meet an online friend for the first time. She travels far from the city to where he lives, but upon realizing who or what he is, she might just decide to turn back and run the hell home....

Series Title: ERA Website: http://www.worldofera.com/ Tapastic: http://tapastic.com/wavechan14/series First Prequel: Title: Era: Ibuki Author: Wavechan14 aka Wave Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure Rating: M for violence Fandom: Original Fiction / Original Webcomic Chapters: 43 'Episodes' Pages: 286 Published: 2013 - 2014 Status: Complete. Summary: A short story about a girl with a kind heart who is faced against a world that's just too strong for her to fight. But it doesn't stop her from...

Title: Ava's Demon Author: Michelle Czajkowski Rating: PG13 Genre: Sci-Fi/Action/Adventure Status: WIP Fandom: Original Webcomic Pairings: n/a Summary: The story of Ava's Demon follows a 15 year old girl named Ava Ire. She has the misfortune of being haunted by a demon named Wrathia Bellarmina, who takes joy in manipulating Ava's actions to make her life as miserable as possible. Only later does Ava learn about Wrathia's true motives, and little does she know how tumultuous her life...

Title: Nocte Yin Author: Zhen Xue Qing Rating: T Genre: Fantasy/Adventure Status: Completed Fandom: Original Fiction Words: 82,904 Summary: Meet Nocte: your average 12 year old girl. Now meet her family: your average evil, sadistic, villainous and yet, somehow, loving family. Problem: Said family’s making said girl go to Evil Academy. Even More of a Problem: She doesn’t want to be evil. Link: https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2094105/1/Nocte-Yin I'm putting this up for recommendation...

This is something I've had on my mind for a couple of weeks now. Back when I sent in my contract to the first Anthology, I simply ran with my given name. Same with the second. I felt rather... diminished, shall we say, when I saw some of the other guys(C.M. Carter, Brian X. James, in particular, which sound fantastic). It reminded me of some of the big names in fiction - J.K. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien, George R. R. Martin, Robert Jordan, so on and so forth. While I have no doubt their...

Title: Under My Skin Author: Asynca Rating: M Genre: Romance, Drama Status: WIP Fandom: Original Pairings: Min and Bree Summary: Under My Skin is the story of Min Lee, a young woman who has everything. She has a great job with a great salary, a great boyfriend, a great house and a great family. Her future looks bright. Still... she can't help noticing the cracks in her life and privately wondering if this is all that there is. It's not until she meets Bree, a headstrong schoolgirl...

Title: Space Pulp Author: view Rating: M Genre: Adventure Status: Completed Fandom: Original Work Summary: Looks like I'm doin' a SPAAAACE PUUULLLP comic. Mostly for colorin' practice. Link: Space Pulp This is a funny/wonderful/quirky web comic that's just been completed. The art is slightly amateurish but enjoyable. The really great thing about this story is the characterization. It's clear that the author actually cares about the characters, and every interaction seems real, with...

Title: Nimona Author: Noelle Stevenson Rating: PG-13 for cartoon violence Genre: Adventure/Drama Status: WIP Fandom: Original Webcomic Pairings: n/a Summary: Lord Ballister Blackheart has a point to make, and his point is that the good guys aren't as good as they seem. He makes a comfortable living as a supervillain, but never really seems to accomplish much - until he takes on a new sidekick, Nimona, a shapeshifter with her own ideas of how things should be done. Unfortunately, most of...

Title: Pact Author: Wildbow Genre: Urban Fantasy Fandom: Original Fiction Status: Complete Summary: Blake Thorburn was driven away from home and family by a vicious fight over inheritance, returning only for a deathbed visit with the grandmother who set it in motion. He soon finds himself next in line to inherit the property, a trove of supernatural texts, and the many enemies his grandmother left behind her in the small town of Jacob’s Bell. Link:...

Title: Caelum Lex: Trials of the Dionysian Author: Hayley Greenhalgh and Jenn Bane Rating: T Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera Pairing: None applicable. Fandom: Original Universe/Web Serial Status: In Progress Link: Begins here Summary: Leta Adler is a young, well-bred Vescentian doctor who suddenly gets plucked off of her home planet by the unregistered criminal rustbucket, the Dionysian. The rustbucket she finds herself on belongs to the notorious weapons-dealing, smuggling and...

The Lay of Paul Twister Author: Anthony Peers Rated: Teen Genre: Adventure/Mystery Chapters: 29 Words: 102,019 Updated: Nov 23, 2013 Published: Mar 28, 2013 Status: Complete http://www.fictionpress.com/s/3112491/1/The-Lay-of-Paul-Twister When a young man from modern-day Earth finds himself somehow trapped in a fantasy world, he finds that making the best of it using 21st century knowledge is not nearly as simple as the stories he's read led him to believe. All he has going for...