The arguments that do not fit in a review. Craft, villains, comparisons, and the occasional fight nobody asked for.
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Eric Ugland writes a genuinely interesting world and fills it with side quests. The three series keep hinting that they are converging, and for the twenty-four books I heard, the hinting was the whole of it. The reason is visible in what happens to the loot.
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Eight books in, the best series in the genre still has no obvious bad guy. The officials are middlemen. The syndicates are shareholders. The one candidate with the body count is a machine that was manufactured to produce exactly this outcome, and lately it has begun acting like something that had a say in it.
Versus
The two System-apocalypse series the genre keeps recommending in the same breath: Shirtaloon's He Who Fights with Monsters and Zogarth's The Primal Hunter. Both start with an Earth office worker, both make you earn Book 1, and both land in my top tier. So which one gets your next credit?
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Two of the most discussed protagonists in modern LitRPG share a strange parallel: both fight by corroding their enemies from the inside. This is the first Versus matchup on the site. Jason Asano against Jake Thayne, in good-faith fan theory-craft.
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The crossover the genre keeps demanding. Will Wight's Lindon, a post-Dreadgod Sage with authority over the concept of emptiness, against Matt Dinniman's Carl, the system-exploit Royal Bodyguard who reads patch notes for a living. In a fair fight there is no fight. So let's run two of them.
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