Do I have a chance at making it in the serial webnovel market (Patreon+KU) if I refuse to make the silly, trope-heavy fantasy crap that seems to dominate this market?Im still debated between including LitRPG elements at all. I'd much rather limit stat progression to strenght, accuracy, athletism and social (MC hits the gym and now lifts heavier weights, shoots and throws more accurately, jumps/swims/runs faster and further, has more followers/lovers, respectively).My MC is a common citizen that helps a store owner get rid of some thieves, and eventually becomes a full-time vigilante (think GTA IV's or the first Watchdog's protagonists). He's a serious, handsome man with a wife and lovers (think Golgo13), but he's also flawed (temperamental, superstitious) and knows when to retreat when in a hopeless losing battle... not the loser-nerd turned invincible superhero/permavirgin/quirky chungus, wisecracks/oneliners-saying protagonist most LitRPG works seem to prefer... There's nothing worse than an MC that acts cocky and arrogant because he knows he has plot armor (this is usually a deadgiveaway for self-inserts).I disdain LitRPG tropes in general, specially mindless number stat dumping for every type of enemy that appears, and sassy familiars/System tutorial AI. I dont think there's a single LitRPG/Progression fantasy I'd call a masterpiece as of right now... but the genre has a lot of potential and I'd like to incursion in it, maybe even champion it.Maybe I'm not trying to do a different type of LitRPG/Profression Fantasy, but something completely different. Only thing I know is I want it to be a serial that finances itself by selling early access to patrons.Opinions?
>>24793742You still let them decide how the story goes?
>>24793742Write and post your work in wng so we can actually see.
will it have spice? if not, you won't even get a single read, much more a buy. you need to pander to neurotic women they have endless appetite for sloppas.
>>24793742Can you make it? Yes. Some of the most popular web serial stories don't have any of those tropes. I'm talking MoL, Worm, and so on. You don't have to write a litrpg if you don't want to. It's about how good your writing is, however. So just git gud
>>24793875I assume MoL is Mother of Learning. I couldnt get past the first chapter, I thought it was extremely mediocre, but I'll give it a chance again eventually (I often do that, drop things that I eventually come to enjoy).This is only the second time I hear of Worm. Who's the author? Is it on RoyalRoad?
>>24794052Worm is the granddaddy webnovel from 2011, and is the reason why nowadays like a fourth of works on RoyalRoad are about superheroes. No, it's not on Royalroad, and the author doesn't seem to care about playing the game. Despite doing very little to game the system (like patreon early access and so on), he still earns 4k/month: https://www.patreon.com/wildbowYou can read the actual webnovel here: https://parahumans.wordpress.com/table-of-contents/Which I recommend you do, it's actually pretty good. In fact, I find it strange that you want to work in this space, and have no clue about Worm.
>>24794388Marvel movies have made me hate superhero media for the most part, but Dark Knight (2008) was pretty good, and The Boys was okay, so I'll give Worm a try
>worm>good LmaoThe only webnovel I have found to be tolerable has been pale lights
