LitRPG Reads: RPG + DnD + Books = LitRPG

Author Interview with Michael Chatfield

A Brit living in Canada, Michael Chatfield is the author of the Free Fleet and Harmony War military based space opera series. After getting thoroughly hooked by science fiction and LitRPG, Michael …

Author Interview with Conor Kostick

by Paul Bellow

Conor Kostick is a writer and historian living in Dublin. As a novelist he was awarded the Farmleigh writer’s residency for the summer of 2010 and a place on the …

Author Interview With Justin Lincoln

by Paul Bellow

Our next author interview is with Justin Lincoln. A marketer by day, he built Great LitRPG before launching his own book in our burgeoning genre. The novel, Martyrs: Legends of the …

RPG Legends: Link and Zelda

by Paul Bellow

While Final Fantasy is often thought of as the game that introduced RPGs to North America, the truth is that another title did so first. The Legend of Zelda might …

Author Interview With Dave Willmarth

by Paul Bellow

Next up in our series of interviews with LitRPG authors we have Dave Willmarth. If you’re into LitRPG or GameLit, you’ve likely heard about The Greystone Chronicles. If not, you …

Author Interview with KT Hanna

by Paul Bellow

KT Hanna has a love for words. Born in Australia, she met her husband in a computer game, moved to the U.S.A. and went into culture shock. Bonus? Not as …

What D&D Class Should You Play in 5e?

by Paul Bellow

Dungeons and Dragons is a constantly-evolving game. The 5th Edition is a huge return to form after the more video game-inspired 4th Edition, and that means a return to a …

Virtual Reality Games for PC in 2018

by Paul Bellow

VR is slowly approaching the point where it can’t be dismissed as just a novelty. There are some truly fantastic games being released now, even though most of them do …

RPG Legends: Tracy Hickman

by Paul Bellow

ViNull (Michael Neel) from Knoxville, TN, USA

The legends of the RPG world come from a number of different backgrounds. While you can trace quite a few of them to the early days of D&D, the latter …

New Video Games for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch in April 2018

by Paul Bellow

It’s a good time to be a gamer. We wanted to take a quick look at all the great video games coming out this month for PS4, Xbox One, PC, …

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What is LitRPG Reads?

Simply put, LitRPG stories take place in a game (or gamelike) world with rpg-style progression. Basically, an RPG in narrative format. RPG + Books = LitRPG! The term LitRPG was originally coined by three Russian authors back around 2010. I cover a lot of Dungeons & Dragons and Tabletop RPG content here too!

About LitRPG Reads

Paul Bellow is a LitRPG author, decades-long gamer, RPG game developer, and publisher of several online communities. In other words, an old school webmaster.

He also developed and runs LitRPG Adventures, a set of advanced RPG generators powered by GPT-3 AI. Here at LitRPG Reads, he publishes articles about LitRPG books, tabletop RPG books, and all sorts of DND content that's free to use in your personal tabletop campaign - i.e. non-commercial use.

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