The CritRPG Podcast is a magical place where numbers go up and nerds talk about books. It's your one-stop-shop to get to know the authors of your favorite LitRPG, Progression Fantasy, and Royal Road authors.
As for me, I am also human and never wear the flesh of my enemies as a suit.
when zogarth started describing how he was diving deeper and deeper in mangas to animes to light novels to xiaxia to korean novels to asian historical fiction to progressive fantasy to litrpg , it was like listening to the story of my life these past few years. In any case love the podcast and its so great listening to the interviews with the authors i grew to love through their work. Thanks for this and keep it up!
Another vote for Quest Academy! His other story on Royal Road is good, too (Wildcards), but it's stubbed, damnit, while he writes out his contract for QA. It's hilarious how the rest of the ENTIRE world pronounces Randidly's name "randid-ly", and Noret pronounces it "ran-diddly". :)
Neal Barrett Jr has a bit more of a following than amazon implies. He wrote before Amazon was really a thing. His goodreads have a couple hundred ratings each. Not a ton, but not tiny
Don't have timestamps but their conversation about halfway through about finding a balance between being unproductively stressed and unproductively relaxed reminded me of a saying. "An often frustrating amount of life seems to come down to finding a balance point somewhere in between a minimum of two extremes." I thought it up myself and have been using it for years. I, THE CREATOR of this saying, have found it frustrating how often it can apply.
Vibes really are important. Some readers have the maturity to drop a great book because they didn't personally sync with it, others will think that is a flaw and complain. I think this is why those "expect this" lists in blurbs became popular, just saying outright what the promises of content are, to filter out those who don't like those vibes.
I had to click just to comment. Because you know it beforehand. (I also once did an April fool at 23:50, just so that people would assume it was real because they were seeing it on the 2nd...)
I am not quite sure what he meant about Zogarth's fight scenes. To me Zogarth writes horrible fight scenes. They are actually the part of Primal Hunter that I enjoy the least.
Tbh I stopped reading PH when I noticed issues that I noticed being said by other people and nothing changing. I can understand that it is mentally taxing to read those and economically viable not to, but the point of Royal Road (or what I thought was the point - forming a community of authors and readers) gets lost. Zogarth seems like a nice dude though. I heard the episode from beginning to end on 1x speed.
