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YouTube Poops have been a guilty pleasure of mine for the past few years. No, they're not what they sound like. Are there any more men (or women) of culture here? If so, post a link to your favorite YTPs here.

I'm getting ready to release XNPC early next month, and I'm going to drop the first nine chapters all on day one on Royal Road so it'll be eligible for the Rising Stars list. But I remember hearing that Scribble Hub has a limit on how many chapters you can post in one day before you're flagged...

Someone gets turned into a dungeon core, but instead of doing the normal dungeon core thing (building a dungeon around himseld and filling it with traps and monsters to protect him) instead he uses his new fleshcrafting powers (what he would normally use to create monsters) to build himself a...

For the past year or so, I've been really interested in trying to make a visual novel. Does anyone have any experience with this? I've heard that Ren'py is the best tool for it. I used to use Twine to make fun little (non-visual) choose your own adventure stories, so I'm somewhat familiar with...

Here's something I haven't been able to make my mind up about while editing XNPC. I've been giving dungeons levels according to the median of the monsters inside them. So if a dungeon has mobs that range from level 10 to level 20, the dungeon will be rated at level 15. But one dungeon they go to...

While proofreading XNPC, it occurred to me that I've gotten into the habit of using all caps when one of my characters yells. I know that's not considered professional, and I can't think of any professionally published books that do it off the top of my head. I think it works all right in a...

My artist is finally done with XNPC's cover! I think it looks awesome. What do you all think?

I don't like having to use my book's narration to just straight out explain things if I don't have to. Like, if a name is pronounced a certain way, I don't want to have to go "The word was spelled [blah] but he pronounced it [bleh]." I just wrote this as a way to make it sound a little more...

In XNPC, dungeons aren't measured in levels like Heroes and monsters are. Instead, they have skull ratings, with the difficulty going up the more skulls it has. That's harder to get across in text than I expected, though. Usually, my character boxes look like this: LEVEL 25 ECCLESIASTIC VIPER...

I'm editing XNPC, and I can't make up my mind about this sentence: He flinched when she grabbed his cast and held it up to the light, as if she could see through it like an envelope and judge how the bone was healing. Is holding an envelope up to the light to see through it a common enough...

I've been watching One Piece, and I'm on the Sabaody Park arc with the Celestial Dragons. I'm at the part where they're trying to rescue their friend from the human auction, and...is it just me, or are the Celestial Dragons too hatable? Yeah, I know, you're supposed to hate the villains. Half...

When I release XNPC, I want it to be on the first day of the month. I'm just waiting for my cover to be finished, but it doesn't look like that will be until at least a couple days into December. That means if I stick to my plan, the earliest I can release it is on January 1st. That doesn't...

Abilities and skills play a big role in XNPC, but until now I haven't really had any way to limit which skills the characters can use. They get new skills as they level up, but they can also learn skills outside their class' skill tree with skillbooks. The problem there was that there was...

Have you ever stopped to think about just how backwards the concept of burnout actually is? Brain: "I love doing thing! Thing is my favorite thing to do!" You: "Okay, let's do thing!" Brain: "I will literally jump off a cliff if I ever have to do thing again."

I came up with this to advertise XNPC when it releases. From what I've heard, meme ads get more clicks on Royal Road. What do you guys think?

I'm nearly done writing XNPC (the first book, anyway) and something just occurred to me: out of the seventy or so chapters that make up the book, seventeen of those chapters are flashbacks that explore the backstory of one of the main characters. How they met the rest of their party, how they...

Steam just announced their followup to the Steam Deck, the Steam Machine. Frankly, I'm hyped. It's going to be six times as powerful as the Steam Deck, meaning that while the Deck was somewhat limited in what games it could play, there won't be many titles this can't handle. I feel like this...

There are no real swear words in XNPC. Who or whatever's in charge decided that forcing people to kill monsters on a daily basis or else become mindless flesh robots was fine, but cussing was a step too far. So whenever someone tries to swear, the System forces them to say something else. So far...

Hello, strangers! My name is CountVanBadger. I'm new around these here parts, and looking forward to making some new friends! Anywho, I'm planning to release my first litrpg, XNPC, on here and a couple other websites sometime in the next couple months. I have high hopes for this book, so I want...