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Balthazar was just a random giant crab enjoying his life in a fantasy world full of bothersome human adventurers — until he accidentally discovered the secret of attributes and levels. And also pie. With baked goods and coin as his new life goals, he turns to the competitive business of trading the random junk adventurers loot every day. Balthazar will do everything to find a baker, except leave his pond, because exploring the dangerous world out there is for suckers. Meanwhile, adventurers just can't seem to stop dying around his home, and he keeps making great new friends by simply buying them.

In a world where Elves and Goblins are real, where Wizards and Witches cast terrible magic, and where level-100 Heroes lead parties against great evils, Dungeons are essential — places where stories are written, loot acquired, and legends born. And the narrator of this story is a Dungeon. Known as the Playwright, this Dungeon Core invites adventurers to the "Stage of Forgotten Fables" for a dramatic dungeon delve unlike any they have experienced before. Told from the perspective of the Dungeon Core itself, the story shifts between multiple POVs to show the growth of its characters. The LitRPG elements of levels, skills, and classes are present, though the focus leans toward narrative over number-crunching.

Being a zombie used to be boring. Chloe walked around the dungeon, got chopped up by adventurers, and respawned — over and over, until one day she woke up. Now she has smarts and a taste for freedom. Why stay in a stinky dungeon when there's a whole world to explore? Gods are stirring up chaos and treating the world like a game, and powerful factions are moving to stop them — but Chloe is mostly just here to eat brains.

The chronicles of one very exasperated Dungeon Core — formerly a human of Planet Earth — who just wants to build in peace. Unfortunately, even with a cheat, life isn't quite that charmed.

Things go awry when the forces of chaos recruit a new Dungeon Master. From underpaid pseudo-taxi driver to underground murder labyrinth builder, one young woman's life is getting flip-turned upside down. Being a dungeon might just beat doing rideshare for a living.

Dhane kicked the bucket in spectacular fashion — every bone crushed against the full force of a 40-ton garbage truck. His soul bounced into the abyss between worlds, drifting until an excited soul watcher fished him out and found him a new home: a heaven for gamers, with classes, killing mobs, and a beautiful fantasy world full of mysteries. At least, it would have been those things if his first day had gone a little differently. Instead, he finds himself locked in an eternal conflict between light and shadow — humans and monsters — potentially as the enemy to all. Join Dhane as he explores his new world, full of unique characters, RPG mechanics, and spiders — ugly, terrifying spiders — while learning what it means to be an Arachnomancer.

What does a world do to survive a continuous low-level influx of Isekai protagonists, each adding their own world's magic or superpowers to the mix? Whitney Ismael, software engineer, learns the answer: licensing and registration paperwork, search warrants, and special agents for the Bureau of Isekai Affairs.

At the end of his life, retired veteran Charles has spent his twilight years watching old movies and waiting for his grandkids to call. When his old friend introduces him to Crossroads, a groundbreaking VR world, Charles discovers he can move without pain and — most importantly — spend time with his family again. His solution: build something in the game worth visiting. Armed with a magic staff of inexplicable power, Charles sets off to find a place to call his own, accidentally becoming an NPC quest-giver, the villain of epic storylines, and an unlikely patriarch in a virtual world that might fill the emptiness of his real one.

Carnage, arson, and wanton destruction permeate the mind of Jeremy Fjord. However, Jeremy is a rebel — and the voices in his head will not dictate how he lives his life. Follow the adventures and misadventures of a simple necromancer wizard as he struggles against clerics, paladins, and the forces of good to attain his capitalist dreams.

22-year-old electrical engineer Ash Clifford inherited his grandfather's gothic mansion in a small town on the Pacific Rim. Now he's looking for a job to pay the bills. The only problem is that a seven-foot, antlered cryptid girl invaded his life and won't leave. Oh, and he has to convince an alien warship armada that he is the God-Emperor of Mankind. Not a big deal at all. This is fine.

Nick Klein is your average high school geek — if you can still call yourself average when your grandfather was a retired superhero and you've been trained in martial arts by a mysterious immortal mercenary. After his grandfather dies, Nick inherits the last version of the Rocket suit: powered armor that lets him shrug off bullets, smash through walls, and manipulate sound. Along with the suit comes the base of his grandfather's superhero team, its jet, and forty years of trophies from fighting criminals and aliens. Together, Nick and his friends — descendants of his grandfather's teammates — attempt to bring back a superhero team originally formed during World War 2, facing both the normal problems of high school and the less normal problems left over from their grandparents' past.

Deep beneath the earth, Corey finds himself reborn as a God Core — a sentient crystal with unusual powers. His new worshipers? A colony of incompetent gnomes scratching out an existence in their underground grotto. Corey soon realizes his gnome denizens are about to become extinct, threatened by blundering adventurers and raiding kobolds who serve an ancient, mysterious rival god. With the aid of a helper sprite and a menagerie of newly evolved creatures, he must protect and guide his gnomes until they can stand on their own. But the kobold army is on the march.

After a tragic accident ends Samson's life, he's given a second chance by Aki — the grim reaper in a tracksuit and a fellow fan of Samson's favorite light novel series "My Royal Academia." The condition: save the story from its hiatus. Reincarnated into the very real world of the novel's first chapter and granted the ability "Jack of All Trades" — which lets him learn any skill, talent, or weapon — Samson must navigate life at the prestigious Royal Academy armed with knowledge of the story's most crucial secrets. The fate of the story and his own life are inextricably linked.

The Gods were believed to be immortal — so far beyond the natural laws of the universe that their crimes went unpunishable. A clock hung over every mortal, counting down to the day the Goddess of Death claimed them. Knell Coda was never born in the normal sense. He came into the world outside the reach of the gods, to a family that had committed the cardinal sin of defying them. Their meddling wound the hands on a new clock — one that hung above the heads of the gods themselves, because of one secret Knell uncovered: the Gods can be tricked, defeated, and killed. To most, seeking the head of a goddess would be madness. To Knell, it is an inevitability.

A diary account of being reincarnated as a catgirl NPC in a dungeon. There are loops. There are marble races. There are other catgirls. There is also ice cream.

In a modern Korea where fifteen percent of humanity has awakened as Manaborn, rifts tear open across the city and the strong rise as Rifters. Sam Jimin, a poor orphan scraping by on the outskirts of Seoul, pinned everything on his Awakening. He received Rank E-1 — no skills, a dead end. Hidden behind that humiliating result, however, is a Unique Skill no one has ever seen: Skillmaster, the ability to create and edit skills at a cost only he can pay. With nothing left to lose, he gambles everything on it — fighting his way up through academies, guild politics, and rising threats, skill by skill and battle by battle.

Zarian Darkrun, a Marine Corps veteran, is tired of being a homeless reject. He opens a portal in a busy mall and sends himself and nine other Floridians into another world — the Infinita Star System, a universe of epic fantasy and game-like magic. Only the strong can ascend from the lower worlds to the higher worlds of the Star System, where tyrants and crusaders alike seek godhood. Here comes Zarian, who mostly just wants to make unique friends, learn rare spells, and wreck the plans of gods.

Carl was a regular construction foreman who died of a heart attack — and woke up reincarnated as a dragon in a magic-filled, dog-eat-dog world. One crazy starting bonus. Major downside: no thumbs. Being at the top of the food chain has its perks, but Carl needs to figure out how magic works, which monsters are safe to eat, and why his hoard matters so much to him. Enemy dragons are already incoming, and every monster in the region wants bragging rights for taking down a dragon. At the end of the day, Carl just wants to build a life worth living in a world where might makes right.

Garath was a gamer who spent his time adventuring in magical worlds behind a keyboard — until the planet he actually inhabited became drastically more interesting. The ability to shapeshift into a house cat or summon a demon were things that only existed in video games, until they weren't. More akin now to the RPG games he loved than the 9-to-5 grind he'd woken up to, Earth has been fundamentally altered. He's a quick study, though, and learns fast that this new Earth isn't just fun and games. Garath and a motley crew of friends and neighbors must band together, using their new abilities to hold off increasingly deadly waves of monsters.

Erevan is a magical engineer from a world of dungeon-delving and slinging spells — until his party stabs him in the back and he wakes up sharing a body with Li Jian, a disciple of the Heavenly Demon Cult in an entirely different world. The problem: Li Jian's soul is still in there, and the two have to cooperate. Together they'll face a martial world full of peril: insecure rich young masters, scheming Demon Supremes, and bitter ex-fiancés. Good thing two of those problems can be solved with bullets.