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Lewis comes from a family that doesn't regard him much, so he sets out on his own into the world, intent on securing an apprenticeship in an interesting profession. What he doesn't expect is to find himself studying artificery — the mystical craft of adding magical effects to everyday objects — in the sunlit village of Sunhampton. Sunhampton is a sleepy little crafter's village of cobbled streets, cozy taverns, and pleasant bakeries. Under an old artificery master, Lewis begins his new life as an apprentice, crafting swords with self-sharpening blades, self-spicing cooking pots, and clocks that can read the future. It'll be hard work — perhaps even dangerous — but with mentors to guide him and friends to help him, Lewis is determined to become the best artificer in the land.

One moment of bad luck, and a modern man wakes up in the body of an Elder in a world of cultivation — with a reputation so terrible that even the best PR team on Earth couldn't rehabilitate it. Of course there's a system: one that allows him to create any martial art he can imagine, provided he has enough Creation Points. And his first disciple just happens to be a reincarnated monster from ten thousand years ago with an incurable poison he can cure with a custom creation. To earn Creation Points he must raise disciples, and to raise disciples he must first rehabilitate an image built entirely on infamy. These really are some crappy starting circumstances.

Tragedy had reduced James to a nobody — washed up and homeless in New York City, certain his life was over. Then a message appeared in his vision: the 60,000-year countdown had ended, and Nemesis 1 had been released. As the world falls apart, as billions die, as society collapses and all hope seems lost, James discovers a powerful truth: he was wrong to think himself a nobody. With the dawn of the Void, he'll become the most important person to have ever lived.

The life of a giant bee is a simple one. The life of a giant bee when her queen transforms the entire hive into human-like apis to fend off an attack? That's a good deal more complicated. Getting down from a fifty-foot giant rose without wings while surviving malevolent wasps is just a start. Surviving long enough to figure out what to do with her new life proves to be something of a challenge — and that's before she gets sucked into the tangled web of an ambitious demon lord threatening to plunge the world into war.

Awakening in an abandoned lab with no memory of the world, Evelyn is empowered by a system that grants her bloody magical powers in exchange for finishing missions and consuming her enemies. She knows one truth: no matter the cost, she will advance. She will manipulate allies and spread demonic corruption with a smile if that's what it takes to level up. Her first mission is to escape the lab's other newly born creations. But once she steps foot into the outside world, she must contend with people who forbid her existence and will work to eradicate those with her powers from the face of the planet. The outside world may be vast and deadly, but Evelyn will be deadlier.

My name is Xal and I live in the dims, a walled prison where my people are kept by cruel masters until we are needed to fight. One member of every family must answer The Call, for our blood bears the magic of a demonic god and all the terrible power that brings. We march to war against the Fomori — an unstoppable army of giants and their behemoths. If we do not, our families are put to death. If by some miracle I survive, I will be granted entrance to the Imperial Academy, where every noble house will vie to architect my end. They fear the rise of another dreadlord. And they are right to fear. I will pull down an empire — and that is just the beginning.

A worthless prince with a useless Blessing in a world where deep running waters threaten to pull even the most experienced warriors under. Lucky for him, he's always been a good swimmer.

Strip away wants, desire, dreams, and hopes. When you peel it back, such things are luxuries only possible when survival is guaranteed. Under the control of the new rulers of her world — as a pawn in a conflict she can scarcely comprehend — survival is not just everything; it is all there is left. Life, of her and her people, was nothing to the aliens if it was not useful. So she would be useful, she would be obedient, and she would survive. In this cosmic war of forces beyond her understanding, she would find a way.

When Alice Verianna went to sleep, she was just another teenager from the Denver suburbs. She woke up in a magical alternate dimension inhabited by monsters and governed by a mysterious System — where people resemble RPG characters and everyone has access to their own status screens. Grappling with the System isn't Alice's only challenge. An underground organization called the Society of Starry Eyes has taken a particular interest in other dimensions. If they find out about Alice, they will stop at nothing to extract the secrets of her world by force. Now Alice must pursue her scientific endeavors, learn to harness the magic around her, and uncover the Society's ultimate intentions — and how she ended up here — before it's too late.

Derrick is no one's hero. He is barely dealing with his mundane life when all of humanity is forced to confront the extraordinary. Overnight, across the world, mysterious machines appear offering people the chance to purchase almost anything they can think of — weapons, medicine, even superhuman abilities, seemingly for free. But following these machines come the Scourges: the most dangerous creatures, diseases, and machines that infest the universe. Ever growing and battling, these empires of horror and hunger will overwhelm and devour the Earth and its inhabitants unless Derrick and humanity can stand against all the horrors that battle between the stars.

Reborn into a world shaped by ashen storms, brutal blizzards, and sword-wielding sorcerers, Arilyn must forge his own path. Magic is abundant, spread far and wide by the realm-spanning Grand Spell — and even in the frail body of a newborn, Arilyn earns attributes, points, and power through stubborn hard work. Yet not everything is as bright as it seems. Legends walk the land, and the Blight Lords are hell-bent on resurrecting the Old God. None of this should have mattered to someone living on the fringe of the empire — until strange rumblings rise from the heart of the Candor Mountains.

For more than a hundred and fifty years, Nemon Fargus has served the Kingdom of Sena. Through four Kings and a Queen, two wars, a rebellion, a magic school founded and taught, and countless beast waves and dungeon breaks. Now the one close friend he had left has passed. He's done with their politics and economics. The short, busy lives of humans are more burden than benefit on the weary soul of this half-elf. He wants a refuge — a place truly his own, away from cities, markets, wars, and eager students. He's seeking the peaceful life of a wizard in his tower, studying magic to advance his spellcraft. We'll see if that happens.

Alex Adams is the Iron Menace, a less-than-notable supervillain in Victory City — until a power he'd mostly written off misfires and accidentally kills a member of the League of Domination, the premier villain organization of the world. The League doesn't take kindly to nobodies offing their members, and the superheroes are paying attention too. With his past misdeeds catching up to him, no desire to swap sides for a cushy redemption arc, and unwilling to serve as anyone's flunky, Alex sees only one option: World Domination. A humorous but loving take on superhero-villain fantasy in a cape world inspired by the silver and bronze age of comics, with light progression elements and alternative-history world-building.

Stuck with a shoddy nightclub after a job gone wrong, Frank has to figure out how to rebuild something he never even wanted. That's just the first of his problems. In Sankta Varath, the greatest city in the Steelheart Kingdom, he'll have to party with orcs, barter with gnomes, drink with dwarves, and make shady deals with the city's underworld — all while managing a staff that includes a drow bartender, a religious zealot waitress, an ogre bouncer with a sleeping problem, and an orc dancer. Frank isn't a manager, has zero people skills, and even fewer connections. A cursed sub-class and a game system that actively screws him round out his advantages.

Betrayed by those closest to him, ex-spy Finn Caldwell thought he'd escaped his life of violence and deception. When a frantic message from his estranged sister draws him into the Realms — a strange game-like world of magic and wonder — Finn is forced to embrace his deadly skills once more. Armed with a mysterious artifact known as a Godhead, Finn becomes the warrior-mage Gryph. To save his sister, he must first escape a sentient dungeon by defeating its master, the Barrow King.

A few minutes ago, Meghan Moretti's biggest concern was getting the kids' athletic clothes washed in time for practice. Now, Earth has been forced into participating in high-stakes intergalactic reality television. All electrical wiring has been slagged, combustibles neutralized, and evil space rodents are appearing on the front lawn. Like any parent, Meghan's first instinct is to keep her young kids safely away from the monsters. But an odd stroke of luck brings her advanced information about this dangerous game — including the fact that her kids will have to fight too. What's a mom to do?

As humanity faces extinction, the last three survivors on Earth create a final chance for the hero to travel back in time and stop the apocalypse. But before she can enter the chronomancer portal, both the hero and the portal's creator are killed — leaving only the weak assistant to carry on their dream. Nick must travel back, right the wrongs done to him, and prepare the world for the catastrophe he knows is coming — in this regression LitRPG of dungeon-diving, leveling stats, and racing against the end of the world.

Qube was designed to die. As the cheerful childhood NPC companion who helps the Player learn the world at the start of the game, it was only natural that the big bad would kill her at the end of the tutorial, kicking off the Player's quest for vengeance. The only problem: no one told her that. And this particular Player doesn't like to play by the rules. Being a chaos-loving gremlin, he glitches her out of her programming and drags her along on various adventures — grappling with friendly sharktopuses, Evil Emperors, and the question of what it means to be a person. As Qube breaks the world in increasingly strange ways while seeking to be the very best Companion ever, she slowly realizes that her reality is not quite what it seems. A loving parody of old-school games and every player who has ever thought "what happens if I do this."

When horror-obsessed Riley Lawrence and his college friends arrive in the small town of Carousel for its Centennial Celebration, they walk into what turns out to be an inescapable horror-movie set. Each of them is assigned an archetype—Scholar, Athlete, Eye Candy, Final Girl—and the curtain rises. Assigned the Film Buff archetype, Riley learns he can exploit the Oblivious Bystander trope to survive attacks. To escape Carousel, the group must leverage their assigned tropes and uncover what is trapping them—before the rounds run out and escape slips further out of reach.

Evahn Wynst was no more prepared for the apocalypse than anyone else. When disaster struck, it came swiftly and without warning, turning the world over in an instant — order one moment, chaos the next. In an unfamiliar world teeming with equal danger and wonder, he will have to find his place amongst the rubble and navigate a new and dangerous reality. Luckily, he's not alone. He has himself. And himself.