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The saying goes that when a man is born, the Fates weave his destiny and swaddle him in it. When he dies, that swaddle becomes his shroud. Heaven moves on. To question the Fates is audacity. To transgress the line of divinity, scale Olympus Mons, and defy the threads of destiny is hubris — a mark every philosopher bears plainly on their soul.

The year is 2032, and AI slop has won. Far from creating utopia, society has fractured into bots and culture wars. Enter Lana Zacanissian, corporate superstar and prophet of profits — creator of the largest IP aggregate marketplace in the world. After fleecing billions out of their life savings, she is judged by her coworkers and victims and tossed into Santa Monica Bay. When Lana opens her eyes again, she is in the body of a girl-child she does not recognize. A system message tells her she has unjustly ended another's Karmic Causality and usurped countless others through her boundless greed. She must live again to atone for her sins — or sink into eternal oblivion.

After being killed by a high-velocity tree, Arlo is transported to a new world of skills, stats, and levels where those brave and talented enough to conquer ancient Delves are rewarded with incredible supernatural power. Unfortunately, there is no tutorial. Arlo is immediately forced to tackle a Delve set to the highest difficulty with a party of strangers, possessing no armor, no weapons, and no knowledge of this world — and his paper-thin excuses for how he got there are growing thin. There's also the fact that the System seems to be treating Arlo's situation like a big, cosmic joke. Determined not to die again, Arlo forgoes his highest stat, Intelligence, and dumps everything into Fortitude. After all, who needs equipment when you can eat fireballs for breakfast and ask for more hot sauce? Mage Tank is a comedic LitRPG set in an epic fantasy world rapidly evolving as new and powerful secrets of the Delves are uncovered, featuring slow progression, intelligent characters who make intentional build choices, and real consequences.

Once, Shen Bu destroyed everything his father had ever worked for — burning the new home to ashes, consuming his mother's cultivation, and slaying the unborn daughter within her. Three hundred years later, Shen Yu is still searching for anything to save that daughter's life, crippled and hidden in a realm where time is slowed to preserve her. No progress has been made. Feeling the weight of his quest, he returns to the city of his birth to drown his sorrows — and meets a boy who finally gives him hope. Waking up in the body of an eight-year-old kid dying of plague in a xianxia setting was not anyone's idea of a good time. The new inhabitant lacks a cheat or a system, but a chance meeting with an unremarkable middle-aged man who likes talking about medicine may prove more valuable than it seems.

Orange-crest is a monkey with simple desires: warm summer days lazing with his siblings, sampling the variety of fruit and grubs Mount Yuelu provides. Unlike his brothers, he is endlessly curious — and no subject arouses that curiosity more than the mysteries of fermentation. One fateful night, he finds himself enjoying an experimental brew far more potent than usual. Daoist Scouring Medicine is a man disgraced, caught between his uncompromising vision for pill refining and the politics of a world that discards its ideals the moment they stand in the way of profit. He wanders the slopes of an unfamiliar mountain, hitting the gourd harder than any self-respecting daoist should. From a pair of poorly considered drunken decisions, a sequence of events is set into motion that will one day shake the very heavens.

The more lives you've lived, the more mana you have — and Cale has lived too many lives to count. His core is closer to the magical equivalent of a nuclear reactor. The downside: conventional spells have become impossibly difficult to cast, collapsing under the weight of his own magic. Then he finds himself summoned to a new world with a spellwork system capable of adjusting to his ridiculous reserves, creating new spells just for him. To make spells worth having, that means enrolling at a magic academy. On top of that, an old dragon has taken an interest in him, the kingdom's hunters seem intent on attacking his classmates, and at least one ancient evil appears to have followed him from a past life. With magic back on the table, Cale might finally achieve what he considers the true pinnacle of spellwork: baking.

Becoming a knockoff Dracula in tight leather pants was never part of Vincent's plans. Neither was being summoned to another world by a cult of vampire wannabes. But both happened. Now Vincent's left picking up the tattered pieces of his humanity as he tries to grow strong enough to keep his family safe. There's a world filled with nightmares, and the looming threat of losing his soul standing between his goal and his reality. A good man is going to war.

By cruel trick of the fates — or just the apathy of an uncaring universe — a modern soul awakens as Orochimaru shortly after he has possessed a woman as his new host. Now they must find a way to turn a hoard of sycophants and psychopaths into something that will not only keep them from an early grave, but reshape it into a genuine force for change in a messed-up world.

For allegedly average high-schooler Leonard Dunning, the rhetorical question of how you'd react to finding yourself in a world running on tropes and clichés became uncomfortably real. He woke up on a strangely pristine island country in the middle of the Atlantic — without memories, surrounded by countless characterless placeholders, with a classic harem protagonist and his love interests for friends. As he investigates the rules governing the world and works to sabotage the harem tropes, his outside-context knowledge, unique abilities, and talent for causing trouble draw the attention of the world's nebulous narrative.

The universe was a vast, empty, dark, and uncaring place — until life happened and changed it forever, even if only a teeny-tiny bit. Perspective, as it turns out, is everything. Magh'rathlak the Observer is an unfathomable cosmic being from beyond the veil of reality. Average as far as reality-warping entities go, it still struggles to keep things in perspective. To narrow its maddening vastness, it decides to compress its entire being into a single corporeal form. Magh'rathlak had never tried such a feat, but that wasn't about to stop it. After all — how hard could being human possibly be?

It's just a game — isn't it? Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell is about to set the high score on Only You Can Save Mankind when the alien fleet sends an unexpected message: they wish to surrender. But the aliens aren't supposed to surrender — they're supposed to die.

The world called out for a hero to purge it of great evil. It received Broccoli Bunch — explorer, expert cleaner, occasional ghost-buster, and full-time Cinnamon Bun. Broccoli's approach to adventure is unconventional: talk enemies into becoming friends, hug menu boxes, and wield overpowered skills like Cleaning and Gardening. Her personal quest is simple — make all the friends. All of them.

A collection of what-if scenarios set in the world of Mother of Learning — alternate timelines exploring the fascinating concepts that time-loop stories make possible. Mother of Learning is a story of a magic-using teenager stuck in a time loop, set in a fantasy world in the midst of a technological and magical revolution. These AU chapters are non-canonical and made purely for fun. If you aren't familiar with the main story, these may not make much sense.

Starving artist Angelica Hallow is hit on the head by a mysterious book while dumpster diving. Compelled by its illustrations, she recreates one of the intricate circles on her apartment floor — and accidentally triggers a Summoning. But rather than a Demon or other supernatural creature, she summons herself. With a new voice in her head blathering about Skills and Contracts, and an inexplicable ability to give herself Orders she is compelled to obey, Angelica must figure out whether she can secure the peaceful life of artistry she craves — or whether she will come to embrace the Demon within.

A wise man once said all roads lead to Rome. He didn't know how right he was. Ripped away from the battlefield, Tiberius and his six thousand Roman Legionnaires find themselves stranded in a foreign land of magic and witchcraft. With no way home, their path forward is obvious: conquer everything in sight — much to the chagrin of Marcus, the poor, unsuspecting bard who summoned them. Taking over the world is not so easy. The Legion must learn to navigate the strange magics and abilities this new world has granted them. Meanwhile Marcus must figure out how to mitigate the force of nature he's unleashed upon his woefully unprepared world — or simply enjoy the front-row seat to an epic in the making.

What happens when a reincarnation goes horribly wrong? Oran Farrow is not who he used to be. The soul inhabiting his body was once a sick man on earth, suffering from chronic pain and despair. He prayed for an end to his torment, and death answered. Now in a different world, with a body and name that are not his own, he must learn to navigate a world of monsters and magic. Dealing with demon cultists, a lovesick necromancer, and worst of all, being a shambling corpse, would be hard for most people. But after the life he's had, Oran couldn't be happier. Nobody has it as good as the dead.

Forty-year-old project manager Tori Felix was scrolling through a wiki article about a dating sim on the bullet train when everything went wrong. She woke up in the bruised teenage body of Victoria de Guevera — the villainess of the popular game "The Romance of Soleil" — with a splitting headache and a very bad prognosis: according to the wiki, Victoria dies violently at the hands of sex slavers. With only weeks before the heroine and villainess collide, there is no time for an existential crisis. Tori's personal mantra has always been "assess the situation, then make a plan of action" — and she intends to use it.

Tim and his friends find out the hard way that you shouldn't question the game master, and you shouldn't make fun of his cape. One minute they're drinking away the dreariness of their lives, escaping into a fantasy game. The next, they're in a horse-drawn cart surrounded by soldiers with crossbows. Tim now has the voice and physique of a prepubescent girl. Dave finds he's acquired a suit of armor and a badass beard despite losing a foot or two of height. Julian's ears have grown ridiculously long and pointy. And Cooper has gotten himself a set of tusks, clawed hands, and a bag with a human head in it — a head he had chopped off while they were still just playing a game. Shit just got real.

Eliza Scaggs is tired of the rumors — that she's an old witch who made a pact with darkness, that her pet monster stalks children. She's been working herself to the bone on a secret government project, trying to prove that she, the only woman in the wizard's guild, actually belongs there. When she takes on a teenage apprentice named Oliver, she's determined to show that mentoring a kid is not something a twisted hell spawn would do. But Oliver is quiet in a way that worries her, and when he asks if she can "fix" people, she fears he means himself. Set in a world where magic drives the industrial revolution, the story follows a witch and her apprentice as they are thrust into a dangerous faction war.

Marrow was old — older than anyone he knew. He had been sitting in a closet for many, many years, doing nothing but stare. But eating a spider opened up another world to him: a voice, speaking to him directly. Marrow didn't understand what the voice was saying, but that was secondary. Something stirred inside him — something like restlessness. This is a LitRPG story of a skeleton's coming of sapience, with skills, levels, heroes, and monsters.