CritRPG #30 - Legends and Lattes! Fun, Games, and Narration with NYT #1 Best-Seller Travis Baldree

CritRPG - A Podcast about LitRPG, Progression Fantasy, and their authors

Hey hey everyone,

To send this year off in style, I have a very special guest for you. His name is Travis Baldree, and he did pretty much everything a nerd would ever want to do.

In this podcast, we're not only talking about his #1 NYT Best Selling, Award-Winning, Ass-Kicking Books, we also go deep into how video game culture has changed, why making games may break your heart, and what we can do to make litRPG and progression fantasy grow as a genre. (Also why that might seem scary, but really isn't.)

As always, there's an hour more on Patreon! For $5 a month, you get access to more than 30 hours of additional podcasts, unscripted and mostly uncut.

It's the after-dark part 😉

P.S. I will take January off! See you in February!

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Books mentioned in this episode: (Some links are affiliate links!)

Legends and Lattes

https://amzn.to/3RDud80

Bookshops and Bonedust

https://amzn.to/3v589ve

The Library at Mount Char

https://amzn.to/3RUbHcE

The Primal Hunter

https://amzn.to/4aLOiBV

Also a Webtoon Original!

https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/th...

0:00 Start!

03:10 Intro!

04:40 How and Why This book?

07:53 Exposure, Publicity are of limited help

13:33 Travis' Career as a Video Game Designer

16:13 The long, hard journey away from Video Games

27:53 How did you start narrating audiobooks?

30:36 Ripple System

32:41 Accents

34:12 Best Advice You ever got as a writer?

37:31 How did you realize you need to plot?

40:51 How Travis discovers his stories

45:36 Progression Fantasy and static Main Characters

51:18 How to break the Mould of LitRPGs

53:17 Female Mcs

01:03:43 One Thing you would go back to and change

01:07:12 Agile Coaching rabbit hole, because obviously

01:14:36 The Benefits of Boredom

01:18:25 One Book that you love, and why is it awesome?

01:21:55 Shoutouts

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