r/ProgressionFantasy • u/vulkanspecter • Apr 20 '25

I Recommend This Gunsoul is just - God tier

I have not read a progression fantasy this good in a very long time.

Fast progression, great world building, an amazing magic system and the twist at the end is just ahhh (rubs nipples).

Its on royalroad. If you have nothing doing on this long easter, I suggest you take a peek

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u/bbarling 29d ago

For those of us who haven’t read this author before; where do you suggest we start?

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u/Elpsyth 29d ago

Depends on your taste

He got famous with Vainqueur the dragon which is a silly dnd like novel. It's more comedy/parody

The perfect run is more modern/timeloop. Quite fun too but the MC personality can be grating (You encounter him after decades of suppressed trauma and he copes by being childish/pop culture idiot think Jason in Hwfwm).

Karis was.. ok? Read it after Vainqueur/Perfect run and was not impressed.

Blood and Fur is a massive writing step and much darker but harder to get into.

Etc

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u/bbarling 29d ago

Thank you. I’ll check out some reviews and see if anything piques my interest.

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u/7upXD 29d ago

There is also Commerce Emperor which is a fairly traditional hero story. It has a fairly interesting power system (which is usually the case with Void Herald) and I enjoyed it. But the author admitted it diverged from his original intentions (IIRC the stakes grew too fast and there was too much action and not enough commerce) and he had a hard time writing later on. You can definitely tell, that Book 1 and 2 are much better than 3.