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Thanks PeachClover! I thought that might be the case.
PeachClover, you are a LIAR, Tisk is furious, and Sir Traskalon Ironpaw is coming to burn down your house. I read "Dungeon Bunny" and "Bad Bunny", and there is not even the *slightest* suggestion in either book that the events are actually taking place inside a computer game or simulation. (Other than the fact that it's LitRPG, which always contains game-like elements in the worldbuilding, by definition). So the bunny is not an A.I. (At least not in the normal sense, unless you broaden the definition of "artificial" here to cover creatures that are magically created by sentient dungeon cores).
Dean, I did not see this reply until just now, but... I am disturbed. If your reply is a joke, it is not received well. I must presume it is not and inform you that "LitRPG" is short for "Literature about Role Playing Games". The author himself explains this in the final sentence of the description on Amazon; I was being kind to not point out that obvious fact before. Perhaps you are disappointed that the book does not peel back the curtain to detail events in the world of the players of this game, but considering the main character is an NPC within this game world, why would you expect that to happen?
PeachClover... of course it was a joke! (In the series, Tisk hates liars, and would consider burning down their house a reasonable punishment, so...). Perhaps you are unaware, but the LitRPG/GameLit genre encompasses any story that is set in a universe with game-like elements. It NEED NOT be set inside an ACTUAL computer game. MANY such books exist that explain the game-like elements as actions of a god, or of powerful aliens, or an aspect of the magic system in a fantasy world, or as an alternate reality that exists through a magic portal the main character falls through, or some other such non-computer-based explanation. My question was therefore asking whether there's any explicit mention of this story being set inside a computer-simulated world, and the answer to that (so far as of book two anyway) is "no": It's apparently set in a fantasy world that includes some game-like aspects, and that's all that can be said. (Perhaps upcoming sequels will reveal that it's all really happening inside a computer game, but given that none of the adventurers seem to consider it a game they are playing, I think that's fairly unlikely).
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Thanks PeachClover! I thought that might be the case.
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PeachClover, you are a LIAR, Tisk is furious, and Sir Traskalon Ironpaw is coming to burn down your house. I read "Dungeon Bunny" and "Bad Bunny", and there is not even the *slightest* suggestion in either book that the events are actually taking place inside a computer game or simulation. (Other than the fact that it's LitRPG, which always contains game-like elements in the worldbuilding, by definition). So the bunny is not an A.I. (At least not in the normal sense, unless you broaden the definition of "artificial" here to cover creatures that are magically created by sentient dungeon cores).
Dean, I did not see this reply until just now, but... I am disturbed. If your reply is a joke, it is not received well. I must presume it is not and inform you that "LitRPG" is short for "Literature about Role Playing Games". The author himself explains this in the final sentence of the description on Amazon; I was being kind to not point out that obvious fact before. Perhaps you are disappointed that the book does not peel back the curtain to detail events in the world of the players of this game, but considering the main character is an NPC within this game world, why would you expect that to happen?
PeachClover... of course it was a joke! (In the series, Tisk hates liars, and would consider burning down their house a reasonable punishment, so...). Perhaps you are unaware, but the LitRPG/GameLit genre encompasses any story that is set in a universe with game-like elements. It NEED NOT be set inside an ACTUAL computer game. MANY such books exist that explain the game-like elements as actions of a god, or of powerful aliens, or an aspect of the magic system in a fantasy world, or as an alternate reality that exists through a magic portal the main character falls through, or some other such non-computer-based explanation. My question was therefore asking whether there's any explicit mention of this story being set inside a computer-simulated world, and the answer to that (so far as of book two anyway) is "no": It's apparently set in a fantasy world that includes some game-like aspects, and that's all that can be said. (Perhaps upcoming sequels will reveal that it's all really happening inside a computer game, but given that none of the adventurers seem to consider it a game they are playing, I think that's fairly unlikely).
