![Bar Fights and Blood Rites [Comedy D&D PF]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalroadcdn.com%2Fpublic%2Fcovers-large%2F150418-bar-fights-and-blood-rites.jpg%3Ftime%3D1769612303&w=640&q=75)
by TK523
Adventurers and Chaos. Name a more iconic duo. Syril the bard and Grom the false cleric of a particularly vengeful god are wanted men trying to keep a low profile, a task often incompatible with their line of work. With the addition of a wizard with a penchant for making deals with powers that ought to be left alone, and a rogue who finds murder the panacea for most of life’s troubles, lying low doesn’t come easy. Then there's Bill, but he died, so they don’t need to worry about him screwing anything else up. When people begin to go missing in the city, and the disappearances continue after dealing with the more likely source, the party suspects that the truth might be a little more complicated. As they dig for answers, shadows from their own secret pasts are quick to return, complicating it all further. Will they solve the mysteries? Will they survive? Or will they simply make all the problems worse? In any case, it will be entertaining while it lasts. This story is a fantasy comedy first and a progression fantasy second. There is action and progression (though no system) but the primary intent of writing this story was to capture the feel of a group playing D&D. Namely, going about serious buisness in a ridiculous way, where the characters choices in the end prevent slightly more harm than they cause. Posting Monday and Friday.
#7
3/16/2026
Peak #49
0d
#6
3/15/2026
Peak #44
1d
#5
3/10/2026
Peak #49
0d
#4
3/10/2026
Peak #50
0d
#3
3/10/2026
Peak #50
0d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:38 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
13%
Two or more lists
8%
Likely threshold order: Comedy → Romance → Action → Fantasy → Main → Adventure.
Leading bundle: Comedy + Romance (8%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#10648 of 12,407 · 10598 below RS #50
By genre
beats 63% of similar stories
beats 4% of similar stories
beats 56% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
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