History Literature / Threadbare

* HopeSpot: A few times, usually followed by a very brutal Moodwhiplash. The ends of the second and third book each have one.

Meet Threadbare. He is 12 inches tall, full of fluff, and really, really bad at being a hero.

Magically animated and discarded by his maker as a failed experiment, he is saved by a little girl. But she's got problems of her own, and he might not be able to help her.

Fortunately for the little golem, he's quick to find allies, learn skills, gain levels, and survive horrible predicaments. Which is good, because his creator has a whole lot of enemies...

The ''Threadbare'' books are a RPGMechanicsVerse outing by Andrew Seiple, loosely followed by his ''Literature/SmallMedium'' series set in the same world, and a prequel series, ''Blasphemy Online'', which seems to be exploring how Generica Online got to be where it is now. The conceit of the setting is that the world used to operate on classic D&D paper-and-pencil RPG rules, but now operates on something closer to a MMORPG with skills leveled up by use, and classes unlocked by performing specific tasks.

## ''Stuff and Nonsense''
## ''Sew You Want to be a Hero''
## ''The Right to Arm Bears''

* ''Stuff and Nonsense''
* ''Sew You Want to be a Hero''
* ''The Right to Arm Bears''

* LevelUpFillUp: Leveling up in a Job refills your Health, Spirit, and Moxie. Some characters exploit this by accepting unlocked jobs mid-combat entirely for the purpose of refilling their levels with easy level gains.

* TragicMonster: Surprisingly common. Starting with the first book, we get Raccants, racoons who evolved into more powerful forms that want nothing more than to be adopted by human homes but have no idea how and keep getting killed. As the trilogy proceeds, we get more examples, like the Gribbits and the Mediocre Old God, monsters who don't want to murder and kill, but who are targeted for being different. Given this is (trans)Cylvania, that should perhaps be expected.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Melos, the primary antagonist of the series, is a former cultist and current king of the realm, who consorts with demons, kills without mercy, confiscates all magic items found by adventurers, and has brought the country a state of perpetual war. [[spoiler:The method used to seal the kingdom away from the empire outside requires a constant supply of reagents and dungeon cores, and when Melos is forced to sleep, his avatar as Dungeon Master is taken over and run by the dungeon as the CompleteMonster you would expect to find running a dungeon.]]

The ''Threadbare'' books are a RPGMechanicsVerse outing by Andrew Seiple, loosely followed by his ''Small Medium'' series set in the same world, and a prequel series, ''Blasphemy Online'', which seems to be exploring how Generica Online got to be where it is now. The conceit of the setting is that the world used to operate on classic D&D paper-and-pencil RPG rules, but now operates on something closer to a MMORPG with skills leveled up by use, and classes unlocked by performing specific tasks.

* {{Badass Adorable}}: The main character is a teddy bear. He even has an Adorableness skill. Just don't mess with his girl.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Melos, the primary antagonist of the series, is a former cultist and current king of the realm, who consorts with demons, kills without mercy, confiscates all magic items found by adventurers, and has brought the country a state of perpetual war. [[spoiler:The method used to seal the kingdom away from the empire outside requires a constant supply of reagents and dungeon cores, and when Melos is forced to sleep, his body is taken over by an amoral demon.]]

The ''Threadbare'' books are a RPGMechanicsVerse outing by Andrew Seiple, loosely followed by his ''Small Medium'' series set in the same world, and a prequel series, ''Blasphemy Online'', which seems to be exploring how Generica Online got to be where it is now. The conceit of the setting is that the world used to operate on paper-and-pencil RPG rules, but now operates on something closer to a MMORPG with skills leveled up by use, and classes unlocked by performing specific tasks.

* AffectionateParody: Being a LitRPG, a huge chunk of the trilogy is an adoring rip off of traditional RPG elements.

* TheOldGods: They are largely absent fro the world, but are the subject of worship by one branch of Cultists. One book includes a shallow pastiche of Creator/HPLovecraft in the form of Reverend Hatecraft.

* TragicMonster: Surprisingly common. Starting with the first book, we get Raccants, racoons who evolved into more powerful forms that want nothing more than to be adopted by human homes but have no idea how and keep getting killed. As the trilogy proceeds, we get more examples, like the Gribbits and the Mediocher Old God, monsters who don't want to murder and kill, but who are targeted for being different. Given this is (trans)Cylvania, that should perhaps be expected.

* KillerTeddyBear: Threadbare is a cute cuddly teddy bear. His hug restores health and exercises his Cuteness score. His Claw Swipe skill manifests razor-sharp blades from his hands with which he can and does eviscerate enemies...

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Melos, the primary antagonist of the series, is a former cultist and current king of the realm, who consorts with demons, kills without mercy, confiscates all magic items found by adventurers, and has brought the country a state of perpetual war. [[spoiler:The method used to seal the kingdom away from the empire outside requires a constant supply of reagents and dungeon cores, and when Melos is forced to sleep, his body is taken over by an amoral demon. That said, he passed the Moral Event Horizon a long time ago.]]

The ''Threadbare'' books are a RPGMechanicsVerse outing by Andrew Seiple, loosely followed by his ''Small Medium'' series set in the same world. The conceit of the setting is that the world used to operate on paper-and-pencil RPG rules, but now operates on something closer to a MMORPG with skills leveled up by use, and classes unlocked by performing specific tasks.

The ''Threadbare'' books are a RPGMechanicsVerse outing by Andrew Seiple, loosely followed by his *Small Medium* series set in the same world. The conceit of the setting is that the world used to operate on paper-and-pencil RPG rules, but now operates on something closer to a MMORPG with skills leveled up by use, and classes unlocked by performing specific tasks.

* AnimatedArmor: This is one of the forms of animation used in the series.

* RPGMechanicsVerse: Several references establish that this universe used to run on AD&D rules (THAC0 and AC decreasing as armor class got better are mentioned), but at some point in the past, this changed to a JobSystem where skills are increased by doing them over and over again.

* ''The right to arm bears''

* Golem: Lesser Golems have fixed stats. Greater Golems, like Threadbare, can acquire Jobs and improve their skills.

The ''Threadbare'' books are an LitRPG outing by Andrew Seiple, loosely followed by his *Small Medium* series set in the same world. The conceit of the setting is that the world used to operate on paper-and-pencil RPG rules, but now operates on something closer to a MMORPG with skills leveled up by use, and classes unlocked by performing specific tasks.

an LitRPG outing by Andrew Seiple.



volume 1: Stuff and Nonsense

volume 2: Sew you want to be a hero

volume 3: The right to arm bears

->''"Once upon a time, there was a teddy bear. An old man bent with tragedy, but still daring to dream made him into a thing that could think and feel."''