History Literature / Threadbare

* InterspeciesRomance: Or at least interracial. They don't even get a raised eyebrow, really. Canon couples include human Mordecai and half-orc Zuula, half-orc Jarrik and dwarf Beryl, and dragon!vampire Madeline and minotaur!half-orc Garon.

# ''At Large'' -- Chase travels to Arettzi, country of crafts, and gets hired to stop a plague of werewolves.

# ''Big Trouble'' -- Chase looks for adventure, and finds it, with a necromancer threatening Bothernot and the discovery of a prison near the town that contains Playas.

# ''[[Literature/ThreadbareTheRightToArmBearsThe Right to Arm Bears]]''

# ''The Right to Arm Bears''

* AnimatedArmor: This is one of the forms of animation used in the series. Emmet is an example of Greater Golem version. Later, [[spoiler:Reason, Celia's armor, becomes a more sinister version later in the books after a demon begins to animate it]].

# ''Sew You Want to be a Hero''

# ''Stuff and Nonsense''

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

Set three years after The War, Threadbare learns that politics can be even more deadly than dungeons or dragons.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: PunBasedTitle for all three, and Crafting-based ThemeNaming for the first two books: ''Stuff and Nonsense'', ''Sew You Want to be a Hero'', ''The Right to Arm Bears''.

-->'''Threadbare:''' '''Mend''' [fixes broken thing]]\\

* AchievementsInIgnorance: This is practically the entire reason Threadbare and Missus Fluffbear are as ridiculously unstoppable as they are. Not only do they have natural resistances (as golems) that anyone else would kill for, but they also have a grab bag of classes that happen to work together to make them ''fahking awesome''.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: By the end of the trilogy, Threadbare's core team has over a dozen members, and then there's all of the named and unnamed allies and enemies besides.

* NoBiologicalSex: Golems, and by extension Doll Haunters, have no sex characteristics, and that tends to lead to them becoming {{Asexual}} although some of them still engage in romance.

* RomanticAsexual: The doll haunters no longer want sex, but they do still form romantic attachments. Zuula is still romantic with her husband Mordecai, and Madeline and Garon strike up a romantic relationship.

%%* PunnyNames: Holy hell, does the world seem to live on this trope. The Catamount dungeon seems to be particularly egregious, but we find it ''everywhere''.

Set some forty years after "the change" that gave people jobs instead of THAC0, Threadbare finds himself thrust into the heart of the rebellion against King Melos.

* {{Asexuality}}: Golems have no interest in or understanding of sex and sexuality. Doll haunters no longer have an interest in sex and sexuality, but they at least understand it.
** RomanticAsexual: The doll haunters no longer want sex, but they do still form romantic attachments. Zuula is still romantic with her husband Mordecai, and Madeline and Garon strike up a romantic relationship.

* PunnyNames: Holy hell, does the world seem to live on this trope. The Catamount dungeon seems to be particularly egregious, but we find it ''everywhere''.

The ''Threadbare'' books are a RPGMechanicsVerse outing by Andrew Seiple, started in Fall 2017, and then released to online stores. His ''Literature/SmallMedium'' series is set in the same world but following a different protagonist in a different part of the world. The prequel series ''Blasphemy Online'' explores more of the "real world" and how Generica Online got to where it is now.

And that thing was Threadbare. Just a foot tall, and trying to be a hero to save his creator's little girl. Unfortunately, he's really bad at it. Thankfully, what he is good at, is finding allies to help him on his way.

The ''Threadbare'' books are a RPGMechanicsVerse outing by Andrew Seiple, started in Fall 2017, and then released to online stores 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.