27 upvotes, 5 direct replies (showing 5)
View submission: Do NOT Sleep on Dungeon Crawler Carl
Don't get the hype. Every time I hear about it it sounds awful tbqh.
Comment by Comrade-Chernov at 25/02/2025 at 00:04 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
For me at least, I came for the "crazy D&D campaign" storyline and the dick jokes and then stayed for the trauma, existential dread, and fuck-the-system/anti-capitalist message.
Comment by malifer at 24/02/2025 at 12:23 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I listened to two of them. They are not good.
Comment by so19anarchist at 24/02/2025 at 11:07 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I’m in the same camp as you. I’ve never read it and likely never will. Just doesn’t sound appealing at all.
Comment by JancariusSeiryujinn at 24/02/2025 at 18:45 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
That was my initial reaction. I was like "This sounds like one of the dumbest ideas for a story I can imagine." when I first heard of it. I finished all 5 books that were out at the time within a week.
Comment by Hyperversum at 24/02/2025 at 12:52 UTC
-10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Ever considered that it's just not the kind of thing you enjoy?
It's a relatively "niche" subgenre anyway. Unless you enjoy RPGs videogames and TTRPGs you are probably going to miss a lot of what's being said only superficially.
Like the fact that Carl does "play" 100% like one of those people that in DnD try their fucking best to not engage in normal gameplay and fuck up as throughly as possible any quest and location. It's really fun if you are "in on the joke", and it's a good change from things that take themselves seriously