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View submission: Do NOT Sleep on Dungeon Crawler Carl
This is the only comment that's made me warm (slightly) to it. :p It's just that words like 'crazy', 'zany', 'wacky', and 'random' put me off stuff, not into D&D (though i am familiar with RPG terms) and not really into dick jokes as a selling point.
Comment by Comrade-Chernov at 25/02/2025 at 03:39 UTC
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That's fair. I guess I mean crazy moreso in the sense of simultaneously epic in scope and completely unpredictable and all over the place. Like it would be really fun to play a video game or D&D version of it kind of thing because there's so much wide open room for creativity.
The dick jokes and such, totally understandable if it's not your thing, I think it's mostly as a contrast thing to me and to make sure the dark moments are REALLY dark and the poignant moments really hit all the harder. Like sure there's a talking cat named Donut and silly stuff like that. But then you also meet characters who are dealing with losing family members when the world ended and are trying their best to be strong for the few people they have left in the dungeon.
For example a big plot point in book 1 is trying to protect a bunch of people from a nursing home who managed to survive and get into the dungeon but are totally out of their depth in a video game environment. Which is really sweet! But one of them is a 90 something woman named Mrs McGibbons who is a total potty mouth and talks about how handsome the MC is and what a loser her old husband was, etc... that kind of thing.