The Dungeon Traveler

De: Alston Sleet

Narrado por: Doug Tisdale Jr.

I spent most of my life trying to get by with whatever happiness I could, that included alcohol, food, and porn.

My death was unpleasant and humiliating. However, death is something we all need to go through. A bit like a proctology exam: necessary, but never anything one wants to go through while it's happening.

However, death was supposed to be the end of it. Either way, the pain, suffering, and failures were supposed to be over. I was supposed to wink out, or perhaps take a trip to a lovely afterlife!

No, I ended up as a small stone, strapped to a table, while a pimple-faced teenager rubbed my facets and told me how "lovely" I was. Last time I checked, birth wasn't supposed to be as embarrassing as death!

Life as a dungeon core isn't all bad. I like watching lizard love triangles and snooping on militaristic dwarves - though there is that issue where I'm trying to free myself from the entanglements of the Gods...OK, yeah, that last one is a bit of a problem.

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I actually loved this book

Alston sleet this book is awesome thank you for writing it and I am soooooo looking forward to the next book in this line. Doug you did a pretty dam good job thank you. I have read many dungeon core books so far and this is now one of my most enjoyed ones I love how it is about challenges instead of slaughter and the gods in this one are easy to enjoy as well. if you love dungeon core books check this one out.

Great Fresh Take on Sentient Dungeons

If you have read a lot of other LitRPG Dungeon books, this is a breath of fresh air.

The book isn't perfect but most of the problems are small(I don't get why the main character never asks anyone about the Voice of the World).

Our main character is not a generic cutout. The character not "freaking out" is well justified, and struggles (for certain definitions of struggles) with what he has become and the fact that dungeons must kill.

The inclusion of gods was well done. A lot of time in other books, in order for the dungeon to have anyone to talk to there is some sort of faerie or imp or something, or we just have an adventure POV (blame Dungeon Born for those tropes). However, the gods gave a nice alternative while still serving a similar narrative purpose.

We get a good quick look at some of the cultures and world in the story, and it is paced fairly well.

As I said there are some problems. It seems like the author forgets about some of the RPG aspects. Early on the main character levels up pretty quickly all in one go. And then... As far as I can remember there was not a single mention of the characters class level after that point. They increase their rank in their skills, but their class?

Likewise, we are described a "perception challenge" that then seems to disappear (the maze with floor tiles indicating which way to go). There are a few other things that make me wonder if the story went through some revisions, but never got a final pass through. All of these little things together is why I took off a star.

When all was said and done though I really enjoyed this and am eagerly awaiting the next one.

Clever and Humorous

The author wrote a humorous book without falling into the trap of silliness. I highly recommend the book!

a good dungeon core

the only thing that aggravated me in this audio book was this type of sentence. ex. it was a thing, but not a thing, and that made it a thing. replace "thing" with any concept, and you get what I'm saying. It's used a bit too often.

One of the best in the genre

A really great LitRPG book.

The stat aspect is very light, I'd almost say a little too light. It almost never comes up unless a major threshold is reached. If you're somebody that wants to know every time a skill increases by 5% you're going to be disappointed but personally I felt it was refreshing to not get bogged down by it.

There are aspects that are pretty prominent like blessings and achievements that really weren't explained at all, I'm guessing more detail will come further in the series. I was OK with it. Not everything has to be explained in a story.

I do wish a little more focus was spent on some things like dungeon creature creation instead of human politics but by the end it was clear that the political stuff was pretty crucial to the story.

Overall I'd highly recommend it to even the most causal fans of the genre.

Well done!

while the language is rather awkward at the beginning due to explaining phenomena English has no words for this is a fantastic story and especially at a fantastic dungeon story. with multiple perspectives yet a singular storyline the author remembers that stories are about how the characters feel and that's how the reader feels throughout the experience. That's unlike other dungeon stories you don't get dragged down in details but rather get to enjoy a tale. narration was right on and to be perfectly honest I listened to this and one in one sitting. it is rare for me to leave a review or for me to leave one so positive if you can read this rambling talk to text review note is only because this truly was worth the time.

A different dungeon novel

An interesting story about Gods and manipulation. almost no details on dungeon development, and progression of power is near non existent. No real antagonist.

definitely wasn't expecting it

I was very shocked when I realized how sucked in I got into this book, I highly recommend this book for people who enjoy dungeon core books.

Just fun and focused!

It's not the best Dungeon Core book but I never felt more satisfied with the pace and Dungeon Core thought process than any other Dungeon Core book I've read. I also like that most chapters are the Core and not split in half.

The best part is that there is another book in the series just as good.

Thumbs up!

I've read (or Listened) to a lot of these Dungeon Books. I like the genre, but at a certain point, the amount of them coming out starts to overwhelm. Now, you have to ask what is this new series doing differently? What new idea is it bringing to the table?
Because at some point, just having differant adventurers wander into the Dungeon gets a repetitive and old fast.

Some Dungeon books have tried to change this up by making the Dungeon master a pervert or bad guy (Lewd Dungeon, Corrupt Dungeon, Brutal Dungeon). A lot of others quickly turn the Dungeon into the first step of Empire Building (Dungeon Deposed, CONQUEST: The Dungeon Core Gambit, etc).

Basically, a new Dungeon series needs a gimmick to stand out. This one's gimmick is that the Dungeon's entrance moves around. First to a Dwarven Realm, then to a Kobold tribe, then to Human lands. What makes it interesting is the way the author tries to make various races interactions or experiences the Dungeon unique. A dungeon gate appears in a fort/village/city, what is the reaction of the locals? Sometimes orderly, sometimes chaotic, and sometimes antagonistic.

The book is told mostly from the first-person perspective of the Dungeon core, who is your typical nerd from our world transported to the fantasy. The way it is told reminds me a lot of the bobverse books. In fact the narrator (Doug Tisdale) for the audiobook sounds a lot like the narrator of the bobverse books. I think if you enjoyed the bobverse books you will like this one. I know I did.