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I've been bopping in & out in between reading other things, but I did just finish book 3 and have downloaded book 4, for those keeping track of my DCC journey! I have a lot of chores/organizing/cleaning to do over the next week so I may make it through this book faster than the last one. We'll see!

Ghostly Bree@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

there was a point during the first boss fight (no spoilers) where I walked away for like 2 weeks b/c I was irritated, but I picked it back up & as the book went on I felt like I could see which parts were deliberate and the point they were trying to make more clearly. I enjoyed enough to get book 2!

fairygrrl97.bsky.social

@fairygrrl97.bsky.social

6 Sept

Honestly game lit/LitRPG sometimes drags more in audiobook format because you can get excessive stat blocks going and they're harder to skim/skip. I think part of it is the rage and scheming to do something that will make it matter.

fairygrrl97.bsky.social

@fairygrrl97.bsky.social

6 Sept

I also feel like DCC is one of the few game lit books that are extremely well written to the point that they do well with non-gamers.

Ghostly Bree

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

I mean I know really talented writers who write in the genre! I don't think it's necessarily just writing. I think that part of it is probably it's extremely accessible and also had the very good luck of breaking out now because our whole reality feels like an absurd video game run by a fucked up AI

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fairygrrl97.bsky.social

@fairygrrl97.bsky.social

6 Sept

Definitely. It's also not the crunchiest game system and I think it lowers the barrier to entry compared to some that have denser stat blocks and abilities and a little less willing to let rule of cool make things just sort of work in the background.