When life gives you slimes, open a cafe. After waking up in a dungeon, Hazel wasn’t about to grab a sword and start fighting. Instead, she picked up a sandwich, because who needs weapons when you’ve got food? That choice glitched the system, giving her a brand-new class: Culinary Mage.  Now, Hazel’s baking her way through the dungeon, making friends with slimes, and cooking up a storm instead of grinding monsters.  XP from cooking? Check. A quest to escape the dungeon by reaching flo...

There are a lot of things wrong with Liv Brodbeck. She’s too small, for one thing. When she works in the castle kitchens with her mother, she can’t carry a sack of flour or roll a keg of ale.  Baron Summerset’s chirurgeon says that she has brittle bones, so she isn’t allowed to wrestle or sword fight with the other children. Even sledding downhill in the winter brings the risk of breaking an arm or a leg if she falls.  Everyone says that she ruined her mother’s life when she was b...

Riven Cross just wanted to check on his pregnant sister.An Army Ranger taking some leave from his unit to be with her. Then he found the bracer.Now he’s trapped in a brutal, game-like world with monsters, magic, and a deadly system that brands him an Outlier.  Worse?The dungeon is a trial ground for warriors who’ve trained their whole lives. Riven has… a pocketknife, combat scars, and a suspiciously well-timed seasonal latte to defend himself. A new world. A baby niece to protect. A si...

In post System Toronto, Alex doesnΓÇÖt slay monsters to get by. He delivers pizza. Broke and rejected by the AdventurerΓÇÖs Guild and the Courier Guild, with nothing but a crumbly resume, Alex takes the only job left in town: Delivery Boy for NinoΓÇÖs Pizza, a Lich Pizzeria run by a married couple literally bound to the building. His task? Deliver enchanted pizza to Dungeon Bosses in sixty minutes or less, or suffer the Dungeon Bosses and the old coupleΓÇÖs wrath. Armed with a seemingly usele...

The unnamed main character wakes up as a Dungeon Core. Instead of being deep within the earth or in a cave, this newly-minted Dungeon Core finds himself drifting to the beach of an uncharted and uninhabited island. Watch as he explores the uses of mana, defends himself from people trying to kill him and confuses the hell out of all the humans who attempt to understand just why he's different from other dungeons. DISCLAIMER: I have only posted my novel to Sufficient Velocity and RoyalRoad. If ...

Listen here, because I've seen it with my very own eyes.William Oh was born on the hundredth floor of The Tower, to the greatest Climbers of the ancient world, steeped in the Tower's lethal miasma from the moment he drew breath, giving him strange and unnatural powers. They say he is an immortal being who circles the dreams of mortal men, resurfacing wherever the need is greatest. Those who disparage him will fall into despair, but if you're a Climber in a tight scrape, look to the sky and sa...

Author's note: Don't overthink it, just read it. It's funny. Francis Francis Francis the 3rd was one hell of a Marine. He died doing what he loved, killing everyone around him. After being vaporized in the line of duty, Francis is transported to a new world full of gods and magic. Too bad Hades is trying to kill him for declining a job offer and System holds a grudge for what happened during character creation. At least his new patron deity seems nice.  Armed with nothing but his lucky pink...

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It's the end of the world, and all Dave wanted to do was eat his eggs in peace. Now, thanks to a talking bird, he's in another universe with only a few years to either become powerful enough on his own to save his home or to find some help to do so. Desperate to understand the rules of the world he now occupies while the System pushes him into dangerous experiments, Dave, with the help of some new friends, will do whatever is necessary to save his home and family. Even if he succeeds, that's ...

"From within the white stone, statues began to emerge, me. Dozens of me. The masks I had worn through the years, shaped into stone: the artist, the thief, the student, the liar and dozen others. Each persona sculpted in exquisite detail, caught mid-motion as if they had turned to look back at me in the moment of their unraveling." -Alexa May Alexa’s parents died when she was young, leaving her orphaned — but her exceptional talent for sleight of hand and passion for art soon caught the at...

In the year 2090, technology has advanced to the point where Simulation Boxes, (Sim Box for short) are common place, allowing for the user to link up their brain's neural network to a full dive Simulation. While initially used for educational purposes, recently a large gaming company, Averon, released a fully fledged immersive MMORPG simulation where users can become anyone they desire, level up, choose their class, and become a hero or a villain. The name of this simulation is The Shattered...

[I was reborn after being murdered because of the true wish that I made for revenge against all human-peoples, but now I’m alive again and I actually just kind of don’t want to do that anymore; so I opened a shoe-store instead!] After being violently torn from her old life in the natural world after being grotesquely murdered by miners belonging to members of the common races of humans and elves, Mirabelle the fairy makes a true wish to anything that can hear her dying screams, beckoning ...

I died nine months from today, on the day that Fortress ENE, my home and one of the few safe cities left in North America, was assaulted by a million monsters pouring from the same portals we'd been exploiting for years.Nine months. I have nine months to find out who is responsible for the breach, which corporation stands to gain the most, and who is pulling the levers of power to burn my home down.What do I have?A shitty apartment on the outskirts, a job interview in the morning that I'd pas...

Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 1 is now on Amazon! mybook.to/dungeoncrawlercarl Book 2 is also now available! mybook.to/dungeoncrawlercarl2Royal Road and Patreon is where to get the newest chapters and releases.  The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Bucki...

Dungeon Wreckers is now available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. For Matthew, blowing up Dungeons is more than a job; it's a pleasure. The year is 2024. Monsters are everywhere, Belgium has never existed (to everyoneΓÇÖs relief), and mysterious Dungeons eat people. ItΓÇÖs Matthew ΓÇ£WormholeΓÇ¥ MarukiΓÇÖs secret part-time job to stamp them out like weeds before they grow big enough to overwhelm reality; something which he and his team have grown explosively good at between school life and th...

When a new dungeon is born, it wants nothing more than to have the most vicious monsters, the most cunning traps and the most shiny of loot. There is only one problem, but it's a rather big one; it finished its first floor years ago, but it still hasn't been visited by any adventurers! In order to find someone or something to explore its floors, or perhaps just to find someone to talk to, this dungeon will have to go way off script. But it soon discovers that going off script brings problems ...

This Used to be About Dungeons is a comfy slice-of-life adventuring story that occasionally features dungeons. Now complete. Mostly it's about walking in the woods with a friend, looking for mushrooms to put in your soup, or haggling with the guy selling squash, or taking care of a neglected garden. It's putting some jam on shortbread biscuits. And yes, sometimes you go down into the dungeons with your friends, and you kill monsters there, or disarm traps, but when you come out, you realize ...

Hans had a realization that changed the direction of his adventuring career: ΓÇ£above averageΓÇ¥ is different from ΓÇ£great.ΓÇ¥ At 39 with a litany of lingering injuries, he accepted that he would never progress from Gold-ranked to Diamond-ranked. He plateaued long ago, lacking whatever secret sauce that produced the legendary adventurers he grew up admiring. With his prime behind him and disillusioned by guild politics, Hans accepts a guild master posting in a remote village. Usually, guild ...

"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. What then are we to think of it when the gods themselves steal our ideas on how the universe should work? Can we complain when they turn reality into a game? Can we get a refund on life itself? The gods claim they answered our prayers. That they built this world with us in mind. That they brought us here for our own sake. Maybe they did. Personally I think they have their own reasons. We're not the players in this game, we're the pieces o...

System vs. System, Player vs. Player. A fantasy world gets caught in a battle between forces far, far beyond them. They come from a different world. They don't hunger and they don't need sleep. They don't bleed when struck, and they can fall thousands of meters without suffering harm.  The worst thing is, they see it all as a game. They're Players. Cain Thompson wakes up in a foreign fantasy world, with no memory of what happened or caused him to come here. Soon enough, he finds himself exhi...