{"id":52490,"date":"2025-10-20T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52490"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:41:16","slug":"dungeon-crawler-carl-by-matt-dinniman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/10\/20\/dungeon-crawler-carl-by-matt-dinniman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 56 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/5b86aa3c-21dc-4e2b-a914-13c6f9710a1c\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I backed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/dinniman\/dungeon-crawler-carl-v1-hardcover-editions\">special Kickstarter re-release edition<\/a> of this on a bit of a whim, figuring that it was worth supporting a local author whom I&#8217;d met at Norwescon. I also knew that it was a bit of a risk for me: I never got into role-playing games, and the last time I read a book that I described as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/reviews\/6b251297-cbac-41e7-9651-8d2a4b0316a1\">like watching someone else play a game<\/a>&#8220;, I didn&#8217;t say that in a complimentary way (<a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/c2c21da1-4a2d-411a-bc14-b41defba2024\">Dafydd Ab Hugh&#8217;s <cite>Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead<\/cite><\/a>). Thankfully, Dinniman is much better at this sort of thing than Ab Hugh was, and I was entertained throughout. Carl isn&#8217;t <em>too<\/em> much of an asshole, Donut is just enough of an asshole (she is a cat, after all), and the adventure is a good balance of dungeon crawl and slowly exploring the wider world. Honestly, I kind of expected that this would be a one-off thing, but I was amused enough that I&#8217;ll continue backing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/dinniman\/dungeon-crawler-carl-v2-and-v3-limited-edition-hardcovers\/description\">the Kickstarter editions<\/a> to collect a full set.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5231.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Dungeon Cralwer Carl.\" title=\"IMG_5231.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" style=\"float:right;\" \/><br>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 56\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: I took a bit of a risk, and wasn&#8217;t disappointed; this was an entertaining read, and I&#8217;ll keep going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[6954,6950],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}