Dungeon Core Online

Remastered Edition - Book One

By: Jonathan Smidt, Portal Books

Narrated by: Travis Baldree

Length: 14 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

James thought he would be just another adventurer in the world’s most anticipated dungeon delving VRMMORPG. But when he logs in, he soon finds out that he won’t be diving the dungeon - he will be creating it. Pretty awesome right?

At least that was what he thought when he boldly chose "Random" as his dungeon type....

Then he summoned his first mob. A fearsome, bloodthirsty demonic.... Chicken.

Still, Demonic Farm Animals are the least of his worries. The person who is supposed to be teaching him the ropes is a weirdly advanced AI pixie, who drinks too much and is overly fond of gambling. Oh, and some mysterious figure seems to be watching and judging his every move - so signing that NDA is feeling like less and less of a solid choice.

Either way, James is up for the challenge. Even if it means building a dungeon around kamikaze sheep, enraged cows, unhygienic pigs, and yes...Dickens.

At least his next randomly selected mob type can’t be worse...right?

This is the revised, edited, and novelized retelling of the popular Royal Road web serial Dungeon Core Online by Glyax.

©2021 Jonathan Smidt (P)2021 Portal Books

Relaxed dungeon core

The story was a fun one. The comedy of the story is expressed well by Travis with enough jokes that being great to remember the past

Long love the dickens

-On the outside looking in-

I really enjoy the easy pace of this book. as a hidden gem, litrpg fans will recognize several popular titles that are obviously put in the book. I can't wait to start the next book!

A lot to like if you like off-the-wall

Right off, Jonathan Smidt is a new author for me and I am pleased to say, one who I will be interested in listening to other titles authored by him.

While the MCs backstory is a bit weak, they are written in such a way to make them an interesting combination. The concept of a human dungeon core is not all that unique, however, the implementation of it's oddities and zany characteristics is highly entertaining. There is an ample amounts of 20th-21st century movie one-liner allusions, including a play, to sate most listeners movie awareness tastes. Regrettably, there also tends to be more stat recitals that acts io to interrupt the flow of the story, seemingly, for the need to acquire a higher word count novel. This is a not uncommon pitfall with the litRPG genre but a bit disappointing, nonetheless. Still, the story was very entertaining so I gave it 5by5 on the Overall and Performance rating and deducted one star to the Story rating for the overuse of stats.

Travis Baldree continues his excellent narrating performance.

should have ended at chapter 119

the best chapter to have ended book 1 should have been at the end of 119.

still a very good book and I'm waiting with baited breath for book 2 so I can support the writer.

I didn't think I would like it at first but

honestly after the first couple chapters like I didn't think I'd like it but you know the author got me got me hooked and I can't wait for the next book to come out

Great read

Really fun dungeon core book with some really unique dungeons and an overarching story introduction that looks to set up a trilogy at the minimum… yet was still a satisfying solo read. Looking forward to the next one!

its a really decent book,

great with Travis as per normal with the books he narrates my only issue with the whole book is the ending protagonist (blank) when described sounds too much like the anime *no game no life* but its a decent LitRPG and dime a dozen good ones to be completely honest,

wear depends .. I was laughing too hard...

I was laughing so hard, I thought there might be an accident! heading straight into book 2

Long time reader.

I remeber reading the original on royal road. I'm glad to see that the story is progressing well and the author is keeping up the good work.

Don't let some of these negative reviews fool you.

I passed up this story several times because of some bad reviews. But I decided to get it this time because I was running out of books to listen to. And to my surprise this book was actually very solid. Not to mention it's narrated by one of the best in the game. I find that the summary doesn't really describe the pixie all that well. She's very helpful and the relationship between her and the MC seem like a goofy friendship between two nerds. I didn't think she was annoying one bit. Very flirty but not annoying or cringe. Honestly this book is only cringe if you don't like old reference to outdated memes, movies, games, and the like. I enjoyed hearing some of the references because they brought back fond memories. Yes some things towards the end do get a little contrived but I can over look it for the most part since I enjoyed the book.