This Used to Be About Dungeons

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Alfric Overguard shows up in the sleepy village of Pucklechurch with a plan: assemble a dungeon-delving party. He gets one — Mizuki the sarcastic sorcerer who'd rather be cooking, Hannah the gregarious cleric, Isra the young druid, Verity the introverted bard — and then the story does exactly what the title warns: it stops being about dungeons. Delves happen, loot gets sold, but Alexander Wales spends the 23.5 hours on everything in between: meal prep, market days, friendship negotiations, finding your place. It's cozy without being saccharine, and the worldbuilding underneath the slice-of-life is quietly some of the smartest in the genre — a fantasy world where the systems actually make sense. If you need stakes, this will lose you by hour three; that's by design. If your favorite part of an RPG is the town between quests, few books get it this right. Zura Johnson handles the accents well, with the occasional character-voice slip. 4.4 from a tiny 69 ratings, basically undiscovered.

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