Dungeon Tour Guide: A Dungeon Core LitRPG

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Description

Book 1 is available on Amazon!Volume 1 is available here!

Lucas used to delve dungeons. Now, he has to run one.

After Lucas dies during a freak explosion, divine intervention sees him brought back to life with the power to control a new dungeon.

There’s just a couple of issues: his old body is bound to his dungeon, and the craziness of what he thought was his final act is only getting weirder. When he sees newbie adventures entering his dungeon, though, he decides to help them survive and complete their quests.

After all, adventuring is a process, andsomeoneneeds to guide the rookies.

★★★★★Tour guide was super friendly and helped us clear the dungeon!

Come join us at theDiscord!

Dungeon Tour Guide is a non-traditional Dungeon Core novel.

What to expect:

- Collaboration with adventurers

- A main character who wants to help people thrive

- Powerful skills and spells for the MC’s dungeon and human halves

- Dungeon building and eventual community building

- A Dungeon Core MC with a human body

Posting schedule: 1-2x a week

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2023
Author: Slifer274

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 4,929
Views: 40,700

Chapters(3 total)

What readers say about Dungeon Tour Guide: A Dungeon Core LitRPG

“Thoroughly enjoyable story, with a creative and unusual MC, playful twists on some classic tropes (Isekai, dungeon-as-MC, systems), and a good balance between world-building, character development, progression, levity, and straight up do-or-die battles with…”
JolligreenRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“This is good, very, very good. I have found myself sitting, looking at the last posted chapter, just waiting one more hour for the next one, I figure I might as well write a review on one of if not my favorate pieces of fantisy in recent months. The pacing…”
Basket of SnakeRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

JolligreenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Thoroughly enjoyable story, with a creative and unusual MC, playful twists on some classic tropes (Isekai, dungeon-as-MC, systems), and a good balance between world-building, character development, progression, levity, and straight up do-or-die battles with the forces of evil. If there's anything that is missing, it's an actual reason for the bad guys to do their bad things; right now, they're just the opposition, for reasons yet unknown.
Big picture, though, it's a fun read that does a great job with the pacing keeps things consequential without taking itself too seriously, and keeps surprising me with new ideas. If you're a DM or a player of RPGs, you'll certainly enjoy this read, and the writing and grammar are consistently high quality, which is always a plus for keeping the immersion going.
Bonus: lots of recommendations for other stories to check out! Big thanks to the author for writing an excellent tale, and keeping the pace up while also taking care of themselves.
Basket of SnakeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is good, very, very good. I have found myself sitting, looking at the last posted chapter, just waiting one more hour for the next one, I figure I might as well write a review on one of if not my favorate pieces of fantisy in recent months. The pacing is perfect, I hate the clifhangers, but thats no reason to drop a rating, especially since they tend to be properly resolved the next chapter, which is only ever a day away. The characters a realistic and human, they feel like people I would want to hang out with in real life, which is an achievent by the author, because I never hang out with anyone and have no frie- sorry what was I saying? Oh yeah, the premise is great, and its something I've ever seen before, the tour guide stuff, that is, the "Survivor mixed with dungion" I HAVE seen before, but thats just a way the author uses to get to the main premise. I don't have much more to say though, other than that I have never spotted a grammer error that has not yet been fixed, so see yall in the comments section!
InvaderNioRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The premise 'A Dungeon Tour Guide' is great, why the story is detouring from that at every given opportunity is the problem.
55 Chapters in, still feels like a prologue, nor does it make sense. The story is readable, if you can ignore plot holes, & plot points that go nowhere. The author is good at writing, but needs to edit things out if they go nowhere, are unnecessary, or don't make sense.
The MC is transmigrated, why? No reason. How? Goddess did it, don’t worry about it, it doesn't matter. Now the MC is a [Divine Healer], yay! Now he is dead. Boo! Why? Dungeon stuff? Again, no reason, nor does it matter. Now he is isekai’d! As a dungeon core, or dungeon bound, or both. Why, no reason. But now he can die at least three more times before he actually dies. Why? No reason, nor does it matter.
Alright, now that we are done with the mandatory isekai &/or transmigration stuff we can start the story! No. Now we meet the Female lead, who is also isekai’d, why? No reason, doesn’t matter, never relevant. We have two isekai characters in the main cast, and there is literally no reason for them to be. Do they use Earth science inventions &/or strategy? Or literally anything that would justify it? No. It is never useful or relevant at all. Also the Female lead has a [Divine] class.. Not that that means literally anything.
The MC, is literally a totally normal Healer, which is pretty underwhelming considering he is a [Divine Healer] from another world. His story starts with him having a party for all of one floor of a dungeon then dying.. Somehow? Then he gets another party, they are great with insane classes! How do we know? The MC said so, or thought so. Really they are much like the MC, underwhelming.
Then we have another party, they are brats, then they aren’t, why? No reason.
Then we have a new character, he is a jerk, why? Who knows! But then he isn’t, because brainwashing is ..cool? And everyone including the MC & female lead who are from Earth are also just cool with i
AwriterRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is cool, I have wanted to write a dungeon core story, and this is very inspiring and a unique take on it. Thank you.
I will repeat the top line for word count cause I am not good with words.
This is cool, I have wanted to write a dungeon core story, and this is very inspiring and a unique take on it. Thank you.
DragonsAwayRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
the trolley problem convinced me lol. It's a nice story with likeable characters as well as a pretty neat premise. It's got setup for more of the same which certainly isn't a bad thing. It doesn't all have to be world shattering consequences and such
Edit: yeah still a great story. consequences got bigger but I still like it
EmergencyComplaintsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story just has such a fun premiss. I was instantly hooked and the author kept delivering. Updates are regular and not bogged down with fluff and word count padding. The characters are fun and enjoyable with distinct voices, and I cannot wait for more of the world to be revealed.
FlychikenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a great story, would recommend reading it.
interesting take on the standard dungeon reincarnation story. It avoids the normal pitfalls of airports struggling to write such and inhuman point of view.
Overal, it is a great litrpg adventure/comedy with a slight slice of life feel, with a larger plot Brewing in the background.
style: this story is just well written, simple as that. The author shows rather than tells, and it is just a fairly straightforward and clean style.
story: mostly great, but with a couple of points to improve. Mostly, there just seems to be some weird things going on with levels and the main characters knowledge/decisions, that breaks some of my immersion. But overall, reall good. More detail here:
So, system and levels her are a bit weird. On one hand, I appreciate a glitchy story, but this doesn't seem intentional. For example, there is a party that doesn't reach level 2 because they do not work well together. So does the system judge your quality as and adventurer? Then how does the gunner who is a shit teammate level?
also, once Lucas is exposed to people like rose as talking to the dungeon, why does nothing happen with that? Them interacting with it, offering advice, or asking for crafted items? Or him offering? This may just be a later reveal, but Rose knows the dungeon prints money for free, and doesn't do anything with that? Even just printing other objects for free?
grammar: grammar is excellent.
character score: great characters. Conversations are very natural (excoect when they are not supposed to be), and most of the cast is like able but with some real imperfections.
Brythnoth: Void ChampionRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Its good, solid writing, plot is complex and threads are woven, intruduced, buried, and excavated. needless to say, wonderful.
LitRPG is well kept & consistant, though there is no EXP system, thats fine cause is means growth comes as the characters GROW and not Farm a bunch of goblins at wizard school. Also were running a system where there are powerful comboes, and everyone is somewhat "magic," wether its actual magic or superhuman physique; who cares.
It's a good read, so what are you still doing here?
secret for those who stuck aroud:
The godess wears many faces.
Grim ThoughtsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Dungeon Tour Guide is an as-of-now very high-quality dungeon-core story involving a half-dungeon, half-human MC, a unique twist of the genre. We don't know too much of the MC himself, but he appears personable enough, and he will probably make connections with a decent amount of people as the story goes on. As both the tour guide and the tour itself, he prioritizes bestowing his delvers with an enjoyable but hands-off adventure through his dungeon, where they can grow and develop. While he isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty if need be, he very much tries to avoid it if at all possible (on that note, this is very much a good-natured dungeon core story, so if you like bloodthirsty dungeon-cores, this is definitely not for you).
Chapter 1 was more of an introductory chapter, where the MC dies a second time trying to defend his newly-formed adventuring party before becoming the entity he currently is now. Chapter 2 onwards is the meat of the story, so far involving a structure in which the MC builds and improves aspects of the dungeon "off-screen" before touring an adventuring party through his dungeon, revealing the rooms to the reader at the same time as the adventuring party. Currently, this first adventuring party seems to be developing into recurring characters, as much of the story's plot so far has centered them. It's still early days for this fiction, but if Dungeon Tour Guide stays the course and continues getting consistent high-quality updates, as the chapters on Patreon and Reddit imply it will, then I'm sure this story will develop into something big here on Royal Road!
KalvaakRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story had been a trip so far, loved every second. Overall the characters are fun and full of life, and the story itself has got a really unique and fun aspect to it.
The story has got more serious as time has gone on but still retains some humour to it. Over all I say this is one of my favorite stories on this website. There are many good ones on here. But this one is special. Not only was it the first I started reading here but it's also the one that I spired me to finally take the plunge and try and write my own story. Even though my Grammer skills are pretty horrid (I am sure you can't a tell, right? Haha) but I will learn and improve as I go. But I have this amazing author to thank for bot only the hours of entertainment I have had the privilege of reading, but also for helping me decide to take the first steps that I have been so hesitant to take.