Dungeons & Divebars: A Shared-world LitRPG adventure anthology

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Description

Every city has one: some hole in the wall that refuses to die, kept on life support by a few crusty locals. The kind of place tourists avoid like the plague, probably because they’re convinced they’ll actuallycontractthe plague, simply by walking through the front door. Cheap beer, watered down drinks and, for some inexplicable reason, the world’s most amazing chicken wings.

A dive bar.

The decades roll on, neighborhoods rise and fall, populations ebb and flow, but the dive bar abides. The dive bar also has a secret. Were someone to pay close enough attention, they might just notice that the dive bar only seems to attract a certain kind of person.

And every so often, that persondoesn’tcome back out.

Within the dive bar’s weathered walls, order and chaos are in residence, kept in a state of constant tension by the few who deign to enter.

Divers.

As the Earth continues to turn and people go about their busy days, they do so ignorant of the war that has raged on for centuries, just down the street. A war for control of the world around them.

A war for their very souls.

Dungeons and Divebars is a collection of novellas exploring the depths of the seediest dive bars in existence… and the horrors that lie within. It’s progression fantasy, litrpg, urban fantasy, and classic dungeon diving tales all rolled into one. And the stakes could not possibly be higher.So sidle on up to the bar, give Bob your order, and settle in for one hell of a night.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2024
Author: thedivebar

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Rating: 4.8/ 5.0
Followers: 46
Views: 22,014

Chapters(59 total)

What readers say about Dungeons & Divebars: A Shared-world LitRPG adventure anthology

“Good content, shows desires needs suspense opens up lots of possibilities completely enjoyed looking forward to fleshing out of character's lives and backgrounds and reasons why they do what they do wish knew author of Seattle's part in order to read other…”
Rumble BJRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“OK, so for folks who skimmed the summary *it's an anthology*! So, several stories by different authors about different characters in a shared setting (more or less). That means the style is gonna vary. YMMV. I, personally, really really enjoyed the first on…”
furball tigerRoyal Road4.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(2)

Rumble BJRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Good content, shows desires needs suspense opens up lots of possibilities completely enjoyed looking forward to fleshing out of character's lives and backgrounds and reasons why they do what they do wish knew author of Seattle's part in order to read other things they have written but needs to explain more about dives nice to see a new take on how to get into an adventure like the musical tie in five bars have to have good music.....
furball tigerRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
OK, so for folks who skimmed the summary *it's an anthology*!
So, several stories by different authors about different characters in a shared setting (more or less).
That means the style is gonna vary. YMMV.
I, personally, really really enjoyed the first one by WhiskeyOnTheRocks. I ended up skimming all the others after trying to wade thru each of them. Your experience may be different, as everyone has diff prefs.
All of these are well done, it was just a matter of what kind of story and what writing style suits a particular reader. They're all polished and professionally written.
The concept is a fresh twist on some standard ideas. There's a fair amount of action, and the pacing is pretty quick generally. All of the stories seem well edited and free of mistakes or other rough edges; these read more like final versions than a lot of stories on RR (some of which, frankly, are first or second drafts).
My apologies to the other writers; the stories were all well done, just not to my tastes. I'm sure some folks will have exactly the opposite reaction; that's fair, too. Thank you for sharing such interesting work.
I'm glad to see this kind of shared world making the rounds again; I have fond memories of Thieves World and other old shared projects.