The Badger Dungeon

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2022

Author

Kit Monster

• Chapter Thirteen
  May 6, 2022
• Chapter Twelve
  May 2, 2022
• Chapter 11.5 P.B
  Apr 29, 2022
• Chapter Eleven
  Apr 24, 2022
• Chapter Ten
  Apr 24, 2022
• Chapter Nine
  Apr 21, 2022
• Chapter 8.5 K
  Apr 19, 2022
• Chapter Eight
  Apr 18, 2022
• Chapter Seven
  Apr 13, 2022
• Chapter Six
  Apr 12, 2022
• Chapter Five
  Apr 10, 2022
• Chapter 4.5 M.B
  Apr 11, 2022
• Chapter Four
  Apr 9, 2022
• Chapter Three
  Apr 6, 2022
• Chapter Two
  Apr 4, 2022
• Chapter One
  Apr 4, 2022
• Chapter 0.5 P.B
  Apr 3, 2022
• Chapter Zero
  Apr 2, 2022

Reviews

Community Reviews(9)

• Bluelightning42Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I...have a soft spot towards dungeon core novels.
  This is a very good example of one and is written in such a wholesome manner it makes me come back for more.
  I read a bit of the original but the rewrite seems to have tightened up quite a few of the parts. The Grammer is smooth and buttery, the Style is easy to read and flows nicely.
  The Story as of chapter 13 is almost slice of life in that it focuses quite a bit more on the Characters.
  And this is where most of my love for this novel is focused. Despite the early state (of the rewrite) each character from the core and its monster play off each other well. The badgers have been given POV chapters and I'm rooting for them to coexist with the dungeon.
  The characters are what make this DC novel unique and they are the selling point I have to offer anyone looking to pick this up.
  Thats tied into the Overall/enjoyment score because at the end of the day this story is wholesome and makes me smile while reading it.
  Its not wholesome because of everyone getting along and being innocent like some SOL dungeon stories. Instead its wholesome in the way a potentially murderous dungeon core convinces itself that there's a perfectly logical reason not to eat the badgers. "It's all logical, it's not like I care about them or anything. FOOD! They are food I'm saving for later." Yes the dungeon core is a bit of a tsun.
  Because of the tone and manner with which everything is presented, I can't imagine anything bad happening to the badgers the dungeon is "generously hosting".
• KileJRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  So far The Badger Dungeon is a fun, mostly light-hearted exploration of a dungeon and its badgers, as the title implies. The story is told in multiple perspectives, a technique which works well to flesh out the world from different angles. I find myself smiling a great deal while I read this story and frankly it just feels good. Sort of wholesome, even while the characters munch on worms and bunnies and dirt.
  GRAMMAR: Nothing much to see here, which is always best. The author is quite competent and even routinely goes back to perform corrections when errors are brought to their attention.
  STYLE: This is certainly one of The Badger Dungeon's strengths. The author has an easy, conversational tone which draws the reader in and makes you feel at home. Despite shifting between 1st and 3rd person points of view the story is easy to follow.
  CHARACTER: The characterization is the highlight of the work, in my opinion. The rather neurotic, insecure, and often frustrated dungeon core MC is immediately relatable in a way which was honestly surprising. I did not anticipate I'd empathize quite so much with an alien and presumably malicious entity but here we are.
  And the badgers are delightfully rendered here, each with distinct personalities and desires. I greatly enjoyed the chapters which focused on them.
  STORY: It's still very early but so far there isn't a great deal of conflict. It's more or less a slice of these character's lives -- which is understandable since the MC is still acclimating to their reality and the badgers don't even know the dungeon core exists. Frankly I'd expect things to become more tense as the MC gains power and abilities but a big part of me hopes they can be friends with the badgers. Perhaps some tension is created in that fact alone; the reader's desire to see these characters coexist peacefully.
  So far I have greatly enjoyed my time spent underground, immersed in this curious little world. We definitely have something different and unique here and
• PakkoRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Style: Badger Dungeon's syle is good overall and I have had no issues with reading. The sentences flow well and each chapter has been great.
  Grammar: The editing and writing of the story have also been great. Each time i read a newly released chapter I don't see any issues with spelling or sentence structure. You can generally expect the same of future chapters.
  Story: This story follows the creation of a new dungeon and its start next to a newly made badger home. It is a novel idea that follows animals as a new dungeon's initial friends. The dungeon doesn't get any over powered starting gear or advanced knowledge to start with. Instead the dungeon and the story are chill to start with and have been a casual dungeon core story so far. There is some question as to whether the badgers and dungeon can coexist and if so how?
  Character: The characters so far have been a lot of fun and are the highlight of this light-hearted story. The main characters we follow are the core as the main focus and then the two badger mates that let us follow them around to see part of the outside world. I love reading the parts with the badgers and their actions throughout the story.
  I look forward to reading more and you should too.
• possumflavoredRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  A well written and cute story, the core feels like something that is inteligent, giddy, and young. It is driven by instincts, which he writes so well, but isn't inheritly malciious and can translate those instincts into soemthing different thanks to its inteligence.
  The badger perpsectves are fantastic and charming. The papa badger feeling like a complaining but hardworking fellow.
• NonbinaryFineryRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  Just to preface this review: This is a review swap.
  That said, this is a very charming read indeed.  Dungeon core stories live and die on their central MC being interesting enough that you can read about them just rationalizing and thinking. Badger Dungeon does this very well. The mind of the poor sap turned dungeon core is written well and the way the story is structured makes it easy to be pulled in. There is some simple visuals provided that lets you follow the the expansion of the dungeon while it happens, which  I wish was the norm for the genre.
  I am always a big fan of little twists to the genre, both Dungeon core nad more straight-up game-lit. It's a genre completely oversaturated with the same wish-fullfilling, crunch, and number worshipping stories so it's always nice to find something that plays more to the beat of its own drum.
  The characterization of the MC dungeon core lends for easy, engaging reading as it is full of little quirks, inner ramblings and second-guesses as to what the hell is going on.  I am going to read the rest now and then sit around waiting for more.
  Grammar wise I saw no issues, which is says it all in that regard.
  Summary: I suggest you read this. It has a lot of soul, a lot of warmth and doesn't wallow in the edgyness and loner-style vindictiveness many of these stories do.
  Imean, it has badgers in it. You HAVE to read it.
• KoboldPatrolRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  (as of chapter 13 = post 18)
  This dungeon core story has kobolds as the dungeon's main/starting mob, which is always the best choice. No, I'm not biased at all, how did you get that impression? Anyway, in the story 'the Kobold Dung—'... uh, wait, what's this, 'Badger Dungeon'? Are you kidding me? Help, anti-kobold speciesism! Okay, I'll start again: *ahem*
  A dungeon core awakens, and like all dungeon cores it is destined to rule with a stony fist over adventurers, an impregnable fortress of tunnels and rooms and floors and monsters and loot, a glorious...*music stops* Well, in this story, a badger family finds the dungeon on day one and starts squatting in the free real estate, and our little ball of crystal has to cope with it. Don't worry, it will work out. (psst, there are still kobolds!)
  I read the first version of this story when it came out. It was a bit rough, but I liked it and I was sad about the hiatus. This rewritten version keeps the same plot elements. It is not as far along into the storyline as the old one was, but the quality has vastly improved.
  Style/Story/Grammar: The story is told from multiple points of view; the main part is in first person style from the dungeon core's POV, some side chapters show the POVs of the badgers and the kobolds in third-person style. The descriptions of the smaller stuff are sometimes cursory and sometimes rather detailed but the story is also painting a vivid picture of the wider scenery. Word choice is good and the narration is pleasant to read. When the core in the beginning is still not knowing much, there are very good visual representations of the common things it finds, that then later get their normal name. As LitRPG items there are [appraisal] screens, a frequent referral to health/mana/stamina points, the use of [skills], and system messages; the story could do with a bit less of that but it's still okay. The author is also posting small maps/floor plans of the dungeon, which is nice. The pacing is leaning t
• MonitorRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  This story is good. It shows the self discovery of a new dungeon core, which really doesn't know what it's doing, and has an abysmal attention span in certain ways.
  Shown near constantly by flipflopping between Appraisal is useful/appraisal is useless, although it's mostly an issue of: it's only useful in certain situation, and needs higher levels to become really useful - although it already gives a lot of information in certain ways.
  The style fits the story perfectly. It's slice of life, which, in this case, is definitely a good thing.
  Grammar is good, not much more to say here. No obvious issues, no weird words and so on.
  The characters drive that story. They have issues, but a lot of it comes down to how young/inexperienced the dungeon is, so there are no issues here. The attention span of the main character does not help, of course, although it's an important part of that character.
  All in all a great story that's fun to read. It can go a number of ways into the future, not all of them good, but it's definitely on a good way, so I am not too worried about not enjoying the story in the future.
• OnyavarRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  I have to lead with this one: I am generally pretty critical with stories, and my ranking goes from decent and enjoyable stories (2 stars) over good and great stories up to the best stories I can imagine (5 stars, and only for finished stories). And I think for the dungeon-core genre (which I generally don't like!), this story earns a score between good and great.
  So here comes my reasoning:
  Grammar is fine, and author corrects the errors that are pointed out which is always great.
  Style: It sometimes gets flowery with lots of adjectives. Other passages are rants in which the MC first person narrator (the dungeon core) obsesses about its skills and chastizes them or itself. I think those passages could be shorter, but they contribute to characterizing the core, so it's acceptable.
  Oh so we're in character territory already. The MC is a baby learning about its environment. It is often tiring to read how it muses about what a tree/mana/ant/worm/skill is, just for some examples. Literally everything is news to it, although some concepts are already known to it, like "ears" and "eyes" when it has none itself. So while it's great not to have to read about those as well, it's also strange to read a stream of consciousness from an un-knowing entity that instinctively knows at least some concepts. What made me stick to the story are the badgers, actually. They have great (animalistic) personalities in their few PoV chapters. Quite like the Disney nature documentaries from the 1950s? Meanwhile, the kobolds which the dungeon insists on creating as its first generated inhabitants, are more jerks in my opinion.
  So. Story score. The author is doing something creative with introducing basic animals into a naturally-formed dungeon. I do think that the badgers should be even more front and center, and be the subject to leveling and growth while in the dungeon, and less oblivious. So far, the dungeon more builds around them, and accomodates them while trying not to disturb them. Thi
• korentin_blackRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  A teeny and somewhat aberrant dungeon adopts a pair of badgers and proceeds to develop in downright odd ways. A little way into the proceedings, kobolds are added to the mix, which (of course) makes everything better.
  Unfinished at the moment of course, but still kind of promising. And is it just me or is the fifty word minimum review limit exasperating?