Do people here like dungeon crawlers and tower climbers?

[MakBow]

It's just something I want to know as I'm writing a second novel to use as practice to train my third-person perspective since I suck at it as well as being purely for fun and to keep my mind fresh to prevent writer's block to do my more active novel.

It's meant to be a dark fantasy, gory, action-packed, slice of life story about a baby slime being born and exploring the city of Blackwood and entering dungeons and towers for money so he can eat, food being his only goal with other hunters joining him, heavy gore and a lot of death since people can be revived.

He's supposed to be a blank slate at first, but slowly develops his own personality through exposure, acting purely on self-interest, never speaking.

(No smut or ecchi, just gore, fights, slice of life, and side quests with a lot of action)
Basically, a Dark Fantasy Shonen

But yeah, the question, do people here like smut and the clapping of cheeks here more than dungeon crawlers?

If you ever want to give it a read, go ahead. it's only one chapter on weekends, being either Saturday or Sunday, with one prologue out to introduce the world

If you have time, you can also tell me how well my third person is. I really need it.

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[Tetrahedron]

I prefer dungeon crawlers than tower climbers, but again, this dungeon crawler must have threats that constantly escalates after clearing one sector

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

They both seem to do fine in fantasy spaces. I personally don't understand tower climbers.

 

[MakBow]

They both seem to do fine in fantasy spaces. I personally don't understand tower climbers.

I mean, it's not like the towers are going to be tall, maybe about 5, 6 floors and then they return back to ground, same with dungeons. Overall, its just be opening more opportunities for me to make hype fights

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

There was one tower climber/dungeon crawler (the tower was the dungeon) that I have read that was both a good story and had smut as well. The smut chapters were actually linked to a Google Doc, and had no real relevance to the story, so you could skip over them if you wanted.

Do I like smut more than a story like that? Not if it doesn't make sense to have smut in the story. Your MC is a slime, so unless you planned on a tentacle porn or something similar, I see no reason to have smut in your story.

 

[MakBow]

There was one tower climber/dungeon crawler (the tower was the dungeon) that I have read that was both a good story and had smut as well. The smut chapters were actually linked to a Google Doc, and had no real relevance to the story, so you could skip over them if you wanted.

Do I like smut more than a story like that? Not if it doesn't make sense to have smut in the story. Your MC is a slime, so unless you planned on a tentacle porn or something similar, I see no reason to have smut in your story.

Never. He's a baby slime. WAAAY Too young for that

 

[Eldoria]

(No smut or ecchi, just gore, fights, slice of life, and side quests with a lot of action)
Basically, a Dark Fantasy Shonen

I appreciate your commitment above. We do need dark fantasy fiction that explores other worlds without disguising itself as another genre.

However, perhaps I've had enough of tower and dungeon fiction. For some reason, I now prefer fiction that's meaningful and can make me cry, rather than simply exciting or entertaining. Well, that's my taste—too niche and not a benchmark.

Your fiction still has a market in SH, although not as large as a super genre like genben.

The problem might be better updates and sufficient chapter counts to be worth reading. After all, no reader likes to see fiction stop abruptly midway. So, just keep writing this fiction and don't get hung up on numbers. Good luck!

Regards.

 

[MakBow]

I appreciate your commitment above. We do need dark fantasy fiction that explores other worlds without disguising itself as another genre.

However, perhaps I've had enough of tower and dungeon fiction. For some reason, I now prefer fiction that's meaningful and can make me cry, rather than simply exciting or entertaining. Well, that's my taste—too niche and not a benchmark.

Your fiction still has a market in SH, although not as large as a super genre like genben.

The problem might be better updates and sufficient chapter counts to be worth reading. After all, no reader likes to see fiction stop abruptly midway. So, just keep writing this fiction and don't get hung up on numbers. Good luck!

Regards.

I have no intention on getting into numbers. After all, the fiction is mainly to train my third person-perspective and help train my capability to write fights better. Whether it gets viewership or not doesn't truly matter to me as in the end, it's for me.

It's also me doing something I haven't personally seen ever.

Instead of making my MC reincarnate as a monster (which was the first plan), I just make my MC a slime (Not reborn), a baby slime that is mute and acts purely on a slime's instincts in the first part of the story, slowly developing his own personality.

(In short, Cursed Hand is about disciplining myself to stick to a story whereas Dungeon Crawlers is a passion project)

 

[Eldoria]

I have no intention on getting into numbers. After all, the fiction is mainly to train my third person-perspective and help train my capability to write fights better. Whether it gets viewership or not doesn't truly matter to me as in the end, it's for me.

It's also me doing something I haven't personally seen ever.

Instead of making my MC reincarnate as a monster (which was the first plan), I just make my MC a slime (Not reborn), a baby slime that is mute and acts purely on a slime's instincts in the first part of the story, slowly developing his own personality.

(In short, Cursed Hand is about disciplining myself to stick to a story whereas Dungeon Crawlers is a passion project)

Great, keep going! By the way, we already have a slime girl... and you could have just written slime boy.

Slime Girl

Slimes are stupid! Annoying little pests that don't think about anything. How would they? They don't even have a brain. They don't even think about what they do, dissolving anything in their reach. That's worse than a beast acting on instinct, that's just following a program. A plague of mindless...

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[MFontana]

(No smut or ecchi, just gore, fights, slice of life, and side quests with a lot of action)
Basically, a Dark Fantasy Shonen

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For what it's worth, I'd read it on this alone.