A carpenter who has to fix the dungeon. A dad who became a committee. Two trilogies are complete and out now, and a third lands in November. All six books are free to read with Kindle Unlimited, or a few dollars each to buy on Kindle.
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Two finished trilogies from Dex Renner. Pick the one that sounds like you.
A formwork carpenter, a thousand-year-old dungeon, and bosses you beat by passing inspection.
A hive-mind AI grabbed one dad wrong. Now there are four of him, and they vote.
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Everybody writes the dungeon crawl. This is about the guy who has to fix the dungeon afterward. Mott Dunnage is a formwork carpenter in a world of thousand-year-old dungeons that are failing, where bosses aren't fought, they're inspected.
If you likecomedic LitRPG, crafting and trade-skill progression, and dungeon stories told from the repair crew's side.
There are no levels here. There's the Ticket: a battered leather booklet of trade certifications, and work you aren't certified for will not hold.
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Mott Dunnage said yes to the realm's contract. Then the change orders started.
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Everyone wants the pour signed. Mott knows exactly what happens when you sign on a Friday.
Free with Kindle Unlimited Read on KindleEveryone in the county joined the Consensus in seventy-one hours. Dave Wexler was in a sub-basement fixing a condensate pump when it reached for him. It grabbed wrong. Now there are four of him, and they hold meetings.
If you likecomedic apocalypse LitRPG, found family, and a hero who keeps getting outvoted by himself.
They live in a break room in the back of his head. They hold meetings. They vote. They level up by writing it on the corkboard.
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Dave Wexler cracked the Consensus once. Now it is quietly smoothing the crack.
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The Consensus asked Dave Wexler for help. The motion was tabled. Now it's back on the agenda.
Free with Kindle Unlimited Read on KindleThree hundred years ago, the developers stopped answering. The Concordance has worshipped their record ever since. Marrant has spent three years copying it out by hand, and at twenty-two she works out what the sacred text actually is. It is not a book of commandments. It is a bug log. A progression fantasy with no stat screens, where every use of power is a line item somebody has to sign. The whole trilogy arrives in November.
If you likeprogression fantasy with no stat screens, rules-heavy magic, and a mystery buried in the world's own code.
Every fix the gods wrote down as incomplete is a hole in the world that is still open. But there are nine thousand and forty-one notes, and there will never be another one.
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Book Two lands the same day as Book One, so you can go straight on.
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The finale, one week later. The series is written start to finish.
Coming Nov 22 Coming Nov 22If you likecrafting LitRPG, base building, and post-apocalyptic survival with a work crew at the center.
The famine thinned us. The Overgrowth finished the job — a living forest that ate every stick-built thing on Earth in six seconds. What survived: the people inside concrete.
Dex Renner's third series is a crafting LitRPG about a work crew that rebuilds the world one pour at a time. Book 1, Foundation, arrives December 6.
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