Articles tagged with: Humour

Book: Dungeon Crawler Carl

How to speak about this book without spoiling things... The Setting is: Carl just got out of his house to catch his cat, Princess Donut, when suddenly all buildings and structures in Earth collapse, killing everything inside. Then some alien voice announce that survivors must go through an intergalactic TV-show through a deadly 18-levels dungeon if they wish to survive. Oh, and the cat becomes "a crawler" and can speak.

If the argument left you thinking WTF, I know, it also did to me. But with the book being such a success, I decided to give it a go anyway. And I can say that now I'm hooked to it, I already began with the 2nd title. It is a very nerdy book: RPGs, videogames, superheroes, and lots of humour. Despite the absurd story, everything else connects not in a cohesive way, but in a very entertaining combination. The fancy cat has high intelligence and charisma, so you have her from charming NPCs to brush her, to shooting magic missiles to enemies and teleporting herself. Carl instead becomes mostly accidentally an unarmed melee tank, but also suitably good with explosives. The enemies, in a maybe distant nod to The Witcher, have their lives and feelings and points of view, so there might be a way to avoid having to fight with all those goblins... or perhaps not.

I really don't want to spoil anything because, at least for the first title, you easily align with the journey of discovery of the main character; He is as surprised as you of everything that is happening, and for the most part, he's just a regular guy lucky enough to survive the alien "attack" but unlucky to not have brought pants and boots to the dungeon.

If you enjoy either or both pen & paper and/or computer RPGS, grab the book and read it.

Publication date: 2026-09-23

• Treasure chests can only hold one or two items at most. People can hold a near infinite amount of items.
• If someone in town tells you that they heard a rumor, it's true.
• Dungeon monsters and traps will only attack or effect the hero and the people traveling with him/her. If you're just an unimportant person, you can go ahead and run through the dungeon, temple, forest, desert, cave, or other place teeming with evil unharmed.
• You should always walk behind waterfalls, because there's always something hidden back there.
• Animals, in general, will attack you relentlessly as you travel from one place to another.
• Most people stay in the same exact spot all day long.
• Everybody in every part of the world speaks the same language.
• Sleep is the only absolute necessity of life. You can travel all over the world and fight as much as you want, and there is never a need to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom.
• Most houses in the world only have one room.
• After dealing your arch enemy an apparently fatal blow, don't think you can rest easy. He'll probably transform and become stronger.
• You may see beds everywhere, you may be able to get into them, but you won't be able to sleep unless you pay money.
• The world is flat.
• You can carry 99 tents, 99 potions, and 99 Phoenix Downs, but you cannot carry 100 potions.
• Items in treasure chests, even in someone else's house, are yours for the taking.
• Your job is to defend a world that has less than 100 people and a limitless amount of monsters.
• Store owners have the right to keep getting rich from the hero, even though the fate of their world rests on the hero's shoulders.
• All methods of transportation, be they subway, airplane, boat or bus, are usually free.
• When you get injured by a sword, or other weapon, blood will not pour out, only numbers.

 

This, and more funny things we have surely learned, at the original source.

Publication date: 2012-02-06

Calls for Cthulhu is a funny parody of a call-in show, highly recommended for some laughts ;)

Publication date: 2008-06-19

I cannot remember when, but somewhere in the past I found this two interesting links to (a lot of) WoW's easter eggs and jokes.

• World of Warcraft Easter Eggs
• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Easter Eggs

BTW: I'm again playing WoW sometimes... I'm almost level 53 and I hope to level sooner after the latest patches and the XP boost.

Publication date: 2008-02-06

A fantastic Guild advertising video :D

Publication date: 2007-04-24