The Cautious DND Adventurer

Sometimes the results from dice rolls are more dramatic than those from pure fiction. Hopefully, the author will stop cheating and continue playing like this.

Although I've read Goblin Slayer, I only connected the two after reading this book. My first tabletop RPG ended in me dying at the hands of a bunch of goblin bears, and they said it was just goblins... I almost cried.

Chapter Thirteen: Persuaded to Quit... It seems the author has never understood one crucial point: battle reports and novels are different... Although I haven't read to the end, I read some of the author's comments in the book reviews, and it seems that this problem probably won't improve much by the middle to later stages of the book.

It's really strange to apply the fifth version's proficiency to the "Second Attack - 5" setting. This novel imitates the Power Forever (PF) setting where the second attack of a combat-type character is -5, but PF has a base attack bonus. The fifth edition doesn't have a base attack bonus, and the accuracy improvement for combat-type characters isn't faster than others.

Generally speaking, it is easy to fall into two pits when writing DND novels. The first is to ignore the rules and abuse the settings. The things written are often laughable and generous, and cannot capture the main readership. Only good writing skills can climb out of the ditch.

I just jumped over and took a look... Ah, as expected, this ending is still not acceptable. The protagonist is just a clone of a big shot or something... In the whole story, what we see is the protagonist's story, and what we recognize is the protagonist himself, including his character, behavior, experience, abilities, relationships and so on. Rather than an immortal that appears out of nowhere.

I have some questions about the original Goblin Slayer storyline. Why would a party of three women and one man be farming goblins at the beginning? Don't the three women dislike this quest? The others don't know goblin behavior, not even the novice priest? The female victims in Goblin Slayer are sent to the church for treatment; the novice priest should have seen them the most. So, the female protagonist probably just appeared out of nowhere.

The book was quite interesting when I read the first few chapters. The setting was good, and the protagonist's personality was also good. I was wondering why it wasn't popular. Now that I've read twenty chapters, I understand. The author is just indulging in self-entertainment the whole time, writing the novel with the attitude of playing a game rather than writing a novel.

The Warhammer Fantasy series is truly baffling. To have a class with transformation abilities, especially one with four arms—such an obvious mutation—isn't that practically a Chaos Cultist? 😅 It's good enough that they weren't burned alive, but to actively choose such a class is just ridiculous.

The plot is a minor issue; the real problem is whether the author can improve their writing. Tone down the internal monologues! The writing is a mess, the transitions are disjointed. Whether a novel is good or not is a matter of personal taste; the real issue is that the writing should flow smoothly!