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  • Dungeon of Chance: Even Odds

  • Serious Probabilities, Book 1
  • By: Jonathan Brooks
  • Narrated by: Miles Meili
  • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (46 ratings)
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By: Jonathan Brooks
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Summary

In a world dictated by probabilities, Clay was an anomaly....

Thousands of Heroes protect the land, defending against the periodic incursions by gigantic monsters known as World Threats. This was the way it had always been, and Clay Shuntwise was perfectly fine with that. Running deliveries for his family’s shop in the sleepy town of Renton, the young teenager barely even thought about Heroes and their role in keeping the world safe. 

That was, at least, until the world came crashing down on him. 

Reborn into the brand new and unfamiliar form of a Dungeon Core, Clay struggles through learning more about Heroes and the dungeons they delve through to get stronger. According to the guide that was trying to help him understand his new life, however, because he was a former Hero, Clay should already know most of what he needed to succeed; all of the finer parts regarding the relationship between Heroes and dungeons, including information about probabilities and drop rates, should be common knowledge. 

The problem? Despite wishing that he had been that lucky in his past life, Clay had never been a Hero…but now, he might be forced to become one, though not quite in the way he ever expected. 

This book contains Dungeon Core, LitRPG, and GameLit elements including dungeon construction and defense, monster summoning, character progression, and a game-like interface. In addition, many of the probabilities the world is based upon are similar to Gacha-type mechanics. Contains no profanity, harems, or explicit sexual content.

©2020 Jonathan Brooks (P)2020 Jonathan Brooks

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Good story

I like the change and new perspective for Dungeon Core. I definitely look forward to the next one

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Interesting ideas to start this new series

While there are obviously a number of elements you need to have in a dungeon core novel/series, the author does a good job with this first book in his new series in finding some new twists and angles to take to ensure the basic premise feels fresh.

Using an idea such as adventurers respawning and thus both them and the dungeon growing in parallel rather than a dungeon being actively altruistic or antagonistic makes a nice change in this sub-genre. There also being more fundamental links between the presence of dungeons and adventurers is an interesting premise to setup as one of the foundations of the world-building too and some of the grindier/gacha aspects of the levelling process also works fairly well as a main mechanic in the world too, the balance of explaining the mechanics sufficiently and avoiding repetition was maintained well in the book too. Oddly enough, despite the name of the book and series, one aspect that didn't really work for me was the focus on the odds and probabilities, it makes sense to know this stuff in the actual games that use such mechanics, but it just felt like pointless padding in this book, although there is still time for it to actually matter in subsequent books.

The performance of the narrator was good overall with suitably distinctive tones for the main cast and avoiding the trap of caricature when voicing characters of the opposite gender.

Overall, a good blend of world-building for the series as a whole and telling enough of a story to make this instalment work in it's own right too.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

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great story well narrated

good balance told between two viewpoints with enough but not too many stats. Very well narrated conveying additional depth to the characters.


Will be looking out for book 2

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Interesting Concept of a Gacha Dungeon Core

First and foremost I love the few twists that Jonathan does balancing the story of the D.C. and the Heroes, it is such a good way to create the environment for the whole story and that is what keeps me wanting more of his books.
The narration by Miles is really good pace and understanding.
Give this book a chance even if you don't like Gacha games. The story is really good.

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Super enjoyable listen!

Really enjoyed this one. Great storyline and development of both the dungeon and characters. The cats thing was a cool theme once explained! Strongly suggest giving this one a go!

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A bit of a gamble

You could call it a LitClickerRPG book, the story overall was enjoyable enough, but the focus was on grinding. No value for life enter the dungeon kill as many monsters as possible, hope for lucky drops, rinse repeat.
The dungeon building was basic. Both sides of the story were about getting lucky with loot boxes.
Lots of probabilities covered that had little impact on the story.
It was well read and the characters were nice enough.
Not the best book ever but by no means bad.

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Very good dungeon Core

Reborn as a dungeon core, Clay has to learn a whole new way of living guided by Dwight the dungeon guide. great characters as usual with this author and a good solid game mechanic with a twist from the normal. There are lots of stats tables but they are presented as separate chapters so if you don't like stat updates they can be skipped. Personally I like them, it is Litrpg after all. Miles Mili puts on a great performance.

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The gacha dungeon

Overall very likable characters and story. This dungeon core story is delivered in a well thought out world of heroes and monsters. The rules that govern the dungeon and hero growth are both consistent and detailed, ehile not being overly convoluted.

If you hate cats you might just have found a kindred spirit in this young dungeon core

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One of the better Dungeon Core Books

I got this book as part of a code give away from the author but that hasn't effected my opinion of this book at all. This is a fresh take of some of the usual Dungeon Core books with monsters and traps bought by the DC in a gotch'a style mechanic with random drops instead of the DC deciding they want say a goblin or something they could get a rat or it could be as good as a golem. It's a nice detail and changes things up a bit. The world building is also handled quite well by being done conversationally rather than through exposition dumps. Now the not so great bits. The characters while not bad really need more fleshing out as we learn very little about them. The author also needs to work on the mini chapters of stat dumps. I like crunchy litrpgs but these are a bit too often and too long. All that being said, the story was enjoyable and the narrator was great and I can't wait for book 2 and will be looking at some of the authors other books

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Won't be disappointed

A nice start to a series with an amazing narrator, lovers of dungeon core won't be disappointed

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