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reviewed Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 01 by Ryoko Kui (Delicious in Dungeon, #01)

Ryoko Kui: Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 01 (2017) 4 stars

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon …

Review of 'Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 01' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Dungeons & Dragons mixed with Julia Child and a dash of MMORPG. The result is Delicious in Dungeon: a combination dungeon crawling adventure and faux cookbook where the protagonists have fallen on hard times and need to eat what they kill while trying to work their way deeper into the dungeon with the goal of rescuing one of their party who has been eaten by a dragon.

The story plays with a lot of tropes of classic dungeon crawling RPG play. Why is the dungeon there? Why do people explore it? Why is it full of monsters? What kind of economy grows up around it? How seriously do adventurers take death when they know they can be resurrected?

The first volume is amusing enough for me to try another.