Hey everybody! First and foremost thank you so much again for your continued support. I am now on tour for Operation Bounce House. My next stop is tomorrow in San Jose! The book officially comes out tomorrow, February 10th. The best way to support me is to buy a copy ...
2026-02-10 05:38:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis is it.
Carl: Now!
Emberus, crying, sobbing, enraged, growing, reared back with a flaming ball in his hand.
Donut zapped into the room, using one of Lucia’s infamous loop-de-loop traps, replacing Penny, who was suddenly teleported outside, right at the feet of Taranis.
Penny was, also, now in the same are...
2026-02-08 02:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostBecause I'm a dick, only two chapters today.
The world froze.
System message.
Scolopendra has entered the realm.
Instead of screaming like usual, the boss battle announcement came in a strangely calm, strangely lucid, even voice. Unlike every other announcement so far, there were no glitches. When he talke...
2026-02-07 02:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostRemember when I said each drop is going to end in a cliffhanger?
“What the hell is this?” I muttered as our giant procession moved out into the parade route.
It was the same location as on all the screens. It was just a long, yellow-brick road. Before, it had been nothing but wide, open grasslands. But now a low, knee-high fog had rolled in, obscu...
2026-02-06 02:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
HORRIBLE TWO
A PARADE OF HORRIBLES
INTERLUDE
QUASAR
“Oh, thank the gods,” Quasar muttered, watching the chicken truck enter the stairwell. He’d been fully expecting for there to be some last-second fuckery. He shook his head. “That makes 203 people who’ve made it to the 11th floor.” He looked down at the tablet. “Look at ...
2026-02-05 02:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAllow me to interrupt your regularly scheduled chapter dump to add some images. As I'm sure some of you are aware, Playmates is making a whole mess of DCC-themed action figures. They asked me to share a few of the in-process art pieces. I can't share the actual packaging just yet, but the boxes these things come in are gonna be AWESOME. Everything will be branded from in-universe companies wit...
2026-02-04 02:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Fuck you!” I shouted at the ceiling, rage filling me. “Fuck you! You did this on purpose! I swear to fucking god, I will kill you all!”
Goddamnit. After all this work, all this time doing our best to keep our circle together, alive, and it was all undone in a single moment.
Louis: Guys. What do we do?
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2026-02-03 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSo… I need to give Ace TODAY the phrase I want on the case stamping (like the “I Need a Baby Seal” from book 6.)
It needs to be short and not too offensive on the surface. They shot down my splooge idea (a line from a later chapter)
This won’t be a poll because it’s not ultimately up to me, but give me suggestions. Right now the two front runners are the sluggalo Unity lin...
2026-02-02 20:03:48 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, folks. This is how this is going to work. It is done. For the next several days, we will have 3-4 chapters a day @ 6 PM PST until it is done. Every single drop from now on will end on a cliffhanger. WHEN I post the last chapter, I will drop an epub of the whole thing.
I haven't finished scheduling this yet so I don't know the exact day it will end.
There are a metri...
Multiple people have suggested Prepotente. I do NOT want to use him for this as I think he's an obvious choice, and I may use him for a recap in an earlier book once I finally get around to writing recaps for books 2-5. Same with Elle. We're also not able to do the cleaner bot because of something that happens in book 8.
Multiple choices allowed which will add to the ability to game t...
Hey everyone. Thank you for your continued support. I'm still pluggin' away. I expect to finish in the next few days, but in the meantime here's some chapters for ya.
Also, we have multiple small but important retcons that I'll just drop here. One, Carl received a magical baby bjorn baby backpack in the first loot box opening. This will allow him to carry Donut with him should he use his...
2026-01-26 08:40:26 +0000 UTC View PostHey again guys. Thanks for your continued support. We're gonna try this again. I'm not supposed to reveal this yet, but since it's like 3/4s out there already, here it is. The final version might change slightly. This cover is for paid Patrons only, and I AM ASKING YOU NOT TO SHARE IT yet. Last time, for This Inevitable Ruin, the cover was everywhere within twenty min...
2026-01-23 02:11:21 +0000 UTC View PostSo the first cover reveal is not the one you're expecting. The Luciano cover IS done and it IS awesome, but the typography by Toby Dinniman is not done. I will reveal it next update. That said, check out the awesome Free Comic Book Day cover for the DCC webtoon comic. Oh, yeah. And we're doing Free Comic Book Day this year
The first chapter of the DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL ...
This is a very long chapter dump, but it's all
2026-01-15 07:18:54 +0000 UTC View PostHello all. We will have a cover reveal soon. I hope you're all doing well. Thank you for the continued support.
We had just over an hour and a half before the next heat would start.
Carl: Okay, guys. We need to do this now. We have two things to do. Get these Corcunda guys back together, and get Li Na out of here. This Por...
2026-01-13 02:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. Thank you for you continued support. Thanks to everyone who came out last Saturday to Tacoma. I'll see more of you this upcoming weekend in Monroe!
A quick note about chapter 58. Using song lyrics in text is a complicated thing, and since I pretty much have the whole song in here, it requires permissions, especially since we would basically have to have it ...
Happy 2026 everyone! I hope to see some of you tomorrow in Lakewood, WA for my signing. Apparently they sold 400 tickets to this thing, so please be patient. Thank you all for your continued support.
Lots and lots of back editing going on this week. I'll try to keep you apprised of major changes, but for today we just have one big one. Instead of explaining this scene, I'm going to pos...
Hey all!
If you're looking for a copy of the physical book, Amazon still had the hardcover for ridiculously cheap. The paperback version of book 1 releases on Tuesday, also. Yes, the paperback includes the Pineapple Cabaret chapters.
Nothing too new to report since my last update. I am anticipating finishing this book in about a month from now. I have gotten to the point where I...
Hey everyone! I hope you had a great Christmas holiday. I got a theremin. I'm not allowing myself to play with it until I finish this book, however.
<Entry from Carl’s Book of Boom.>
Mehmet Or. Crawler #3,756,330.
Race: Human.
Class: Sipahi.
Final level: 62.
He...
2025-12-27 04:31:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey all. Attached to this post is an epub of the book so far, through chapter 49, which is the last chapter published.
HOWEVER....
As I write the chapters, I've been creating a few interludes that will be added to the final book designed to round out the story. I haven't yet decided where, exactly, I will put these as I need to place them where they're going to create the mos...
2025-12-22 03:26:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Nothing too new to report since the last update. I hope you all have a happy and safe holiday. We are truckin'
I'm going through right now and making some retcons to better fit some future chapters. When that is done, I'll post a story-so-far ebook so people can catch up. Some of the biggest changes are:
the Lollipop karaoke bar is NOT a safezone anymore ...
2025-12-19 04:56:28 +0000 UTC View PostJust got back from LA where I visited my daughter and finally got to met Seth MacFarlane face-to-face. I also met Soleil Moon Frye, so it's all downhill from here. More details on all that soon. On the merch front, a few people have started to notice T-shirts popping up in Hot Topic stores. Yes, those are official.
Waterstones in the UK is selling a cool, sprayed-edge version of Operat...
Hey everyone! Back from Dragonsteel Nexus, which was a great time. It was my last event of the year, and it was amazing. I got to hang out with and meet many amazing authors. I defeated Pierce Brown in the Street Fighter tournament, and he's already talking about a rematch, so that will likely happen soon. Special thanks to Brandon Sanderson and his team for putting all that together because it...
2025-12-10 04:11:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a very short, very quick poll.
2025-12-02 23:22:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey all. I hope you had a good holiday. Who will I see at Dragonsteel Nexus this weekend? It's my last event of the year. Thank you all for your continued support!
“I do not see why both of you must sit upon me at the same time,” Dorata complained. “You are exceeding my recommended weight capacity!”
I grunted with annoyance....
2025-12-02 02:34:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! I hope y'all in the US have a safe Thanksgiving. I am heading to CA for a giant family thing, and we'll get back to our unprecedented chapter spam when I'm back.
A couple of small announcements. Pax Unplugged was this past weekend, and the folks at Renegade play-tested the new TTRPG system with some industry bigwigs that's been built exclusively for the Dungeon Crawler...
Hello everyone! Trucking along. I figured I'd better post this short chapter by itself.
I hope you're all have a great week. Also, watch Pluribus on Apple TV. It's amazing.
“I will fucking kill you all,” Akuma cried, gasping as I leaned down next to him.
I patted him on the knee. “Don’t be like that,” I said. “You did...
2025-11-24 03:34:54 +0000 UTC View PostNo super new news since the last post a few days back. If you're going to DragonSteel Nexus, I know PoppyBooks just announced a new signing. IDK if it's ticketed or not. There will likely be one more signing added to the Grim Oak Press booth that will probably be a first come, first served sort of thing. And I'll be wandering around aimlessly, too, so be sure to say hi if you're going!
L...
Hi Everyone! Thanks again everyone who backed the Kickstarter. The reason why we had to do the Backerkit and Kickstarter campaign back to back is because next year, we have ANOTHER crowdfunding campaign for the TTRPG. You can sign up to get notified about updates here:
https://bit.ly/carlrpg
First thing...We have had an inundation of people signing up as free members using the name "Matt Dinniman Author" and then posting that someone has won a prize. You need to go on Telegram to collect. Yeah, no. It's not me. I would never send anyone to a place like Telegram, and I refuse to use the word "Kindly" anyway. We delete and block the members once we see it, but there have been literal...
2025-11-14 07:29:46 +0000 UTC View Post