I'm absolutely obsessed with the Dungeon Crawler Carl books right now, I'm finishing up book 2 right now and I'm excited to keep reading (or more accurately, listening to the audiobooks). It's been such a long time since I've gotten to actually enjoy reading a book, and I'm really happy I gave these books a chance.
Anyway, I thought it would be a fun art exercise to draw one of the characters from my work-in-progress comic as if he was in the books! It was honestly a perfect fit, my comic is also a post-apocalypse project (albeit a silly Adventure Time style one) and Maryn would fit right in with the dungeon crawl. It feels really weird to draw him as a human though lol, he's absolutely not in my comics but I felt like this was the most appropriate race for him. He'd definitely stay human. This is an idea of what he'd look like and what his stats would be at the beginning/middle of the third floor.
And because I'm a writer, I did put thought in for this au of mine and how Maryn fits into the world. Maryn is a teenage boy from New Mexico, where he lived at a small ranch/farmstead with his solo mother, Vivian. His ma was a retired army sniper who taught him a lot about survival and living off-grid. He's a very quiet and shy individual who does calculus for fun. The night of the collapse, Maryn had just gotten into a rather explosive argument with his ma (something that happened frequently, they fought constantly), which resulted in him storming out minutes before the world ended. Upon realizing his mom was dead, Maryn was quick to enter the dungeon. He had nothing else to live for, his entire home and family is gone, so why bother attempting to survive on the surface? Hopefully the dungeon will kill him.
In the dungeon, I picture Maryn functioning as a magic-based melee fighter. I didn't write a class because I wanted to come up with something cool and just haven't yet, but I essentially picture him functioning similar to a combination between an eldritch knight fighter and an artificer (both from DND). He tends to prefer to think his way out of problems then just go in guns blazing, but he's pretty handy in a melee fight if needed. He's also a dead good shot with his crossbow (and if he ever gets one, he's dead good with a rifle too). I imagine his main melee weapon is his gauntlets, they both power up punches to deal lightning damage, and can also help him cast various lighting-themed spells. Also, explosives. He's got a thing for explosives. He is a big fan of Carl's, he thinks Carl is brilliant and looks up to him quite a bit. And I think he's trying to fly under the radar and not be super famous (he's extremely shy), but I imagine he would eventually gain popularity with a teenage audience (as much as he hates it). Idk if his stats are balanced at all, I just mostly knew he needed high intelligence and extremely low charisma, and I tried to reference off of Carl's stats at the third floor.
If people have feedback, or fun class ideas, please let me know! I might do some of my other comic characters as crawlers, or do some more Maryn doodles as I continue through the books.
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