r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • Jun 19 '26

Here we go, folks. The Dungeon Crawler Carl television series has been officially greenlit at Peacock.

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I’m happy to announce that our friends at Peacock have officially greenlit the Dungeon Crawler Carl television series!  Me, Chris Yost, and Seth MacFarlane and his team at Fuzzy Door are all really excited to get to work. In the coming weeks I'll have more details, and if you're going to SDCC be sure to catch me and Chris on our DCC panel, but in the meantime I wanted to thank you, the fans, for helping make this happen. 

(/end official statement)
And here we are. We are greenlit. The series has been ordered. It's actually happening. I have NO more info to give right now, but in the coming days I suspect there will be a firehose of information coming down the pipeline. This has been a multi-year process just to get to this point, and we have cleared every single hurdle to get here because of YOU GUYS. So thank you.


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • Jan 25 '26

Notice from the Syndicate We are not talking current event politics here, and every deliberately political post will be deleted. Repeat violators will be banned. This is why. Message from Matt

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We are not talking current event politics here, and every deliberately political post will be deleted. Repeat violators will be banned. This is why.

First off, any mod who takes down these posts are doing it at *my\* direction, so do not throw any ire in them. They are all volunteers, most of whom I suspect agree with the vast majority here politically. I am currently in super crunch mode, working 15 hour days because I need to finish DCC 8 by January 31st as our world burns, and I am not quite done yet. Otherwise I would have attempted to nip this earlier and a little more eloquently. So instead I’m just going to post directly and bluntly.

Yes, Dungeon Crawler Carl is highly political. It is a major theme of the books, and frankly, as soon as Operation Bounce House comes out, I suspect it’s going to be even more painfully obvious where I personally stand on a whole bunch of subjects.

If you don’t see or understand that, then I suspect you’re probably the type of person I want to read these books the most.

If you do understand it, you turning this subreddit into one of the literally thousands of politically active shitshows already here on Reddit are actively deterring me from accomplishing my goal.

Every war, every social movement has multiple battlefields, and not every battlefield has to be the front line. I want people with different points of view to enjoy these books at face value. If I then manage to drill through their thick skulls and make them think about the broader themes and maybe grow an empathetic spark, all the better.

Will it work? Probably not for 99% of them. But that number will be 100% if they have nowhere to peacefully discuss with other fans their opinions on the books. Any firebrand discussion about the current hot topic is going to evoke a kneejerk reaction and scare away the people we want to talk to the most.

I suggest and encourage you to start your own subreddit if you want talk about the political and human rights themes of the books in relation to current events. I personally love seeing all the DCC-themed protest signs. I encourage you all to continue to speak out and let the world know that we will not kneel to tyranny.

But if you can’t/won’t/don’t understand that these are my wishes for this particular corner of the internet, I’m afraid we’re going to have a problem. My mind is not changing. No hard feelings. But this is my kitchen. Let me cook what I want.


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 5h ago

FanArt - Book5 From r/redditgetsdrawnbadly

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r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 9h ago

Cosplay Finished my Enchanted War Gauntlet of the Exalted Grull today!

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Shout out to Painted Dragon Studios for the files! I can’t wait to break out the full cosplay next month at Rhode Island Comic Con 😎


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 2h ago

Cosplay My Princess Donut

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r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 3h ago

Trying not to appear too excited about a vintage hand towel at an estate sale...

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My friend was like why did you grab that random towel so fast? LOL


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 12h ago

Cosplay Finished hand stitching my 1st patch onto a vest.

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r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 4h ago

Fan Art - General - NO SPOILERS! 😊 Just a proud mother and her child

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r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 5h ago

Monochrome or DCC Colors?

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I made a new pattern!

Which color scheme do we like better: monochrome or DCC book cover colors?


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 45m ago

Scavenger's Daughter back patch

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Getting ready for PAX Aus and I felt like I had to push the scavengers daughter back patch for my cosplay as far as I could. Running a blue fibre optic light from another cosplay through a 3d printed version of the back patch (using flexible PLA). Cross fingers the glue holds!


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 2h ago

I swear it’s not a cult! Thank you inkandepic press for the custom YWNBM decal especially!

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r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 3h ago

Book 7: Inevitable Ruin Audiobook vs Book difference

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I'm an audiobook exclusive listener, and I adore how Jeff voices the AI. Something struck me recently, however, and I'm wondering if anyone else has thoughts.

I never really put much thought into the fact that the AI has two voices/modes, the zany/smarmy version that describes items and enemies, most quest updates, and says whatever sentient bullshit he wants lol. Then there's the robotic, normal and always controlled version that gives status/dungeon updates.

At the start of chapter 56 of book 7, the AI is summarizing what factions are left. It glitches between the robotic calm and the zany personality. I thought this was a super damn cool way to showcase the decay/primal version of the AI, but I was wondering how this would be portrayed in writing, so I asked my friend who has a copy to show me the page.

Y'all?? There was no way to differentiate it. I thought maybe there'd be some italics, some capital letters, some em dashes. Nothing!!!

I didn't think that the audiobook and book experience would be that different, but a creative decision such as this one?? Which don't get me wrong, goes hard as fuck. But it's a biggie imo and to not be portrayed in the book, just in the audio?? I dunno!! Crazy to me.


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 7h ago

FanArt - Book1 Book 1 Alt cover commission

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I commissioned artist @Zipdraw to create a cover for me to bookbind with. The image came out so nice, I'm worried I will mess it up once I add lettering 😂 I printed it out borderless on 11x17 to get an idea of how the coloring will come out, and it just pops off the page.

Extremely happy with this take on the series, I'm saving up for book 2!


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 6h ago

Custom birthday cake for my best friend that his wife made.

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Can anyone else relate? Hats off to all the wives out there, including his and mine who let us ramble on about how exciting the most recent chapter was! We live states away from each other so we only get to briefly discuss the series over text messages.


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 9h ago

[Goat Scream] Scored Best Boy!

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Went to Spencer's and asked if they had rhe Carl figures yet. The lady gave me a funny look before cutting open the box behind the counter. She asked how I knew that they were coming in because they hadnt even set up the display yet.

Told her about the reddit and scored my best boy! Haha. A little pricey though but I am glad I got him.


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 3h ago

My crawling buddy 'Gus Gus' crossed the rainbow bridge

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This little guy is Gus Gus. He was my crawling party member and I miss him dearly. My nickname for him was Little Bear, because he walked uncanilly like a black bear. I always imagined he'd get a legendary pet biscuit that would have turned him into an intelligent talking bear.

A little background; I work from home (Video Game Design) and listen to DCC regularly. My little prince chonk has been living with me and my wife for nearly the past decade. He hangs with me in my home office all day while I work and listen to audio books. I set up the little cat bed pictured next to my desk chair because he always tries climbing on my lap while I'm trying to work, and as mentioned, he's a bit of a chonk, so it didn't work well.

I retired from the Navy young due to service connected disabilities and I've really connected with the character Carl. I don't share Princess Donuts sentiments about the Coast Guard haha; I was in a small boat unit that worked closely with them and have a lot of respect for the service. But I digress.

I needed to make this post because I wanted my crawler pal to be honored. This world we live in is almost as absurd as the one from DCC, sometimes more so if we're being honest. The things that make it tolerable are the ones we love and the enriching relationships we have with them. I'm lost and I'm scared without the buffs that my party member and best buddy gave me. I'm saddened immeasurably by the thought of crawling without him.

But what can one do? Lean on those you love. I'm extremely happy to have my wife by my side. We're both suffering, but we're holding each other together.

So, tomorrow comes Monday and I must continue on my crawl without my loyal companion. In this moment, I'm thankful for having discovered DCC and this community because these words have never felt more useful:

You will not break me.

Thank you for your time fellow crawlers, I wish you all the best in your loot boxes.


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 6h ago

Book 6: Bedlam Bride Meme about Book 6 Chapter 48: Spoiler

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r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 6h ago

Trying the Spirit Halloween costume

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I grabbed a beige pair of long underwear to wear underneath so I can hopefully wear it out when I take the kids trick or treating


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 14h ago

Book 5: Butcher’s Masquerade Every single time. Spoiler

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r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 14h ago

Book 2: Doomsday Scenario Carl’s Class

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Despite Carl being in the military, he had no real experience with bombs until the dungeon. The only reason he started leveling up his bomb skills was because the first mobs he encountered were goblins, which led to the Goblin Pass tattoo, which allowed them to infiltrate the band of goblins and use the explosives to kill the Goblin Chief, and so on.

If they had gone down a different hallway at the beginning, he might have gone on a completely different path than Compensated Anarchist. What do y’all think could have been some classes he might go with?

I think he would have stayed a physical/melee class rather than magic-based for sure.


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 1h ago

Book 8: A Parade of Horribles [spoilers Book 8] Book 2 allegories, way more fun after book 8 Spoiler

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Listening to the sound booth theater version on my commute and just got past the circus scene where Heather the bear gets hit with the healing custard. It's excellent btw, and really enjoying the extra material.

​The custard strips the worms (dungeon magic/aggro away), and she dies almost instantly because her body can’t survive the accumulated physical debt without the buffs. But the frenzy breaks first, she recognizes Carl, and she dies free.

​Remembering how Odette and Mordecai explain that floor scenarios and dungeon dramas are twisted retellings of actual galactic history, this suddenly felt like a dead-on 1:1 allegory for the wider lore:

​Heather / Grimaldi’s Army = The Central System. They exist in a permanent, bloated Enhancement Zone—essentially meat puppets propped up and hollowed out by the system's magic. If the power ever gets cut, their chains break, but the biological and systemic debt will make them as good as dead.

​The uninfected outside Grimaldi's circle = The Seeded Worlds. The un-enhanced livestock systematically harvested and fed to Grimaldi's army just to keep the cycle turning.

​Grimaldi = The Eulogist. A eulogist is supposed to speak for the dead. Millennia of forced planetary massacres broke it into a weeping, hysterical circus clown mocking corpses at the bedrock. (They say it's sleeping, but it could be more active with those that live under its protection)

​Signet = The Apothecary. The alchemist who understood the biological rot of the machine and quietly brewed the recipes to poison the feeding tube from the inside.

​Carl pulling the plug on the system isn't going to be a clean liberation; it’s literally just going to be a galactic bucket of healing custard. The collars snap, but nobody reliant on the magic survives the withdrawal. No idea how that'll play out for pony/donut, but since they're actually transfigured I think they'll be okay.

Excited to get into the second half of the book for foreshadowing of donut the oak fell.

More thought (edit after post):

The Pre-Attack Relationship: Signet was younger and originally fell in love with Grimaldi before the Nine Tier Attack broke the world. If Grimaldi is the Eulogist, this means the Apothecary knew the entity back when it was whole and served its original purpose, before the cataclysm twisted it into a weeping, deranged mockery of itself.

The Modern Timeline Anchor: The tragic stalemate we actually witness takes place in the aftermath of the Nine Tier Attack, which firmly ties this entire allegory to modern Syndicate history and the current broken system, rather than an ancient myth.

The Attrition & Sacrifice: After the fall, Signet attacks Grimaldi’s camp nightly like clockwork, completely numb to the cost and willing to burn her own resources because a brutal war of attrition is all she has left. It reflects the cyclical, desperate rebellion that can wound the machine but never kill it.

The Catalyst / The Black Swan: The stalemate only breaks when an unpredictable outside force steps in. In this allegory, Carl and Donut act as the dungeon's Open Pacifist Network / Porthus. Even deeper, the motivation mirrors Porthus perfectly: Porthus isn't running the network out of abstract galactic politics, he’s doing it out of fierce personal devotion to Minerva, just like Carl’s entire war against the circus is ultimately driven by Signet’s blackmail to keep Donut alive.


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 6h ago

So Cal Crawler ready for Halloween!

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Happy Halloweeeeeeen Crawlers!!


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 3h ago

Target - Buy 2 Get 1 Free Book Sale

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I started this series just over a week ago...and, shocker, I'm hooked. 😁 I'm currently about halfway through book 2, and since I've really enjoyed it so far I've been eyeing the other books to complete the collection.

Well, stumbled on Target and they are currently running a Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale on the entire series. Wasn't super sure if this post was allowed, but figured it would be okay since I'm not selling any books. Wanted to share with others that may not have them all yet and want to save a little money purchasing them. Looking forward to spending more time in this sub the further I get.


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 6h ago

Book 7: Inevitable Ruin Ring of Divine Suffering Spoiler

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I have a question about how the ring works. In book 7 Caro tries to mark the hunters in the ball but can't because Li Na has already marked them. But back in book 5 he successfully marks Miriam who's already been marked by Pony. I remember that the rules changed on how many people they could mark at once and how long it took but was there also a rule change about two people marking the same person?


r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • • 13h ago

Book 5: Butcher’s Masquerade Carl and Doughnut - Whiteboard Art

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How’d we do Crawlers? I wish I was better at hands lol