How do you feel about this?

[CountVanBadger]

Someone gets turned into a dungeon core, but instead of doing the normal dungeon core thing (building a dungeon around himseld and filling it with traps and monsters to protect him) instead he uses his new fleshcrafting powers (what he would normally use to create monsters) to build himself a body and go out into the world. Biology is hard, so it would take a lot of work before he was able to make a body that could actually fool somebody. Eventually he ends up traveling across the world, constantly remaking his body and doing his best to pass himself off as whatever race is most common there.

How does this make you feel?

 

[Anemic_Vampire]

How does this make you feel?

If the story doesn't revolve around a dungeon, why make him a dungeon core at all? He could be a shapeshifter, or some kind of mind controlling creature, and it wouldn't make much difference.

 

[CountVanBadger]

If the story doesn't revolve around a dungeon, why make him a dungeon core at all?

Because I want him to be a dungeon core, and I want to have him use his powers in a unique way instead of just telling the same old dungeon core story that everyone else has told a million times.

 

[CinnaSloth]

If the story doesn't revolve around a dungeon, why make him a dungeon core at all? He could be a shapeshifter, or some kind of mind controlling creature, and it wouldn't make much difference.

My thoughts exactly. The concept itself is great. the story will be fun.
But this is pretty much a skinwalker, or a shapeshifter.. either/ or.

Because I want him to be a dungeon core, and I want to have him use his powers in a unique way instead of just telling the same old dungeon core story that everyone else has told a million times.

It's just as the thread said. It's how we feel. you can write how you want though. I doubt either An_vamp, or I will tell you how to write your own stories.

Make vampires sparkle. Not everyone will like it. But it's pretty much similar to what you're planning on doing.
Again, not bad. just how I, personally, feel about this particular idea.

I DO think though, it will be fine, if you explain that the dungeon core started within the dungeon and had a few chapters there prior to leaving, and wanting to expand its horizons away from said dungeon.

 

[Jerynboe]

Yeah if he is a dungeon core that needs to be relevant beyond the first few chapters imo. So he might, for example, only be able to make a puppet body that needs to stay within x distance of the dungeon, thus requiring him to constantly relocate the core and establish new one room dungeons or expand the dungeon in a spiderweb pattern across the continent without actually making it particularly dungeony so that he can always be “near the dungeon.” Or something else that creates a plot engine that keeps his desire to travel and his nature as a dungeon core both consistently important.

Just my 2 cents/random ideas of how the dungeon core concept could be relevant to your stated story intent. If you don’t want to deal with the logistics of being a dungeon core being important somehow, I have to echo the “that’s a shapeshifter story, not a dungeon core” sentiment.

 

[Cipiteca396]

I remember a lot of stories with this premise came out a few years ago, but they all fell through, as far as I know.

Healing Dungeon and Dungeon Mage were the ones that showed up after a short search through the Dungeon Master tag. Probably a lot more. It's honestly almost as common as cores that can't leave their domain.

Oh fuck, Worthy Core and No Epic Loot, Only Puns have dungeon cores like that now that I think of it, though they're not the MC.