HOMESTEAD DUNGEON: Book 1: The Claiming — A LitRPG GameLit Fantasy Adventure

Yellowstone meets the System Apocalypse - and the ranch is the dungeon. Silas McCade is dying. He just doesn't know it's about to become a job requirement. When the System Apocalypse hits, it doesn't hand Silas a sword or a spellbook. It hands him a notification: his 800,000-acre ranch is now a Legacy Homestead - and he has seven days to defend it from 15,000 players, three rival guilds, a druid nation, and a corporation that wants to turn his family's land into a System Airbnb. He's got a daughter who commits felonies with paperwork. A son who talks to wolves. An android who refuses to become a war machine because he's got a fence to fix. And a government-issue AI named B.L.M. - the Bureau of Land Management's Administrative Intelligence - who's been filing complaints against the universe for 47 years and isn't about to stop now. What he doesn't have is time. His heart is failing. His legacy is rotting. And the wife who disappeared twenty years ago might be the only person who can explain why any of this is happening at all. Homestead Dungeon is a dark-comedy LitRPG about a family that refuses to lose their land, a dungeon core with a Stetson, and the only apocalypse in the genre where the biggest threat is a lawyer with a rubber stamp. - A full LitRPG progression system - classes, quests, stat sheets, and loot - A found-family cast readers of GameLit and cozy-adjacent progression fantasy love - Dark comedy bureaucracy wrapped around real grief, legacy, and letting go If you love Dungeon Crawler Carl's voice, Yellowstone's family stakes, and stories where the underdog wins with a technicality instead of a sword - welcome to the Homestead. Book 1 of the Homestead Dungeon series.