Goblin Teeth
Jim Quill
Daggat was born different — a variant goblin runt with regenerating teeth and enhanced night vision who is granted a massive intelligence boost via a wheel spin. Driven by hunger for knowledge as much as prey, he fakes his death to pursue freedom, power, and a place to call his own. With a mind sharper than steel, a gaze that bends wills, and a tyrant's instinct for control, he gathers a band of outcasts — his savage warrior and cunning rogue siblings, a cursed spider from the attic, a worm with the soul of a dragon, and the last ogre of a shattered family — to claw, scheme, and fight through a world that wants them dead. Together they forge a monster adventuring party that doesn't just seek riches and glory, but the power to decide their own fates. The first volume of the hit LitRPG series (800,000+ views on Royal Road) is now available via Podium.
Progression: Explicit LitRPG monster-progression system central to the plot. Daggat's advancement is driven by a universal System with interlocking layers: biotraits, skills, mutations, stats, and Party Leader mechanics. The variant/inheritance lottery grants random gifts that shape fate; intelligence is the initial breakthrough stat enabling manipulation, alchemy, and system mastery. The party levels via visceral combat, evolution/mutation of weak forms into stronger tiers, and skill acquisition (e.g., alchemy, control abilities). Royal Road tags confirm LitRPG + Progression + Anti-Hero Lead + Grimdark with 'a robust universal system with many interlocking layers that drives forward the story'; Goodreads review notes 'Biotraits, skills, mutations and tons of other unique progression features'; synopsis promises 'evolve, mutate, and shed their weak forms' and 'weak to strong / defying fate' tropes.
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