![The GOAT Pub [Cozy litRPG]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalroadcdn.com%2Fpublic%2Fcovers-large%2Fthe-goat-pub-183118.jpg%3Ftime%3D1773124997&w=640&q=75)
by spirogetto
After getting almost hit by a car and died of heart attack, Tryn Lyqr gets a new life in Shiftland. Where he opens a pub with a divine goat that has orange horns. Follows a cozy, slice-of-life story with low stakes and building community that stays. When Tryn Lyqr drops dead on a perfectly ordinary afternoon and wakes up in another world, the god responsible gives him one instruction: protect my son. The son turns out to be a goat with divine rum, useful opinions, and a principled objection to doing anything quickly. Rather than embark on the adventure he was presumably sent here for, Tryn takes stock of his situation — abandoned castle, eighty barrels of extraordinary rum, a road with passing merchants — and opens a pub. What to expect: - Cozy LitRPG — pub-building as core progression - Dry British deadpan comedy (Wodehouse in a fantasy castle) - System mechanics in the background, never the focus - Large loveable cast, assembled slowly - A divine goat with the work ethic of a decorative cushion - Ghost girl, goblin poet, rum-making sheep, two very enthusiastic dogs - Wolf-clearing, horse-buying, bread-theft investigations - No dark arcs, no tragedy, no world-ending stakes - Beware of Chicken and Legends & Lattes readers, welcome home. - Chapters in Fri - Sat - Sun - Wed
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