I believe he actually now employs someone to handle a massive spreadsheet with stats inventory etc but I would also totally buy a murder board.

I’ve read Dominion of Blades, his other litRPG series (currently on hiatus after DCC took off) and I think he’s been poking at the NPC thing for a while, so improved writing skills are definitely operating. I’m intrigued to see how that’s going to play out - I read Kaiju to see what he was like at endings and I felt the ending was more failure than success, but an interesting failure that could have worked.

I’m trying to read his Shivered Sky series, but it’s a significant step back again in technique and character development so I am going v slowly.