How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

I really wanted to like this, and enjoyed the premise (time loop / can't die in a DnD inspired setting).

As the book went on it felt more like reading someone's self-insert fanfiction. The main character has a serious case of woman-written-by-a-man. Other characters felt very one dimensional and single purpose.

The plot was okay, but didn't do enough with the time loop trope, and fizzled out a bit to set up the next book. Footnotes were a cool idea but were really only used as parethentical asides to add a snarky joke.