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anilEhilated posted:IIRC it was based on a RPG sessions
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Whoo-hoo, new Murderbot novel! First chapter at Tor.com.
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Oct 23, 2023 17:45
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I love how every one of those quotes shows how I misspelled. Anyhow, currently reading the Vorrh trilogy by Brian Catling. His Hollow was recommended here as similar to Between Two Fires and while all they really have in common is the medieval/magical setting, it was a drat good read nonetheless. I'm midway through the second book (The Erstwhile) and it's better. Imagine a colonial town in Africa that was transported brick-by-brick from Germany. At the edge of the town, there is an ancient, magical forest rumored to have been the garden of Eden. There's myth. There's colonialism. There's witchcraft. There are robots and a child brought up by them. There is a hunter and his prey, and there is a slavemaster who might have accidentally created a deity. There's even some real, historical people. Most of all, there's a lot of unpack. Anyone else read it?
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Oct 23, 2023 19:38
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Super jealous of anyone reading Vance's Cugel books for the first time, I think page for page the most that books have made me laugh ever.
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Oct 23, 2023 21:21
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Groke posted:Nerd-genre author revealed to have nerd hobbies, film at 11. how dare you? https://x.com/aptshadow/status/1715748479459262521?s=20
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Oct 23, 2023 22:24
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers #4) by Becky Chambers - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088RDCLQ4/ Glasshouse by Charles Stross - $4.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001161L6O/
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Oct 23, 2023 23:47
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Super jealous of anyone reading Vance's Cugel books for the first time, I think page for page the most that books have made me laugh ever. I was so glad I could read it with fresh eyes when I got older. Just a phenomenal and hilarious series of stories.
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Oct 24, 2023 00:58
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Galaxy is the best thing I’ve read by Chambers, for once a wholly satisfying ending.
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Oct 24, 2023 03:10
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seriously, every Chambers wayfarer book is better than the one before it
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Oct 24, 2023 04:20
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I just read "Fourth Wing" and it was very good despite being extremely horny, which did not realize when I bought it after recognizing the name and nothing else about it
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Oct 24, 2023 04:28
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Ah yes, WHFRP; I knew he was a refined gentleman of culture.
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Oct 24, 2023 12:07
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Anyone who knows anything knows that the refined gentlemen of culture are all playing Mörk Borg now. I'm actually in the middle of Shards of Earth at the moment and I've been enjoying it quite a bit so far.
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Oct 24, 2023 12:19
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I have found myself wanting to try and read the LANCER rulebooks just for the science fiction.
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Oct 24, 2023 12:37
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tokenbrownguy posted:seriously, every Chambers wayfarer book is better than the one before it agreed, the third and fourth ones were hands-down my favorites. The first one is just sort of straight-ahead cozy fiction in a lot of ways, and is a perfectly fine book (and a pretty good sci-fi book as long as you don't need super hard science in your sci-fi). Second one didn't really grab me as much but I appreciate that it tried to grapple with some actual potential consequences and stakes for the characters. But the third and fourth books, I thought, did some interesting things with actually grappling with some interesting questions about grief and prejudice and the nature of family and your place in the world and society. Not like, huge complex philosophical questions, but quiet everyday realities, and in a way that was centered on characters in an interesting way, which is not something I feel like I've seen very often in sci-fi.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Anyone who knows anything knows that the refined gentlemen of culture are all playing Mörk Borg now. Mork borg is kind of eh, it was just lots of rolling on small random tables and getting the same extremely flavorsome result half the time when I played it. Great typography though.
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Oct 24, 2023 23:19
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It's an amazing artifact as a book but honestly seemed pretty ho-hum as a system, which tbf puts in the same category as a lot of recent indie darling tabletop RPGs from the past decade. still worth it to page through if you're into really metal-themed grimdark stuff though
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Oct 24, 2023 23:59
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I read Sarah Zettel's Reclamation (1996) and there was a lot I liked about it, good ideas that reminded me a little of other previous good stuff like Left Hand of Darkness but... i did feel very confused about wtf was going on a lot of the time with the various side factions and characters. usually even if it takes me 2 weeks to read a dense scifi book I don't lose too much awareness of who's who but this one had me swirling. And there weren't even that many characters, I dunno why it was so hard to get for me
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Oct 25, 2023 05:08
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sebmojo posted:Mork borg is kind of eh, it was just lots of rolling on small random tables and getting the same extremely flavorsome result half the time when I played it. Great typography though. Oh, bummer. Never played it myself but I thought the aesthetic was awesome/hilarious.
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Oct 25, 2023 05:22
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The game is so dark that half the time you end up eaten by a gru.
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MockingQuantum posted:It's an amazing artifact as a book but honestly seemed pretty ho-hum as a system, which tbf puts in the same category as a lot of recent indie darling tabletop RPGs from the past decade. still worth it to page through if you're into really metal-themed grimdark stuff though Apocalypse World delivered a polished product that completely and consistently improved upon what had come before, marrying a bunch of indie mechanics in a seamless and intuitive way that informed both setting and play. I have yet to see that be repeated, even by games using its system as a base. A ton of new games are just reskins of stuff from the 90s, with maybe a single mechanic cribbed from this indie game or that. The games that harken back to the 70s and 80s either reproduce them, warts and all, or simplify them to the point of there not being much of a game left. It's nice that there's something for every taste now, but most releases are pretty forgettable, whether they're indie or not.
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Oct 25, 2023 07:35
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Blades in the dark is fantastic.
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Oct 25, 2023 07:54
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sebmojo posted:Blades in the dark is fantastic. Huge fan of the system, and can/has been modified for multiple genres.
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thotsky posted:Apocalypse World delivered a polished product that completely and consistently improved upon what had come before, marrying a bunch of indie mechanics in a seamless and intuitive way that informed both setting and play. I have yet to see that be repeated, even by games using its system as a base. like, blades in the dark is one of the few exceptions to this post, to be clear. but it kicks rear end.
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MockingQuantum posted:It's an amazing artifact as a book but honestly seemed pretty ho-hum as a system, which tbf puts in the same category as a lot of recent indie darling tabletop RPGs from the past decade. still worth it to page through if you're into really metal-themed grimdark stuff though Yeah, I'm probably never going to play Lancer, but I have the rulebook anyways because as a setting document and artbook it is pretty great.
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ToxicFrog posted:Yeah, I'm probably never going to play Lancer, but I have the rulebook anyways because as a setting document and artbook it is pretty great. Let me introduce you to like 90% of my RPG collection... I mean I hope to get Heart or Spire to the table one day, but if not, they're still fascinating in their own way.
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Oct 26, 2023 18:26
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ToxicFrog posted:Yeah, I'm probably never going to play Lancer, but I have the rulebook anyways because as a setting document and artbook it is pretty great. isn't that game intended to be web-based and basically half a video game? i occasionally toy with running it for long-distance friends
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Oct 26, 2023 20:44
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Kesper North posted:isn't that game intended to be web-based and basically half a video game? i occasionally toy with running it for long-distance friends It's got a solid web-based character builder and it plays well on virtual tabletops, but those are strictly optional. Lancer runs fine on pen and paper.
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Oct 26, 2023 21:27
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Haystack posted:It's got a solid web-based character builder and it plays well on virtual tabletops, but those are strictly optional. Lancer runs fine on pen and paper. Nice. Lore and setting are cool as hell.
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https://twitter.com/TorDotComPub/status/1717534167607709748 Adrian Tchaikovsky’s next book features a post-apocalyptic C3P0. I wonder if there will be Kryten references.
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Oct 27, 2023 02:37
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Finished The Steerswoman; it was in fact good.
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For anyone interested in dark fantasy/existential horror, I've got a new short story out in Mysterion magazine today. It's about a human soul who's sent to the Hell of Birds. https://www.mysteriononline.com/2023/10/among-birds.html
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Oct 27, 2023 03:33
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Major Ryan posted:Nghi Vo's latest Mammoths at the Gates now means there are four awesome stories in this series. They're like 100 page shiny jewels that pop up every so often and I drop everything to read them because they're all so drat good. Just got to this. Excellent, agree entirely with this post.
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Sailor Viy posted:For anyone interested in dark fantasy/existential horror, I've got a new short story out in Mysterion magazine today. It's about a human soul who's sent to the Hell of Birds. I remember this Thunderdome story, congrats on getting it published!
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Oct 27, 2023 06:24
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So, Critical Failures is very fun. Been getting more and more into D&D stuff with D20, don't think I'll ever actually play the game besides in BG3, but I love all D&D adjacent stuff. I recommend Critical Failures if you like easy to read and funny books, been having a blast.
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Rand Brittain posted:Finished The Steerswoman; it was in fact good. It's my favorite unfinished series.
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Sailor Viy posted:For anyone interested in dark fantasy/existential horror, I've got a new short story out in Mysterion magazine today. It's about a human soul who's sent to the Hell of Birds. I enjoyed it!
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FPyat posted:https://twitter.com/TorDotComPub/status/1717534167607709748 how is this guy writing poo poo this fast
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I was a huge shannara fanboy in high school, so i can't not give my two cents. Sword is okay but mostly very boring, Brooks' style is dry enough but that one is way too dry for me; I have a huge problem with characters who talk the most redundant way to pad out the page count. Elfstones and Wishsong are good but I think the pinnacle of the series the Heritage quadrilogy. Voyage trilogy was pretty enjoyable but that's when the series reaally started to suck, and everything after that was just plain awful (that dark legacy trilogy was the worst poo poo i've ever read). Also Word & Void trilogy as well as first three Magic Kingdom books are legit. These two series I would say are closer to something literary because they're all actually about something and not just a fantasy plot, I'm talking themes and motifs n poo poo
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