What are you reading this year 2020?

[Ralif Redhammer]

Finished up Quag Keep. Better than I expected, but not up there, say, with the first Witch World novel. Now I'm reading Andrea Tang's Rebelwing.

 

[megamania]

Reading and taking notes on the horrid 4th ed Darksun novels.

 

[Antony44]

I'm going to read Jenn Lyons "The Royal Remains"https://grilliam.com/

 

[dragoner]

Finishing Stardance by Spider and Jeanne Robinson, thinking Quag Keep is next.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Reading and taking notes on the horrid 4th ed Darksun novels.

Horrid in what way? The plot? The actual writing? The characterization? The fiction is horrific?

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Next up for me, 9th book in the October Daye series.

A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

Things are looking up. For the first time in what feel…

www.goodreads.com

 

[megamania]

Pacing and the accuracy of the book. It has taken them three weeks to travel what takes 2 days in 2nd ed.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Pacing and the accuracy of the book. It has taken them three weeks to travel what takes 2 days in 2nd ed.

Ah, yes that would be an issue. I would imagine the writer had never actually played Dark Sun nor D&D. But WotC or TSR or Random House or whomever should have had an editor reviewing. But depending on when published, that may have been considered a luxury.

 

[megamania]

A lot of it has to do with 2nd vs 4th edition rules. The sudden possible introduction to metal bothers the DM in me. This can / will unbalance the game world. See what happens in the last 125 pages I guess.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Finished Tang's Rebelwing. It was enjoyable, but not exceptional. The ending, in particular, felt muddled.

Now I'm re-reading Jack Vance's The Dying Earth. It's probably been around 15 years since I read it. How time flies.