What are you reading in 2024?

[Eyes of Nine]

In addition to the Dresden Files, I've also been diving into Warhammer Fantasy lore. Most of that has been from the 4th edition rulebooks and adventures. But I've also been listening to podcasts on Warhammer lore and reading various Warhammer wikis, blogs, and forums and hanging out on the Ratcatcher's Discord server. I'm just trying to soak in the lore and feel in prep for my new Ubersreik campaign. I'm rather intimidated by the 30+ years of Warhammer canon and I don't intend to try to get "caught up" or hew closely to canon. You don't really need that to run the game.

Warhammer lore shouldn't work for me, but it does. In some ways it is just a lazy kitchen sink of loosely abstracted real-world cultures and D&D / Tolkien fantasy tropes. Yet mixed together and simmered for 30 years, it has created a tasty and filling result in a way that Forgotten Realms never did for me. I've never read any of novels or comics that take place in the Warhammer universe. For any Warhammer fans, are there any novels or books set in the Old World that you would recommend?

Just in time for the new edition of Warhammer Fantasy - Warhammer Old World

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/03/returning-to-the-old-world-with-warhammer/

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

In addition to the Dresden Files, I've also been diving into Warhammer Fantasy lore. Most of that has been from the 4th edition rulebooks and adventures. But I've also been listening to podcasts on Warhammer lore and reading various Warhammer wikis, blogs, and forums and hanging out on the Ratcatcher's Discord server. I'm just trying to soak in the lore and feel in prep for my new Ubersreik campaign. I'm rather intimidated by the 30+ years of Warhammer canon and I don't intend to try to get "caught up" or hew closely to canon. You don't really need that to run the game.

Warhammer lore shouldn't work for me, but it does. In some ways it is just a lazy kitchen sink of loosely abstracted real-world cultures and D&D / Tolkien fantasy tropes. Yet mixed together and simmered for 30 years, it has created a tasty and filling result in a way that Forgotten Realms never did for me. I've never read any of novels or comics that take place in the Warhammer universe. For any Warhammer fans, are there any novels or books set in the Old World that you would recommend?

There's something about the execution of the Old World that just does the trick. It's got the right atmosphere and attitude.

As far as novels to read, I'd recommend the Gotrek and Felix series. If you dig vampires, Kim Newman wrote the Vampire Genevieve series.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Finished Volume 16 of the October Daye series, Be the Serpent. It ends on a serious serious cliffhanger - and my local library systems (neither of them!) have the next one in stock. May have to break down and buy on Thrift books or AMZ...

 

[Parmandur]

Juat finished Well of Ascension, and...wow. Sanderson knows how to deliver an ending, and how to foreshadow without giving away the game.

Spoiler: Spoilers

Appreciated the deconstruction of the ancient prophecy to defeat Evil trope, and I didn'trralize until the end that this was also a heist book juat like the first...but the protagonists were the marks this time.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

While I figure out what to do about October Daye, next up on my fiction shelf is the first book in the Children of Time series, with the same title

Looking forward to it

 

[Nellisir]

Finished Volume 16 of the October Daye series, Be the Serpent. It ends on a serious serious cliffhanger - and my local library systems (neither of them!) have the next one in stock. May have to break down and buy on Thrift books or AMZ...

My GF loves those. My cousin also. I'm thinking I should read them.

 

[Divine2021]

I recently was sent a copy of a book entitled The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180. A brand new comparative study of the regional economies of the Mediterranean, with an indepth look at Egypt, Tunisia, Sicily, Byzantium, Islamic Spain and Portugal, and north-central Italy. The perfect kind of nerdy book for me! Chris Wickham is the real deal, probably the greatest early medievalist writing today, concentrating on economy more than politics. Too often the southern Mediterranean gets over looked on the medieval period, with the Islamic lands and Byzantium almost barely existing in some accounts of Northern Europe. But without Islamic Egypt and Tunisia, and Christian Byzantium, Europe let alone Northern Europe would have never come into formation. Really looking forward to delving into this. Eventually.

 

[prabe]

I turned the Reading Engine back on late last year, read 20 books between November 29 and the end of the year. So far in January, I'm at three. Naked Lunch was execrable, The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures was at best mediocre, and Fluke turned out not to be one of Moore's better books (and I like Moore). I'm hoping things get better.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures was at best mediocre...

Oh, that's a bummer. The title is wonderful.

 

[prabe]

Oh, that's a bummer. The title is wonderful.

And the cover had a neat little Magritte allusion. I was mildly bummed, too.