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If I recall correctly, The Canterbury Tales begins with everyone meeting in an inn to head off on their pilgrimage.

The Canterbury Tales, baby. And it's still never been topped. Edit: okay, maybe Star Wars.

Thinking more on Anathem, and it is really striking to me how much of a throwback sci-fi novel it is in terms story structure. When you...

He was writing it in an early version of a serialized format, so even more than with Dickens, there's no reason for Cervantes to wrap...

I like this idea. 😀 I have finished the fungus book and have moved on to the audiobook version of Carlo Rovelli’s Reality Is Not What...

I finished my final Halloween season read, Kaden love's Toothsucker. Mixed feelings on it. The book throws a metric ton at the reader...

I finished my reread of the DL Chronicles trilogy. Definitely not literature but still fun to read. Some great characters and a good...

I'm still reading Anathem. I can admire the complex world-building and ambition, but...man. There is so much exposition, and that's not...

Within WOTC official settings, this wasn't a thing until Eberron; and has continued being a bit of a back and forth in WOTC main line...

I mean, they do that in this book.

I especially love your second point, as I don't think we discuss it often. The aspirational aspect of games with character progression...

The thing on the Sailor background (wrt monk) is that, on its own, the Sailor background exactly fits what you'd expect a sailor...

I realized that I reccomended Exandria as a fairly standard D&D setting, but updated, but didn't explain what "updated" means...

I routinely ignore the language entry in the MM, so I had no idea they didn't speak Common. Yeah, you want Nothics to speak Common...

Err, I make up a completely new threat for every adventure, irrespective of setting. Doesn't everyone? I'm not looking for a setting to...