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I haven't forgotten about this thread. Just feeling drained. Not much TTRPG posting as of late here and elsewhere.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. Durst has written quite a few different types of book - the ones I'd count as similar to Leong would...

I hope she likes it. I liked it well enough to preorder her next book (The Keeper of Magical Things). What The Teller of Small Fortunes...

My wife has enjoyed those books immensely. I'll forward your recs to her. Thanks!

Finished The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong, which was a very pleasant cosy fantasy book. Recommended to those who enjoy such...

I'm adding The Good Place to my list of shows with a good ending. It was sad which I thought very fitting for a show about what happens...

If you don't want to read about sadness, maybe take a pass on this one folks. Today was... not a good day. One of my cats has clearly...

There's an excellent series of essays about the life of medieval peasants by Bret Devereaux over on his blog, which I'm a big fan of.

Another favourite of mine is that East Asian creature who really needs a definitive D&D adaptation, the nine-tailed fox (gumiho in...

The yeongno, a Korean dragon-like monster who eats evil rich people. If it manages to eat 100 evil rich people, it gets to transcend its...

Yeah, he invented secondary world fiction

I would argue that the power over life and death remains, it's just obscured slightly.

Thinking about this and some G K Chesterton quotes (e.g. “the poor object to being governed badly; the rich object to being governed at...

Ha, I didn’t realise that William Morris, of Arts and Crafts fame, is reckoned one of the first fantasy writers in English! Thanks for...