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CoS Session 2.1 Session Primer Day 27 / Day 16 It has been 27 days since Moss and Smugly entered Barovia and 16 days for Elyrion...

Last weekend I finished Gandhi's Satyagraha in South Africa, for my book club. I found it very readable, though he omits some details...

Just finished Morbidly Curious. Absolutely held up from start to finish. Utterly fascinating book. If you're even remotely interested in...

Cool! I love D&D, and grew up with the BECMI rules! Hope you are enjoying the read! Cheers!

What am I reading in 2025? While there's not much of the year left I'm currently delving into: Outside the Box: How Sweden Conquered...

I've read the first two books in the Florin and Lorenzo series and am about to start the third. They're set in the Warhammer Fantasy...

Finished Wintersmith, which was a really wonderful Tiffany Aching novel, maybe Pratchett's best, and a very seasonal book. Strongly...

Yeah, it's definitely a case of Lucas' reach far exceeding his grasp. In the hands of a better writer, it could have -- should have --...

The point of comparison was texts that add prequels about major villains (Paradise Lost give us Satan's backstory, the SW prequels give...

What kills me about Episode 1 is how resolutely immune to feedback Lucas clearly was. There's no way that no one brought up the wildly...

I just finished reading H. Rider Haggard's 1887 novel She: A History of Adventure, and have to say that I'm quite impressed by it! I'm...

Lord Dunsany towers over the field. To my taste, waiting on reading him is like postponing Shakespeare for a bunch of generic Jacobean...

There's also, in the past at least, been a tendency to focus very heavily on what would be read as single-genre things, enough so that...

We pause here to wave at Mr. Calvin Morris, the inexplicable cowboy in Dracula.

To me it’s not about tough fits, you can make most combos work. It’s more about easier vs harder to explain what you mean by a given...