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It was such an amazingly bad analogy. Or did OP not compare to non-western European culture to three or four handicapped parking spaces ("stalls") in a giant parking lot (meant to symbolize Western European culture) in an effort to make a pitch for the diversity of said Western European Culture...

You just reduced 9/10ths of the world to "three or four parking spots" in a "giant parking lot" of Western European white culture. I'm...speechless.

I honestly didn't drink coffee EVER until I was in my late 30's. I've learned to tolerate it - I used to travel for work a lot, and it was frequently the only thing available in the morning - but none of it is pleasant.

There's a uniformity to FR culture that persists through the editions - in fact, it might even get worse despite the designers trying to draw more irl cultural inspiration in. And, frankly, the lack of trees. I sometimes wonder if people realize how MUCH of the world was forested just five...

No, I agree. I think - and I say this as an observation, not a judgement - that it has to do with the proliferation of non-traditional character options. But it's also a reflection of the FR setting's authors, and specifically Ed Greenwood's, approach and cultural predilections. I just read the...

I've heard FR called "American" medieval fantasy.

I'm not even going to bother reading this whole thread or weighing in on the validity of Big-End vs Little-End, and whether or not those with Stars Upon Thars are mechanically identical to, or simply 99% identical to, those Without Stars Upon Thars. Do I reskin? Yes. Usually monsters and races...

People need a starting point. They need a structure. And medieval Europe is by far the best documented, most accessible, and best known "historical" cultural conglomeration. You say 20K, but the oldest known civilization, in the Fertile Crescent, is about only 12K, so everything before that is...

Finished Witchmark, by CL Polk. I enjoyed it quite a bit more than I expected, and have tagged the second book for purchase soon. Solid 4/5 I'm in a pretty comfortable place right now bookwise. I've picked up, and been reading, The Explorer's Guide to Wildemont and Eberron: Rising From the Last...

There's a chance I have it, but not in the format of the rest of the series. I won't know for a little while - I still have 20-30 boxes of books that need sorting & shelving. It's definitely on my "find or buy this book" list.

I read Dragonriders ages ago. No particular urge to revisit it.

Just finished the Chronicles of Prydain. I had never read the complete series before - just The Book of Three and (maybe) The Black Cauldron. Full props to Lloyd Alexander for a series that does everything the blurbs claim and more. These books deserve the praise and awards they've gotten over...

How has that changed from the first campaign setting guide? Did they advance the timeline or something?

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was pretty good. Not amazing. Faster read than I expected; thick, high-quality paper and a lot of endnotes.

They're excellent. They all scream D&D adventure. :)

I've lost track of what I've read. Currently reading the The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; have read the Sun-Wolf trilogy by Barbara Hambly (gods I love those books); and a few more Judge Dee books. And The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander.

That's common in many authors of the period. The complete 10-volume Books of Amber could be two books today.

I'm aware of the Alliance-Union Universe and the connections, although I hadn't heard that the Foreigner series had been connected. Chanur definitely connects, and I don't think it's very far out in the timeline either. It's just heard to tell because of the viewpoint. I've been reading her...

What's the Alliance Union book? I just reread the Cyteen sequel last year; still have to go back and reread Cyteen itself. I've read almost all* of her SF and love it. I have a harder time with the fantasy. Paladin I did really enjoy; and the Morgaine Cycle is awesome, but I just couldn't parse...

The sexism bothers me more than the racism; I find it both more overt and more common.