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Loved every minute of it.

Also reading Shattered Pillars, by Elizabeth Bear. Second in the Eternal Sky series. Quasi-steppe-nomads, wizardry, ancient magics - very cool stuff.

Finished Kagen the Damned by Jonathan Maberry. Darn fine book. Started on the first Chathrand Voyage book, The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick Redick's Fire Sacraments series is one of my favorite fantasy series so far, and this is probably going to be right up there.

There's also Frostflower and Windbourne, and a handful of short stories with them.

Hunt monsters conjured from nightmares.

Usually we do it by the book, but sometimes we've done games where everyone started with a feat - if you were a variant human, you got two. Another common thing we do is give both a feat AND a stat add (instead of OR) at level 4, 8, etc.

The Ethshar books by Lawrence Watt-Evans. Magic is a respectable profession, like being a carter or mason. Mages takes apprentices who only know a handful of very low-power spells to start out with. There are a dozen or more different magic systems. The Barrow and it's sequels by Mark Smylie...

In Nomine http://www.sjgames.com/in-nomine/ Hands down, a fantastic game to sit and read, especially if you never intend to play it. I've read that book cover to cover a number of times and still have no concept of how you'd actually construct and run a campaign in that universe. But it's a...

What 'rules'? He's the ultimate seat-of-his-pants GM who forgets vital plot points he told you ten minutes ago. Honestly, it's not hard to know better than Lucas. One of the main reasons it's pointless to argue about anything dealing with this franchise is that the top person source, Lucas...

Finished up the Maradaine Constabulary books by Marshall Ryan Maresca. Satrine Rainey and Minox Welling are Inspectors Third Class at the Inemar stationhouse of the vast city of Maradaine. There is a seething mass of subplots, much more so than in the Thorn or Holver books, because the...

After Parliament of Bodies, I decided to take a break from the Maradaine books to dive into Maberry's Kagan The Damned. (Maberry has several series running; the Joe Ledger series is a fantastic blend of action-thriller and sci-fi/horror - this is his first fantasy book). Good book so far. The...

Just because it would result in substantial material and social benefits for the Baron and his family does not mean he's insane to turn it down. He has his reasons. I mean all you have to do is change 'thief' to almost any other sort of descriptor, such as 'Italian', to see how that sort of...

Aside from all the gamist shenanigans: Absolutely he was right to do this thing. The kingdom now has a legitimate heir that, in time, will be able to come back and reclaim the throne. In this sort of scenario, little else matters including the heirs wishes on the matter. That decision was taken...