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Interesting. Never heard of it before. I'll have to check it out when I can get it cheaper.

In the Shadow of Their Dying - Michael R. Fletcher, Anna Smith Spark Grimdark fantasy novella - Tash, the third best assassin in Sharaam, Pitt, the merc crew leader, and Iananr the Bound, demon - trapped in Sharaam as a massive army lays siege to it with alchemical weapons of terrifying power...

For a good example of 'what happens if we change fundamental physics', read Stephan Baxter's novel 'Raft', set in a universe where the force of gravity is a billion times stronger than it is in ours.

The Mage Wars series by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon. So, I didn't enjoy these nearly as well as I have other Valdemar books, and I might just lay that at the feet of Dixon, Lackey's husband. Mainly because two of the books have nothing to do with the Mage Wars. Part of this is my...

I don't recall them doing this. I think they hint that it is a destructive process - you put a personality into a stone, you are moving rather than copying. Another aspect of the system I like is that the skill of the caster and the quality of the stone play a part in this. A skilled caster...

Norylska Groans by Michael R. Fletcher - low-magic Russian-inspired industrial fantasy. Their magic consists of placing skills and personalities into stones that, when worn, give you that ability. It also comes with partial personality traits as well, so many users have a group of stones giving...

I was with a group that tried 4E. We played about 8-10 sessions, I think? Maybe a little longer? I checked out of 4E forever the moment I hit "I punch a guy. I want to punch him again. Sorry, you can't punch him like that again until the next day/recharge/whatever".

I didn't think mankind could come up with a stupider idea than NFT's until I saw this.

Finally got around to reading Shards of Honor, by Lois McMaster Bujold - first novel in the Vorkosigan series. I started with The Warrior's Apprentice many years ago but never got around to reading the first book in the series until this week. Now working on 'Barrayar'.

I was glad they went with a one-episode thing to introduce and then ditch one of my most hated characters in all of X-Men legendaria. Goodbye, Madeline, you will not be missed. We got that silliness out of the way.

Kind of like how people scream 'Shopped!!' at every picture of a sunset, or call practical effects 'bad CGI'. (The CGI comments particularly get to me - you see CGI in virtually every TV show that has outside scenes in it, to remove extraneous or distracting visuals, or anything that might cost...

Refield, Last Voyage of the Demeter, Sisu, Becky, The Wrath of Becky, Cobweb, The Menu, The Cursed, Fresh, The Northman, barbarian, The Witch parts 1 and 2, The Cleansing Hour

I played BW Classic twice - the first campaign where I was a roguish sort was a lot of fun, even if we did manage to collapse the Roman Empire and decided to ride East until we found people that didn't even know what Latin was. The second game was an unending grind because I tried to play a...