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Sequel to The Pariah, book Two in the Covenant of Steel series. Love, love, love this book so far. I loved the first one and this is just as good or better. Alwyn Scribe is one of the inner circle to the Lady Evadine Courlain, Commander of Covenant Company, Aspirant Cleric of the Covenant of...

Beyond by Mercedes Lackey, Founding of Valdemar Book 1. The Empire is so expansive that it doesn't have a name, really. It has no real rivals and it's always been there. The Duchy of Valdemar is a small little area tucked away in the western hinterlands that doesn't have much going for it...

Space Opera is Big. There needs to be Something Big. What that Big thing is varies, but it needs to be larger than life, larger than the average largeness of fiction or even adventure fiction usually brings to the table. Then go further and faster than that, and then show people that was just...

Perhaps not coincidentally, Cathleen Kennedy's current contract ends in 2024.

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...