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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9703949" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>Just finished the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17444/monstrous-arcana-i-tyrant-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">2e Monstrous Arcana I Tyrant</a> book on beholders which I had been reading bits and pieces of on my lunch breaks. I find the magic items to give them more humanoid features aesthetically displeasing but overall a fun deep dive expanded book of a bunch of lore on fun aberrations. The poster is pretty neat as well. I do like how there are several good alternative lore options on D&D's favorite floating eyeballs, I Tyrant is fairly standard AD&D with the whole family of beholder kin and the 2e Monster Mythology gods, I like that 2e Spelljammer has their various internal genocidal wars of purity among their fleets of variations as a big theme, the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1790/complete-guide-to-beholders?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">3e OGL d20 Guide to Beholders</a> has them as projections of eldritch horrors of the void, and 5e has the cool nightmare genesis that can tie into the spelljammer purity wars.</p><p></p><p>Also a little while ago I finished the <a href="https://www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/190328/girl-genius-15-the-city-of-lightning?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">15th Girl Genius graphic novel</a> and the series continues to be fun with its mad scientist-alt European noble politics-romance-comedy stylings and great Foglio art.</p><p></p><p>Not really feeling a lot of desire to read novels in my free time currently, although I do want to finish my friend <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Yin-Leong/author/B08W2B312N?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" target="_blank">Yin Leong</a>'s Geomancer series (I am part way through the third one The Corpse Ritual), particularly since a new one of hers just came out. Modern Feng Shui channeling demon hunter with Chinese folklore monsters in D.C. (Corpse Ritual is about hopping vampires) is fun but I read so much for my work and so much news that I am kind of tapped out of bandwidth for reading novels in my free time right now. The occasional relatively quick graphic novel and TV/movies are providing my story stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9703949, member: 2209"] Just finished the [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17444/monstrous-arcana-i-tyrant-2e?affiliate_id=17596']2e Monstrous Arcana I Tyrant[/URL] book on beholders which I had been reading bits and pieces of on my lunch breaks. I find the magic items to give them more humanoid features aesthetically displeasing but overall a fun deep dive expanded book of a bunch of lore on fun aberrations. The poster is pretty neat as well. I do like how there are several good alternative lore options on D&D's favorite floating eyeballs, I Tyrant is fairly standard AD&D with the whole family of beholder kin and the 2e Monster Mythology gods, I like that 2e Spelljammer has their various internal genocidal wars of purity among their fleets of variations as a big theme, the [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1790/complete-guide-to-beholders?affiliate_id=17596']3e OGL d20 Guide to Beholders[/URL] has them as projections of eldritch horrors of the void, and 5e has the cool nightmare genesis that can tie into the spelljammer purity wars. Also a little while ago I finished the [URL='https://www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/190328/girl-genius-15-the-city-of-lightning?affiliate_id=17596']15th Girl Genius graphic novel[/URL] and the series continues to be fun with its mad scientist-alt European noble politics-romance-comedy stylings and great Foglio art. Not really feeling a lot of desire to read novels in my free time currently, although I do want to finish my friend [URL='https://www.amazon.com/stores/Yin-Leong/author/B08W2B312N?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true']Yin Leong[/URL]'s Geomancer series (I am part way through the third one The Corpse Ritual), particularly since a new one of hers just came out. Modern Feng Shui channeling demon hunter with Chinese folklore monsters in D.C. (Corpse Ritual is about hopping vampires) is fun but I read so much for my work and so much news that I am kind of tapped out of bandwidth for reading novels in my free time right now. The occasional relatively quick graphic novel and TV/movies are providing my story stuff. [/QUOTE]
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