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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9845976" data-attributes="member: 2209">I tend to have different books scattered around my house and on different devices so I can read little snippets in downtime no matter where I am or what I've got with me. Most of it is currently gaming books, which for me are generally good for relatively short reading periods. I read a ton of sometimes very depressing or heavy stuff for work and I find in reaction my recreational reading habits turning more towards this type of stuff I can ad hoc dip into for my downtime and not novels where I have to dedicate regular time to it. TV series are generally filling the role of sustained plot stuff for me.On my phone and on kindle I am reading <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/147586/horror-on-the-orient-express?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Horror on the Orient Express</a> Call of Cthulhu mega adventure. I am on the second of five epub files for it. The first CoC adventure I have sat down to read cover to cover.On my little kindle fire I am reading a PDF of the 3.0 <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/490/monster-s-handbook?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Monsters Handbook</a> by Fantasy Flight Games. I don't really care about the CR customization system it has but the general monster discussions and type specific prestige classes and such are fun. This is from back during the early draft SRD days so it still has discussion of beholders and mind flayers and such in an OGL book.On my big screen Ipad I am reading the 3.0 <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/502/portals-planes?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Portals & Planes</a> by Fantasy Flight Games. Sort of a generic 3e Planescape/Manual of the Planes. Some little bits are interesting, but so far I rate it just OK.On my computer I am reading the <a href="https://www.drivethrucomics.com/en/publisher/395/studio-foglio?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Girl Genius series of graphic novels from Studio Foglio</a>, It is a fun fantasy steampunk mad scientist adventure romp series. A little repetitive in the characterizations and humor setup style, but overall still fun. I have finished volume 19 and looking forward to 20. I got volumes 1-20 in a bundle of holding sale but I see there have been three more put out since then. After I finish 20 I am not sure if I will buy the individual new ones or move on to other comics I have gotten collections of.My neighbor lent me a box of mostly 90s crossover batman comics and I have read a couple dozen, but currently I have started his little 1960s batman book for kids The Cheetah Caper (tiny pages, every other one a full black and white illustration, a couple hundred pages long). It is very wildly Adam West era, batman's first line is something like "What's the matter chum, you look as bashful as a cannibal who just ate his best friend" and it has things from the show like the folding Shakespeare bust head to access the grandfather clock entrance to the batcave.[ATTACH=full]428043[/ATTACH]In my downstairs I have a 3.0 Encyclopedia of Demons & Devils Volume I from Fast Forward Entertainment that I am about half way through. It is both fantastic and terrible. Some interesting taking of real world mythology demons and turning them into 3.0 D&D, sort of the way Gygax did with things like Geryon and Dispater and all the devils from Dante's inferno and turned them into devils for D&D. Super varied in the different authors' writing and some of the mechanics are abysmal. Plus weird choices like portraying Hindu Ganesh as a Demon, and weird for D&D, portraying him as a 2 HD demon lord.Upstairs I have the 2024 version of the 5e Monster Manual that I am about half way through, quicker to resolve stronger monster mechanics than 14 5e MM, weird organization choices (blue dragon is alphabetically under B for blue, blue slaad is alphabetically under S for slaad), no descriptive entry for certain big categories like demons or dragons in general, decent but short monster descriptions, I like most of the art. In my desk drawer in my office at work I have a 2e Ravenloft module <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17504/dark-of-the-moon-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Dark of the Moon</a> that I occasionally crack open during my lunch break. A bit more heavy handed on the railroading to force the specific plot and horror effects from cold and lycanthropy than I like, but cursed Russian winter can be a decent Ravenloft story base, with stuff like vengeful witch sisters as the PCs' allies. Will see what they have for a climax.</blockquote>

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