What are you reading now?

[GentleGiant]

Too bad the random corpse table wasn't longer. It's sad but I think I'd buy a book that was nothing but a series of random corpse tables.

Wasn't there a thread around here that expanded on that list?
Or is my memory failing me (again?)?

 

[pogre]

Gaming stuff:
Robin's Laws of Good Game Mastering by Robin Law
Nightmares of Mine by Kenneth Hite

Fiction:
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
First fantasy fiction I have read in months. I almost exclusively read history, but every nine months or so I borrow a fantasy book from one of my players. So far this one is decent.

History:
Great Tales from English History by Robert Lacey

Just Finished:
Samuel Johnson's Insults edited by Jack Lynch
A delightful little dictionary of 18th century digs. Permit me a fun little quote:

When the earl of Sandwich complained that his former friend, the libertine John Wilkes, "[would] die either on the gallows, or of the pox," Wilkes replied, "That must depend on whether I embrace your lordship's principles or your mistress."

 

[Yair]

D&D:
Plot and Poison

Work:
Photon-Mediated Thermal Relaxation of Electrons in Nanostructures

Leisure:
The Age of Thinking Machines

It seems all I do lately is read.

 

[sunbeam60]

Fields of Blood. I'm secretly planning on moving my players towards a realm style of play

And what a great book it is, by the way. Only quarrel is that the 12 mile provinces seem a little small for my CS.

 

[ShrinkyLink]

Dungeon #124 and Eberron Campaign Setting to prepare myself for next Sunday's 'Whispering Cairn' game, which I'm dropping in Eberron.

 

[delericho]

RPG:

Nothing at the moment. Waiting for DGM2 and the Advanced Gamemaster's Guide (print version).

I have just finished the following:

Heroes of Battle (short review: not impressed)
Book of Roguish Luck (not impressed - very unusual for Malhavoc material)
Dungeon 124 (very impressed)

Non-RPG:

Monument, by Ian Graham

Just finished "The Scar" by China Meiville.

 

[isidorus]

Currently reading

RPG Stuff

Castle and Crusades PHB
Vampire the Requiem
Fantasy Hero

In the RPG Hopper:
VTR:Coetries
Runequest III

Fiction:

Oath of Swords byavid Weber

In the Fiction Hopper:

The Lord of the Rings(Again)

Non-Fiction

Mac OSX Tiger Pocket Guide
Irish Witchcraft from a Irish Witch
Objective C (Apples PDF)

In the Hopper:

Druid Magic
Cocca Programming for the Mac OSX

 

[scourger]

Fiction:

The Black Stranger and Other American Tales by Robert E. Howard--a nice departure from Conan but similar in tone.

Gaming:

Savage Worlds. I wish I could get Tour of Darkness from my FLGS, though.

I can't bring myself to actually pick back up on Slavelords of Cydonia, Grim Tales or Dragonlance Key of Destiny. I think I've got a little d20 (& DM) burnout.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Well, I finished Deathstalkers II. Some interesting variants on the old d20 system there and I've even made some characters. Seems almost a hybrid of Palladium Fantasy, d20 fantasy and some other bits from different game systems including 1st edition in terms of multi-classing.

Been browsing the DMG 2 and d20 Apocalypse but keep going back to Shadows of Yesterday. A smaller book with some interesting setting bits and a game system I haven't tested out yet.

My friends and I just finished playing some Nexus, a boardgame where you use different native life forms to take over the resoruces of the planet and win by getting 12 victory points. Great game as the different life forms have different attack strength depending on what terrain tile their on. Good stuff overall.

 

[Pinotage]

Unorthodox Barbarians from The Le Games in anticipation of jumping onto the reviews wagon!

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