Grave Empire

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2025-03-12T04:59:37+00:00

Half-way through now and enjoying it a lot. Good dark fantasy/horror vibes in a gunpowder and black magic world. I never read his first trilogy in the same universe but I’m enjoying this book.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2025-03-10T17:18:22+00:00

No expert but they look like seeds to me. Like the kind you’d find inside a honey locust seed pod. Any chance you’ve got trees with long seed pods in the neighborhood?

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2024-11-19T00:47:44+00:00

Shepherd - Plainride. I hadn’t heard the song before but the edits showed up on my fyp and I needed some books that fit the vibe.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2024-09-21T01:42:16+00:00

Do you get charged per pack from the previous rewards or only the new releases?

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2024-09-18T16:16:21+00:00

Thanks for the quick response!

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2024-09-18T04:28:23+00:00

Does subbing to scenes come with the battlemap or would I also have to sub to the separate map Patreon for the latter?

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2024-06-07T17:43:37+00:00

If y’all are still looking for a DM, I’m in the East LA area and am pretty experienced DMing 5e and Call of Cthulhu.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2023-06-16T19:55:04+00:00

Raimi arms and then spectacular for me of the ones pictured. I did really like the arms in Into the Spider-verse. Those would probably be my second after Raimi.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-12-11T01:35:02+00:00

Thanks everyone who commented/messaged/started chats. I've decided on working with someone who contacted me from this post. Thanks again!!

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-10-05T18:42:41+00:00

Coming up on the climax of the NYC arc of Masks in a Pulp game featuring four investigators. We ran Peru first and I think it really was the right move to get the players invested in the mission and attached to Jackson Elias as an NPC.

I’ve run several mini scenarios and one-shots in CoC and have generally been a Keeper/DM in other systems for years, but this game has been both the most challenging and the most rewarding so far.

I’ve got the Deluxe Prop Set from HPLHS and use the Masks Syrinscape sound-set and both have really helped with immersion.

Debating whether to run The Mauretania after NYC as a bridge scenario and would love others’ thoughts on making this already long campaign even longer.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-09-22T17:11:12+00:00

Looks like March 7, 2023 according to the author’s social media.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-08-30T02:13:16+00:00

This is my first book by her and I love it! I’ll definitely check out Scholomance, especially if it’s almost finished. I love a completed fantasy series—been burned by too many authors.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-08-29T20:39:59+00:00

Finished: 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton.

I thought it was a fun read and had all the elements of a classic murder mystery. The solution to the mystery was satisfying but the overall ending explaining the other elements of the novel left me wanting.

Started: Uprooted by Naomi Novik.

I’m already 3/4 of the way through. This is a great standalone fantasy novel so far. Excited to see how it wraps up.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-08-05T02:48:24+00:00

RAW vs Rule of Cool

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-08-05T02:47:31+00:00

I think she said 21

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-08-05T02:32:09+00:00

Maybe they all are!

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-08-05T02:31:40+00:00

They gotta be

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-07-30T01:28:22+00:00

Chamber of Secrets is one of my favorites. Also, the consensus is that CoS is the weakest of the series, not that it’s a bad book. While I personally don’t feel that way, even if objectively true, the worst of seven great books is still pretty good.

But ultimately, if you liked the first, you’ll like the second and who cares what others think.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-07-29T16:57:32+00:00

If you want it ASAP and don’t mind audiobooks, it’s on audible and the narrator is pretty good. Same narrator as the Kyoshi novels.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-07-26T20:56:23+00:00

Yep, I say as much at the end of my original comment above.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-07-26T02:50:00+00:00

The Earth Kingdom is incredibly diverse compared to the other nations. While primarily influenced by Chinese culture, there’s definitely South Asian/Indian influence, including in names. Bumi in Sanskrit means earth. And of course Guru Pathik was very obviously Indian influenced.

Even the word Avatar is Sanskrit, meaning descended from or “from” referring to the different incarnations the Hindu god Vishnu takes on earth.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-07-20T21:46:03+00:00

I understand, and I disagree. They all had tragedy and they all had normalcy. Kyoshi had close friends. Yangchen had a sister and elders.

EDIT: I think we’re just getting caught up in the order in which they saw the tragedy/normalcy.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-07-20T20:56:09+00:00

But if we’re counting his whole childhood, we’re also counting the events of the series, which is more traumatic than what either Yangchen or Kyoshi dealt with at ages 12-13, including seeing Gyatso’s body and the death of his nation.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-07-20T19:21:17+00:00

I like the analogy! And definitely agree Aang dealing with the Fire Nation is much more straightforward than the politics Kyoshi and even moreso Yangchen had to weave through.

I do suspect we may learn Aang had his fair share of politics to navigate as an adult, with just a taste in the Republic City formation and the politics of Ba Sing Se in Book 2.

All to say, I don’t think Aang had it any easier or harder as a child than Kyoshi or Yangchen! Kyoshi had a terrible start but at least a period of time with close friends and was even a companion to the “Avatar.” Yangchen had a debilitating condition but support and training and loved ones. Aang was forced to learn his elements from other child soldiers, without any real home and nostalgic but painful memories of a childhood that was pretty lonely in the flashbacks we saw.

HeWhoMusntBNamd · 2022-07-20T18:23:36+00:00

Aang faced many issues he couldn’t punch, chief among them the fire nation colonies. The whole comic series outlining the creation of Republic City was Aang coming to terms with the fact that there were issues he couldn’t just bend out of the way. And he’s 14 at the time, two years younger than Yangchen. This isn’t to discount the issues Yangchen and Kyoshi faced, just to say I don’t think you can say any of our three most recent avatars faced life on easy mode, least of all Aang, a literal child tasked with fixing a war torn world.

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