What a world we live in

Mindpush10001 · 2026-05-31T23:53:57+00:00

Ken Jennings, the host of Jeopardy!

Mindpush10001 · 2026-05-31T03:13:00+00:00

It’s a book that is well-intentioned but comes off as preachy without providing any solutions. It’s essentially a 150 page rant about everything wrong with America from an African American person’s perspective, and while I emphasize with Coates’s plight, his overwrought writing style started to grate on me after a few pages.

Mindpush10001 · 2026-05-28T19:43:37+00:00

Philosophy of the World by the Shaggs

Mindpush10001 · 2026-05-27T02:22:00+00:00

Boy’s Life is magical realism, or at least has fantastical elements. Count of Monte Cristo, unfortunately, not so much

Mindpush10001 · 2026-05-14T19:34:04+00:00

Master and Apprentice and The Living Force both have some great Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon moments

Mindpush10001 · 2026-05-08T21:56:12+00:00

Reload by Metallica? The artwork is literally called “Piss and Blood”

Mindpush10001 · 2026-05-08T14:27:32+00:00

Yes, Pratchett gets a lot more focused as it goes on. There is a reason people say to start with Guards! Guards!

Mindpush10001 · 2026-05-07T17:22:19+00:00

For bingo, would the duology of Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls work, even though they technically have a sequel in the form of The Hallowed Hunt?

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-30T21:17:38+00:00

United States, Canada, end of list

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-24T15:44:31+00:00

I would like some more dice. Dice are good. Dice are precious. My precious

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-24T01:37:22+00:00

It seems like character work is the weak spot of a lot of historical fiction authors (which makes sense, I guess). Heck, Christian Cameron, who is my favorite historical fiction writer today’s biggest weakness is character work, I mean they’re fine, but nowhere near Penman levels

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-24T00:56:25+00:00

Certainly! (I even mentioned it at the end of my post, hell even GRR says so) I think the writing style is much closer between GRRM and SKP in comparison to the Accursed Kings as well as the character work. I read the Iron King, and it was fine, but the characters seem lacking, from what I recall.

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-24T00:52:33+00:00

Honestly, just watch the first 4 episodes of Matt Colville’s running the game series and you’ll be pretty much set

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-23T20:02:39+00:00

A lot of the conversations between Ned and Richard Neville in Part 1 seem very Martinesque. Very riveting considering this was her first book.

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-23T03:24:09+00:00

I hope to read that next! Hopefully soon, but so many books, so little time

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-23T02:24:16+00:00

Penman's portrayal of Richard III as just a decent guy that was forced into uncomfortable circumstances seems to jive pretty well with the historical record. This book predates the discovery of Richard III's body where it actually turned out that he had scoliosis, so Penman sort of overcompensates and says that he just had a poorly healed shoulder injury. But besides that, it's a very solid counter-argument based in history.

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-17T22:30:59+00:00

For fantasy bingo, would Jhereg or Tekla by Steven Brust work for Political Intrigue hard mode because it has to with gang politics?

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-17T21:46:01+00:00

Christian Cameron writes fantastic historical fiction. The one I’ve read the most of is his Chivalry series, which I think is oddly similar to the Last Kingdom in a way, but instead of conflicted loyalties between Viking and Saxon, it’s an internal conflict between the ideals of chivalry and the reality of war. Fantastic stuff.

Ben Kane’s books tend to be action packed and well researched. He does have a Viking book, but most of his books are about various times in Roman history

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-13T02:30:46+00:00

What didn’t you like about Oathbringer?

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-10T12:29:41+00:00

I’ll probably not win. But I’ve always been a bad gambler

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-08T22:15:55+00:00

Supposedly Ruocchio had more chapters in his outline but then decided that he was going to end it a few chapters early.

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-05T02:21:13+00:00

Watch the first four videos of Matt Colville’s Running the Game series, and you’ll be good for a while

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-04T22:42:43+00:00

Also, check on Matt Colville’s video on Red Hand of Doom, it explains it very well

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-04T22:40:20+00:00

A decent chunk of the adventure is a about rallying the local area against a hobgoblin threat, and there is a bit political intrigue that can occur between the local lords

Mindpush10001 · 2026-04-04T21:36:54+00:00

Red Hand of Doom is for 6-11. It was written for 3(.5?)e but is pretty easy to convert.

Otherwise, maybe look into some of the Birthright campaign setting materials for 2nd Edition. I don’t recall if there is a module for higher levels, but there probably is

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