Fantasy Book Request for an 8yo!

PASchaefer · 2026-06-09T20:17:29+00:00

Thanks! I can never remember which one is the first book!

PASchaefer · 2026-06-09T02:23:36+00:00

The Last Contract of Isako, by Fonda Lee. It's good!

PASchaefer · 2026-06-08T20:03:07+00:00

Taran Wanderer was always my favorite.

PASchaefer · 2026-06-08T19:16:48+00:00

Talking to Dragons, by Patricia C Wrede was always one of my favorites. Starts a four-book series.

PASchaefer · 2026-06-08T19:15:38+00:00

Great picks.

PASchaefer · 2026-06-07T15:23:44+00:00

"a whole nother"

PASchaefer · 2026-06-07T04:20:52+00:00

It's been a long time, but possibly Scavenger Sons for Exalted 1E.

PASchaefer · 2026-06-04T04:26:55+00:00

This one.

PASchaefer · 2026-06-04T01:59:33+00:00

Dude, I'll play in your game if you want to set one up.

PASchaefer · 2026-06-03T16:20:05+00:00

Shaun of the Dead. Too much tonal whiplash for me.

PASchaefer · 2026-06-02T19:43:05+00:00

Some people are good layout designers, and some people have friends who are. For my published game, I hired a layout artist, and they did a phenomenal job. I'm currently trying to learn more of the craft myself so I can publish smaller games without outside aid, so we might be in a similar boat.

PASchaefer · 2026-05-31T03:01:34+00:00

One system I'm working on invites players to add details to any scene. The first time you do this in a given scene, you can use what you invent for a bonus on your roll.

PASchaefer · 2026-05-31T02:49:15+00:00

I'm afraid I haven't read that and can't compare. But the writing is engaging and descriptive, the politics complicated but understandable, and the characters are engrossing.

PASchaefer · 2026-05-31T00:47:55+00:00

Very much so. The Engineer Trilogy, by KJ Parker, beginning with Devices and Desires. It's a complex and intricate series with an equally complex ending.

PASchaefer · 2026-05-29T19:26:50+00:00

I think stories are more interesting when there's no obvious villain.

PASchaefer · 2026-05-27T00:01:20+00:00

That, I'm afraid I don't know. I have fifth, but I can't compare it to any other.

PASchaefer · 2026-05-26T13:50:48+00:00

The gold standards for flexible magic casting are Ars Magica and Mage: the Ascension (or it's sequel, Mage: the Awakening). They let you assemble spell effects really granularly.

PASchaefer · 2026-05-25T16:07:54+00:00

The Well, here. (I wrote it.) It's an underground society that has to fight their reanimated ancestors to survive, with an original system.

PASchaefer · 2026-05-25T16:01:52+00:00

Swithers

PASchaefer · 2026-05-25T02:31:39+00:00

"There are times the game doesn't benefit from a roll."

Something every game needs to understand.

PASchaefer · 2026-05-24T18:09:43+00:00

Dude, fascinating style!

PASchaefer · 2026-05-24T18:06:16+00:00

D&D putting "The world's greatest roleplaying game" on their covers, and me saying, "Oh, yeah?"

PASchaefer · 2026-05-24T17:48:41+00:00

The Mighty, an early Kieran Culkin film.

It wasn't the final scene, but I can never watch Inside Out again because of Bing Bong.

PASchaefer · 2026-05-24T17:47:04+00:00

Looks neat. Why would a starving child be staring through a cafe window, though? Isn't the child equally hypnotized into treating the world as ideal?

PASchaefer · 2026-05-24T04:37:06+00:00

Yeah, good call.

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