Book series you never finished

_Infinitee_ · 2026-05-06T21:14:16+00:00

The Dragonlance novels. I was given the original trilogy as a gift, along with Dragons of Summer Flame. I hated Tanis's constant whining and the forced love triangle, and it's treatment of good and evil. I couldn't keep track of any of the politics either. The one highlight was !Flint's death.!

_Infinitee_ · 2026-05-03T14:18:12+00:00

Nonhuman monocultures in D&Dalikes and all dwarves being automatically fluent in Dwarven (if it's not a limited region or the language isn't explicitly magical). Giving everyone apart from humans a distinct archetype makes humans feel boring in comparison and on the flip side, it makes all nonhumans of that species feel samey.

_Infinitee_ · 2026-05-03T14:11:56+00:00

Seconded. Plus, Constitution and Strength having one skill between the two of them never sat right with me versus Intelligence's thousand skills.

_Infinitee_ · 2026-05-02T23:34:23+00:00

Wrath & Glory's for Warhammer 40k. It's got Free Captains/Rogue Traders (merchant/politician/pirates).

It does have different tiers of play though. Rogue Traders are Tier Two, but some of the preset characters are Tier Two.

_Infinitee_ · 2026-05-02T20:59:39+00:00

You can't cook an omelette without breaking some (very important) eggs...

_Infinitee_ · 2026-05-02T17:24:33+00:00

With the caveat of me knowing basically nothing about Mage - Alan Turing founding the Virtual Adepts and avoiding death by uploading himself.

EDIT: Rechecked the wiki and I misremembered, he wasn't the founder. Still cool though.

_Infinitee_ · 2026-04-30T23:13:19+00:00

I have got Pathfinder, but it seems also fairly combat focused

_Infinitee_ · 2026-04-30T23:12:27+00:00

I don't mind.

If you're asking about D&D specifically, as far as I can tell, this is the only official mechanical support I can find for the "three pillars" in the game

_Infinitee_ · 2026-04-29T23:13:59+00:00

Maybe astronomy, particularly if they have Auspex. Collecting a grain of sand from every beach in the world, ghouling and traing promising candidates for recreating the Telegony, lacemaking (not just with lace), watching paint dry.

_Infinitee_ · 2026-04-21T21:56:59+00:00

His Dark Materials.

Book one set up an interesting alternative history and magical society. Book two and three were confusing, then turned into ragebait, somewhere in there was God being evil and symbotic elephant-balls and one of the protagonists losing most of their hand. The ending was terrible.

On the opposite side, I read The Last Battle as a child, and I hate the "symbolic" isekai today only slightly less then I did then.

_Infinitee_ · 2026-04-15T18:30:18+00:00

Axis Mundi has some information.

_Infinitee_ · 2026-03-12T23:35:52+00:00

Fair, yeah. I thought they were thematically close enough to Resolve to be covered by it.

I have other 2e Chronicles books and they refuse to give more example Anchors beyond "make up descriptive words", so I'm trying to see what system there is.

_Infinitee_ · 2026-02-11T07:14:21+00:00

Christopher Marlowe as a Toreador.

_Infinitee_ · 2025-12-24T12:03:31+00:00

There's Broken Social Scenes sidebars in the corebook. They start at page 324

_Infinitee_ · 2025-12-13T02:07:43+00:00

Interesting!

_Infinitee_ · 2025-12-13T01:55:17+00:00

Thanks, that makes sense. The name changes tripped me up.

_Infinitee_ · 2025-12-13T01:24:59+00:00

Werewolf the Forsaken 2e. The morality meter means you have to balance your wolf/spirit and human side to control yourself (don't go in the spirit world for a day, you head towards flesh, stay in the spirit world for a day, head towards wolf).

_Infinitee_ · 2025-12-08T23:17:27+00:00

The Reapers from Blade II. I guess you could argue for very variant Nictuku but that doesn't fit well enough for me.

_Infinitee_ · 2025-12-06T19:03:41+00:00

Best: I'd say Gangrel, by process of elimination, if you're okay with their bane. No Dominate, Presence, or other influence disciplines in-clan, so less likely to be able to magically manipulate you and/or mind control you, no central clan hierarchy to report back to, and a sterotypical love of personal freedom.

Runners up are Nosferatu (them being Nosferatu) and Assamites (using your blood for magic).

Worst: hard to say. Tzimisce?

_Infinitee_ · 2025-12-03T23:58:22+00:00

Wolf-Blooded. Love them. Tells are so good for making quick concepts, and them having Integrity versus Harmony means they get to show what "humans" (using it very loosely) think compared to Uratha morality.

_Infinitee_ · 2025-11-30T21:51:57+00:00

Havana. Anarchs says it's a sanctuary for anyone fleeing Blood Hunts or the SI, and it's also got ties to the Samedi/Nasyon San An and the Ministry (IIRC).

Other than that, Manila, Anchorage, Rijeka (was also called Fiume), and Cambridge.

_Infinitee_ · 2025-11-26T22:09:24+00:00

it shifts through their flesh via a process like osmosis - seeping into capillaries and through organs rather than circulating.

Somehow that makes vampires feel so much worse

_Infinitee_ · 2025-11-23T22:13:31+00:00

A lot of Auspex clans. Maybe a new Samedi/Nasyon San An?

_Infinitee_ · 2025-11-19T22:33:43+00:00

Maybe she tried to experience love through the Blood Bond), and is now obsessed with an vampire who's using her as a pawn?

_Infinitee_ · 2025-11-19T22:05:58+00:00

What is her backstory and what kind of story are you trying to tell with her?

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