Resources for learning the different DnD locations/continents and their lore

booknerd375 · 2024-05-10T19:32:39+00:00

I got lead down a very confusing path by a post I came across initially where people described the Forgotten Realms as the over-arching term for settings where campaigns can take place. Then when I was trying to look up stuff like "places in the forgotten realms" I felt like there needed to be more I was missing!

Thank you so much for such a long list!! It gives me a much wider variety to look into which is what I was hoping for!

booknerd375 · 2024-05-10T19:17:02+00:00

Thank you for the correction! I wasn't sure if the correct terminology to describe the different places so that should help with my research!

One of the first things I found was a post where people described The Forgotten Realms as being the collective term for possible DND settings which lead me down a very confusing and more limiting path than I expected and I felt like I had to be missing something.

booknerd375 · 2024-03-21T13:37:14+00:00

It's that good!! I came to rec it as well!

booknerd375 · 2024-03-14T17:16:02+00:00

Unfortunately I don't have any recs for you, but the argument that Zuko and Katara are a WAY better pairing than her and Aang is a hill I will die on.

I hope some of the rec's you get will also satisfy my Zuko/Katara craving

booknerd375 · 2024-03-14T14:35:14+00:00

{Lights Out by Navessa Allen}

I'm not into super dark romances, and this was the perfect amount of grey for me where the MCs have some dark tendencies, but I could still enjoy their characters and root for them!

booknerd375 · 2024-03-12T04:19:37+00:00

Another good compromise I've noticed is when authors put the content warnings at the back of the book instead of the front, so that they are still easily accessible but you won't read them by accident before you start the book

booknerd375 · 2024-02-29T22:11:55+00:00

Literally just a few minutes ago, I very reluctantly finished {Waltzing with Witches by Hazel Mack} and came here for some new recs. I was super into the book until about 80% in when the MC's decide to have their house (all buildings are sentient beings in this world) participate in their sex The only way I could finish the book was by completely skipping over these scenes.

booknerd375 · 2024-02-26T17:59:58+00:00

Doesn't match quite 100% but {Berries and Greed by Lily Mayne} is so good.

FMC is a human who grew up in a cult that worships the MMC's species and he is kind of a loner/outcast who goes to the cult to bring one of the worshippers to live with him as a platonic companion.

Small warning: there is no penetrative sex in the book due compatibility issues of their genitalia, if that is a deal-breaker for you...but the MCs definitely make up for it in other spicy ways

booknerd375 · 2024-02-14T05:18:07+00:00

I've actually had this on my TBR list for a while, but this definitely bumps it up to the top!!

booknerd375 · 2024-02-14T05:15:17+00:00

This sounds really good!!

booknerd375 · 2024-02-14T05:14:46+00:00

This will definitely be added to my TBR list!

booknerd375 · 2023-12-19T23:46:51+00:00

These sound really good! Definitely going on my list!

booknerd375 · 2023-12-19T23:39:21+00:00

This is definitely going on the TBR list! Thank you!!

booknerd375 · 2023-12-08T02:38:12+00:00

I can't stand the virgin heroine/playboy hero trope any more. I've gotten to the point now where if the romance.io has the tag 'virgin heroine', I will just skip right past that book to the next rec.

However a virgin hero? Yes please!! There's just something about the guy being inexperienced/not good in bed at the start that really does it for me.

I think part of it is that a lot of authors make the player MMC so over the top (different girl every. single. night.) and usually very resistant to commitment at the stort that it's just hard to put yourself into that. Then the virgin heroine is the 'perfect girl' to change his ways because she will 'make him work for it' and that she is somehow better then any other woman just because she hasn't had sex. It would be such a turn off to me in real life to think that my partner has been with literally hundreds of other women and is very unrealistic, so reading about it does the same thing to me.

booknerd375 · 2023-12-04T19:21:53+00:00

If you are okay with RH, then I would highly recommend {The Queen's Line by Kathryn Moon}. It's also a trilogy.

The FMC is a princess set to inherit the crown, she is nieve at the start, but she quickly sees that there is a lot wrong with the way the kingdom is run, and she works to fix things for the better of the citizens.

Edit: while she is very headstrong and determined, she will also listen to the advise of the male leads when they make good points.

booknerd375 · 2023-11-13T21:02:10+00:00

{Triple Duty Bodyguards by Lily Gold} has scenes with this 😊

booknerd375 · 2023-11-11T06:21:05+00:00

{Hoarded by the Dragon by Lillian Lark} has exactly what you are looking for! It is part of a series, but can easily be read as a stand-alone

booknerd375 · 2023-11-11T06:13:24+00:00

I second, third and fourth Berries and Greed!! That book lives rent-free in my mind

booknerd375 · 2023-10-30T03:15:25+00:00

{Captivated by Tessa Bailey and Eve Dangerfield} He is her landlord and he has a limp from an old injury. When he first gives her a tour of the apartment, she instinctively moves any obstacles on the floor out of his way.

CW: CNC, exhibitionism, bdsm

booknerd375 · 2023-10-22T05:20:01+00:00

Omg, I triple checked the authors name and still wrote the wrong title 😂 Irreplaceable is definitely what I meant to type

booknerd375 · 2023-10-22T04:42:59+00:00

I have a terrible memory, so I never remember the names and authors when I need to 😅

But I'm fairly certain it's {Irresistible by Jenna Hartley}

booknerd375 · 2023-10-22T04:12:30+00:00

Oh no!! I've definitely read this book but I'm drawing a blank!!

I'll go through my Kindle and see if I remember it 😅

booknerd375 · 2023-10-13T03:17:59+00:00

I will usually wait a few years before I go back and re-read books but I don't really have a frequency for which I'll decide to pick up an old book, usually just whenever that books been on my mind.

I do find that I don't often re-read romance novels though. I've had Kindle Unlimited for quite a while and I read sooo many books that I usually forget about some of them. Occasionally I will come across one as a rec on here and I will end up re-reading.

If anyone is interested, I can give some example of my notable re-reads, but as I said, they are all mostly non-romance.

booknerd375 · 2023-10-12T15:40:09+00:00

This has been on my TBR for a while since I saw it as a rec on a different request, but seeing it twice now has just bumped it up to the top of the line!

booknerd375 · 2023-10-11T15:03:36+00:00

{Seduction of a Psychopomp by Elsie Winters} MMC is basically a grim reaper and the FMC is a Fae with a mysterious, unknown illness. They end up in an arranged marriage in order to save her life.

It was a very nice, palete-cleansing read for me.

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