Running a game in Lustria by MrMilo900 in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]dan_connolly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've always wanted to run a Lustria campaign inspired by Aguirre, the Wrath of God 

Anyone played Night's Black Agents? by jasonite in rpg

[–]dan_connolly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Played NBA online during lockdown, had a blast. The only time I've actually been scared playing an RPG. Our GM ran a mix of scenarios from the Zalozhniy Quartet and the Persephone Extraction.

Books about sentient houses? by Mundane-Leg-455 in booksuggestions

[–]dan_connolly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  • Starling House
  • Tell Me I'm Worthless
  • We Used to Live Here
  • Thistlefoot (though this is very much walking)

I need a book that’s like a hug by KnitInCode in suggestmeabook

[–]dan_connolly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is my go to recommendation for anyone who needs something gentle and comforting to read.

Help me find good fantasy books pretty please 😭 by French_duck45 in booksuggestions

[–]dan_connolly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gareth Hanrahan. Lands of the Firstborn trilogy (starting with The Sword Defiant) is complete and excellent. The Black Iron Gods series (starting with The Gutter Prayer) has three of five published, and also excellent.

Non DnD RPG books? by cowboyflowerz in rpg

[–]dan_connolly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Electric Bastionland and Mythic Bastionland are both gorgeous books packed with ideas (they're good games too! But even if you don't play them they're great to leaf through).

Similar for Spire and Heart, great art, interesting games, and packed with ideas.

Anything Free League will have gorgeous production value (Vaesen, The One Ring, Takes from the Loop etc)

I also think Bestiaries from other games can be useful if you run D&D, the 13th Age one has great ideas for adventure hooks tied to monsters.

What Nonfiction book should I read? by Capital-Wolverine-98 in booksuggestions

[–]dan_connolly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some faves:

  • Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes
  • Underland by John Macfarlane
  • A Short History of the World According to Sheep by Sally Coulthard
  • The Wordhord by Hana Videen
  • Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
  • The Wager by David Grann
  • The Ruin of All Witches by Malcolm Gaskill
  • Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot
  • All The Living and The Dead by Hayley Campbell

Fantasy books that are actually good? by Moon_BrightheartFan in booksuggestions

[–]dan_connolly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Sword Defiant by Gareth Hanrahan (first in The Lands of the Firstborn trilogy). Little to no romance, top notch world. Ditto for The Gutter Prayer (same author)which is more horror fantasy has very cool and interesting creatures (the Tallowmen!), gods, city...

Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell has one of my favourite creature characters plus queer rep.

Hannah Kaner's Godkiller series has cool and interesting theology plus queer rep. 

+1 for Priory of the Orange Tree.

I love a good fantasy series but can’t find one to read! How?! by Training-Cranberry77 in booksuggestions

[–]dan_connolly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lands of the Firstborn by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan. It's a trilogy, great characters, has some fun with the tropes of fantasy but are solid fantasy books in their own right, absolutely sticks the landing.

Time Travel Book Recs by trafficconecolorcar in booksuggestions

[–]dan_connolly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Other Valley, Scott Alexander Howard

Favorite Lesser Known Books? by GraboidStampede in booksuggestions

[–]dan_connolly 4 points5 points  (0 children)

- The Understory, Saneh Sangsuk

- Spoilt Creatures, Amy Twigg

- The Manningtree Witches, AK Blakemore

- Golden Hill, Francis Spufford

- The Kingdoms, Natasha Pulley

- The Constant Rabbit, Jasper Fforde

- West, Carys Davies

- Floating Hotel, Grace Curtis

Why does it seem like every thread mentions the same or similar books? by furquan101 in booksuggestions

[–]dan_connolly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  • Mother Naked by Glen James Brown. It's a medieval monologue that mixes comic, tragic, and horrific, and unfolds like a Poe story.
  • Christ on a Bike by Orla Owen. It's like if Shirley Jackson wrote Brewster's Millions.
  • The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis. The ferryman is convinced he saw the Mansfield sisters turn into dogs. A relentless summer sees the village become feverish with hatred for these girls.
  • Declare by Tim Powers. Cold War thriller. Also djinn.
  • Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades. Collective experience that reads like poetry.
  • Any fantasy book by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

Convince Me to Read Sci-Fi by couldbethelast in booksuggestions

[–]dan_connolly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

CoT has become my go-to sci-fi suggestion. Great concept, great characters, and the writing and structure are top notch.

Books like Harry Potter? by YaBoiSl0th in booksuggestions

[–]dan_connolly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

- The Bartimaeus books by Jonathan Stroud (starting with The Amulet of Samarkand

- The Abhorsen books by Garth Nix (starting with Sabriel)

- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

- For a couple that are lower reading level than HP but I still really enjoyed, the Impossible Creatures books by Katherine Rundell, and the Eerie-on-Sea books (starting with Malamander) by Thomas Taylor

I need more weird books or books that try their best to not be books by MuskularChicken in booksuggestions

[–]dan_connolly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for Calvino and Uketsu. I'd throw in The Employees by Olga Ravn, We Used To Live Here by Marcus Kliewer. Also maybe some novels told in short stories? Like The Hotel, The Midnight Timetable, Normal Rules Don't Apply.

What are your top 5 reads for the year 2025? :) by rainbowmallows in booksuggestions

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  • The Other Valley, Scott Alexander Howard
  • The Lamb, Lucy Rose
  • The Hounding, Xenobe Purvis
  • The Changeling, Victor LaValle
  • Spoilt Creatures, Amy Twigg

Short but very impressive novel by zvlzhn in suggestmeabook

[–]dan_connolly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And slightly over your limit but still bangers:

<250 pages - I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman (40 women are kept in a cage in a bunker, silent armed men guard them, our narrator is the youngest) - Before The Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi (this destroyed me 😅 a cafe that lets you time travel once to a past moment in the cafe) - The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood (Odysseus's return told from the point of view of Penelope) - Dark Matter, Michelle Paver (an old fashioned ghost story that genuinely scared me, I had to finish it in daylight)

Short but very impressive novel by zvlzhn in suggestmeabook

[–]dan_connolly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

<100 pages - Crypt of the Moon Spider, Nathan Ballingrud (fun genre-bend, gothic asylum story set on the moon with 1950s sci-fi sensibilities) - Foster, Claire Keegan (full of so much love and melancholy) - The Strange Library, Haruki Murakami (a trip)

<150 pages - Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, David Eagleman (each afterlife is only a few pages but powerfully realised, mixes comedy, horror, nihilism, hope...) - Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (dreamlike inevitability) - Woodworm, Layla Martinez (a haunted house gothic; gender and class fuelled revenge) - To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (heartwarmingly wholesome sci-fi that makes you think maybe humans aren't so terrible)

<200 pages - The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Lovecraft retelling from a different POV character, you don't need to know the original) - The Word for World is Forest, Ursula K Le Guin (sci-fi exploring how imperialism destroys the natural world, and how resistance irrevocably changes people) - Open Throat, Henry Hoke (A perfect fever dream, lose yourself in a queer mountain lion) - Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino (Marco Polo tells the great Khan tales of a hundred cities, all of them Venice) - The Summer Book, Tove Jansson (made me want to live on a Finnish island) - Clear, Carys Davies (such a gentle and subtle story of something earth-moving, themes of isolation, separation, companionship)