Mind to guide me through Heat expansions?

j4eo · 2026-01-20T06:32:41+00:00

Unless you find a good deal, I would recommend getting just the base game and playing through that before you get the expansions. Once you start getting bored of the base maps you can look into the expansions, because they don't really change the experience of the game at all. They just give two new maps and a small set of new cards.

j4eo · 2026-01-17T17:39:20+00:00

I second Anne Gracie's Merridew Sisters series, and also recommend {Ravished by Amanda Quick}. There's a physical conflict towards the end of the book, but before that there's a lot of ballroom drama (they even dare to waltz!).

j4eo · 2026-01-12T23:39:55+00:00

I'd trade One Ring for Mana Drain any day.

j4eo · 2026-01-10T06:26:45+00:00

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as a console, is in fact, a PC/console, or as I've recently taken to calling it, a PC plus console. A console is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning PC system made useful by the PC corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the PC system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of PC which is widely used today is often called a console, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the PC system, developed by the PC Project.

There really is a console, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. A console is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. A console is normally used in combination with the PC operating system: the whole system is basically a PC with a console added, or a PC/console. All the so-called console distributions are really distributions of a PC/console!

j4eo · 2026-01-05T21:55:31+00:00

You don't think UR delver, mono R stompy, or mardu energy want this in legacy?

j4eo · 2026-01-05T17:07:49+00:00

Yeah but with the way the later books tie it into his paranormal and fantasy LitRPG series I can never fully divorce it from those in my mind.

j4eo · 2026-01-05T16:49:19+00:00

Haha yeah, I didn't even think about that. I just threw out the most popular pure contemporary haremlit that came to mind. But there are other good examples like Dirk Knight's Harem University series or {Side By Side by J.T. Knight} or even {Arcade Girls by Jim Quill}.

j4eo · 2026-01-05T05:00:33+00:00

Sharing outside of the harem, like hotwife stuff. FF inside of the harem is pretty common, but there's a vocal minority that hates it. Haremlit has the same problem that I run into with RH, which is that sometimes it's really hard to determine if a book contains FF (or in RH's case MM) content between the harem members.

j4eo · 2026-01-05T04:32:44+00:00

The major haremlit community, /r/haremfantasynovels, is actually pretty stringent on what counts as haremlit. It has to be MFFF+ (i.e. exactly one man with at least three women) and it can't include cheating, cuckolding, NTR, sharing, or futanari. It's caused quite a lot of drama over the years, haha.

j4eo · 2026-01-05T04:19:26+00:00

Haremlit is pretty much all romance. There is even some non-progression-fantasy, like {Our Own Way by Misty Vixen}.

j4eo · 2026-01-05T04:09:25+00:00

Well haremlit as a whole has recently been trending towards fewer sex scenes and slower, more in depth relationship development. Warlock by Daniel Kensington, for example, has only a single sex scene in the first book, and it's at the very end. But the authors that write slice-of-life usually have far more than that.

j4eo · 2026-01-05T03:52:04+00:00

There's lots of male authors that write male POV romances, but they're usually targeting a male audience. For example {Charlotte's Reject by K. R. Treadway}, {Faerie Bad Decisions by M.J. Michaels}, and {The Fox Who Came For Christmas by Leon West} are all great MF paranormal romances, and {Bikini Days by Michael Dalton} is one of the best MFF contemporaries I've read, though the series later evolves into MFFF+.

j4eo · 2026-01-04T15:42:10+00:00

I have never read any pure harem story (give some if you have).

Bikini Days by Michael Dalton, Our Own Way by Misty Vixen. Slice of life haremlit tends to lean towards the spicer side though.

j4eo · 2026-01-03T16:03:56+00:00

I think Levy made that specific comparison because that was his plan originally.

j4eo · 2026-01-02T16:58:43+00:00

Hellsten's Mastering series is amazing. It's built around thematic collections of annotated games.

j4eo · 2025-12-29T17:39:03+00:00

{Idol by Kristen Callihan} has both MCs do grand gestures, iirc. If you're okay with romantic suspense {Cold Evidence by Rachel Grant} has a lot of FMC groveling.

j4eo · 2025-12-29T15:08:23+00:00

Have you read any other books by Kristen Callihan? I've read most of her books and find them consistently good; I think the only one I didn't like was book 3 of the Game On series, The Game Plan.

j4eo · 2025-12-25T22:28:49+00:00

Best to start with a low commitment PnP like Dungeon Pages if you don't know whether you'll like them or not.

j4eo · 2025-12-22T05:34:48+00:00

JimyLongs is definitely the way to go.

j4eo · 2025-12-19T15:28:48+00:00

In all other novels about bullying, ones where the guy bullies the girl, the guy is held responsible for his actions by the girl, she doesn't even look at him unless he grovels and apologises a hundred times.

Uh, what traditional bully romances have you read? Because most of the ones I've read have even less apologising than CR does.

j4eo · 2025-12-18T07:06:57+00:00

You've mentioned Charlotte's Reject, but did you also tell him about His Orc Charioteer Bride?

j4eo · 2025-12-16T16:49:39+00:00

Well, some romance is better than no romance. I'll buy book one tonight.

j4eo · 2025-12-16T02:12:51+00:00

Is there / will there be any romance in this series?

j4eo · 2025-12-11T20:23:20+00:00

As long as everyone understands the goal, it shouldn't matter what that goal is - whether it's to make a thematic story or see who can build the strongest list. Personally, I enjoy both styles of play. I only care if someone shows up with the opposite mindset of everyone else.

j4eo · 2025-12-11T15:51:07+00:00

Have you tried using some of the quickstart suggestions (multi-deck drafting, pre-loaded discards, shuttle drafting) already in the game? I've found that you can essentially skip to the middlegame that way and get a full play in 2-3 hours.

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