It came as a shock to me that Jim Butcher had released the 16th Dresden Files book: Peace Talks 6 years after the last book: Skin Game.

Of course that meant that I had to re read Skin Game first before I could move on to the new book.

What about the rest of you?  Since we can not read anything from the current group of woke scolds, what are you reading now?

Quote from: Shasarak;1139837It came as a shock to me that Jim Butcher had released the 16th Dresden Files book: Peace Talks 6 years after the last book: Skin Game.

Of course that meant that I had to re read Skin Game first before I could move on to the new book.

What about the rest of you?  Since we can not read anything from the current group of woke scolds, what are you reading now?

Not really books but I'm doing a whole lot of reading on Mayan/Aztec/Etc society, mythology and how they saw magic for my Aztec inspired fantasy setting.

As this isn't directly about gaming, shouldn't this go into the Media & Inspiration subforum?

White Box FMAG
Dungeon World
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Lion & Dragon
My Own DM Notes

Right now I'm re-going through the Corriea/Kupari trilogy of Dead Six.  I'm not impressed with Kupari, but Corriea's talents as a writer have obviously improved since the first Monster Hunter. I am ALSO (simultaniously) going through Lee Child's Killing Floor.  I just finished The Quick Red Fox by John Macdonald, which was another 're-read', and before that it was.... (checks...)... In Plain Sight by Dan Willis (did not particularly enjoy), which was pulling double duty with Julius Ceaser's Commentaries.

Game wise?  Carbon 2185, which I believe I just reviewed, and  Battlestations v1.1 by the Siadek brothers, though that's about to go back on the shelf I believe...

Queued up?  El Ron's Blackout, which I've heard is probably the smartest thing he ever wrote. We shall see...

Quote from: HappyDaze;1139840As this isn't directly about gaming, shouldn't this go into the Media & Inspiration subforum?

Thats fair.

So what are you reading and how does that apply to your rpg gaming?

Quote from: Shasarak;1139837It came as a shock to me that Jim Butcher had released the 16th Dresden Files book: Peace Talks 6 years after the last book: Skin Game.

Of course that meant that I had to re read Skin Game first before I could move on to the new book.

What about the rest of you?  Since we can not read anything from the current group of woke scolds, what are you reading now?

I actually just started reading Peace Talks today. I'm not far in, but given the preview trailer that came out a few weeks ago and the Christmas short from last year I'm expecting everything to go to hell any minute. Hopefully no one I really like dies. Oh, and it's not just Peace Talks that is getting a release. The next book is supposed to come out in another month or two.

Game-wise, I'm currently re-reading the Savage Worlds Lankhmar books for a game I'm playing in and re-reading Masks of Nyarlathotep as I plan to run that campaign again starting next month. I already know Masks almost by heart, but it's always good to refresh the ol' memory banks.

In the last month or so I've read:
The Last Emperox (John Scalzi)
The Forbidden Stars (Tim Pratt)
Star Wars: Shadow Fall (Alexander Freed)--about 50 pages to go, should finish tonight

I just got Peace Talks (Jim Butcher) on Monday, and plan to start it tomorrow.

I picked up Keyforge: Secrets of the Crucible for Genesys out of a desire to see if there was anything worthwhile to mine from it. As far as I can tell, there is not.

I have been reading the PDF of the Klingon core book for the ST Adventures RPG. I'm still not much of a fan of that system, but they did a good job covering Klingons.

I have also been reading through the Age of Sigmar: Soulbound RPG, but that's been pushed back in my queue by other things.

I've also been mining what I can from old PB Rifts materials for a game of Savage Rifts that I may or may not ever run.

And I've been reviewing studies on outcomes for various mixes of interventions for orthopedic matters and coordinating with educators to make changes to competencies...yeah, not really the fun stuff this thread is looking for.

Right now, Grey Watch Protocol and Counterattack, both Battletech stories.

Also reading Mechwarrior Destiny, the new Battletech RPG.  I like A Time of War better.

I just finished up Foundation in anticipation of the Apple TV series.
I'm not sure what I expected, but it's very down to earth. The stories focus on the people and their adventures with the background of a failing Empire on a galactic scale.

It's interesting to see the idea of the decline of understanding their technology and the mysticism that grew up around it. Obviously "borrowed" by such games as Warhammer 40k, and Battletech, with it's feuding houses and inherited technology.

GURPS Martial Arts, Battle Lords of the 23rd Century, and The Once & Future King

Barrowmaze, Adventurer Conqueror King (and its supplement Heroic Fantasy), and Diablo: The Black Road.

I'm reading the 5e PHB, because for the first time in forever I'm playing a Cleric and I have no idea how the rules for that class work.
(my first Ad&d character was a Monk, but that was a different century and I only remember I had mad climb skillz).

And I'm reading 'Tomb of Annihilation', a campaign I'm going to try and run online during the lockdown.

Also reading The Witcher RPG. Maybe I should put that on Hold and read one of the Witcher novels first?

And to decide if I'm game for the 'Age of Sigmar - Soulbound' rpg, I just finished 2 short AoS books from GW ('Measure of Iron' and 'Thieves Paradise'). The writing is very... not-good but it gives some ideas of how an Iron Golem or an Aelf Thief would go around their business adventuring.

And in non-rpg related books I'm reading 'Black' by Dirk Bracke, the original novel on which the 2015 movie was based. (by the directors of 'Bad Boys For Life'). It's Romeo and Juliette but set in the immigrant quarters of Brussels.

Edit: oh, and my first Manga : 'Attack on Titan'.

Quote from: Shasarak;1139837It came as a shock to me that Jim Butcher had released the 16th Dresden Files book: Peace Talks 6 years after the last book: Skin Game.

And if you didn't know, book #17 (Battle Ground) comes out the end of September. My personal theory is that he wrote one huge book and they decided to break it into two smaller ones.

On the gaming front, I know that Evil Hat has an actual Dresden Files RPG but I'm not that into FATE or FATE Accelerated. Has anyone run a DF campaign using other rules? (I've run a short one using Amber Diceless and have pondered doing a d20 version using Monte Cook's World of Darkness maybe trimmed down to less resemble 3E.)

Quote from: finarvyn;1139945On the gaming front, I know that Evil Hat has an actual Dresden Files RPG but I'm not that into FATE or FATE Accelerated. Has anyone run a DF campaign using other rules? (I've run a short one using Amber Diceless and have pondered doing a d20 version using Monte Cook's World of Darkness maybe trimmed down to less resemble 3E.)

I haven't, but I did toy with the idea for a time before my group decided on doing something else. At the end I was deciding between Mutants and Masterminds and Cinematic Unisystem. M&M is incredibly versatile, but you have to build all of the powers and stuff yourself. Cinematic Unisystem has a lot of resources in Angel/Buffy and Ghosts of Albion that help with monster creation and give a free-form magic system that can be tweaked into fitting DF's style with only a little work.