>>96603000
As a paper loving luddite, don't forget your local library. You can find a bunch of great fantasy there for free. Elric and Conan are foundational sword and sorcery, definitely a good call. I'd also recommend Gardens of the Moon by Steven Eriksson (first of ten volumes but it stands alone). Fantastic worldbuilding and overall really good prose for a fantasy novel. At the library, I recently grabbed the Dragonbone Throne by Tad Williams, which is next on my list. I think it's a bit more traditional high fantasy.

>>96603000
Read something other than just /tg/ genre shit. And I'm saying this as someone as has read a lot of genre shit, and loves it. Read outside of your comfort zone, become a more well rounded person.

>>96603000
Ever considered Discworld?

>>96603000
In terms of scifi/fantasy books:

Gideon the Ninth is about necromancers in space who serve an immortal emperor that was a scientist that figured out necromancy and they consider to be their god because he brought everyone on Earth back to life after a global catastrophe killed everyone who couldn't flee... and then he declared war on all of the cowards that fled the planet instead and left everyone there to die and wages a war of revenge against them to this day. 3 books so far, a 4th on the way.

Depending on your tastes, Brandon Sanderson is prolific and does a lot of stuff focused on learning, exploring, and exploiting magic systems linked by a common cosmology. Start with Mistborn, if you like it keep going if you don't stop.

Anything set in Discworld is good, but honestly the first couple of books in it are week because they started off as short stories and only later got melded together into a book that pretends to be a long form narrative. Pick up something in the middle, like Guards! Guards!, and this turns out to be your jam then you can always go back and read the earlier stuff now that you are invested.

Empire of the Vampire has a cringe name, and is somewhat amatuerish in writing sometimes, but has excellent vampire lore worth stealing if you like that sort of thing.

The Lies of Locke Lamora is about a group of criminals inventing the idea of the long con in alchemeical fantasy Venice. 3 books, probably will never get continued but an excellent read full of neat ideas even so.

I enjoyed The Name of the Wind but since the third book is about as dead as Winds of Winter its hard to recommend now. Two books of setup with no third book of payoff.

The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway, is... very interesting. I genuinely can't tell you anything about it, and I don't want you to look it up ahead of reading it, because its something you want to go into completely blind. Spoilers would change how you read the story.

>>96603325
>At the library, I recently grabbed the Dragonbone Throne by Tad Williams, which is next on my list. I think it's a bit more traditional high fantasy.
the first book is so fucking slow that i just lost the will to keep going

>>96603432
I see where you're coming from, but I'd rather someone develop a reading habit with genre fare than not develop it at all. You can always branch out later.

>>96603325
I've been trying my local library for years, and we had good times when I was a student, but it is at the center of the city. It is a 1 hour commute there, or a nightmare exercise in driving and parking. I keep putting off bringing back the books until they expire, and then it is not really fun.

>>96603000
Titus Groan

>>96603000

Baudolino by Umberto Eco

>>96603000
I only read visual novels

>>96603000
Seconding Conan, there is that one big anniversary book compiling all of the original, unedited short stories. Got Elric on my reading pile.

Fritz Lieber Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Discworld. I did have trouble reading too much of them back to back, the series is separated into different pov, recommedning the Guards & Witches novel+Small Gods

This summer, I've read+got the audiobooks for Blacktongue Thief and The Daughter Wars by Christopher Buelhman; opinions are pretty split on them, but I liked it quite a lot, deemed grimderp by some and I'll admit that it can be edgy at times, but I found both novel to have some very touching moment and cool worldbuilding ideas here and there.

I heard good things about the First Law trilogy, got myself the audiobook but didn't get to start them out.

Some stuff I do NOT recommend
-The Maleficient Seven
-Priest of Bones
-Legend of the Seeker
-Orcs by stan nicholls

>>96609067
Last good recommendation are David Gemmell, especially Rigante. Legend was pretty nice too. I found the Hawk Queen to be quite mediocre though. He does tend to write around the same subject and archetype often, but damn he is good at it; the books are not too long and it all flows very nicely.

Currently reading King of the Wyld, I can't deny that i'm having decent fun with it, but its a bit sloppy/cheesy and immature

>>96603432
I am all ears anon. The mods will never know you've recommended me something non-/tg/

>>96603526
Thanks for the recommends.

>>96608908
Sounds like a classic from the description.

>>96608922
Oh good recommend, I just remembered I never read The Name of the Rose either.

>>96603000

Elric is underwhelming. If you want good SS beside Conan, definetly go for Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

I'd suggest something less typically /tg/ but definitely fantasy as Tanith Lee's Tales of the Flat Earth.

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I'm currently reading The Thousand Sons. Taking a break from Malazan Book of the Fallen, finished reading book 8. MBotF is the setting written for GURPS, but it's also my favorite fantasy series of all time. I'm also waiting for the Dresden book 18 to come out in January.

>>96603000
https://standardebooks.org/subjects/fantasy?per-page=48&sort=author-alpha
Just about anything on this page, but ESPECIALLY Lord Dunsany.

>>96611815
Not on that specific page, sorry, but rather in the whole tag.

>>96603000
The Princess Bride.

No, really. It's a delightful little send up of the genre in a way that doesn't necessarily come through clearly in the film.

>>96603000
Creatures of Light & Darkenss by Zelazney is a lot of fun in a mythoppetic scifantasy way. Lords of Light is cleaner as a book but less interesting imo.
CJ Cherry's Sunfall collection of shorts is neat for various post apocalytic bits. Same for the Dying Earth series by Jack Vance.
The Melancholy of Mechagirl is a solid set of postcyperpunk stuff. The Windup Girl by Bagliupican'tspellhisname is fun too.
The Name of the Rose by Emberto Eco is a solid read about changing medieval faiths and the unknown. From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón.
is good too, closer to wars of religion era but a neat character study. The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickensen is fantasy but also a good political piece, skip the sequels (in general good advice t b h). Naked Lunch is a thing if you want to actually learn about gonzo. Tsotsi by Fugard is interesting for ghettos and crime. Red Harvest by Hammett is classic while we're on crime, it more or less built the foundation of 'wandering badass with mixed morals'. Jean Genet's novel Querelle is gay sailor crime at its best. Heart of Darkness by Conrad if you haven't read it is key for exploration and how difficult it is being the one out there. Shelly's Frankenstein and/or The Last Man, Beowulf the old english and Grendel by John Gardner for monsters and what they're up to. The Iliad if you haven't.
That'll probably keep you busy for a while.
Seconding the Mervin Peak Gormenghast series, even the third one.
Pick through appendix N too, lots of good stuff there.

>>96603000
Since the dresden files haven't been properly recommended yet I will, Butcher is great urban fantasy fun.
Enders Game is absolutely phenomenal, one that you should think on
Starship Troopers (the novel) is also worth a read, it's where the modern concept of power armor even comes from
The Wheel of Time
There's a lot out there but those are some I had on the brain anon

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>The Stars My Destination
>The Demolished Man
>To Marry Medusa
All by Alfred Bester, the man who gave us wired reflexes and bullet time and rogue AIs and megacorporatocracy and more.

>>96603432
Not OP, but I've done that, and the thing I learned from reading more broadly was that I really love scifi and fantasy. I've read and liked non-genre books, and I still like reading non-fiction, mainly history, in addition to genre fiction, but fantasy and scifi just are my thing. It's definitely goid to go outside your comfort zone every now and then, but when it comes to things you do on your free time in order to relax, the main value in doing so is just that it helps you figure out whether your current comfort zone is what you actually like or just what you happen to be familiar with.

>>96610259
I'm seconding the suggestion to read Tanith Lee. I read the first three books of Tales from the Flat Earth last year for the first time, and they're some of the best fantasy I've read in years.

To add a suggestion of my own, I'd advice OP to give Robin Hobb a chance, starting with the Farseer Saga. It's a very good series about a prince's bastard son trained to become an assassin in service to his legitimate family. As for more recent fantasy, I've liked some of N. K. Jemisin's books.

>>96603432
This is straight up retarded "advice" and you're a faggot for suggesting it. If someone says they're looking for help choosing a motorbike, telling them to get a car is obnoxious at the best of times. And since your suggestion doesn't remotely fit OP's situation, this is hardly the best of times.
You are a self-important cunt trying to lecture people on becoming a "more well rounded person" and deserve nothing but scorn.

If you haven't read The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle, you absolutely should.

>>96603000
Ursula Le Guin. Really, anything she's written is worth your time. I keep her collected works in the same bookcase as my complete Tolkien.

Wheel of Time is worth the read if you can deal with its issues. It has a fair share of The Author's Thinly Disguised Fetish and the middle of the series isn't called The Slog among fans for no reason, but it has a rich magic system and a lot of compelling characters.

I'm on the second book of the Malazan series currently. I really enjoy it so far, though it is a little hard to get into as there are tons of characters and you feel like you're starting out in the middle of a series as opposed to the beginning. I think it makes for richer worldbuilding but it can be confusing.

I do not recommend In the Name of the Wind. The first book is an excellent start, but then the second reads like bad fanfiction and the third book is never, ever coming out.

I enjoyed the Witcher novel series, though they're a bit pulpy.

Stephen King's Dark Tower series is a more nodern fantasy work if that's something you're into. Definitely worth reading, although the ending is incredibly divisive.

I think next on my list is Black Company or the works of LeGuin. I also have Pillars of Earth on my radar but that's not fantasy.

Finished the Book of the New Sun about a month ago. Probably the best modern fiction I've ever read. I'd love to simulate what he has in TTRPGs but that's a lot easier said than done.
I recently started the War of the Spider Queen series. Book one and two are good so far, nearly done with book two. They're lot of fun and surprisingly well written. A far cry from Gene Wolfe's writing but a lot easier to read.
I read Sabriel by Garth Nix after Kelsey Dionne recommended it. It's fine. It's basically in line with Harry Potter in terms of writing and structure. I wouldn't recommend it personally.
Robert Howard, Lovecraft, and Moorcock are all great. Fritz Leiber and the Witcher guy seem really overrated to me personally but they often get called out as equals of the above d

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>>96603000
Does dragon maid count? Thats what im reading rn

>>96613947
Omg i love the movie
I'll add the book to my list

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>>96603000
>what you think what other people should read too?
If we're keeping it /tg/ related, there is a page on the /tg/ wiki listing out /tg/ approved media.
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Approved_Literature
Also at the back of OG D&D/Gamma Worlds and there is Appendix N which is a list of recommended reading from the game developers. (Pic related)

>>96613947
I've seen the legendary animation with Christopher Lee, bu never read the books. I should rectify that.

>>96610063
>I never read The Name of the Rose either.
I envy you, it sucks ass

>>96614290
I don't get what anyone sees in Name of the wind; the few chapters I could stomach already read like bad fanfiction.

>>96620033
I liked Rothfuss' writng style at first, and there was a lot of the first book that was interesting to me. I'm a sucker for magic systems involving the True Names of things. I was interested in how Kvothe was going to progress from this Mary Sue type character into the shell of a broken man that you see in the present of the novel's setting, and I liked the framing of the story being like an interview or biography. That being said, I fell off after the second book where Kvothe becomes a sex god kung fu master while still simping for the first girl he noticed.

>>96620350
A lot of people seem to feel the same, me included. I was also probably unreasonably pissed off by those warrior culture guys who didn't know that sex was needed to have children, thought that fathers weren't a real thing and making children was solely the purview of of women, and who'd never noticed that women who haven't had sex with men lately don't tend to get pregnant because apoarently none of them had ever spent long enough not having sex for things like that to become obvious. It was genuinely one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in any work of fiction.

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>>96613752
Counterpoint, everything is /tg/ related. Reading broadly will increase your knowledge and possibly cause you to learn new skills. This all loops back to /tg/ related activities.

Post blessed by captcha, so my opinion is also the correct one.

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>>96603000
The Black Company is easily my favorite fantasy novel series of all time. I've read it dozens of times--about once a year. I started in the 90s. The next book in it comes out this November. I remember when She Is The Darkness came out in a limited run and you simply could not find a copy. This was before any omnibus release. The only copy I managed to secure was a machine translation of the Russian edition. Musta been in 2001 or something, and I downloaded it on limewire or kazaa. Was terrible and nearly unreadable.

And now, the series is widely hailed as a masterpiece and there are countless beautiful editions available, including this gorgeous, lettered edition by Midworld Press. Printed and sewn on gorgeous paper, hand signed w/ the pencil sketches by the artists... was it worth $600? Well, I've already paid for volume 2 that was supposed to be shipped Summer 2024 and am anxiously awaiting it. So yes: yes I think it was.

>>96613752
Correct. Anon is just being a douche. "Well OP said he wants to read fantasy RPG-related novels, so I should therefore assume he has never read any other books in his life and act superior."

What a faggy, pretentious little cunt, looking to build a strawman that he can pretend to be superior to.

>>96612291
This person may have the worst taste.

>>96622111
Yeah that list is basically "how to larp as a neocon/alt-right in fantasy novels." Starship Troopers sucks ass. Ender's Game is fine... for kids. Dresden sucks out loud. And Wheel of Time? I mean sure: I've read them all. But I'll read absolutely anything. Its one and only redeeming quality is that it's very long, so you don't need to pick up new books, for a while.

Read the Book of the New Sun.

>>96622134
It's been a while since I read Starship Troopers, but like most Heinlein it was pretty good. Hard agree on the Dresden FIles, though. I read the first book and felt violent disgust at how bad it was.

>>96620033
>>96603000
I can't stand The Name of the Wind, and I'm always shocked when people recommend it. Patrick Rothfus and Brandon Sanderson are terrible writers, and they produce wish-fulfilment garbage for dorks.
Their writing appeals to the kinds of mongrels that read light novel adaptations. To this day, The Name of the Wind is the only fantasy novel I ever sat down to read that was so bad it actually made me fucking angry. Brandon Sanderson's stuff is just bland, boring, for autists, and has no real point to any of it.

>>96630989
I kinda of seen the point of the first book of TnOtW, but man the second one was so bad than it produced brain damage to me.
Same as the Winds of Truth from sanderson, so bad than in retrospect all he has done was shit.

>>96630989
I stopped reading Mistborn about a third in. The action scenes felt like I was reading a comic book in novel form. Not to my tastes.

>>96630989
I think Sanderson has a lot of good technical skill, but his plot and characters don't jive with me. It's sort of difficult for me to reconcile it. Like, I read through Way of Kings because I found myself consistently compelled to keep turning the page. I was never particularly bored while reading it. Yet I can't say I liked the book. I outright hated Shallan and Jasnah and I disliked how much Szeth just felt like an edgy anime character. I hated how the story was structured where it would cutaway to the parallel flashback story every time something was about to happen or, god help me, it would switch over to Shallan again. And there were all those interlude vignettes which were just paper thin excuses for more worldbuilding, which the main story was already bloated to fucking hell with.
I can think up all these problems I had with the book and I know that I felt them while I was reading, but I was possessed to finish it regardless. There has to be something about Sanderson's prose or scene building that was working. Or maybe I'm giving him too much credit and I was just energized by spite because my sister was a huge Sanderson shill and kept hassling me to read it, so I wanted to plow through it to finally shut her up.

>>96603000
The original Conan stories are all fantastic, definitely read those when you can. Some other series/books I've read and highly recommend:
>The Black Company: Series about a mercenary company in a grim dark world working for the bad guys.
>Gormenghast: Series about events going on nearly entirely within a massive, ancient castle bound by strict customs. Phenomenal prose, characters, action, humor, suspense, all around amazing read. Just read the first two novels, the third one was released posthumously and unfinished.
>Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser: Adventures of a barbarian and rogue. Similar vibe to OG Conan, but slightly more light-hearted (not in a bad way).
>The Eyes of the Overworld: Pulp fantasy novel about trickster bastard who gets in trouble with a wizard and sent on an arduous journey of misadventures. Part of Vance's Dying Earth series; I like this one the most.
>The Prince of Nothing series: Without giving too much away, a series about a jihad, a wizard and a whore in love, a lunatic barbarian on a mission to kill his former gay lover, petulant royalty, hyperintelligent monks, and Geigeresque murder rape demons. I'm currently working my way through the sequel series, The Aspect-Emperor, and it is similarly great.
>A Song of Ice and Fire: I never watched the shows, but after reading the books I can see why the series is so popular.
>>96613987
Seconding this anon.
>>96621983
I need to finish the series; I still think about Soulcatcher and I stopped reading the series in like 2020.

The Blacktongue Thief, and anything else by that author; especially Between Two Fires

all his contemporary horror novels are also pretty much World of Darkness stories; the Necromancer's House is a better Dresden Files than Dresden Files.

Blindsight

Will Save Galaxy for Food, et al. Best sci-fi humor since Hitchhiker's Guide. Better than the Bobverse.

>>96630302
>Dresden Files
They get much better book three and onwards up until after Changes, but still...not great. They're harlequin romance novels, but for sad dudes.

>>96630989
>wish-fulfilment garbage for dorks
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I at least respect Sanderson's work ethic, but didn't care for his writing.

>>96632708
He has a very efficient, plot focused writing style. There's very little fluff involved, so it's action driven and hooks you in.

>>96603000
would recommend sixteen ways to defend a walled city and prospors demon by K.J. Parker.
If you dig post apocalypse worlds: The Earth Abides and A Canticle for Liebowitz are wonderful

My meagre addition to this thread is recommending John Gwynne's Bloodsworn Saga. The ending kind of sucks, but getting there's pretty fun. It's about vikings fighting over dead gods who were animals rather than the Aesir and Vanir.

>>96609067
>Some stuff I do NOT recommend
>-Legend of the Seeker

Assuming you mean Terry Goodkind's magnum opus of philosophy series the Sword of Truth, I can only conclude that in not recommending it you lack moral clarity.

>>96609082
>David Gemmell

I second Gemmell. His Drenai novels are my favourites. I read the Rigante and they're fine enough stories, but not my favourites.

And it is true that he tends to write around the same subject and archetypes. Gemmell I think does it rather well, and his books flow very well. They read easily - the language isn't baroque, overwrought, or difficult.

>>96633503
If we're reccomending romance novels, I'll recommend Immortals After Dark. It's an urban fantasy series about invariably super tall chads with big dicks plowing shortstacks.

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>>96603000
Spiral Wars by Joel Shepherd
Solid space opera. Main characters get thrown from seeming local political bullshit into thousand years old plot by robot civilizations that apparently didn't die out and still insist that this is their galaxy and everyone else is just living in it.

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>>96603000
2nd Apocalypse.

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This might be a bit normie due to how popular it is (and due to how gay the start of the book feels), but when it comes to inspiration for horror adventures I still like The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
Almost any single bit of media where a spooky horrible person-monster is virtually inmortal as long as their "phylactery" (most of the times some cursed portrait or picture) has roots to this.
Dude looks and acts completely normal at a first glance. You don't find any weird shit about him unless somebody tells you that he hasn't aged in 50 years, and decide to snoop around.

>>96603000
Based and Quadspilled.

>>96612757
>Not OP, but I've done that, and the thing I learned from reading more broadly was that I really love scifi and fantasy
Yup. I wonder if something like Ivanhoe broadly counts as genre here though

>>96639767
Everything is /tg/-related if you look hard enough.

>>96637288
Hated this guy's robot waifu books even though they should be right up my alley

>>96621935
>TG roleplays in 2D
Lmao, that I can support.

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Anyone read Vampire Hunter D?
I've speed read through the first 2 books, mostly because the 1st is the plot of the old anime. But the 2nd had spooky incest horror. Don't know how wild is the swinging quality on it as I go further.

>>96603454
>Discworld
I've actually read the Nightwatch, when I got it for christmas once. But then it gets really confusing what to read next.

>>96648683
I read some shorter stories from it. Author seems to keep quality at more or less the same level, but story wise you are going to get some wild shit thrown at you. Farmer's pet teleporting spiders, some fucking unexplained undying murder girl that gets buried alive, mach one vampire fighting, then suddenly super advanced tech and so on.

>>96603000
I’m more into scifi, I’m sure my recommends will make that abundantly clear. Books I’ve read recently
>do androids dream of electric sheep
fantastic book, cant reveal too much of what happens because it will ruin the unexpected turns you’ll run into. very curious science fiction book.
>The art of war
handbook for generals/field marshals. written roughly 4000 years ago but the principles outlined in the book are still used in modern warfare. Great read for understanding basic large scale military tactics if you need it for worldbuilding or just want a better understanding of war. It’s strictly about methodology and leaves reasons or justifications for war aside, a good general doesn’t worry about those.
>Annihilation
Great modern take on cosmic horror. Takes place from the perspective of a biologist that goes with a team to research a zone on earth where reality seems to be unraveling.
>enders game
a book on leadership and the psychology of what makes a good general. Its a science fiction book about the aftermath of a future war necessitating a program where children are raised to be leaders and strategic masterminds. Great read.

>>96639395
I just read the first 20 pages this isn’t a normie book. Normies don’t even read and the average one would struggle with this. It’s also not even that gay, just european.

Don’t be ashamed of liking things, it’s a good book so far

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Reject modernity, embrace traditions

>>96603000
Check Gutenberg, it's a trove of old pulp adventure novels.
Ballad of the White Horse is on there, it's free and it's the best piece of /tg/ lit that no one knows about.

>>96639395
If you haven't already, check out Poe. He laid the foundations for horror as we know it today

>>96603526
Brandon sandersons modern books will literally make you retarded, especially in terms of ttrpg. If a gm started a campaign that was at all comparable to rhythm of war or wind and truth I would leap over the table and beat him to death with his own leg. Sanderson is poison to writers/genre/fiction in totality

>>96603000
Conan is the og for a reason. It is a legitimate necessary read especially if you wanna play hyperborea

A combo of Vance and Wolfe is next. Dying earth/world of adventure are crazy novels where the worldbuilding feels alive. If you’ve heard of vancian magic, say hello lol. Gene Wolfe is a very similar author but his prose and interconnected stories and background plots fingering their way to the surface of the story you’re reading is legendary for a reason. Book of the new sun is very similar to dying earth on the surface but everyone who gets through all of it turns into a fanatic of wolfes for a reason. If you’ve heard can harness these writers your campaigns will be legendary

>>96630302
Dresden files does a soft reboot in book 3 for a reason lol 1/2 are the worst in the series and even the author recognizes that. The rest of it is generally worth reading though and certainly ranks higher to me than dreadful more popular authors like Sanderson

>>96656253
Not that anon, but yeah, the last one was so bad I can't even comprend how I was ever interested in that author, lots of the cool ideas were made lame and retarded thanks to that book, and Roschar, I can't think about it without seething.
THERAPY<
I think less of any people than says than likes his work.

>>96603000
Wheel of Time series is great, the sci fi greats are all generally fun to read. If you like a lot of Warhammer stuff check out Dune and Foundation because you'll see some familiar ideas.

>>96622134
Idk bro anyone who says Heinlein is a neocon author hasn't read Heinlein.

>>96657027
Wheel of time is far from great, is a good worldbuilding with a jack shit implementation of the themes the writers wants to write about.
With a lot of chaff, useless exposition, the most insufrable magicians I ever read about and legit made me consider misoginy isn't that bad.

>>96648683
read the third one, demon deathchase, something like that, it was the basis for the second film, it was allright, well worth a read, a bit more rapey-ier than the film, tho

>>96603000
Get yourself some Poul Anderson:

>The High Crusade
>The Broken Sword
>Three Hearts and Three Lions

>>96656409
Third anon here, can I skip to the third one then? I've got filtered by the 2nd. The whole cast seems to just juggle the idiot ball among themselves.

>>96661955
I legit don't see the apeal of Dresden, apart of being set in a modernish world, I found them boring and derivative, but then I don't tend to enjoy thrilllers and noir stuff.

>>96612643
Is Neuromancer worth a read?

>>96665475
Not the anon you asked, but I'd say yes. It's a classic, and in my opinion it's also just a good book.

>>96603000
Finish the Black Company, maybe even start over if it's been a while.

>>96603000
Sea of Rust by Robert Cargill is good, its a post apocalypse novel told from the point of view of the sentient robots that destroyed humanity. Good world building, and fun characters make this a gold mine for ideas. I've pretty much pulled the titular Sea of Rust form the novel wholesale for a game of Ashes without Number that I'm working on.

the Blood on the Stars series by Jay Allan is good, a space opera series that has a long story line and well written characters. There's a relatively recent spinoff series about the main characters love interest.

Jay Allan also does the Far Stars books, which is gold if you're running anything like Traveler. Main character is an OC donut steel Marty stu, but the background of the Far Stars sector itself, how it relates to the Empire, and the machinations of the main villain make up for it in spades.

Christopher Rowley's Battledragon series is worth a read, it involves a tale of good vs evil in a medieval fantasy world, where the good guys have these Dragons, attended to by their Dragon boys (orphans the kingdom takes in, and who are paired with their dragon from when the dragon is hatched), who act as squires.

Jason Anspach has a couple of series, Galaxy's Edge is military sci Fi, and the Forgotten Ruin series, which is literally "Lord of the Rings if a US Army Ranger battalion showed up". I've read the first two novels of Galaxies Edge, and have enjoyed that, and I have Forgotten Ruin I just haven't gotten around to reading it.

The novelizations of the Zombicide board game are pretty good, I really enjoy the Black Plague series so far, and Planet Havoc is a fun read.

>>96665475
I tried a few times and could get past the first fourth. It's like a bad noir novel with mumbo jumbo mixed along.
But Gibson's Burning Chrome short stories are really good. I remember liking the Bridge trilogy too.

>>96669317
Galaxy Edge is War on terror, in Spaaace, along a few not-muslim alien races, from the point of view of the Storm troopers (trough at the start is more like the clones from the Republic, without being clones) and I love them. I read the first brace of books, I think the dude has put some more, but dunno about the quality of those.
Also make the very Heinlein than the Navy has chicks in them.

>>96603432
Why waste your time with things you don't care about?

>>96669425
>Why try anything new ever? I'm just gonna eat tendies and easy Mac, play 5e and read R.A. Salvatore for the rest of my life!

Nobody has mentioned snow crash and it has some cool ideas under all the sillyness. (It has a lot of that, but not too much)
Just read the first 5 pages and see if you are in the mood. I could not stop reading after that

>>96669642
Snow Crash was pretty good. There's generally something that rubs me the wrong way about Neal Stephenson's books, something about the way he writes characters, but I don't remember Snow Crash being too bad in this respect. I think what silliness it had mostly worked in its favor.

>>96603000
I know it's dumb, smutty schlock- but I can't help but love War of the Powers for what it is. It's honest in itself, and isn't afraid to revel in its pseudo-retardation.

Such as how everything relates to sex in some form. Like how a guy becomes a torturer simply because he can't fuck the girls he's lusting after.

>>96609067
>I heard good things about the First Law trilogy
I feel honor bound to point out, every time this series is mentioned, that First Law is total shit. It has some interesting worldbuilding ideas and a nice presentation of believable in-universe myths, but the prose, characters, plot, and pacing are all terrible. Joe Abercrombie tried to emulate all the worst things about GRRM (besides, credit where it's due, actually finishing his books) and succeeded.

>>96671438
I think its the first time than I hear anyone complimenting the worldbuilding of first law, I ever felt it was barely there.

>>96671438
First law is iredeemably bad reddit tier garbage.

>>96671625
I only meant that he made his world feel like it had some history, all in service to one of the most abysmal plots I've ever encountered.

>>96669317
>Christopher Rowley's Battledragon
I started reading this one, and it seems like a fun Yarn. Grunt dragons, that's such a riot of a concept.

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I would recommend Aliette de Bodard's Obsidian and Blood series, starting with "Servant of the Underworld". Interesting fantasy books set in the Aztec empire.

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And for a bit different take on Urban Fantasy I like Bob McGough's books about Howard Marsh, starting with "Bringing home the rain". A bit rough in the editing, but I kind of like the dirty drug-addicted redneck magician protagonist.

>>96656751
>>96656253
I have read everything Sanderson until this most recent book. Lots of red flags/captured by woke shit. Surprising that it's coming from a mormon.

>>96622111
>>96622134
>>96630302
thanks for outing yourselves as retards that don't like fun

>>96622134
>alt-right
please use a trip so I can filter your mentally defective posts.

>>96674290
dresed sucks but heinlein rocks, you post was mixed but so are a lot of them, the guy whinging about you being right wing for enjoying some classics is an absolute faggot thoughever

>>96674217
The worse (well it didn't help either) wasn' the woke shit, is the change of tone, and to know than he couldn't pull out his cosmere shit. The dude isn't it to pull out such a massive project. The Embarasing shit in WoT was the final nail for me I legit never felt so underwhelmed be a book like ever, specially because a lot of the ideas of Roshar were great.

>>96632973
Seconding this anon, Christopher Buehlman us great.
Read The Blacktongue Thief + The Daughters' War for a pretty novel take on dark fantasy (Not even that dark, really, there are plenty of glimmers of light shining through) and some cool worldbuilding ideas.
Read his vampire stuff (The Lesser Dead + The Suicide Motor Club) for something as close as it can be to VtM without infringing copyright. I liked both, especially the latter.
Read Between Two Fires for a solid medieval horror, but while this gets hailed as his best book (and to be fair it does have the coolest premise) I feel like it's got some rough patches of writing and it shows that it was only his second book.

>>96674400
why don't you just filter 'alt-right'

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In the SciFi-genre I like the War Horses series by Scott Warren, but the background premise is a bit too out there for my taste. Basically Reconquista in space, with some Vikings thrown in. But the writing is good.

I have almost no literary touchpoints lol

This series sold at public school book fairs named The Seventh Tower was based as a kid though.

>>96677100
If we're talking sci fi with vikings, the Red Rising series is a lot of fun even if the author admits he just wanted to do his own wish fulfillment of romans/vikings in space. The first book is kind of hunger gamesy but the characters and plot have kept their grip on me through six books so far, 7th and final should be coming out soon.

And if we're talking about sci-fi in general, The Expanse has some of the best prose, characterization, and plot consistency I've read in the genre. It's 9 books long and by the end you're 100% certain they won't have a satisfying ending, but they do. Every fan of sci-fi should at least read the first book "Leviathan Wakes." Really, really tight plot with perfect use of two alternating PoVs. The sensibilities can get a little modern if you're the type of person that cares about that. I personally do, but the series was great enough that it didn't really bother me that every competent professional was a woman of color. Avoid the TV series at all costs, though.

>>96679012
>sci fi with vikings
There's always Space Viking.

>>96677100
That's some of my prefered stuff, tell me more. Like trve reconquista of iberians kicking alien ass or what.

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>>96679882
If I remember correctly (and I tried to not think to hard about it) the premise is that the Mongols never sacked Baghdad which led to a faster technological advances, and then everyone went to space. So you basically have a cold war situation between "Iberians" and "Templars" with lots of proxy wars but less religious overtones. And pseudo-Vikings raiding everyone. It sound quite absurd when presented like that but is actually quite well kept together by the author who focuses more on the guys on the ground.

Protagonist is a mechanic for a mercenary company that turns into a mech pilot, though there is actually quite a lot of focus on repairing and maintaining mechs. Lots of gray area morality and the mercs are pretty pragmatic. In the last book I've read (Grand Melee) they get involved in a tournament (think Solaris from BT) where the commander sends of the protagonist with basically the orders "Show what the company can do, but don't do too well. We don't want to embarrass any possible employers.".

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If you're more into super heroes (or rather villains) you could take a look at "Supervillainy and Other Poor Career Choices" by J.R.Grey (aka SoggyRedToast). I think you can even find it legally available for free on the net.

Amusing story of a (slightly autistic) engineer who tries to sell a power armor to a super villain but as a power struggle between villains turn hot he suddenly finds himself piloting it.

>>96680107
Thinking back on it I might actually be misremembering it a bit and it is more of a Cold Crusades situation than Andalusian Reconquista. So don't take my word for it if that's your specific interest...

>>96680107
Sounds like the tipe of yarn I would love. Mechanical mercs, Templars, Mechs And Space viking along conquistadords... PULL IT TO MY VEINS.

Wizard of the Earth Sea

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"Grog" by RW Krpoun may be worth taking a look at. Not super unique fantasy about a "Brute" (basically a Half-Orc) Gladiator bought, then freed and hired, by a cleric troubleshooter hunting cults and undead. Reads like someone's fantasy RPG campaign, but it is a good campaign with several interesting characters. No worse than most fantasy books and better than many. Pretty nuanced view on slavery (it is bad, but freeing slaves can be complicated) if that punches your buttons.

>>96603000
Well, since Worm has the Weaver Dice game system, does that count?

>>96603000
I’ve mainly been reading fan-works online, like Keychain of Creation for Exalted, if those count. If they do, I can share more, or you can as well.

>>96689388
Worm itself is a product of dice rolls to a not insignificant degree, Wildbow would let them decide who lived during fights often. Aegis was supposed to do more but the dice for the Leviathan fight were brutal. Thanks for mentioning the game, I hadn't known that was getting developed.
>>96603000
My favorites these days are all scifi, been on a kick of it lately. Top of my recommendations is Blindsight by Peter Watts, but last I finished up and loved was PKD's Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Funnily enough both involve first contact with the equivalent of sentient slime mold that can survive between stars. Three Stigmata has impressive range and has some signature time manipulation paradoxes that I think was very well balanced.
>>96665475
It is, but it's not Gibson's best. Seconding Burning Chrome as a solid first read since it's short stories are punchy, and provides context into Molly that you don't get otherwise. Like how her ex is cohabitating with a war vet dolphin in the underhive. You'll want to read Neuro even more after I think, but it also makes it clear how starkly different the Matrix movies took things.

>>96692436
>her ex is cohabitating with a war vet dolphin
Was.
Also I don't rate Blindsight at all.

On the subject of sci-fi, anyone playing Traveller should read a Dumarest book. Winds of Gath is the first one but continuity is minimal.

>>96692709
>was
Let Johnny have nice things anon, he's tired.
>I don't rate
You didn't read it or didn't appreciate it? It's a chewy one. I liked it a lot more than Echopraxia as it leaned more into Aliens ambush predator horror, but that one was fun for the brain candy, I actually enjoyed thinking about cancer cults and its implications. It brings to mind all the rituals people use on the river to Saraswati, makes me think about my own in a different light.

Ever read Tik-tok by Sladek?

>>96693408
>he's tired
Dead tired.
I read Blindsight about 10 years ago and didn't like it. I don't remember it that well but things like "vampires are scared of corners, not crosses" just seemed like desperate rationalisations, like Scully's attempts to contrive natural explanations for X-files.
I have not heard of Tik-tok.

>>96693492
They aren't scared of them, they have a fuck up in their brain that short circuits at them.

And yeah, it's a fun rationalization for "why do we have these weird myths about apex human like apex predators." It's thin as fuck, but it's also a tiny part of the firefall duology.

>>96693538
I found it representative of the whole thing though. And not really fun given how super seriously the book seemed to take itself.

>>96693492
Tik-tok is basically what if Quintin Tarantino's Django Unchained was actually about the Singularity, and starting with the death of a blind girl and only getting more unhinged from there. You might make it to the plantation flashbacks but only the strong survive it.
>>96693538
They evolved in a time of the primordial dark forest, the idea of their disfunction is that nature is too lazy to make perfect angles so their brains seize trying to perceive something that should not exist.

>>96603000
Sandman (speaking of sleep), and Watchman omnibuses. There was a Lovecraft anthology I liked.

I think it was the Illiad or Odyssey (one of those epic roam books) that would put me to sleep. Not the quality or subject, mind, I think it's something about the brain and the writing process.

>dear god I haven't read books for fun in so long, what have I been doing?
Something more interactive, or visually stimulating, one assumes. Strolling along woodsy creeks, maybe.

>what you think what other people should read too?
Things that, in the classic sci-fi fashion, expand or refine your grasp, practice, or range and precision of ideas about how life and existence may not be what you thought they were.

>things that give me insomnia
Aren't what you think. Dominant factor for me was adding another blanket. Second factor is that sleep is kind of like a mood, and whatever you've learned about consciously changing your moods applies.

Internet falls somewhere behind Mt Dew. Blue light doesn't even rank.

>>96603526
>Empire of the Vampire has a cringe name, and is somewhat amatuerish in writing sometimes, but has excellent vampire lore worth stealing if you like that sort of thing.
Gave this a try. You can tell exactly what the author was drawing inspiration from but its still a fun read.

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OP you can read my novel when I finosh editing it, the first draft is 130k words so you won't be seeing it for a while.

>>96603000
What about writing /tg/ related content yourself, what must one remember when doing so?

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>>96603000

I’m writing one. I’ve been working on it for just under a year. It’s about a 15th century witch hunter during the 100 Years War.

Writing a novel is hard. Like, really hard. I’m in the home stretch, and I’m hoping to publish it. Wish me luck.

>>96694518
>the first draft is 130k words
How many of those words are 'nigger'? Give me a rough %.

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>>96694518
>the first draft is 130k words
What, are we power leveling?

>>96694518
>>96694560
Post something of it in the writefag thread, I'll read it. I can especially commit if it's just a smaller section. That said, I am due on reading another Anon's work, Born Under a Black Sun, which he finished recently and posted to RR.

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>>96694537
Bee yourself

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>>96651450
I am so viscerally upset and jealous. Nightwatch is the best Discworld book, but reading it first is sinful. For lack of a better comparison, it's like watching the last Avengers movie without any of the other movies. On my part though Ive been reading Discworld since I was a kid, when so many references and such went over my head and in a terrible order. I wish I could reread it for the first time as an adult.

Anyway, people have made reading order guides so you can follow set plotlines. For my part I usually suggest the best introduction to Discworld is Small Gods. It's set thousands of years before any other books so it stands alone, but its like the 12th written so it's good quality. It's often considered the second best after Nightwatch, and is about what happens when a god discovers only one person is left who actually believes in him. It got praised for it's depiction of religion by atheists and religious people alike if you care, and it's just very thoughtful and funny.

>>96695655
I probably should say Pratchett went out of his way to make it so you could read this shit in any order and so everything stands alone. This guide is just nice if you want to follow a bigger plotline.
Of all the books it's pretty much just Nightwatch I'd say christ don't read first because it's arguably the climax of the City Watch books and so much is missed if you read it without. Oh, and I guess maybe Making Money, since thats pretty much unique in being a firm direct sequel to another book, Going Postal (a later book Pratchett seemed to have designed as s good place for people to jump in) and that'd be odd.

But even then you totally can even just pick up those. You're just missing out on context that turns good stories into great ones.

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>>96694897
Link to my post:
>>96695886

>>96694609
0.0% my friend, there are none in the book
>>96694650
I don't mean it to be that long, but it was written in a format that somewhat asked for a lot of writing.

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>>96695895
>there are none in the book
I wish you luck in the modern landscape, my friend. I'll give it a read.

>>96695230
>Bee yourself
Lol. Okay, anything else?

>>96696574
Rewrite your writing with fewer words. This is the secret to non-hackery. Adjectives and adverbs are garbage. Never tell a reader how to feel.

>>96693538
Jesus you guys rated the damnest things, so it wasn't a meme...

>>96695895
Count me as the second reader then. What the book about. I'm just reading the broketail books and they are charming, they have some weird points, but at the moment they aren't bad.

do you get any ttrpg value from reading Genesis or other literary classics?

>>96699304
There is cool stuff, like the ark going in rampages some times, the nephilim, Goliath, the different tribes than appear etc but in general, eh. Classical Greece myths are way more fun.

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>>96695655
>Small Gods
Thanks anon, I'm nta but I think I want to try that book out first bu your suggestion, that sounds like my wheelhouse. I almost went the linear route starting with colour but couldn't slip into it. This chart is gonna be a big help later.
>>96699277
You should read and form your own opinions. The vampire aspect of Blindsight is simply a way to introduce a psyker ajacent ability set into a very crunchy scifi setting that, yes, does take itself seriously... because the mc is a super serious cold dude. He's like the equivalent of a 40k Untouchable with a job to do, and Echopraxia, which follows a completely different character, has levity Blindsight lacks because that character is not the same flavor of autist.
If you can't into it that's fine, but acting superior over people supporting an author without major publishing support... helps you how, exactly?
>>96699304
Literary clssics are great places to develop themes and your lexicon of symbolism, always worth it.

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>>96699286
Arthurian tale of a modern man who has his woman stolen away and he has to save her. The bulk of the story is about his adventures as he becomes the knight worthy of his lady.
It's a retelling of Sir Orpheo at its heart.

>>96700904
I will not read shitty over rationalitzations for vampires man.
>>96701012
Noice.

Monster Hinter International books are good. About mercs that kill all sorts of fantasy/spooky shit with big guns. The only criticism is the main protag is a Mary sue.

>>96651450
I liked Guards, Guards, that was fun, think its set before Nightwatch though

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>>96603000
No homo. Just a mirror of some stuff I've collected overtime. Hope you find some stuff you're into.

Highly suggest collecting individual things rather than the entire 11gigs since there's definitely redundancies;
Mega /folder
>bI81BDaZ#W6ECv8DJy4bUsO3g8xSgHQ
Get the correct format from pdf thread if you can't figure it out.

I just read The King in Yellow, thought it was good. The last story being a straight up rom-com threw me for a loop, especially since there was a war story 2 before it.

Starship Troopers is a good time. Very hoo-rah manly men doing manly things.

The Forever War is on my shelf, I'm going to try to get to it soon. But Heart of Darkness and The Count of Monte Cristo are also waiting for attention.

Right now I'm reading Strange Houses and it's fun. The translation is written in a very light and easy to digest style, most of the book is dialog and it's pretty snappy. It frequently refers to drawings and diagrams as the plot revolves around them.

I loved 813, but Im not sure it would be as good if you don't read LeBlanc's other stories before. The gentlemen thief must put on his detective hat and repair his reputation, for while he may be a crook, a liar, and a criminal mastermind, Arsene Lupin is NOT a murderer!

>>96603000
>Elric of Melnibone
Pass.
>Original Conan the Barbaria
Very good.

More suggestions: Fitz Lieber, Ursula LeGuin

>>96699304
Revelations is dope as shit.

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Thieves' World is very RPG

>>96669642
>>96669991
It's super silly but is still insanely badass the whole way through. I was grinning so hard during that first chapter that I wound up reading the whole book out loud to my exgf. Was laughing so hard while Raven was trying to give his "this is why I'm evil" monolog and WT could barely hear him over the club music even though he was shouting at her from 2 feet away.

>>96703227
Never heard of it before, thanks.

>>96695655
I didn't know that there was a reading order, thanks.

>>96603432
>become a more well rounded person.
I always thought this was a silly viewpoint the majority of times it's expressed. It's one thing maybe if we're talking philosophy or something but as enjoyable as something like War and Peace is, it doesn't unlock some higher level of human understanding or ability.

>>96712989
Yeah. I'd recommend everyone to give history and philosophy a try because that might actually help one becone a more rounded person, but fiction's for personal enjoyment and it's fine to stick to whatever you personally prefer.

>>96703017
Thanks for the link!

>>96712989
Anon just said "read something other than genre stuff." History and Philosophy falls into that bucket, and a lot of more literary fiction is conveying history and Philosophy.

>>96716336
>History and Philosophy falls into that bucket
Not when the context is explicitly "novels".

>>96716239
You're welcome friend, what did you end up picking out?
>>96716455
On a long enough timeline the history of everyone drops to novels.

>>96603000
Reading is for faggots

>>96722121
What kind of brown hands could type this.

>>96716336
Are you trying to claim history and philosophy qualify as "genre stuff?" You lack basic understanding of the terms you're using.

>>96716336
Uhhhh lil sis history and philosophy are not genre fiction

>>96603000
Elric is pretty good. The collection sold on Amazon is a bit weird because it's in chronological order rather than publication order, so the writing starts out good and progressively gets worse

>>96671438>>96671668 >>96671625
damn alright, I listened to two/chapters so far, one of them from the inquisitor pov grabbed my attention a bit; the narrator was pretty good but it all seemed quite edgy. I'll still listen for a while.
>>96636927
sword of truth yeah, guess i mixed it up with the show which was even worse, but had really cute women
>you lack moral clarity
funniest part of the saga, moments that stick to my mind even years after reading it twice are
>rape pit, and rape pit 2, electrical boogaloo
>chicken of pure evil
>nipple magic
>that one chapter where an evil nun fucks a hell monster to seal a pact which now that I think about it, was quite similar to a scene in the Drizzt novel

>>96722597
Why did the author not write in chronological order?

>>96728320
The original stories start with Elric already fairly established, and end with, well, an ending, I won't spoil it. He went back and filled in the time that occurred before and in between the original stories.

I mean, Conan was the same way, the very first Conan story starts with him already being king.

>>96722435
>>96722570
No. I was explicitly saying that they fall into the bucket of "not genre stuff."

>>96722597
Elric is pretty shit, but has been influential so it's worth reading a few of the original ones.

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>>96603000
SHILLPOST WARNING!
I post in the writing and worldbuilding generals here and on /lit/, recently finished my first fantasy novel about a Necromancer’s apprentice called Born Under a Black Sun. You can read in on Royal Road, or buy the paperback on Amazon, or you can just download the epub: https://mega.nz/file/IwYXiBAA#l2J-KoSDyM0dHadySg-xekXTcSyma0LWhUINhrhBuuo
It’s doing ok on Amazon, have about 38 sales right now. Advertising really does help. Giving it away for free probably does not
>>96694897
Thanks for putting on your queue! If you want, the megalink in this post has it as an epub file so you don't need to use RR

>>96730886
Thanks! What inspired this?

>>96730886
Thank you for your hard work boss, I'll give you a review in exchange for this epub, will make it much easier

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>>96603000
For supers games, Reckoners might be up your alley.

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>>96734708
I had a fantasy setting I had been knitting together for quite some time, but no actual plot to advance the world. Then last year I went on a ten day hike in the Himalayas, had my mind blown, and found inspiration to turn it into a fantasy journey
>>96735509
Thanks!

Someone make a comprehensive list

>>96603000
Against a Dark Background, you can ignore every other SF suggestion in this thread

I enjoyed the Cry Pilot books in spite of the author's best efforts

>>96603000
>This thread is nearly 3 weeks old
>It can't even get past 200th post
/tg/ is beyond zombie

>>96745938
tg died about ten years ago, its been a corpse since then. The furries and degens won and we have become v, but slow, congrats to all to let it happen.

>>96745965
/tg/ was still doing ok-ish till like 2019. Then both the tourists got bored with shitposting here (it peaked in 2018), local lord threads ceased their spam and soon after bumpfag started his activity. Covid hit /tg/ hard, because rather than increasing, it drastically decreased traffic and it's a free-fall ever since.
I'm actually glad /qst/ exists, even if its creation contributed to /tg/'s decline and I was vehemently against it when it was enforced. But nowadays it's a time capsule of when /tg/ was good.

>>96745965
Also, hiro made two really fucking stupid decisions
>Let bumpfag be
>Remove 7 day autosage
With autosage, at least dead shit could neatly fold into the archive, so it wasn't so obvious how slow the traffic is, thread simply locked. Without it, you can have threads like this one, where anything even resembling discussion wrapped up 2 weeks ago, but it's still on, like a scarecrow in a middle of a stubble field

>>96746004
>Covid hit /tg/ hard, because rather than increasing, it drastically decreased traffic and it's a free-fall ever since.
Why did it decrease during Covid?

>>96745938
Some threads are like this. Others are not.

>>96748297
>>96748613
Kill yourself, bumpfag

>>96749847
Nah, you. Get fucked and go somewhere else if you think that pointing out dumb doomposting as being dumb doomposting is bumpfaggotry. I guess you got me to bump this thread again. Was that your goal all along?

>>96743236
>Someone make a comprehensive list
Seconding.

>>96755649
If only it was posted itt, bumpfag...
If only you cared even the fucking slightest about the stuff that's the subject ot this thread...
Hell, if only you could pretend a little better.

>>96740928
Did you draw this bro? Or did you commision it from someone, if so do they have any sites?
I might fetch a copy later this month friend. If one is reported from mexico it is from me.

>>96603000
I'm reading three hearts and three lions, finally. It's good!

What are good collections of short fantasy stories? Or low-stakes fantasy too. I'm tired of long, epic tales always about defeating and evil lord.

>>96756784
The earlier Lankhmar stories are mostly this.

>>96757063
Are they good? Never heard of him.

>>96757328
You've never heard of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser? Oh damn, the first collection white wolf put out is one of my favorites, they're sort of the original fantasy buddy thief stories. I believe the later works get into bigger stakes, but the first couple of collections (the most current versions being Swords and Deviltry and Swords Against Death) are just really solid Sword and Sorcery stories.

>>96756784
Tales of Ethshar: low-stakes stories set in a high fantasy world. There's a really weird mixture of wonder and utter pedestrianism that is weird and charming. The first book literally does not know when to end. An army scout is working while a war between good and evil is in the background, gets cursed by a wizard accidentally, becomes a war hero, becomes an assassin crucial for the war effort, the war ends through divine intervention, he then wanders off to find something else to do because hes now out of a job, he then gets into the hospitality industry and becomes a successful pub owner and it still fucking goes on after that. I love it.

Another is about a kid wizard who learns one spell - to light fires - before his very master dies. He can't get any other wizards to take his apprenticeship on so wanders around for a bit before getting caught up in an 'adventure' to kill a dragon. It's not a grand quest, he's not driven by anything other than 'fuck me I need money to eat' and it basically results in a bunch of heavily armed young men wandering aimlessly around the countryside hoping to get lucky.
The "reward" isn't even, theres hundreds of shitty small kingdoms in the area and this one's king is just trying someone to marry his daughter. Dragonslayer is prestigious enough to count, the actual reward is this random "princess" who would be a minor noble anywhere else and the cash is her dowry.

One is about a guy who gets hired to help take over some shitty country. One of his hired mages accidentally attains ULTIMATE POWER and basically becomes demigod in the process, so conquers the country they were meant to take over himself. In a day. The MC feels very awkward for his client, but the SuperMage befriends him because he was nice to him. So now the MC is just hanging out in this country that worships this dude he met in a pub as a god, trying to stop the whole thing from going to the guy's head too much. It's all great.

>>96756658
I commissioned it from this guy https://www.instagram.com/bishop.owl.art?igsh=MXJzbDU1dDU4YWU3Yg==
He was super easy to work with. Thanks for maybe buying!

>>96758803
I might use him as well, thanks!

>>96744002
>in spite of the author’s best efforts
What do you mean by that?

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>>96603000
I believe that I heard of one series called the “Twenty-Sided Sorceress” at one point that looked cool, never actually read it though.

>>96766846
Not op but I just ordered this.

>>96769469
Great minds think alike I guess. I might check it out from my library as well, thanks for the rec.

>>96756675
>I'm reading three hearts and three lions, finally. It's good!
What specifically is so great about it?

>>96775490
I finished it last night, it's just a solid basic, European influenced fantasy story. It's a simple concept, executed well. Ended a little suddenly, but a nice little read.

Think I'm gonna read Guards, Guards! next.

>>96776274
>Think I'm gonna read Guards, Guards! next.
I loved Discworld, hope you enjoy it!

If you're gonna read Elric then I sugguest you read most of the eternal champion.
I'd Sugguest
John Daker's Books, Hawkmoon's books, Definitley all of Elric, as well as Prince Corum.
Some other fucker in the thread mentioned discworld, do that too. Those books are fantastic. They are Peak.

The Lords of Dûs series by Lawrence Watt-Evans.
The Thraxas novels by Martin Millar under the pen name Martin Scott.
The Mongoliad, by Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, and various.
Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa
The Mystical Journey, by K.J. Siirila
The War of Powers series, co-written by Robert E. Vardeman and Victor Milán.
Jirel of Joiry series of short stories by C. L. Moore
Greenwich Village Trilogy, by Chester Anderson, Michael Kurland, and T.A. Waters
The Cornelius Chronicles by Michael Moorcock

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>>96707169
its so RPG there is/was a boxed set RPG supplement for it printed back in the day (the 80s). Probably in a trove somewhere.