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Great collection of creatures for the scarred land d20 setting!

1. Went shopping and ran errands + starbies with a friend
2.Bubbaroni turned 6 months!
3.Book buying ban officially ended
4.My husband got me some cheerful flowers for my desk
5.my labubu and lafufu came in
#5joysfriday @DebinHawaii

Catching up on reviews. 🤦‍♀️

3 ⭐️s
A decent adventure story. Slow start, the ending is where all the action is. I loved the characters and their relationships. I‘ll pick up the next book someday.

Despite being the title and featuring on the cover, the wereanimal battle is about four pages max. 😒

This was one of my January picks for #Roll100.

Finished last night with this collection of short stories loved 10 of the stories while the others were okay… I have some great new authors to explore and some amazing authors that I‘ve already read… I can‘t wait to read more by the authors I really enjoyed

I enjoyed all seven stories to some degree, so overall 4⭐

My favourite two were "Bazaar of the Bizarre" by Leiber, with his humorous take, before that was a thing, on a more typically grim genre &; Mazirian the Magician by Vance, which is just classic low fantasy, and makes me regret having let go of his Dying Earth books sometime in my prehistory.
Editor, de Camp's, offering was interesting in his intention of making his story more realistic,⬇️

An exciting night of intrigue, murder & theft for Conan in a desert oasis town inhabited by cannibals & strange cults.

An opportunity for Howard to demonstrate some of his worst racism, with a seasoning of predatory sexism. Apologists say it's of its time: it's still 💩

My 4⭐ rating is based solely on the fantasy/adventure elements I read Howard for, & that while Conan is, famously, savage, he also isn't as thick as he's sometimes portrayed.

The penultimate story is Jack Vance's "Mazirian the Magician", which I read around 1980 in his "The Dying Earth" collection. It's a wonderful story of the Magicians' Duel variety, in an exotic far-future setting. Vance's magic system inspired Gary Gygax's AD&D wizardry, with mages able to memorise a set of spells which they forget as they cast them and have to relearn from grimoirs.
Mazirian is an interesting character of an unpleasant kind ??

#CatsOfLitsy
I am honoured that Skye has chosen to sit next to me while I read (yes, a cat post, but there's a book in the photo so don't @ me! 😏)
She's a rescue cat who is still settling in with us, & while she's sweet she's also excitable & scratchy (her tail is lashing as I write & I'm suppressing my urge to stroke her!). She does like being picked up & held & will allow strokes then, so I wander around the house like a mad cat-person!👨🏻‍🍼

Just finished this and it was okay. There were some really stupid plot points and decisions made but it was tolerable. This and the other two novels following it also seem to be taking place and are the cause of the events in The Out of the Abyss module. (My OOTA campaign is on a hiatus currently, but it's so amusing to me that my characters are unfortunately there to experience all of that mess)

"The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man."

- The Hoard of the Gibbelins, Lord Dunsany

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