I posted this comment on a similar topic a while ago, for context it was replying to someone who wanted to pick 2 LeGuin novels to read to essentially get a survey of her work. I’ve liked her standalone novels as well, but I see them get less discussion generally. I think her work that I see referenced most often is the short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

LeGuin is one of my favorite authors. I’ve read a lot, but not all of LeGuin’s novels. She has 2 main multibook series that I’ve read, the Earthsea books and the Hainish cycle.

Earthsea is sort of YA fantasy, but grows up throughout the series. The first 3 are a self contained trilogy, and my favorite is Tombs of Atuan which is book 2, I think would be okay as a standalone title. My other favorite is Tales from Earthsea which is book 5, and is a collection of short stories set in the setting. You’d be missing a little context only reading Tales, but this could also be a standalone.

The Hainish cycle is scifi, and are only loosely connected by the setting and don’t have a too firmly established chronology, or any shared main characters. My favorite from the Hainish Cycle is The Left Hand of Darkness and my 2nd favorite is The Dispossessed.

LeGuin is one of my favorite authors. I’ve read a lot, but not all of LeGuin’s novels. She has 2 main multibook series that I’ve read, the Earthsea books and the Hainish cycle.

Earthsea is sort of YA fantasy, but grows up throughout the series. The first 3 are a self contained trilogy, and my favorite is Tombs of Atuan which is book 2, I think would be okay as a standalone title. My other favorite is Tales from Earthsea which is book 5, and is a collection of short stories set in the setting. You’d be missing a little context only reading Tales, but this could also be a standalone.

The Hainish cycle is scifi, and are only loosely connected by the setting and don’t have a too firmly established chronology, or any shared main characters. My favorite from the Hainish Cycle is The Left Hand of Darkness and my 2nd favorite is The Dispossessed.

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I buy books that I have already read if I would like to: have one around, reference, reread, recommend/loan/give, or to start conversations.

If a book was important to me intellectually or emotionally, just having a copy around and just noticing it occasionally reminds myself of whatever was important about it, and that can be valuable to me.

All her hainish cycle books are really good too, which is a very loosely connected shared universe, that left hand of darkness takes place in.

Yeah, I’m playing

I might play around with that a little bit. Hotfix 8 seemed to change the behavior slightly for me, and cause the ooze not to appear immediately, but still fairly soon.

Edited for spoiler tag weirdness

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3023295121

This is the guide I’ve seen on it, looking into it it seems I am outta luck because you can’t maintain saves from a later version. It might help you if you have been avoiding playing as a result tho. Or if future patches break things.

Yeah this is getting a bit frustrating. I might look into reverting to patch 2 hotfix 6 this weekend, if my saves from hotfix 8 are backwards compatible.

I’m butting up against the edges of what I can do in game without seriously progressing and locking myself out of finishing quests I have basically completed, but just need to talk to someone nearby the strange ox at this point.

Oof, what triggers that one?

Well I hope we get another hotfix this week with a fix for the

I’ve been avoiding returning there my last couple sessions, but I’d like to resolve some of the quests and get some gear soon… I have definitely lost pregress a couple times. When I realized later that for some reason part of that area had loaded in, despite me not even getting all that close.

The probe and capsule have been before tho

Only the hand crossbow, not light or heavy crossbows.

These ones: https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Hand_Crossbows

Cool thanks! I didn’t notice the attack tooltip changing. Yeah, I put them on a thief rogue, with the caustic band and elixir of the colossus too. Its a fair bit of dps and more easily splitable for crowd control than my friend’s barbarian.

The Cardigans – Iron Man (Black Sabbath)

I’m playing with party limit begone on tactician its not that hard. Some fights are pretty trivial, but in my normal game with 4 people, plenty of fights are trivial so idk

In my main game, I’m doing vanilla 4player coop, all custom characters.

In my side game I’m running party limit begone and the one that re enables achievements, so I can run all the origin characters at once. Which is what I wish I had done for my last run of dos2.

I’m playing on tactician mode too, and trying to see how far I can get without resting. I might add a difficulty mod at some point idk.

Seems rude to ban warlock in the eula, but still put them in game…

Asking questions is valuable to an online community though. People need to ask questions so that others can answer, and plenty of them (often myself included) won’t post questions they have and will just search around hoping someone else already did.

Also lots of “activity” shoes don’t have ankle support. See: most basketball shoes, trail/ultra running shoes, football cleats. All shoes that are pretty optimized for performance in sports that have high ankle impact, most are low top.

If they have a bouldering section, that can be good way to get used to the movements without really getting high off the ground!