#camorr

Hey hey, everyone-- the story originally published in two parts in GDM was collected, corrected, and very slightly expanded by yours truly for a special limited edition from Conversation Tree Press. Now that that edition has been devoured by wolves, Conversation Tree has also released a nice normal e-book for everyone:

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZYBK64S

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GZYBK64S

Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0GZYBK64S

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/locke-lamora-and-the-bottled-serpent

Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastard Sequence is vivid, gripping and immersive, making for an incredibly detailed and compelling world. The Lies of Locke Lamora, the first in the trilogy, features an intriguing plot, an interesting and different narrative style, and characters that are complex and brimming with personality. I shouldn’t have expected anything less in an adult fantasy, but the depth of…

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Every time I read The Lies of Locke Lamora or even think about Camorr I am overwhelmed with the need to introduce a debauched Venetian City State built one the eldritch and uncanny ruins of an ancient and alien civilization into the DnD campaign that I'm not even running. A city full of commerce and crime, alchemy and fine arts: some of which are delectable and some of which are deadly (all are some mixture of the two).

I want to watch my party (which, again, I don't even have) try to swindle the nobility and I desparately want to attempt to run a long con against them

It's terrible. I need a source book. And the worst part is...?

...the impulse flairs right back up again the next time I read a Dragaera novel by Steven Brust or a Chalion novel by Lois Bjuold (the things she does with deities!)

...is there such a thing as too much inspiration?