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I have a question and I KNOW it's been answered before, but I want to double check.For any instance where your weapon only gets only half their usual damage... this includes weapon extras right?
So if I have the Growth Weapon Enhancement and Orb of Earth and Combat hat, do I add all of those before taking half?
Round 1:
Level 16 Staff (18 base attack), + Growth Weapon Enhancement (+1) + Orb of Earth (+3), 1 Combat Hat (+1) /2 = 11.5 rounded down to 11
Round 2:
Level 16 Staff (18 base attack), + Growth Weapon Enhancement (+2) + Orb of Earth (+3), 1 Combat Hat (+1) /2 = 11
etc?
Okay I'm thinking this how it works.... and then I can add the pets on, after I take the half?
My puppy has just achieved combat certificate and now has an AP of 1. During battles at what stage would my puppy attack:Scenario 1
Hero attacks
Puppy attacks
Monster attacks
Or
scenario 2
Hero attacks
Monster Attacks
Puppy Attacks
Louise wrote: "My puppy has just achieved combat certificate and now has an AP of 1. During battles at what stage would my puppy attack:Scenario 1
Hero attacks
Puppy attacks
Monster attacks
Or
scenario 2
Hero..."
Hi Louise,
your puppy attacks at the same time as the hero. I personally add the puppy's AP to my hero's attack power.
Rebecca wrote: "Okay I'm thinking this how it works.... and then I can add the pets on, after I take the half?"I need to look into it. But I think you are right, Rebecca.
Zuzana wrote: "Louise wrote: "My puppy has just achieved combat certificate and now has an AP of 1. During battles at what stage would my puppy attack:Scenario 1
Hero attacks
Puppy attacks
Monster attacks
Or
..."
Thank you
October update is ready. :) I hope you'll enjoy a new spooky monster and 3 new quests.
Oooh this one takes some strategy! I love it!
I just entered my werewolf battle in the training yard. Looking for input- does it look right?
Cathy wrote: "I just entered my werewolf battle in the training yard. Looking for input- does it look right?"This looks good! My only question is about the last round - the red gem doesn't apply to pets (sorry if I'm reading your notes wrong), does it apply to weapon potions (enhanced, major poison, etC).
I'm also going to use The Shadow of the Orb of Earth.
After a book with 20 and one with 24 “control”s, I have found Murderland! It has at least 25 “control”s, plus some plurals. In case I’m not the only one who wants to read 500 pages about lead poisoning and serial killers….
Rebecca wrote: "Cathy wrote: "I just entered my werewolf battle in the training yard. Looking for input- does it look right?"This looks good! My only question is about the last round - the red gem doesn't apply ..."
Thanks for catching that. I have edited it and added a round so I don't need the red gem. I'm not sure it it applies to the weapon potions but this way it doesn't matter (-;
*Lady Tea stumbles in The Tavern covered from head to toe in cobwebs and dust bunnies. With sleepy eyes looks around, yawns, sneezes*That was a nice nap. What did I miss? ☺
*coughs up dust bunny*
I've noticed that my tote bag has expired. So, I've been adding books to tote all this time (or at least most of it) but since I wasn't updating challenges, my tote is over 500 books. Should I exchange all of them for points or is there maximum of points for that. It really feels too much.I'm still trying to decide should I continue my previous character or start new one. Or maybe even both....
❀Tea❀ wrote: "*Lady Tea stumbles in The Tavern covered from head to toe in cobwebs and dust bunnies. With sleepy eyes looks around, yawns, sneezes*That was a nice nap. What did I miss? ☺
*coughs up dust bunny*"
Welcome back, Tea. :) Cobwebs will come in handy in the Halloween quest (Last Orders at the Haunted Tankard). ;-)
You can exchange all books read before the end of 2024 for XP; there's no cap. For higher-level heroes 500+ XP is not an extravagant amount.
Was somebody asking about the RED GEM?The pets and anything that enhances pet's attack (Radagast, fish, PPP) can't be doubled!
The potions, hats and bonuses that increase damage made by weapons, are doubled.
Example:
This is my old calculation of my "mightiest" strike with my LVL 18 Magic Staff:
The Mightiest strike
= Red Gem, Damage Potion, Weapon Enhance Potion, Growing Strength Potion, Pet Plus Potion, fish, lucky 13 collar, Orb, Magic Hat, baroque horse, puppy with LVL 2 attack, kitty, bauble for my staff
1st round
2 x (20 + 3 orb + 1 hat + 1 bauble + 1 GSP + 3 damage + 3 WEP) + (1 horse + 2 puppy + (2 x 3 cat) + 9 PPP)= 64+18=82 AP
Okay I posted my Werewolf attack and hopefully it makes sense!
❀Tea❀ wrote: "I've noticed that my tote bag has expired. So, I've been adding books to tote all this time (or at least most of it) but since I wasn't updating challenges, my tote is over 500 books. Should I exch..."Yayyy, welcome back Tea!
Also I know this has been answered a million times, but any potion can be duplicated with the magical pumpkin as long as you own one right? I'm specifically looking at Stoneskin Potion and Greater Poison Potion
Rebecca wrote: "Also I know this has been answered a million times, but any potion can be duplicated with the magical pumpkin as long as you own one right? I'm specifically looking at Stoneskin Potion and Greater ..."Hi Rebecca, unless it's a "luxurious potion" (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...), it can be duplicated. So far, we have only one luxurious potion and that's the Re-animation potion.
In short, Halloween Potions can be duplicated by the Magical Pumpkin.
EDIT: Only to add, that there is a post in the FAQ thread that explains what can and what cannot be duplicated in more detail. You might find it helpful. (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)
Hear ye, hear ye, bookish heroes of the Novel Kingdom!I’ve prepared a very gentle, low-stress, no-dragons-required end-of-year challenge: The End (of Another Year) Is Nigh!
It’s a nice, soft-ball kind of quest to help you wrap up the year without your brain melting out your ears. You’ll get Santa Coupons for your efforts (because even heroes deserve a little festive bribery).
It’s a participation challenge, which means your books won’t be used up - they’ll simply work double duty and help you along on other quests. Think of it as multitasking, but with more reading and fewer explosions.
So dust off those TBR piles, claim a comfy chair, and join in before the calendar gives up entirely!
Yayy!! What a fun idea! I cannot believe the year is almost over.
Keeper of the Books ★ NBRC ★ wrote: "Hear ye, hear ye, bookish heroes of the Novel Kingdom!I’ve prepared a very gentle, low-stress, no-dragons-required end-of-year challenge: The End (of Another Year) Is Nigh!
It’s a nice, soft-bal..."
Love it!
I love this!The End (of another year) is nigh!
Your Mission:
1. Assemble a TBR list of ten books.
1. The Paradise Problem
Where Roses Bloom - flowers on the cover
2. A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Where Roses Bloom - flowers on the cover
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Academy II- Literature - novel with an unusual form
4. The Scam
Academy II- Literature - written by two authors
5. The Grumpy Billionaire
Staff level 22- #8 in series
6. Redneck Romeo
Staff level 22- #15 in series
7. Secrets of Willow House
Great Easter Egg-scapade - Rescue the Sugar coated Hostages
8. Scandal Above Stairs
Great Easter Egg-scapade - Interview the Witnesses
9. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Where Roses Bloom - flowers on the cover
10. Designs on You-
Twice Upon a Title- book twin
I love this quest! Definitely have too many quests to work on.I absolutely love this part: Pages upon pages of uncompleted tasks have begun to accumulate in dark corners, forming small, feral colonies of paperwork that hiss when disturbed.
I work in a library and am now imagining the books hissing at me or getting angry if they think they are mishandled.
Glad you like the quest. I wanted someting fun, easy and useful.
@Natasha, my niece works as a librarian, and this part was inspired by her talk about the stacks of books waiting to be put back on the shelves. :)
Lady Zuzana's The End (of Another Year) Is Nigh! TBR ListAnnounced November 2nd, 2025
1. Alchemy That! Part II: The Spectral Brew - Alchemy That! Part II: The Spectral Brew - Read a book featuring a duel, battle, or fight scene.
Děvčátko, rozdělej ohníček by Martin Šmaus (a street fight)
2. Alchemy That! Part II: The Spectral Brew - Read a book with a ghost, spirit, or other spectral being in it.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3. Alchemy That! Part II: The Spectral Brew - Read a book collecting dust on your physical or virtual bookshelf for the minimum of 3 years.
My Dear Cassandra : Selections from the Letters of Jane Austen by Penelope Hughes-Hallett, Jane Austen (bought Oct 2021)
4. The Prince and his Date-scapades - Read 3 books on or about courtship or dating.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1st of 3)
5. The Prince and his Date-scapades - Read 3 books on or about courtship or dating.
Persuasion by Jane Austen (2nd of 3)
6. The Prince and his Date-scapades - Read 3 books on or about courtship or dating.
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (3rd of 3)
7. Stick to your New Year's Reading resolutions (For a change) - Don't be intimidated by longer books. - Read either one 1000+ page book or two 500+ page books.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1,000+ pages)
8. The Bone-Afide Problem - Cursed Marrow – Read a book with a curse word in the text.
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (by skimming I came across several instances of the F-word)
9. The Bone-Afide Problem - Brittle Bones – Read a book where a main character is recovering from injury.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Marianne recovering from a sprained ankle)
10. When Two Become One - Read a book with a main character whose first or last name starts with S.
Lady Susan by Jane Austen (lady Susan Vernon)
The End (of another year) is nigh!Sir Sarah's TBR list
1 - The Mousetrap
Stage Fright and Other Unnatural Disasters - The Play’s the Thing – Read a play
2 - Sunrise on the Reaping
May the Fourth Be With You - Sith path - A Galaxy Ruled by Fear - Read a book where the villain serves or enforces the will of an authoritarian government or oppressive regime.
3 - Fire Becomes Her
Fred’s Flaming Folly - Read a book with flame on the cover.
4 - The London Séance Society
Magical Field Trip - Choose a Starting Point: Read a book with the name of a city or town from your home country (or the country you currently live in) in its title.
5 - The African Emperor: The Life of Septimius Severus
Kindlecorn Soup for the Spiritually Knackered - Spell out CAULDRON - for the A
6 - Uneasy Spirits
Kindlecorn Soup for the Spiritually Knackered - Spell out CAULDRON - for the U
7 - Christmas Corpse
The Trials of a Royal Godparent - Read a book with a gift on the cover—wrapping paper, bow and all.
8 - The Killer Question
Pixie Power Girls - Read a mystery book
9 - Witch is When My Heart Broke
Level 29 Staff - #9 in series
10 - Words of Radiance
Level 12 Sword - 1088 pages
Rebecca wrote: "How's this for a sweet poem:"The remarkable thing about love
Is that it is freely available
Is as plentiful as oxygen
Is as joyous as a burn in spate
And need never run out."
And I will be dupli..."
How did I miss that?! That's a really sweet poem, Rebecca. I'm sure Prince Rowan love having it on his profile. I have a follow-up quest ready where he's getting responses from prospective dates.
*revised*The End (of Another Year) Is Nigh!
1. Stage Fright and Other Unnatural Disasters (read a screenplay) The Truman Show.
2. Stage Fright and Other Unnatural Disasters (adapted into an opera): Candide
3. Stage Fright and Other Unnatural Disasters (character performs in a ballet): The 12 Days of Stucky
4. The Day of Women’s Wonders (by or about a different female Nobel Prize winner): Good Economics For Hard Times
5. The Day of Women’s Wonders (by or about a different female Nobel Prize winner): The Child Who Never Grew
6. The Day of Women’s Wonders (by or about a different female Nobel Prize winner): Six Feet of the Country
7. Last Orders at the Haunted Tankard (horror): You Wear My Name Over Your Heart Like It's Something to Be Proud Of
8. Cheep-skate: a Budget-Friendly Bounty (borrowed from a library): Strange Pictures
9. Cheep-skate: a Budget-Friendly Bounty (cost absolutely nothing): Raised By A Serial Killer
10. Fred’s Flaming Folly (flame on the cover): Ghost Rider (2006), Vol 1
The End (of Another Year) Is Nigh!1.May the Fourth Be With You • Read a book with a young protagonist (15 or younger). Cold-Blooded Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce
2. May the Fourth Be With You. Report to the Jedi Council - letter B - Biz in At Death's Dough by Mindy Quigley
3. May the Fourth Be With You. Report to the Jedi Council - letter L - Love Sucks by Cynthia St. Aubin
4. Last Orders at the Haunted Tankard - One book with a predominantly grey or black cover.
by Alissa Lee5.Last Orders at the Haunted Tankard - Finally, add the unexpected: read a non-horror book that nevertheless gave you a fright Where He Left Me Nicole Baart
6.D-O-D-G-E - D Days at the Torunka Café by Satoshi Yagisawa
7.D-O-D-G-E N - Nightingale in The Forget-Me-Not Library by Heather Webber
8.D-O-D-G-E • B Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
9.Quotable Quests: Part 1 Sarah - Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
10.Quotable Quests: Part 1 Sarah - Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
I have a question about The Curse of the Crystal - for the 1000 page books... are we allowed to use book glue to glue to books together to work for these?
Ray, I'm sorry, but you can't have on your list more than three books towards a single quest. From the rules: You may not assign more than three books to a single quest. This means you must commit to at least four different quests. (Yes, mathematics is cruel. The Queen knows this.)
Rebecca, of course you can use book glue. It would be too difficult otherwise. :)
The End (of Another Year) Is Nigh!1. The Teapot Conspiracy: Read a book with a teacup or teapot on the cover. - The Secrets of Strangers
2. The Teapot Conspiracy (Spell Out TEAPOT): To Be Taught, If Fortunate (for letter T)
3. Summer Scrounge Getaway (Find “hiking shoes” in text) - This Wretched Valley
4. A Royal Flush: Read a book where treasure is discovered - The Hobbit
5. Magical Field Trip (Plan Your Stops): The Merchant of Venice
6. Shovel, bucket, or spoon on cover - The Golden Spoon
7. The Easter Bilby (Spell Out RABBIT): If We Were Villains (for letter I)
8. Last Orders at the Haunted Tankard: Read a horror novel - Mary
9. The Emperor's New Nonsense: Read a book that teaches something meaningful - Hidden Figures
10. Magic Staff Upgrade LVL 3: The Waste Lands (3rd in the series)
Zuzana wrote: "Ray, I'm sorry, but you can't have on your list more than three books towards a single quest. From the rules: You may not assign more than three books to a single quest. This means you must commi..."
Ok. Those were just the books I already had planned & I wanted to get it in bc family stuff is happening this weekend and next week so I’ll be busy. I’ll revise.
Alright, edited my post above. That was hard as I only have 5 quests left and one only needs 1 book!
Wow! I need to work on new quests then, Ray.
You mean, you have completed all of the quests bar 5?! That's impressive, Ray. *slow clapping and impressed stare*
Zuzana wrote: "You mean, you have completed all of the quests bar 5?! That's impressive, Ray. *slow clapping and impressed stare*"Yeah. I’ve been here almost 10 years 😁👍🏻 And it’s 4 now, I wrapped one up last night, I’m just behind on updating 🤪
Does anybody participate in the Scrounger hunts? I wonder if I should create a new Scrounger quest every 5-6 months or so or if it's a waste of time.
Ray, have you killed all of the re-animated monsters in phase 1? Should I start working on phase 2?
I like the scrounger because I have a lot of extra books, but I don't know if others do.
Rebecca wrote: "I like the scrounger because I have a lot of extra books, but I don't know if others do."Good to know, Rebecca. I was worried that nobody did them. Do you have enough quests to work on?
I hoped that the cut-off for old books would help a little bit.
Yes I still have quite a few I am working on!! :)
Rebecca wrote: "Yes I still have quite a few I am working on!! :)"Great.
I have two quests ready for December and want to add at least two more. Any ideas on a theme? Any suggestions will be appreciated.
I'm thinking something to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th anniversary. But want to add at least one more quest.
The End (of Another Year) Is Nigh!1. The Academy - History (Read a book published the day you were born): Greenlights (20th of June)
2. The Power of Purple (Future (10+ years)): The Bone Season (set in 2059)
3. The Academy II - History (Read a book with one of these words in the title: History, King, Queen, Prince, Princess): King of Wrath ("King")
4. Magic Staff Upgrade LVL 9: Christmas Shopaholic (Shopaholic #9)
5. The Academy II - History (Read three books in the historical fiction genre each set in a different time period): Murder Most Festive (1938)
6. Cheep-skate: a Budget-Friendly Bounty (Borrowed Brilliance: Read a book borrowed from a library): I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day
7. Cheep-skate: a Budget-Friendly Bounty (Free as the Wind: Read a book that cost you absolutely nothing): The Mistletoe Mystery (2-month free trial of Spotify premium)
8. Santa's Little Helper (Read a book that has Winter, Christmas, Holidays, Mistletoe or Santa in the title): How My Neighbor Stole Christmas ("Christmas")
9. Sir Nancy of the Helen's Game of Choice (Read a book where character plays sports): Mile High (MMC is a hockey player)
10. Sir Nancy of the Helen's Game of Choice (Read a book with doors or columns on the cover to represent the goal): Winter Street (door on the cover)
My understanding is that the cool new challenge The End (of Another Year) Is Nigh! is a repeatable one, correct?
aikaterine wrote: "My understanding is that the cool new challenge The End (of Another Year) Is Nigh! is a repeatable one, correct?"Nope, it's not meant to be. It's just a one-time Christmas treat. I will come up with something new next year (hopefully). :)
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"The remarkable thing about love
Is that it is freely available
Is as plentiful as oxygen
Is as joyous as a burn in spate
And need never run out."
And I will be duplicating this book because the poem is so perfect!