leave it as is - or change it to "Squee!". no other options are valid...

@zwabbit said in A Hypothetical Path to the Propagation of Mana into the General Populace:

X00 AM - Dahlia is born.

~X20 AM - The price of various alcoholic beverages and various cheeses skyrockets due to increased demand.

All in all this looks like a plenty believable timeline and I love it.

@weasalopes oh, I'm sure there's always someone willing to buy something. It's just StB never struck as the one series that would have enough of them to make a full OVA adaptation possible. I'm guessing that the studio had some people really passionate about the project to go to these lenghts. Either that or the first OVA which was anime original sold like crazy.

@greganator said in Dunkelfelder:

@weasalopes I a game Designer/Engineer by trade, and working on my own TTRPG and writing/designing a world for a group in my free time so the book when I looked at it seemed of great interest to me and I'm surprised I haven't heard of it before. .... Now I just need to find out where I can get a copy.

I'm only halfway through, but it's already covered a lot concerning the development of RPGs (OD&D in specific) and the historical context behind the development of the resources that influenced Gygax, Arneson, Perrin, and others. I read it while monitoring stuff on the stove while cooking...

There's some amusing stuff, such as the reason they came up with things utilizing d4, d8 and d12s being that d20s initially could only be obtained in the US in a set containing a d4, d6, d8, d12, and a d20; TSR wasn't going to repackage them, so they needed to 'justify' the inclusion of the d4, d8 & d12... since they were going to be included, they might as well provide a use for them. These were the infamous low impact plastic die that I initially used back in 1977; the d20s were the worst, the edges rounded off and they pretty much turned into a marble. I still have those kicking around in my dice bag...

Anyway, in re finding a copy, I'd suggest ABE Book Search, Alibris, etc.; the usual new & used Bookstore aggregate search engines.
If you aren't located in North America, there are others that could prove of interest; there's a wonderful one focused on materials available in the Scandinavian countries that I've used to track down stuff published in that region that don't show up in US sources. There are also versions of ABE, Alibris, and such with interfaces other than English.

@rsog412 said in "But Can Magic Circles Do Math?" (Bookworm Magic Tools discussion):

I personally think the theistic explanations are the most plausible, though.

There's a halfway point which is that the gods and their powers can understand intent so if people think doing things a certain way will have a certain effect then that helps shape what actually happens.

It links in with previous theories about how Rozemyne can bring broken fey stones back together because she didn't know it was supposed to be impossible, etc.

@cooper-cummings-gk5u8qq This is just flatly not true. The merchants are all about charging market rate for their goods and services. Even when Myne was complaining about ostensibly overcharging Freida and Gustav for the decorative hairpins, Benno countered that she was undervaluing the goods, not that they were overcharging them. The whole bit about making money when you can is also very much them making sure they are properly compensated for their services. There is no free ride in the Bookverse, and the margins for survival, even for rich merchant families, is thin, because they have a much larger number of dependents they need to help provide for, that they can't afford to give out "freebies." Everything they thus do has a transactional aspect to it, even for people they genuinely like/care for.

AAUUGGHH!!!
The published version still has that "half an octave" jazz.

It's possible that is what the raws say, but since it was verified that the LN had it correct...
wrong is wrong, manga raws be damned if that's the case.

eta:
I've sent a rather testy correction report to the Support email address.

I'm getting very tired of manga pre-pub correction reports not being acted upon.
I really wish they would have dedicated correction topics for manga as well the LNs.

@raves-xaoi7v2 and assuming that her retainers stop her before someone dies, Rozemine is still probably somewhat safe because she will be backed up by 2 princes (one because he likes her and another because his soon to be wife insisted).

@emblyon said in Sylvester should have married Rozemyne if...:

@poisonedbite turns out I used the wrong symbol for spoiler and didn't bother checking. Sorry bout that.

I mean it's only a spoiler if true, which you sort of confirmed, but it's also what I think myself and many others thought would be the eventual conclusion.

@rsog412 Actually there is another option. I would guess that a shumil-derived LoW is nothing compared to the (unknown-derived) tiger-oid LoW from Rozemyne's jureve fight. So - what is the absolute worst LoW that a dutchy has to fight each year?

Capture the base type for that worst monster. Send a travelling merchant over to Ahrensbach at the beginning of winter with it caged and a heap of Rozemyne-dyed ruelles. Dump them somewhere secluded and run like hell.

@windsagio said in Konrad enters the Royal Academy:

More generally, Konrad is too young, him entering the RA is likely outside the scope of the story (unless we get a huge time jump)

Maybe not the scope of the story at the pace it is going, but his baptism as a noble is definitely within that time frame.

Perhaps it's as similar to her writing as the Garamond fonts are to M. Garamond's?

Excellent work. I thought it was official art for a moment there. Cuteness overload.

I, for one, welcome our new Bookworm overlords.

If you want some discussion of fictional worlds and our world, dealt with by a very thoughtful historian - check out https://acoup.blog/ .

@awwkaw said in Bookworm Part 4 Vol. 5 Discussion!:

Before I get started on my thoughts, I have to ask, how old is Damuel again? isn't he at least 21? isn't Philine only 11? I hope that doesn't go anywhere, although 10 years of difference is not much in the world setting.

It's also not a huge difference in our world either as evidenced by checks notes my parents. Of course, my mother was a college grad when she started pursuing my father; it's not the absolute difference but the relative (perceptual) one.

Another bit is that they wouldn't be marrying until she's 15, at least... and that 15 is >17 in Earth years, and 25 is <29. It's actually about an 11 1/2 year difference in age (ignoring birth seasons that I can't be bothered to check)

@blakamation There is an actual (not "possible") on-going spin-off that you can read right now. There are 26 chapters released already (though the release pace is rather slow, just a few chapters per year). Unsurprisingly the spin-off sequel contains spoilers for the end of the story, so I do not recommend you go and try to find information about the spin-off before reading the main story until the end of part 5.

On top of that there is a possible "proper" sequel that the author has expressed interest on writing.

Finally, Myne can stop being jealous of the ample, full figure of other ladies. Hopefully. Maybe.

Hello,

Just as a reminder, errors found in published ebooks should be emailed to support@j-novel.club

That will ensure the people handling ebook corrections see them.

Thank you

I'll expand on what @Lily-Garden said here and one non-light novel. I'm assuming a big draw for you is good world building.

Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools
As the series progresses we're learning bits and pieces about how the society in which Dahlia lives functions. A lot of it is, fittingly, focused on industry and commerce as Dahlia becomes and independent business woman and craftsperson. She has to deal with issues like securing a supply chain for goods only harvest-able from monsters and the increasingly severe socio-political ramifications of her inventions. Much like Myne people recognize the value of her innovations and the world is responding accordingly. With so few volumes under its belt it's hard to judge if this world building is going to be as thorough as Bookworm's is but I think it could proudly claim to be an adequate peer.

Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World
While the world building in this series is great its strongest point is its cast of characters. Erich, the lead, isn't a generic protag-kun isekai cutout. He has a distinct personality, responds to situations with vibrant emotion, is keenly self and socially aware, and rambles on about the minutiae in an endearing way if you're the type that can handle a complex, meandering prose. A word of warning: in addition to being the author's love letter to table top gaming it's a vehicle where the author gets to profess their adoration for "step on me" monster girls. Its fetish fuel is not an insignificant component. Also if you're an arachnophobe you might struggle as the designated childhood friend is half spider.

And for my non-light novel recommendation we have:

Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder (Part 1 of the Virga series)
A steampunk sci-fi series set inside a fullerene dysonsphere where cities generate artificial gravity via centripetal force and the interior is lit up by small artificial suns. Whereas Bookworm excels at micro-world building this series excels on it at a shallower macro scale. Being a series of essential adventure stories we get a taste of numerous locations and each one is expanded upon just enough to feel worth your time and each polity seen makes sense within the context of the unique physics of the world. It also does an excellent job building a meta-arc by dropping hints about Virga's place within the greater universe, outside the walls of its sphere.