Monster Manual II

Although I don't have a specific "trawl" for it, I've been slowly rereading most of my 3e era books for the last year or two. I think the first ones I read were Elder Evils, Exemplars of Evil, and Drow of the Underdark. I've read most of the monster "specialty" books following Drow, including Lords of Madness, the first Fiendish Codex, Libris Mortis, etc. except for the devils book and the dragons book, but I decided that I wanted to go back and focus on the actual original monster books recently, so I've now read Monster Manual (3.5 update) and Monster Manual II, which did not get a 3.5 update. Chronologically, Fiendish Codex is next, which also did not get a 3.5 update, so I'll probably put that in my backpack next. But I won't read it until I get some of the Paizo stuff out of the way that I've been carrying around first. There's really no rush. Sadly, I didn't buy IV for some reason when it was new(ish) so I had to buy a pdf of it. It's the only one that I don't have physically. But pdfs are cheap on drivethrurpg for that. 

Most of the 3e era collection is probably available on archive.org too, but I haven't really checked.

I also read another chapter of Cults of Freeport last night, so I'm slowly getting back into the reading gig. I also want to finish my much delayed Rise of the Seventh Moon Eberron novel in the next few days. So after I finish those, my next reading projects will be the second half (three books) of the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path, whatever the two Paizo books that I stuck in my backpack last time I added new books there, and the Del Rey Solomon Kane collection that's also been in my backpack for some time. I hesitate to look too far ahead after that, but most likely I'll add two more Paizo books, start the next Paizo adventure path, read Buccaneers of Freeport to keep that trawl moving, and try and check out the next module in my 3e module trawl, "Speaker in Dreams." For actual physical books that aren't gamebooks, I want to read the four book James Silke "Horned Helmet" series now that I finally have all four of them in my possession. On Kindle I have Out of the Shadows by Vox Day from the Midnight War series (first novel, I believe. It started as a web comic) and Write Great AI Fiction by J. W. Riceman, who is really the genre-fan gadfly John del Arroz, who would probably be a midlist author under the old publishing regime of my youth. But books on authorship seem rarely to have been written by bestselling authors, who usually have more important things to write, after all. I read the introduction so far and it looks like it's probably pretty good. I'll watch some Sudowrite YouTube videos too, and maybe stick for a Sudowrite paid subscription for at least a short time to see how it works. It love to get some Old Night novels written. If it works well, and I'm happy with the result, I'll even do some Capes & Rayguns novels too.

As of today, a new season is supposed to be starting in SWTOR, and it is giving older rewards again, from seasons 1 and 3. I actually did season 3 when it was current, so I don't care about that, but getting the season 1 stuff plus more cartel coins and whatever is usually worth it, so I tend to do seasons if I'm online when they run. The ones that I did were 2, 3, and most of 9. 7 is the one that I'm really missing and wish I could have done. But, maybe it'll come back around again. This season is supposed to regift seasons 1 and 2, and next season is seasons 3 and 4. Both of those include a season that I did and one that I didn't. But I don't want SWTOR to consume my time as much as it did in January and the first couple of weeks of Feburary when I started having to spend all of that time out of town, so I'll keep my reading up too.