So who here read any of these books as a kid? I remember I used to go to the park and hunt for dragons because of that Dragonology book, was part of what got me interested in fantasy when I was young.
>>43743454
I read Dragonology and Wizardology. Fun times.
>>43743454
I still have my copies on my shelf op!
>>43743454
Damn, it's been a long time since I saw these.
I had Wizardology, and my friend had Dragonology. Good times.
>>43743454
I loved them, but I was gullible as fuck when I was a kid, so I took everything within the books, including those fake dragon skins and that "pheonix feather" in wizardology, to be 100% true. That led to some shenanigans when I was a kid, like the time I stole that "gold dust" from my friend's Egyptology book and tried to buy video games with it. Should I storytime that, or would that be blogging?
>>43743454
I still have all five of those fuckers in my bookshelf
I tried to make a staff from the Wizardology book, but quit because my weak hands could barely cut the wood
>>43743454
Yeah, I had and loved dragonology
I had the Dragonology book. Good times.
>>43743817
A quick tdr of what happened could be fun.
![images[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/PO5sdSa.jpg "images[1].jpg")
Closest I got was Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book.
Underage b& please go. These books were published around a decade ago or less. You fuckers are all too young to be posting here.
>>43743970
>get book when you're 8-10
>10 years later
Seems fine to me.
>>43743970
Frankly, if you arent at least 25, I think you're a goddamned child and should come back after college.
>>43743817
>>43743891
Alright, if anything it'll keep the thread bumped I guess.
>Be 2nd grade and gullible as fuck
>Hanging out at friend's place
>He has some of the ology book like I do, and a few I don't.
>Friend is smart enough to know they're fake. I'm young and dumb so I think because they have -ology in the name that means they're real science and thus everything in them is real.
>Looking through some of his books, get to Egyptology (or maybe it was pirateology? Can't remember.)
>Meh, it's not as cool as dragons. Still, looks kinda cool
>Flip a few pages, find a pouch of gold glitter labeled "Gold dust".
>Eyes go wide
>Holy shit, gold dust! We're rich!
>Say as much to friend. Talk about going to gamestop and buying all the games we want
>No idea why I'm including myself in this when it was his book. I guess because I "discovered" it in his book for him.
>"...Anon, that's not rea-"
>"Let's go get your mom! We need scissors! Come on, we're gonna be rich!"
>Friend's mom says no.
>Get sad.
>Friend goes to bathroom, his mom goes to her room
>See scissors on kitchen counter
>DevilOnShoulder.gif
>Find a plastic bag, cut out the pouch, then scoop it all into the bag
>Hide book in his room and pretend nothing happened.
>Feel guilty, but think it'll be fine, since I'll let him keep some of the games I'm going to buy.
>>43744201
>>43744201
Shit, realizing now that this story isn't as short as I thought. My bad.
>Go to gamestop next day
>Dad waits by register while I grab games because it's a small shop
>Grab literal handful of PS2 games
>Dump them at register.
>"...Son, how do you intend to pay for all those games?"
>"With THIS"
>Triumphantly present bag of gold glitter
>It's at this point my dad apologizes to the cashier and takes me out to the parking lot, where he explains to me that I can't pay for games that way
>But why? It's GOLD! Who doesn't take gold?
>Unless...
>Oh shit! They know I stole it!
>Oh god I'm a criminal! I stole gold dust from my friend! I'm horrible!
>Start blabbering to my dad in the parking lot that I'm sorry for stealing my friend's gold dust. Ask through tears to go back and return it.
>Dad is confused as fuck at first, but pieces together what happened from what I'm saying.
>Agrees to take me to friend's house
>Start blubbering tearful apologies to Friend and his mom for stealing their gold dust. Promise I will never steal ever again.
>Friend's mom thinks this is just precious. Dad just happy I learned a lesson.
>Friend has this look of "Nigga it's just glitter."
>In the end no one tells me that the gold dust was fake. Didn't figure it out until I was in 5th grade or so.
>>43743454
Yeah, I remember these.
This seems like it'd be relevant to this thread.Redwall isn't as good as you remember.
>>43744328
Is that Hussie's work?
>>43744328
Oh god, post the rest if you've got them. I need to see these again.
>>43744412
Yes. Best thing he ever did in my opinion.
>>43744412
Yeah, it's some old Hussie work. Ca 2009.
I can't post more, because it's filled with things like dragons fucking cars, but here's a link:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4559980/NSFWizardology/NSFWizardologyArchive.html
Wizardology is for pussy ass hoes. Now The Wandmaker's Guidebook, that's some real thug nigga shit.
>Guide on how to make a pimp-ass wand
>Everything from what wood to use, to what to use as it's core, and what cycle of the moon to make it on. It's a comprehensive guide, so even a dumbass bitch like you can do it
>Kit to start you out, make your own wand so you can go out and bust a magic cap in a knigga's head right off the bat
>>43743454
I have Dragonology and the smaller follow-up book to that, I loved it! I saw Wizardology for sale in a charity shop recently, kinda wished I had bought it now.
They're actually pretty decently made, with the Wizardology thing mentioning shit like athames, which is an actual occult/neo-pagan thing. So whoever wrote them did at least some research.
>>43744548
Is this sick ass medieval wizard shit or gay ass pansy bitch wiccan faggotry?
Because I want it but don't want to be a pansy bitch wiccan faggot.
>>43744328
>>43744480
>>43744601
...the fuck tryhard bullshit "humor" is this?
>>43744646
Something that just happened to be somewhat relevant to the thread.
>>43744646
It's pre-web 2.0 stuff. Those were simpler times.
>>43744626
I think it leaned more towards pagan? It's been a long time, so I don't remember a whole lot about the details. It was written a lot like the other ology books, with the premise of the author actually being some really powerful wizard who left the book behind as his legacy before he died, then someone found it and published it (that's the premise, anyways). I really liked it as a kid personally, I think I might still have the book somewhere but if I do then it's buried in a box somewhere.
>>43744646
It's Andrew Hussie's humor. He wrote Homestuck. That's all you should need to know.
>>43743454
holy shit, i totally forgot about those, had the pirate and dragon one. They are probably still at my mom's house. I might have to go look at em again if only for the nostalgia
How would one go about making an -ology style rpg? Maybe make each of the books a sort of class with specialties in their field, like Dragonologists are experts on dragons and start with a young one as a pet, which grows stronger as they level, or Egyptologists are wealthy, know how to disarm traps, and know how to cast some mummy magic?
I still have every one except the pirates
>>43745348
I imagine it like this:
Dragonologists fight with their dragons, mounted or guiding them around them around a battlefield. They know secrets known only to ancient dragons. Use a lot of spears and elementally-enchanted weapons, as well as armours from the toughest dragon hide. Good scouts and warriors because they combine strength and speed.
Pirateologists have access to ill-gotten WEALTH left-behind by ancient, notorious pirates and a lack of morality. They know the secrets of the seas and oceanic lore, tomes and scrolls and logs of lost islands and secret ports where you can get just about anything. They know the names of dead pirates and ships to call upon for aid, if deemed worthy. With such resources, Pirateologists have access to incredible custom weaponry.
Wizardologists are full on fuck off wizards, rituals, summoning, alchemy, fireballs and shit. They have a vast breadth of ancient lore to refer to, charms and wards and curses and dooms, divination and conjuration of all sorts and kinds. The only problem is it's dangerous dealing with higher-level stuff because of demons and extra-planar beings, and lower-level elemental powers are at best unpredictable, so the wizard needs serious preparation for safety.
Egyptologists are sick ass explorers and adventurers, firearms, swords and unarmed combat. Agile and durable, they know how to set and disarm traps. They also have access to the lore of ancient Egypt and its dark gods and magic, which are usually more unleashed to be later called down than in any way cast by the Egyptologist.
>>43743842
>five
>not the second dragonology book
>>43743486
Same.
>>43744386
You shut your mouth about Redwall.
>>43743454
Oh snap OP, I used to have Dragonology and Egyptology. Those were good, innocent times.
(Literally just a couple years later my life would go downhill fast, so those are fond memories.)
fucking bullshit you cant find scans of these books online
>tfw too poor to relive nostalgia
>>43743454
these books were my shit. i loved the dragonology one i even tried to order my own dragon egg
>>43743454
there's a similar trilogy of books that were also pretty good; The Vampire Hunter's Handbook, The Demon Hunter's Handbook, and The Dragon Hunter's Handbook, although those three were aimed at an older audience
>>43744160
I think if you're over 25 its kinda weird you're still on 4chan
>>43750633
I don't suppose there are any scans of those books out there, are there? You've got me curious, but I doubt any of the stores in my middle-of-nowhere town will have those.
>>43743842
>I tried to make a staff from the Wizardology book, but quit because my weak hands could barely cut the wood
Use tools anon.
>>43744386
I went back and read some of the Redwall novels a few years ago and they were just as good (though much more brutal) as I remembered.
What age should I introduce my nephew to Redwall and Dragonology?
>>43744160
You're on /tg/ dude, we're all children
>>43743921
I found this on my mother's bookshelve when i was seven or eight. I think it might have fucked me up a little bit.was that book supposed to be lewd?
>>43743454
Shit man you bring back old memories!
I had the french version of Dragonology, didn't know they were others, but damn I want the Wizards one. What are the two that I can't quite see? Gold and blue?
>>43743454
Please, I still have those on my shelf. Wizardology and Draconology, to be precise.Now I'm off to read them again.
>>43744386
SHUT YOUR FUCKING WHORE MOUTH
>>43743454
I was convinced the events of egyptology were real. I told my teacher I was going to go rescue them when I grew up.
I was a retarded kid.
>>43743454
Dragonology and Pirateology.
Should we consider these /tg/ approved?
>>43743454
My friend had all the dragon ones, I got the pirate one 'cause I'm a special snowflakeworth it though. Seem to remember them being really cool overpriced hunks of paper.
Honestly, each book has enough to milk a few RPG campaigns out of.
Would play an alt-history pirateology game
>>43744386
>No Earthsea
>No Crystal Gryphon
>No Sutcliff
What the fuck is this.
>>43753547
sounds like you found a copy of Lady Chatterly, Anon. Easy mistake.
>>43753556
Gold is Egyptology, blue is Mythology.
Can you still buy these?
>>43744386
>mortal engines
shit man that shit was brutal as fuck if memory serves. didn't a girl get disemboweled in the first book?
>>43758879
Children are way more resilient than adults give them credit for. It's like we just forget what we used to be like.
Oh, and the second one's the book where they describe how a child got slowly asphyxiated to death as execution.
>>43744259
This story is adorable
>>43744201
>>43744259
Nigga you sound like the core of a neutron star.
>>43744386
Would Terry Pratchet Qualify for this list? I feel like most of his stuff would.
>>43761468
Yes. Knock out the dumb as shit bottom row, replace with Pratchett, Earthsea and Sutcliff.
>>43761468
>>43761599
And then take out the shitty top row and replace with Watership Down, The Hobbit and FIGHTING FANTASY
>>43761021
What can I say, I wasn't the brightest kid. Well, I was pretty smart actually, just had no common sense.
>>43744548
Oh shit, I owned this book too when I was a kid. I remember I made one wand that, supposedly, would make me smarter so I could get a 100% on a test in 3rd grade. I was totally convinced it was legit when I actually did get a 100.
Had to destroy it when I found out witchcraft was the work of the devil from a rather heated preacher though. That's a fairly long story though.
>>43761786
Forget the neutron star thing.
You sound like the kind of protagonist in a saturday morning kids cartoon that would go on wild adventures trying to expose that witch their new baby sitter very definitely is.
>>43743454
Wizardology, Piratology, Dragonology, and Egyptology. My favorite was Wizardology.
Holy shit, man, you just brought back a part of my childhood I didn't even remember. Me and my brother used to read the shit out of these and pretend to hunt for dragons or be wizards. These books are probably why I love fantasy so much. Wizardology is no doubt why I love wizards and always play as mages.Fuck, I shouldn't be feeling this much.;_;It's a good feel, though.
>>43757758
Yeah, they're still expensive. I work at Booksamillion in louisiana, we keep them all stocked
>>43755693
Earthsea isn't a kids book.
Also, only the first three are any good.
>>43761786
I wish we were friends growing up
>>43762107
>Earthsea isn't a kids book.
What the shit's wrong with you.
>Also, only the first three are any good.
Of four?
>>43761468
No, since his aren't marketed as children's books.
>>43761599
Earthsea is boring as Shit. Read it when I was Ten, kept falling asleep.
>>43762153
Five, technically.
>>43762159
Wow. You're actually approaching bad taste from the pleb side, rather than the /lit/ side.
>>43743817
dude i did stuff like that with one of my friends way back when. holy shit the feels
>elaborate imaginary storylines involving genies and magic and shit
>for years
>>43762153
The books on that list are a hell of a lot more simplistic in nature than Earthsea.
>>43762107
>>43762159
Absolutely disgusting.
>>43762176
Wat.
Either way, I only actually read the first three.
>>43762190
Ha! You are inferior! I still run RPGs in my childhood play-pretend settings!
>>43762203
That is what I am trying to rectify.
>>43762213
>>43762203
Although the middle row's solid. Atheist Anvil Allegory, Mortal Engines and Chronicles of Ancient Darkness are all great.
>>43762203
Because there's different reading levels. A 13-year-old won't read a book for a 6-year-old and get the same enjoyment, and vice-versa.
>>43762186
I managed to force myself to finish the entire series. I remember the plot and lots of details but out of every book I read, Earthsea comes across a simultaneously interesting and bland.
Man, I had all the ologys. Still have them today with my other books.
Though I got the first book from my aunt and uncle as a young lad, and it blew my fuckin' mind.
Here's a picture of all the main books.
>>43762213
>>43762262
Then just add to it. Most of those are solid series.
>>43762276
All I can say is I fucking loved the first three as a kid. The whole feel was well above and beyond the Harry Potter and Inheritance shit I was reading.
>>43762262
6 year olds would find it much more fun. People underestimate kids a lot.
>>43761636
>Watership Down.
Mah fuckin nigga. Rabbit lore is best lore.
>>43744386
I can approve of everything on that list except Inkheart.
>>43762341
I admit my interest in the whole thing was enhanced to a new level by the fact that I live right next to the area.
>>43762288
And here's all my Dragonology shit.
>>43762492
thanks carl
>>43743454
I had Dragonology and Egyptology. Those books were rad.
>>43762561
Ah shite, I forgot to remove the bloody name-tags.
Took them traveling as a kid so I had my parent's tag one or two of my favorites.
>>43750633
Shit I don't know what those are, but I want them
>>43750633
HOLY SHIT I REMEMBER THOSE.
I used to think the demons were so cool looking.
>>43761636
>FIGHTING FANTASY
My magic negro brother
>>43762607
now now mister Nash, watch your languge
>>43762492
Fuck me, there's four of those?
I have one I think you don't have, maybe it's just some European/UK edition or something, it looks different to those smaller ones.
>>43762726
is it the novel?
>>43744386
The Giver should be added to this list.
>>43762668
I used to go down to the local Oxfam bookstore every other weekend, because they'd always have some new Fighting Fantasy book or other.
>>43743454
>mfw there's more than wizard and dragonology
>>43750520
The fun is in the feelies anyway.
>>43761636
>shitty top row
>Bartimaeus Trilogy
>shitty
Going to the airport right now to fly to your house and cock-punch you.
>>43744160
Here you go, old man.
>>43762909
It's real man, It's so real.
>>43762760
No, it's some advanced field guide or something. I'll have to dig out and have a look.
>>43762805
I remember seeing them in my school library when I was a little kid and getting Citadel of Chaos, then finding a box set of the first four or five books. Then trawling through bookstores and finding older, greenbordered cover editions without the dice at the bottom of the pages.
I have both Wizard and Dragonology. Bought them at thrift stores for like 50 cents each. Good stuff.
>>43744480
it's like a magic book from dirty potter
>>43743454
>>43743486
But did you decode the secret message in Wizardology?
I did.it's probably why I'm still a wizard
>>43762976
Oh shit I remember that book!
I'm going to pick these up for my nephew. How old should he be before I give him one?
>>43765729
Old enough to not try this shit: >>43744201 >>43744259
>>43761468
Yeah, I think the Tiffany Aching books of the franchise are specifically meant to be YA books, especially since they focus on a teenage witch girl.
>>43743454
Still have a few of them in storage.
>>43762943
That book was the only decent one in the row.
>>43763087
The green ones always had the best covers. I loved any FF that had a twist or was set in a city -- City of Thieves and Creature of Horror were my favourites. The Road Warrior one was great too.
>>43757248
Obscure jokes aside, i just had a quick look through pressed fairies and i don't think it's material for children.
There are quite a few pairs of bare tits and butts, near the end of the book it becomes much more common. The fairies that were caught near the end were all goading the fictional owner of the pressed fairy book. This involved a lot of lewd poses and concealed but implied vaginas.
There's a foreword explaining that the fairies weren't killed as part of the process of pressing, but this is all still making me feel weird. Aroused but disturbed.
On a different note, i had, and still have dragonology, wizardology, and egyptology. Fantastic thing for a child to read.
>>43745035
I got so pissed off with the spammed threads on /co/ a few years back that I ended up reading like 1000 pages of that shit.
>it'll get good soon, anon!
It didn't.
Anons, from the kindness of your heart, if you have Wizardology, could you scan it or take pictures of the page?
I need my nostalgia.
>>43744601
>did at least some research.
Like watching 5min of the craft?
>>43744201
>>43744259
This is literally the hardest /tg/ has made me laugh in a very, very long time.
>>43744201
>>43744259
This is the best. 10/10, would pinch cheek.
>>43743970
I'm turning 20 in a month and I had Dragonology as a kid. Square up.
Who /Deltora Quest/ here?
>>43770081
Post the faeries, I need to investigate this matter promptly.
>>43744386
Where the fudge is everything ever written by Tamora Pierce?
>>43772429
I loved those as a kid. For some reason, every book always had a passage where I'd end up convinced that this time, the heroes wouldnt make it
>Mfw that Dragonology book and the Animal Planet pseudo-documentary on dragons fucked me up
>>43772665
Yeah, I remember that, now. Really got me excited.
![89e613cabfb98ff10e172e6461209f52[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/TJjV34E.jpg "89e613cabfb98ff10e172e6461209f52[1].jpg")
>Dragonology
>found it around 15
Fucking getting old now.
Who here Graeme Base?
Shit son, memories.
>>43762492
Not sure if I had the two small ones you have there, but I definitely had the novel and a box of 4 choose-your-own-adventure mini books
Damn, of the big books I didn't have Mythology, but the rest are all at my parents house (I think)
It's nostalgia time.
>>43759670
In the third one a character is a surgeon-mechanic, turning the dead into robot soldiers. Not only is the process described, one of her patients is her older brother. It's a fairly brutal series
>>43743454
Hell yeah bro this was the shit.
The best part was someone in my bookstore had a laugh and put all these books in the Nonfiction section, so as a kid from six to like ten-eleven years old I thought Dragons and Wizards were documented hard science.
Great times
>>43772429
My brother of african descent, these are my shit.
In fact, Deltora Quest was the first actual books I went out of my way to read and really get into. These books are so good, even if they didn't age well; rereading them now things seem to be a little too quick or easy, but as a kid, shit son. Greatest adventure in my childhood.
Still sad that the coolest gem didn't see much use though. Rodda couldn't think of much stuff to do with the Lapis Lazuli
>>43774120
You were a kid to rival Jimmy Neutronstar upthread.
>>43773729
This book is super cool, I got it for my kids
>>43775284
Just Animalia, or did you get Sign of the Seahorse and Eleventh Hour too?
Shit nigga, at this rate someone's gonna mention Dinotopia.
>>43772665
you too?
i though dragons were real for the longest fucking time.
>>43775459
You were all fucking idiots.
Top marks for lovable creativity, though. I was just a grumpy autist.
>>43770081
When I was a child, way back in the day before the the internet, I found the opportunity to look through more than a few Playboys.* And I'm talking maybe 2nd here, when my years still numbered in the single digits. I would imagine that most kids these days have seen brutally hardcore porn by then, so I don't think that a few fairy butts are really that much to worry about.
*The first Playboy I saw was mostly outdoor stuff and I didn't really understand the process, so I thought that women liked to walk around naked outside when men weren't around and that the photographers just kind of hid in the bushes and secretly took pictures of them. The indoor stuff confused me a bit, but I figured they probably shot them through a window. I remember wondering how they figured out where women would walk naked, and if it was something I could take advantage of.
>>43776169
>And I'm talking maybe 2nd [grade] here
Okay what I'm getting here is that either the entire rest of the world was really dumb as children, or I was an unimaginative brick of a kid.
>>43775251
>Jimmy Neutronstar
Okay, that made me laugh.
Guess I might as well tell the story from >>43761786 too, since people seemed to like the other story.
>Month or two after I got The Wandmaker's Guidebook
>Think I'm a legit wizard because of that incident with the test.
>Swap out stuff from the kit depending on the situation
>Use blue feather and light sand when I need to be smart
>Use red feather and black sand when I need to be strong
>Briefly consider asking my dad about where to get Rose Quartz since the book mentions it can be used for a love spell and there was a girl I had a crush on at the time...but too embarrassed to ask. Besides, that sound too mind control-y, and that feels wrong.
>One day, going to church
>Family was devout baptists. Went to church almost every Sunday until about middle school
>Dad goes to the main church for the sermon, while I go with the rest of the kids to the side building for Sunday school.
>Normally, the preachers for Sunday school are pretty nice, not the fire and brimstone type you usually hear about from baptists.
>Not today
>Today, we have Mr. Brimstone preaching
>He's only preached at Sunday school a few times before. The times he does preach, he shouts a lot. Didn't like him.
>Today, Mr. Brimstone decides he's going to tell us why popular stuff about magic is bad.
>Rags on Harry Potter in particular, which I was a big fan of at the time.
>Talks about how magic is "the work of the devil", and how anyone that uses magic is going to hell
>Lots of shouting and smacking the podium
>Yeah, he was that kind of preacher
>Ignore most of what he says, because I know Harry's a good wizard so he's not evil.
>But then I start to worry.
>Wait a second, what if I'm doing something wrong by using that wand I got?
>I mean, technically using magic to pass tests is cheating, and cheating IS bad...
>Oh god, I've been cheating by using magic! I've meddled too far in the dark arts!
>>43776462
>Have to get rid of the wand, it's the only way.
>Go home that night.
>Past bedtime, dad's already asleep
>Sneak outside
>Unscrew wand's bottom. Pour contents into hand
>Blow off into the wind. I must return the components to nature.
>That's not an actual rule in the book, I just totally made it up.
>Briefly consider setting wand on fire. However, what little common sense I have tells me that's a bad idea. Plus my dad is a responsible adult and keeps lighters and the like where I can't get them, so yeah
>Settle for snapping the wand over my knee. Takes a few tries but it snaps.
>Dig a hole barely a couple inches deep using a shovel my dad had outside the shed, and bury the wand.
>Now I'm free from the magic. No longer will I use magic to cheat, I am a clean man!
>Despite all this, still liked Wizardology and Harry Potter. I guess for some reason I only considered the Wandmaker's Guidebook to be bad for some reason.
Sometimes I wonder if someone found the pieces of that wand after we moved out, and wondered how the fuck that got there. Anyways, I think that's all the stories I have pertaining to the books ITT. Did a ton of other shit like thinking a curtain in the house was really a monster because the folds looked kind of like an eye at times, but those aren't really on-topic.
>>43776030
i was fucking eleven and dumb, i really did think dragons were real
>>43776513
I always knew Santa wasn't real. Literally from my earliest memories, when I was two and a half. When I was three I thought artists should stop being artists and do something *useful* to society, like being a scientist. I knew magic wasn't real, I knew aliens didn't exist in any meaningful way, and I was never scared of monsters in the darkbut I was absolutely terrified OF the dark. That was weird.
There are worse things than believing dragons are real. Like knowing they aren't.
>>43776605
wow...that actually sounds really shitty.
how do you enjoy traditional games then?
>>43777112
Well, I also made up worlds where my friend and I fought mummies (his idea) and the Black Death (my idea) as Spy-Ninjas (even then I was an anti-weeb and refused to be a ninja, so I was a spy).
I kind of just continued working on the settings for games of pretend. One thing lead very naturally to another. It's scary how much of this shit is hardwired into us. I remember the first time I learned about D&D when I was about seven, from my dad. I literally remember every detail, the sun shining off the dusty tan seats of our car and the motorway junction we were stopping at. That's how fucking excited I got when I learned about it. I'd never even heard about anything like a ttRPG before, barely even knew what a nerd was (much less that it was related to D&D), and I fucking knew right then that I wanted to play a game of D&D if it killed me. It became one of my highest childhood dreams to play a game.
Just because you know something isn't real doesn't mean you can't wish it was.
>>43770597
These don't seem like the kind of books that you can just scan. You need the physical copy
>>43772429
Oh man, I loved Deltora Quest. I had all the side books, though the second series where they went underground wasn't as good. The monster guide book was amazing though, really wish I hadn't gotten rid of it.
Anyone remember the scene where the heroes go to this little old house in a swamp where they have to hop over lilly pads to get there, and the nice old couple tries to eat them? They were disguised Ichibod dudes
>>43770597
The books were FULL of feelies (the dragon one had a dragon scale and dragon dust, if I remember correctly), all little pull out pages and stuff like that. You need the physical copy, mang.
>>43772665
The Last Dragon? I think I have it on DVD...
>>43776379
You didn't have these wonderful, glorious books, anon. I never thought dragons were real, I just loved this shit.
>>43744160
>under twenty five
>graduated from college with BS
which garbage can do I belong in, sempai?
>>43778029
I did have these books.
>>43744601
>>43745035
It's weird to see shit like this and then remember this is the dude who's making a web comic that panders to SJWs hand and foot.
Though I guess when you find something that makes you money you stick with it.
>>43778084
The diamond encrusted one we keep out front for everyone to see.
I had the one in red! Such a great book. I have it lying around somewhere. Thanks for reminding me!
>>43772520
So I found some
http://imgur.com/gallery/smeDP
>>43779596
Not that anon, but you can get away with some butts. But yeah, there's some straight up bare ass tits there, damn. I mean, it's more or less passable since the artwork is so muddled in places, I wouldn't mind my kid seeing it because it's already so fantastical and weird, but still. I can understand the trepidation some folks might feel.
Especially with pic related.
>>43779596
I found a torrenthttps://kat.cr/lady-cottington-pressed-fairy-book-pdf-ita-t3335166.html
>>43779596
Jesus Christ, these things look like they're in agony.
>>43779813
I didn't really see any bare tits in the link posted here >>43779596 besides what you posted. Couple chests showing, but if there were nipples then I couldn't tell.
>>43779596
>>43779813
>>43780048
They're literally smashed/pressed fairies. If I recall, the 'story' is a couple of loose journal entries by a little British girl growing up surrounded by rude, crude little fae. Hence the nudity being semi-acceptable.
>>43744259
hahaha that was great.
Reminds me of when I was a kid, my grandmother used to tell me that old see-through leaves were angel wings. I believed this for the longest times
So what's /tg/'s stance on the Xanth books? They're heavy on fantasy tropes, but teach good lessons and other kid friendly bullshit, plus they got some cool magic ideas.
Read the hell out of them as a kid, so I've got some bias.
>>43780375
Never read them, but why is it Florida?
>>43780522
Where the author lives, I think. Said he got a ton of inspiration for the stuff in the books from a bunch of random stuff around his house.
For example, the dragon in the middle of the map that runs the width of the area was based on an old steam train that ran near his house.
>>43780048
There was certainly at least two. But yeah, the art was muddled enough that it wasn't terribly evident.
>>43780375
I stopped around Her Majesty's Panties. I love dirty humor, but I just kind of stopped liking the story.
That and I had found Terry Pratchett.
I think I saw the Wizardology book for sale in a charity shop nearby, I'm gonna look for it during th week - if I find it, I'll report back and post pics.
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>>43743454
>"When you were kids"
>Remember the "Ology" books coming out sometime in my early teens
>Look it up; 2004, was 12/13 at the time.
>"kids" is a broad term, I guess.
>See >>43744201's story
>Realize this 7 year old in 2004 is now 18.
>Remember 2004 vividly, childhood memories always in mid-late nineties or before 2003.
>This guy was an infant when I was 7 and getting obsessed with Pokemon and Jurassic Park.
>There was once a time when I was an 18 year old on 4chan.
Time is the greatest enemy of man, /tg/.
>>43777783
Lake of Tears wasn't the best book, but that puzzle was really cool.
In fact most of the puzzles were. Deltora was videogame-y as fuck, now that I think about it.
>>43784916
Shit, dude. I saw the original Star Wars in the theater when it came out. I remember when the Atari 2600 was miraculous technology. I must have been in the 3rd grade when we replaced our rotary phone with a touch tone phone. I remember how awesome it was when answering machines were invented, because missed calls didn't just evaporate into nothing because you weren't there to answer them. Hell, I remember how awesome call waiting was, because before that if somebody was talking on the phone, you just got a busy signal and had no way to get through to them. Oh, and VCRs, because you could actually record shit and watch it later. And while we're at it: TV remotes so you didn't have to get up and turn the dial every time you wanted to change the station. And microwaves which enabled you to quickly cook food. Those were pretty magical...
>>43785077
So... when did you get Dragonology?
>>43785077
Do you remember the wave of shit microwavable food that everyone bought anyway because it was kind of like science fiction?
>>43751191
>>43762630
you can find them on Amazon and other places secondhand, unfortunately they're out of print, I'd scan my copies, but they're both damaged, and missing some of the little extra bits that came with them
>>43762658
yeah they are pretty neat looking, also love how it presents a relatively unique cosmology, due to not only little differences in how Hell works(Lucifer is missing, so Beelzebub is in charge), but also how Undead, Werewolves, and most forms of magic are all tied to Hell, and the relatively unique origin for Dragons(they're literally the original inhabitants of Hell, and most of them got driven to Earth when the Fallen Angels arrived in Hell)
>>43785077
>and VCRs, because you could actually record shit and watch it later.
Did you ever program one?
>>43787659
Out of curiosity, how did this book recommend fighting those things? Typical silver and cold iron and all that?
>mfw a used copy of Wizardology is £0.01 on Amazon.co.uk
Literally going for pennies.
Also, fuck me, there's Monsterology and Oceanology, too?
>>43790524
Just found Spyology, too. How many of these things were there?
>>43790524
>>43790543
yo
Dragonology
Egyptology
Wizardology
Pirateology
Mythology
Monsterology
Spyology
Oceanology
Vampireology
Alienology
Illusionology
Dinosaurology
>>43791209
Goddamn, and at least two or three additional handbooks for each? Nice collection.
>>43791309
might be nice to buy a collection for your kid
>>43791209
Man, they really expanded the series...
>>43791209
I never knew about Vampireology, I'd love to see that one...
>>43791209
Oceanology sounds lame as hell
>>43795558
>krakens
>old timey fishing suits
>lame
>>43795558
You ain't my nigga.
>>43791209
>Monsterology
>Spyology
>Oceanology
>Vampireology
>Alienology
>Illusionology
>Dinosaurology
I have to books to find
>>43796130
you forgot
>Grammar for Idiots
>>43743454
oh my days
I remember we had a Dragon Sighting Logbook. Every time we saw a plane overhead we'd log it as 'possible dragon', along with the date and weather conditions.
I wish I could study now as hard as I studied that book.
>>43791209
>Dinosaurology
Paleontology, you dumb niggers. Literally a child would know that, especially a child interested in dinosaurs.
>>43796216
Bruh, it's a series of fictional books, the Ology Series, about dragons and vampires and shit being real and finding them. Calm down, friend.
