staff picks 3

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'm thinking we need to hit all the categories before we return to one. So let's look at books. Best non-fiction, either for value of the information or for ease of read, but preferably some sort of combination of the two. I'm thinking of ruling out scripture, but I don't know that I have a good reason for it.

[Fellfrosch]

I think it's a good idea to rule out scripture. Regardless of whether you believe it to be true or not, most bookstores have separate sections for non-fiction and religious books.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Non-fiction hunh you do realize boiling down my 500 book nonfiction library is going to be like selling my own firstborn.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

non-religious, non-fiction then. got it? Good.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

So a book about the Templars would be out?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

written FOR the templars? Or about them as a historical phenomenon?
In the first case, yes, it's out. In the latter, go  ahead.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I would have thought the about in the prior sentance would have given it away.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Then why did you ask?

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

because you said non-religious, non-fiction; implying that non fiction dealing with the subject of religion in a historical sense was out.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

It doesn't imply that at all, at least, not in the original context of asking about scripture. But now that the question is cleared up, we can move on.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

want to narrow it by subject even further? Best Art books, best books to use as game resources, best biography.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

We'll get to that. I want to reserve crossing genres till later.

Incidentally, if there's something specific YOU'D like to see as a staff picks feature, let me know. [email protected]
Incidentally, this particular deadline is going to be October 10.
Limit your choices to three.
Limit your description to 55-ish words, max.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

By "genres" i actually mean TWG categories/departments.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[Spriggan]

2 things of the staff picl articles:

1)the link code should include _blank after the url.  This opens up a new window to the amazon or other store page.  We don't want people to leave TWG when they click on our links.  I'm going to repost this request in "What I want for TWG" since I think all links on the site should be this way.

2) I think they should be in the other section not individual deparments.  This way if they keep going there will be a way for people to sort them all (by adding a sort link to the other page).