u/blueluck

I'm painting and repairing a stairway in an old house (1853) and having trouble finding stair tread covers that will fit. The wooden stair treads are 1.5 inch thick, with round noses.

The vast majority of vinyl stair treads I can find are bullnose or square, which leaves a gap where the vinyl doesn't match the wood. I've only found one company that sells round nose vinyl treads, and they're for 7/8" thickness treads.

Can you suggest any stores or companies that sell larger round nose vinyl treads?

I'm open to other materials or solutions if you have suggestions.

I'm several books into the series Will of the Immortals by Jay Krauss, and really enjoying it.

A 16th century knight (and blacksmith) is taken from Germany and sent to a fantasy world with a hybrid rpg/cultivation power system. Upon arrival he's granted a handful of useful and powerful abilities.

He wears heavy armor, fights with a big sword (mostly), and is a stoic, heroic, OP knight! There's crafting, party building, a little humor, a little romance, a little LGBTQ representation, and plenty of fighting monsters, bandits, corrupt officials, and arrogant young masters.

The story is rather simplistic, but the author is clearly going for kick-ass fun more than complexity. It's not S-tier for me, but if the quality holds up throughout the later books of the series, it might become one of my go-to recommendations for people new to the genre, including teen readers.

These are the results of a simple poll earlier this week.

r/mildlyinteresting

Every reader has a little bit of author in them, and this sub has lots of talk about what we wish authors did, didn't do, or did differently. Whether or not you've ever written a book, and whether or not you ever intend to, what's something you would do in your next litrpg book?

Here are a few of mine.

If I were to write a litrpg story, I would...

Write a standalone novel before attempting anything bigger, and not publish it until it was done. I find the idea of publishing chapters as I write them to be terrifying! I want the chance to fix my mistakes before strangers start reading.

Give the main character a single power that's rare in their world, and no more. You got a talent for portals? Great! You're learning to make short-range portals, long-range portals, defensive portals, offensive portals... You're the portal guy! You want a healing spell? Buy a potion! Body enhancement? Stand behind the warrior. Fire? Either figure out how to make fire with portals or start rubbing sticks together.

Create interesting currencies based on historical coinage from around the world, but never give hard numbers. MC will pay the farmer "a few copper groats for a night in the barn" and spend "the last of his silver drachmas" on a horse, and that's as specific as the money will ever get. Otherwise I might, as a wise man once said, "make a sandwich the same price as a horse."