Pathfinder Tales: Blood of the City

I read this whole book today so it was pretty good. Prose fiction novel set in the rpg world. Involving read. And close enough to Pathfinder rules that I could get the rule book out and go ooh and see where the protagonist just levelled up.

But it does not have a kind view of people. And everything I thought needed fixing just got worse until it got murdered? Which made an unsatisfying ending, to me.

Like, it also feels like a double standard, like ( Read more... )

But I keep forgetting that in Pathfinder murder is a value neutral sort of a gig, anyone of any alignment can go around murdering people, it isn't evil or anything.

... I super don't agree with that, obvs.

... I kind of can't figure out what the point is, when that is baked in to the world. Like, you can try and draw distinctions, but...

So, it's the sort of story where the protagonist staggers around enduring things and really messy injury happens and the big payoff isnt making the world better just... still being alive at the end of the book.

And it was frustrating as well because ( Read more... )

So I feel like I was having fun reading it but then it ended and the more I think about it the less well I like it, but because of like... stuff that adds up to wanting another genre? So.

It was fun to read tho.