Pathfinder Tales: Blood of the City
Feb. 7th, 2021 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI 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 when the protagonist's siblings try to murder her that is Evil but when the protagonist murders them back then that's the big finale? 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 they kept the story so low level that nobody could bring the dead back to life? Or even get the dead to testify about their own murder. And in Pathfinder that is pretty low. I mean she turns 6th level in the course of the story and if she had even one more level she could just, like, fix all the death at the end of the story. But they dont do that. Because it isnt a happy endings sort of story.
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.
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 when the protagonist's siblings try to murder her that is Evil but when the protagonist murders them back then that's the big finale? 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 they kept the story so low level that nobody could bring the dead back to life? Or even get the dead to testify about their own murder. And in Pathfinder that is pretty low. I mean she turns 6th level in the course of the story and if she had even one more level she could just, like, fix all the death at the end of the story. But they dont do that. Because it isnt a happy endings sort of story.
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.