A review by peter_xxx
Nightglass by Liane Merciel
4.0
This is one of the better pathfinder books.
In the first part of this story we follow Isiem, a young magician, during his training to be a wizard/priest for zon-kuthon, the god of pain, in Nidal. In the second part we follow him on a mission in a frontier town where he is trying to get out from under the control of Nidal.
The story of a young boy with exceptional talents who can't adjust to the evil society he grows up in, and flees to some frontier seems very familiar in roleplay tie in fiction (kuchDrizztkuch) But still I feel like this is very good book for several reasons.
First of all the whole second part feels like a western, which is something I always like. Another very good feature of this book is that you if you are familiar with the pathfinder rpg you can totally tell what spells the wizards in here are using. And even though the spells are all lifted directly from the pathfinder rules, the descriptions of the spells, and the effects are very creatively written. I found myself thinking 'I would like to play a game with Liane Merciel as gamemaster' or 'I should try to do this in my next game as well'. And that is a very good thing to have when you have just written a roleplay game tie in novel.
In the first part of this story we follow Isiem, a young magician, during his training to be a wizard/priest for zon-kuthon, the god of pain, in Nidal. In the second part we follow him on a mission in a frontier town where he is trying to get out from under the control of Nidal.
The story of a young boy with exceptional talents who can't adjust to the evil society he grows up in, and flees to some frontier seems very familiar in roleplay tie in fiction (kuchDrizztkuch) But still I feel like this is very good book for several reasons.
First of all the whole second part feels like a western, which is something I always like. Another very good feature of this book is that you if you are familiar with the pathfinder rpg you can totally tell what spells the wizards in here are using. And even though the spells are all lifted directly from the pathfinder rules, the descriptions of the spells, and the effects are very creatively written. I found myself thinking 'I would like to play a game with Liane Merciel as gamemaster' or 'I should try to do this in my next game as well'. And that is a very good thing to have when you have just written a roleplay game tie in novel.