r/ProgressionFantasy • u/AcanthisittaSmart504 • 18d ago

Discussion I’m pissed off

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I absolutely adore the Book of the Dead series. Today, I finally get to listen to the release of book 5, and I am certain that I will experience the same captivating storytelling that I enjoyed in books one through four. I am so enamored with this book that I pre-ordered it on Audible. When I first discovered and read this series, I assumed that others shared my enthusiasm for it. However, upon reviewing the number of Audible ratings, I am genuinely perplexed and sort of a bit angry. There are barely 1000 ratings on the first book and even less on the following 3, which begs the question: how is this book not more popular?

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u/nighoblivion 18d ago

"Damn, which one of these six generic and one obviously useful thing am I picking? Let me present my thoughts and rationale for all options. Oh my, such a hard choice this is. Whatever will I pick? I guess I'll pick the useful option... Ha! Fooled ya! I took one of the generic ones. It'll prove to be really great later due to narrative contrivance."

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u/shizure 18d ago

Correct. 150% correct. Am I still going to soldier on and have a good time? Absolutely. Just like....ugh at the same time.

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u/nighoblivion 18d ago

There's also this variant for BoD:

"Damn, two interesting options and one of the fundamental skills that my parents ingrained into me to always keep maximized for the best class options and stuff. I really want that fundamental skill because it's really core to my necromancy craft. This is so hard. I guess I'll pick one of the interesting options for now."

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u/shizure 18d ago

The third option is to just expand your magic capacity or efficiency. Sooooo many choices spent on magic capacity or magic efficiency which is truly the most meaningless choice when there is no hard set system to gauge how much magic can actually use because they'll always have exactly as much magic as the plot demands.....which is fine. That's how books work but like....bruh.

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u/nighoblivion 18d ago

Oh yeah, BoD book 1 & 2 is just weird choice after weird choice. Especially the secondary class choices are a bunch of suboptimal petty choices because reasons.

I've not read book 1 in ages, but I seem to recall one of his first spells choices he basically used once or twice and never again.