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Originally Posted by jgaiser
There were times when the story had the definite feel of a D&D game.
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Well, according to either Wikipedia or the author's own site (I forget which), apparently Deed was written as a kind of reaction to bad D&D gaming clichés, and was an attempt to show how all those elements could be done right.
I liked the first book when I read it as a freebie shortly after getting my Kindle. I felt it actually didn't start off slow at the beginning, but the middle part kind of lagged for a bit, and didn't really pick up again until the end.
I am curious to see where it goes, and do intend to buy and read the rest of it when I can finally find the time.
Incidentally, Random House's Suduvu Free Library, which they've just reorganized to be significantly less easy to find and use, has a
promotional Paksenarrion-world short story that's supposed to tie into Oath of Fealty (they used to have two, but it looks like they've gotten rid of the other one, along with other useful stuff on their site).
WARNING: It seems to contain spoilers for stuff that's apparently revealed in Deed, so don't even read the descriptions until you've finished DoP if you don't want to know beforehand.