Dragonfired

, #3

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English language

(2 reviews)

The monarch wants him dead. A dragon’s torching the realm. Is his heroic gig about to be a critical catastrophe?

Gorm Ingerson knows the king is a fink. With the land’s insidious ruler hell-bent on his destruction, the axe-wielding Dwarf berserker is desperate to beat him to the punch. But when he discovers the rotten regent’s claim of a town razed by the world’s richest dragon is false, the gruff adventurer fears there’s more than a personal grudge at stake.

Struggling to convince his old comrades that they need to help him solve the mystery, the dwarven idealist stumbles into a sinister smuggling ring. And with strange creatures, cunning assassins, and vindictive bankers all plotting his demise, Gorm worries this time the price of doing the right thing will be fatally high.

Can he make a saving throw against death with a high-stakes roll at disadvantage?

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reviewed Dragonfired by J. Zachary Pike (The Dark Profit Saga, #3)

Extremely thoughtful social and economic commentary on both the DnD setting and real life

This series has been a fantastic journey from what I thought was a silly tropey DnD story into a touching and emotional journey with sincere commentary on the DnD setting. Dragonfired fires a lot of the Chekhov's guns that have been on the table since Orconomics. While doing this, it pulls absolutely zero punches in critiquing both the racist assumptions implicit in the DnD settings and the very real methods by which systemic racism is perpetuated in real life. After all that, it demonstrates what a few good people in positions of power can do to start overturning a corrupt system.

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