![]() ![]() It probably doesn’t help that, true to most D&D characters, Kaulder is a melange of fantasy tropes haphazardly rolled into a ball and hurled at a story. Article content It used to be about character building, goddammit This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. There are some fun and lived-in little bits of a dark fantasy world sprinkled through The Last Witch Hunter - the witches’ powers, for instance, are evoked by the icky creepy-crawliness and the intertwined beauty of nature - but every time it starts to feel like we’re actually walking in it, Diesel pokes his head in to begin explaining the mythology and mechanics of all his centuries of witch-huntin’, and it feels like we’re listening to someone read the Dungeon Master’s Guide like a storybook. ![]() Where was I? Right: anyway, just because you are a world famous minor mountain of a man who can feasibly pass as the fantasy character you have loved your entire adult life doesn’t mean you should actually subject the rest of us to it. It used to be about character building, goddammit, and … oh god I belong in a home, don’t I? ![]() Article contentĪnd just so we’re clear here: we are talking about the old-school, six-Cheeto-speckled-virgins-around-your-disappointed-father’s-card-table-in-the-basement D&D, the kind of D&D where you actually start saying things like “Verily, my mage Thraesun surveys his bag of holding…” and spend time bartering with Gnomish shop keeps, not this half-assed hand-holding computer-rendered hack-and-slash garbage that replaces space marines with guys in horned helmets. ![]()
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