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Klaus Encounters: The Legend of Klaus Richter
Haunted with the ever-present memory of watching his parents get devoured by bears as a child, and now losing his adopted father and mentor, Klaus Richter embarks on a voyage of self-discovery and booze. He finds so much more, and so much less.
93 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 13, 2018
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August 3, 2020
If you like Authors and Dragons you will like the Klaus origin story. Not much else to say on this.
April 16, 2018
"Klaus Encounters" is the 3rd book in a series of character backstories based on the Authors & Dragons podcast. Like the previous books, "The Totally Legend of Brandon Thighmaster" and "The Silas Kane Scrolls", "Klaus Encounters" takes one of the characters played in the Pathfinder (now D&D) game by comedic fantasy authors and creates a backstory, largely based on the character's actions within the game.
Much like "The Silas Kane Scrolls", this is a book I really wanted to like and simply didn't. I didn't dislike it, really, but I was left feeling hugely unsatisfied by it. This shouldn't have been that surprising since Klaus' in-game antics largely involve consuming alcohol and spraying bodily fluids around. This book takes those antics and dials them up to 11, graphically. If that was all it did, it wouldn't be any worse than the prior 2 books in the series. But this is a book that does everything graphically, which gets old, even to a seasoned Caverns & Creatures reader like me. Added to that is the main character who is written as being even more of a moron in the book than as played in the game. In the game, the idiocy is the result of surprisingly frequent bad die rolls. Here, it's a deliberate narrative choice.
In all three books so far in this series, the main character has been a moron. The difference maybe is in the supporting casts. In the Brandon Thighmaster book, there's some growth in the main character thanks to the other characters around him. Not much, but it was there. Brandon may have been an idiot, but at least he was a likable one. In the Silas Kane book, there isn't any real character growth and no likability, but the characters that surrounded him reflected the reader's discomfort with him. You may not relate to Silas, but you can certainly relate to everyone else stuck around him.
With Klaus, the supporting characters are just as shallow and one-dimensional as he is. The story arc, such as it is, is basically following a drunken sot over the course of a few days as he gradually, and reluctantly, sobers up enough in order to find something else to drink. For a character who is described at the start of every podcast episode as a "notorious rogue", this book was a huge missed opportunity that traded filling in how he got that moniker or simply telling an interesting story for adolescent humor. I've read enough of Bevan's other books to know he can do both and come out with something better than this.
Much like "The Silas Kane Scrolls", this is a book I really wanted to like and simply didn't. I didn't dislike it, really, but I was left feeling hugely unsatisfied by it. This shouldn't have been that surprising since Klaus' in-game antics largely involve consuming alcohol and spraying bodily fluids around. This book takes those antics and dials them up to 11, graphically. If that was all it did, it wouldn't be any worse than the prior 2 books in the series. But this is a book that does everything graphically, which gets old, even to a seasoned Caverns & Creatures reader like me. Added to that is the main character who is written as being even more of a moron in the book than as played in the game. In the game, the idiocy is the result of surprisingly frequent bad die rolls. Here, it's a deliberate narrative choice.
In all three books so far in this series, the main character has been a moron. The difference maybe is in the supporting casts. In the Brandon Thighmaster book, there's some growth in the main character thanks to the other characters around him. Not much, but it was there. Brandon may have been an idiot, but at least he was a likable one. In the Silas Kane book, there isn't any real character growth and no likability, but the characters that surrounded him reflected the reader's discomfort with him. You may not relate to Silas, but you can certainly relate to everyone else stuck around him.
With Klaus, the supporting characters are just as shallow and one-dimensional as he is. The story arc, such as it is, is basically following a drunken sot over the course of a few days as he gradually, and reluctantly, sobers up enough in order to find something else to drink. For a character who is described at the start of every podcast episode as a "notorious rogue", this book was a huge missed opportunity that traded filling in how he got that moniker or simply telling an interesting story for adolescent humor. I've read enough of Bevan's other books to know he can do both and come out with something better than this.
April 28, 2018
Klaus Richter - notorious R.O.G.
How can one character be so entirely inept? The world of Authors and Dragons might have been better off if Fenwick had killed Klaus after all.
This is the origin story for Klaus, and it leaves me bewildered at how he made it out of the woods and managed to join his friends in the A&D podcast.
How can one character be so entirely inept? The world of Authors and Dragons might have been better off if Fenwick had killed Klaus after all.
This is the origin story for Klaus, and it leaves me bewildered at how he made it out of the woods and managed to join his friends in the A&D podcast.
May 1, 2018
How to begin... I wasn't sure what to expect going into.... no that's a lie. I knew this book would be vulgar, perverse, sexual and disgusting. I wasn't disappointed. I was saddened a bit by how stupid Klaus comes off, but maybe it's just naivete of youth. Still, an entertaining origin story for the Authors and Dragons Crew
June 10, 2018
Awesome
Hilarious! I never knew Klaus was an idiot instead of just an unimaginable a-hole. How has he survived so long?
Hilarious! I never knew Klaus was an idiot instead of just an unimaginable a-hole. How has he survived so long?
February 12, 2019
No hero
He's no hero, but he is a drunk. This is a good story and there's that. Drunk monk vs sobriety
He's no hero, but he is a drunk. This is a good story and there's that. Drunk monk vs sobriety
October 1, 2019
Great reading!
The book was awesome to read. It was fluid in its writing, and made for an interesting work. I cannot wait to see more.
The book was awesome to read. It was fluid in its writing, and made for an interesting work. I cannot wait to see more.
September 3, 2018
Yeah Klaus is an idiot and an asshole,.... and we love him for it...?
This is Klaus Richter's origins story and an introduction to Bevan's character in the Authors and Dragons D&D podcast. For those in the know, no explanation is necessary. For those new to Klaus... well. Expect a lot of immature humor, an asshole main character dumb as a pole, and not even half as charming as he himself thinks he is.
In short this is a good introduction to the Authors and Dragons podcast and great for its fans of. If you are neither you probably won't get much out of this novella.
This is Klaus Richter's origins story and an introduction to Bevan's character in the Authors and Dragons D&D podcast. For those in the know, no explanation is necessary. For those new to Klaus... well. Expect a lot of immature humor, an asshole main character dumb as a pole, and not even half as charming as he himself thinks he is.
In short this is a good introduction to the Authors and Dragons podcast and great for its fans of. If you are neither you probably won't get much out of this novella.
September 24, 2019
Weasels aren't rodents, they're mustelids.
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