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"The wizard gripped the staff with both hands, shouted a string of esoteric gibberish...."

I'm not sure if the implication is that the staff only needs gibberish to do whatever it does, it of speaking a foreign language constitutes "esoteric gibberish". Imma give him the benefit of the doubt and assume the former, but the fact that it's ambiguous enough to suggest the latter is in itself poor writing.

Sike, because if anything can tame a feral murderous woman and bring her back to life, it's the love of a brooding, tortured man!

Sending a third to steal something from a dragon's lair. Cool cool. That's super original.

Oh for fucks sake.

One strong supporting female character and of course we kill her. Congratulations, Nicholas Eames. You've achieved every bad fantasy trope except orphan boy destiny.

Having the owlbear payoff being killing the she-owlbear and displacing the cubs from their native environment is a choice.

"You would come if it was me, right, Daddy?"

Ugh. He hasn't earned this bit of saccharine manipulation. I don't know why he keeps trying to leverage it.

Oh goody, ableism.

Oh yes, the The Right Stuff bad ass walk up except someone trips. That's from Monsters Inc.

Oh goody, yet more new characters. Almost as if each adventure happens linearly like a 10-season Netflix arc...

Oh god, a pandering Portal reference