PUBLISHER: WIZKIDS | RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW
As any experienced games master knows, sometimes you need to show rather than tell. When the players mess-up really badly it’s often easy to plonk that huge blue dragon down on the table rather than describe it to them. Wizkid’s Warlock range allows you to do this with some degree of style. With the right combination of sets you can create entire dungeon and castle scenes, all the better to spring on your players.
Which brings us to the Warlock Tiles Accessory – Torture Chamber set, which is perhaps one of the weirdest choices for a set we’ve seen in a while. In pre-painted, extremely well sculpted 25mm details we get a collection of furniture to truly chill even the boldest of heroes to the bone. Though that said, most D&D groups have at least one party member who’s destined to end up on a rack at some point during their adventuring career.
We get the disturbingly conical Iron Maiden, two torture cross, a trough to drown unlucky halflings in, a bronze bull to strap heroes to, two racks, cages, bundles of chains, a torturer (and their similarly sinister looking assistant) and so on. The hanging cages hang nicely, the pendulum swings, it’s all very charming in a sinister sort of way. We’ve come to expect attention to detail from Wizkids, but this is just chilling.
Though this set seems quite niche, it’s actually pretty useful for many dungeon scenes as it’s handy to have something grisly in the background. Those planning on running a Ravenloft or darker Forgotten Realms campaign may well find themselves looking into this set; you’re unlikely to use all the elements here in one scene (unless your players have really screwed up), but it’s still handy to have these sort of pieces in your collection if you want to add an extra shudder to the adventure.
