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    Baldur's Gate Larian is moving away from D&D, no BG3 DLC or BG4

    'For the sake of the fans' indeed. I'm amazed he managed to get that out without bursting into laughter, or being struck by lightning.
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    Caves of Lore - turn-based pixel art RPG inspired by classics

    Went back to this to see if the UI had improved since I last played, and it's decent enough, but man, what is with the developer's aversion to giving the player information? You try and disarm a trap: 'Failed'. Okay, so what were the consequences of me failing? Where's the message log to tell me...
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    Wizardry Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord remake by Digital Eclipse - now available on Early Access - coming May 23rd

    Is it just me or do dragons always seem far less impressive the more of them there are? Early RPGs were terrible for sticking dozens of them into a single fight, and it generally made them seem boring and not threatening. Two isn't bad, but one is still better. In terms of the other picture...
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    Incline Battle Brothers + Beasts & Exploration, Warriors of the North and Blazing Deserts DLC Thread

    I feel like Anatomists probably have more endgame potential than any other start, because of the mutagens, but yeah, in terms of getting there... I tend to primarily go with Lone Wolf; I never liked the 'Your commander doesn't actually exist' thing, so having them be an actual member of the...
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    Wizardry The Wizardry Series Thread

    I know what you mean. It's a minor thing, but I watched this guy's Wizardry VII video after enjoying the Bane one linked above, and he seemed to invent some alternative way to leave the (non-imported) starting area that just doesn't exist. Unless I've been missing something all these years...
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    Subterrain: Mines of Titan - Scavenging Turn-Based Survival Sci-Fi RPG Set on Titan

    This looks so much more cartoony and unappealing than the original Subterrain. It's a shame, the first one was a great atmospheric survival horror, but I don't see them recapturing that magic from what's shown in the trailers.
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    Why not create a "Codex Top X Modded RPGs"?

    I think it's a good idea, as long as a bit of care and curation is in place. There are a lot of games where modding has turned something that started out good into something truly great; Adrageron 's Legend of Grimrock II mods spring to mind.
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    Gobs and Gods - Parody goblin warband management

    Skimmed through this and saw the guy trying to 'backstab' by repeatedly moving through zones of control and taking opportunity attacks without taking the two seconds to read the tooltip saying you need that an ally on the opposite side. 10/10 Dean Takahashis, very rage-inducing.
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    Legends of Amberland - oldschool open world blobber

    Bought this on sale and finished it in the past couple of days. It does a good job as an homage to Might and Magic, but I have to say I was a little disappointed that I rarely felt like I was making any kind of tough gameplay decision, whether that be in terms of gear selection, combat tactics...
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    The Codex of Roguelikes

    Is DrashRL the 'Escape from Mt Drash' one? I actually finished that recently. For a ten-minute distraction, it's fine, but I wouldn't really recommend it. There's just not much there. It's a shame Slashie didn't devote a bit more time to some of those efforts; he was very good at nailing style...
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    The Codex of Roguelikes

    If you're willing to emulate (or have a SNES/DS with a copy of the game), the first Shiren the Wanderer game is a lot of fun. There are elements of meta progression and you can store good items from one run to use on a future run (albeit you're giving up on them in your current run then, bar...
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    The Codex of Roguelikes

    I don't mind so much if there's an auto-updater in the program itself, but yeah, having to redownload something from GOG, etc, is always annoying, particularly if the dev goes for small frequent updates rather than rare but substantive ones.
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    Incline What's a Better Initiative System?

    With system 2 speed/initiative becomes the king of stats, as others have described above. With system 1 initiative is often too weak, because it only affects the first round of combat. This can be averted by having lots of save or die effects (bad, typically means the game is RNG-heavy and...
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    What games use AD&D 1st Ed?

    I believe Warriors of the Eternal Sun used AD&D 1st edition.
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    Legend of Grimrock 2

    That's pretty much exactly how I ended up beating it in the end too. I've since made my way onto Final Adventure and have left the game on hold very close to the end, as I'm reluctant to finish it knowing that there isn't a sequel to go onto. I think Adrageron's work on these mods has been...

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