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Game News Revenge of the Firstborn is a turn-based RPG based on the 3.5 SRD ruleset coming in 2026

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Tags: Revenge of the Firstborn; Sawtooth Games

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3429270/Revenge_of_the_Firstborn/



Journey through a fractured land where gods once waged war on their own creations. Today, new wars rage. Help those in need pick up the pieces, or take advantage of a kingdom still reeling from bitter defeat. Gather allies and enemies as your decisions move individuals and kingdoms alike. As you unravel the mystery, will you join with The Firstborn in search of ultimate power, or consign them to the judgment of the gods? Whatever you decide, your choices will echo through history.

Create a party of up to six adventurers, choosing from seven races and ten classes. Guide them from a band of unknowns to a group of heroes whose names are whispered in palaces and fortresses across the land.

Experience complex turn-based combat with a focus on tactics. Use a vast array of spells, feats and mounts to overcome a bestiary of over 120 classic monsters from the 3.5 SRD, each with its own special abilities and strategies.

Detailed Tactical Combat
Engage in exciting turn-based combat using one of the most accurate implementations of the classic 3.5 SRD. Equip and ride a war-horse, mastering mounted combat, a rarely-seen feature in overhead RPGs. Employ over 300 spells to vanquish your enemies who respond with intelligent, reactive AI.

Employ All Three Dimensions
Watch out for pit traps, filled with spikes or water that can thwart an unprepared party. Don’t forget to bring your 50-foot rope!

Fight on the ground and in the air. Use the fly spell to take the fight to enemies who thought they could stay safe above the fray.

Climb cliffs and jump across chasms to get to treasures and objectives that would otherwise be out of reach. You did remember to put points into the climb skill, right?

Explore a Large, Open Map
Wander the countryside in search of long-forgotten treasures, but beware, many of them are well-guarded. Be careful you don’t stray too far off of the beaten path too soon!

Get Into the Battle Immediately with the Endless Dungeon Roguelike Mode
Revenge of the Firstborn also includes a fully fleshed-out roguelike mode. Explore randomly-generated dungeons, fight randomly-placed monsters and find randomly-generated loot in a game mode where your sole goal is to survive to reach level twenty.

Fight your way through three distinct dungeon environments and discover a variety of “mini-quests” to keep things interesting as you descend the depths.​
 

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Grab the Codex by the pussy Codex USB, 2014 Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
0:15 was quite possibly the worst animation of a javelin throw i have ever witnessed. Can't wait to experience it first hand

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Perfect trailer. No stupid fade to black with generic words, no voices, no cutscenes. Only non-stop gameplay, hordes of monsters to slay, intense janky animations, intense spell effects. You are in it for action, adventure and glorious combat.
 

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At this point, "D&D videogames with aberrant graphics" is a genre.
Of which Solasta is the best.

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Feature list from the site:
  • Incredibly accurate implementation of the 3.5 SRD, the most popular roleplaying system ever created.
  • Compose your 6-person party from the following classes:
    • Barbarian
    • Bard
    • Cleric
    • Druid
    • Fighter
    • Paladin
    • Ranger
    • Rogue
    • Sorcerer
    • Generalist Wizard
    • Specialist Wizard
  • Multiclass your character to make the exact build you want.
  • Take advantage of all of the combat rules inherent to the 3.5 ruleset from tripping and grappling to feints and sunders.
  • Master mounted combat to quickly ride into and out of the fray.
  • Customize your character by choosing from over 150 feats.
  • Use over 250 spells to boost your skills and vanquish your enemies.
  • Battle a bestiary of over 125 monsters, each of which uses its own tactics and can respond to in-world stimuli such as the sound of a door opening.
  • Utilize an array of interactive elements to make your way through the world. Disintegrate doors or set them on fire, light or douse torches to mask your movements use wind spells to disperse dangerous effects.
  • Customize your equipment via the full implementation of the 3.5 SRD crafting system.
  • Explore a large, open map... just be careful where you go, you might find yourself in over your head.
  • Enjoy two game modes:
    • An epic campaign involving wars, gods and ancient threats.
    • A roguelike mode with procedural generation of dungeons, loot and monsters along with 'mini-quests', small fetch or kill quests that provide extra challenge and rewards.
  • Craft the story the way your characters would. Build towards one of two different endings by making small and large choices throughout the campaign that ultimately shake the world.
 

Zed Duke of Banville

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Finally those adventures can afford to buy a horse.
But can you afford the horse armor?
Considering that barding in original Dungeons & Dragons costs 150 gold pieces (not to mention the price of a warhorse at 100 or 200 GP), it would be beyond the means of a starting adventurer, but fairly trivial for any player-character having acquired enough experience to reach 2nd level.

OD-D-Equipment-Items.png
 

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Strap Yourselves In Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
Finally those adventures can afford to buy a horse.
But can you afford the horse armor?
Considering that barding in original Dungeons & Dragons costs 150 gold pieces (not to mention the price of a warhorse at 100 or 200 GP), it would be beyond the means of a starting adventurer, but fairly trivial for any player-character having acquired enough experience to reach 2nd level.

OD-D-Equipment-Items.png
Anything in there about upkeep costs?
 

Nortar

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Finally those adventures can afford to buy a horse.
But can you afford the horse armor?
Considering that barding in original Dungeons & Dragons costs 150 gold pieces (not to mention the price of a warhorse at 100 or 200 GP), it would be beyond the means of a starting adventurer, but fairly trivial for any player-character having acquired enough experience to reach 2nd level.

OD-D-Equipment-Items.png
Anything in there about upkeep costs?
Bro, this is not pretty pony stable simulator.
The game's about slaying dragons, not about changing horseshoes of your horsie.
Anyways, according to the table, unless the horse eats better than the knight, it should not be more than 5 gp/week.
 

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Strap Yourselves In Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
Bro, this is not pretty pony stable simulator.
The game's about slaying dragons, not about changing horseshoes of your horsie.
Upkeep in general actually, I had no idea if that was in from the start or introduced later.
 

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Considering that barding in original Dungeons & Dragons costs 150 gold pieces (not to mention the price of a warhorse at 100 or 200 GP), it would be beyond the means of a starting adventurer, but fairly trivial for any player-character having acquired enough experience to reach 2nd level.

...Or anyone who grows garlic in their backyard. Even drug plantations couldn't dream of such a turnover.
 

Zed Duke of Banville

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Anything in there about upkeep costs?
PLAYER/CHARACTER SUPPORT AND UPKEEP:
Player/Characters must pay Gold Pieces equal to 1% of their experience points for support and upkeep, until such time as they build a stronghold. If the stronghold is in a wilderness area all support and upkeep costs then cease, but if it is in a village or town not controlled by the player/character then support and upkeep payments must continue.

Though this brief section seems to crucially leave out the frequency of such payments. :M Since it follows information on specialists and men-at-arms, all of whom are paid on a monthly basis, this player-character upkeep might be assumed monthly as well.

Considering that barding in original Dungeons & Dragons costs 150 gold pieces (not to mention the price of a warhorse at 100 or 200 GP), it would be beyond the means of a starting adventurer, but fairly trivial for any player-character having acquired enough experience to reach 2nd level.
...Or anyone who grows garlic in their backyard. Even drug plantations couldn't dream of such a turnover.
Someone must have clued Gygax into this absurdity by 1978, since the AD&D Players Handbook slashed the price of a bud of garlic from 5 gold pieces to a mere 5 copper pieces (and in AD&D 1st edition, a CP is a mere 1/200th of a GP).
 

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Maybe he's trying to teach a man how to fish? It has a dedicated thread.
 

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