Not sure how many of you have or haven't played this or even know about it but I thought I'd pop and and just let everyone know that's pretty much where I've been since I left ESO/GW2. It only just popped on to my radar in July and most of my peers had never even heard of it despite being fans of dungeons and dragons.
For the roleplayers of the family, it is an amazing game for hosting live Dungeon Mastered games, and while it's not as authentic as virtual table top software, it does bridge the gap between a top down/iso RPG and the virtual table top software. The gameplay itself is not as detailed as previous Dungeons and Dragons titles and the module creation toolsets are not as fleshed out as former D&D titles like Neverwinter or Neverwinter Nights, but even taking that into account I've spent nearly 400 hours in the game since it launched in October.
- It has a single player campaign that is roughly 40 hours of game play which is relatively family friendly (no cussing, but the usual RPG killing for exp)
- Multiplayer features for up to 1-4 players and one Dungeon Master.
- Random Dungeon Crawl feature where you can build your own procedural generated Dungeon. You can make up to 10 dungeon levels of various size and complexity from 8 tile sets, three major quest types (collection, killing, boss kill)
- Combat is similar to MMORPGs with skill trees and action bar cooldowns (which was a major complaint from D&D players).
- Toolset for creating modules - I would consider this still a work in progress, you can make a full adventure, but they are still adding features and things like area transitions and branching dialogue are set to drop around xmas/new year.
- Most of the game is modifiable with the exception of the .dll and .exe files. There is a small but dedicated modding community and they have good support from the developers.
If you can get past the idea that it's not true D&D and didn't have the budget or development cycle of the older, bigger titles like Neverwinter Nights or Baldur's Gate, you might find a fun, quirky dungeon crawler for under $40. I was very hesitant of the game myself originally but found myself pleasantly surprised at what I got for what I spent.
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