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The future of D&D on PC
- Thread starter King Crispy
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Xi
Arcane
4E with a new location, lore, and characters. Stop making NWN bullshit. Maybe even move back into the past and use one of the older settings with the newer ruleset. Something like that would be fun. High-Fantasy is awesome when you don't fuck with the formula that makes it good!
Ditch 3.5E fast! Worst rule set ever!
Ditch 3.5E fast! Worst rule set ever!
- The Underdark: There have been only tiny, tiny portions of the Underdark done in any of those games so far, even in Descent to Undermountain (which was truly horrid). HotU was typically small for any NWN product. BG2 had the excellent but miniscule mindflayer enclave. All these years, just a few tunnels, a few caves. That's it.
The Underdark encompasses areas that equal the entire landmass of Faerun and even more (since it exists in three dimensions). To do it "right", I'd say a game the size of at least Oblivion would have to be dedicated to it and even then there would so much left.
I mean, entire civilizations have existed there. Underground oceans and massive cities. There's a lot of untapped potential.
- Orcs: If we're talking FR, there's always going to be orcs unfortunately. They're so numerous and prevalent in that milieu that it's almost obligatory to mention their existence.
They're also quite numerous in Greyhawk, but I don't think as much so. I believe goblins and their other kin play a larger part in that campaign.
- Forgotten Realms: I agree however that other than the Underdark, it's pretty much played out, even with all the other untouched areas. People are just sick of Elminster and Drizzt and anything having to do with them. The Thayans have been done, the south and Amn, Zhentil Keep... even Chult (sadly, very poorly IMO). We need something new or at least not as stale.
Greyhawk is just as fascinating, I think. The whole struggle with Iuz and his army, all the famous sorcerers such as Bigby and Tenser plus the Circle of Eight - these can all be great backdrops for any CRPG. I don't know if Greyhawk is being adapted for 4E, but it would seem to me that if we're ever going to go back to turn-based, one of the original campaigns would be more than appropriate to pick up again.
I wonder with Gygax's death if anything in Greyhawk will happen again.
The Underdark encompasses areas that equal the entire landmass of Faerun and even more (since it exists in three dimensions). To do it "right", I'd say a game the size of at least Oblivion would have to be dedicated to it and even then there would so much left.
I mean, entire civilizations have existed there. Underground oceans and massive cities. There's a lot of untapped potential.
- Orcs: If we're talking FR, there's always going to be orcs unfortunately. They're so numerous and prevalent in that milieu that it's almost obligatory to mention their existence.
They're also quite numerous in Greyhawk, but I don't think as much so. I believe goblins and their other kin play a larger part in that campaign.
- Forgotten Realms: I agree however that other than the Underdark, it's pretty much played out, even with all the other untouched areas. People are just sick of Elminster and Drizzt and anything having to do with them. The Thayans have been done, the south and Amn, Zhentil Keep... even Chult (sadly, very poorly IMO). We need something new or at least not as stale.
Greyhawk is just as fascinating, I think. The whole struggle with Iuz and his army, all the famous sorcerers such as Bigby and Tenser plus the Circle of Eight - these can all be great backdrops for any CRPG. I don't know if Greyhawk is being adapted for 4E, but it would seem to me that if we're ever going to go back to turn-based, one of the original campaigns would be more than appropriate to pick up again.
I wonder with Gygax's death if anything in Greyhawk will happen again.
I think D&D is good enough as a basis for CRPGs.
You can't just build a system from scratch with the time and resources your typical game development cycle allows and expect it to be *better* than a system that has been developed for decades. Arcanum for instance would have greatly profited from a decent combat/magic system (imho).
Also FR have still a lot of untapped potential, you could make awesome games in Kara-Tur, Calimshan, Thay and other regions that are not so well explored as the sword coast.
Or on the Gnome Island - what's its name? Lantan. There could be a lot of technology there - Arcanum-style. Magic would be almost uncommon.
You can't just build a system from scratch with the time and resources your typical game development cycle allows and expect it to be *better* than a system that has been developed for decades. Arcanum for instance would have greatly profited from a decent combat/magic system (imho).
Also FR have still a lot of untapped potential, you could make awesome games in Kara-Tur, Calimshan, Thay and other regions that are not so well explored as the sword coast.
Or on the Gnome Island - what's its name? Lantan. There could be a lot of technology there - Arcanum-style. Magic would be almost uncommon.
ScottishMartialArts
Self-Ejected
Crispy said:
Honestly, I vastly prefer the computer experience to the "real deal".
Ebonsword
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Spectacle said:
For 3E and up, I agree. I think that they're too complicated to run smoothly as PnP. That very complication, though, makes them well-suited to being CRPGs since you're so busy playing around with your feats, skills, and prestige classes that you don't notice all of the PnP-type things you can't do in a CRPG.
Original D&D and 1E AD&D are better as PnP than as CRPGs, though.
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