Tenkar's Tavern: Trying to Identify an Old Commodore 64 RPG

Friday, July 15, 2011

Trying to Identify an Old Commodore 64 RPG - Memory is Murky

Now, before I describe the game the game in question, it might be Realms of Darkness, but I don't think so.

It was an RPG that included player handouts on fake parchment paper in the game box. At certain points of the game, you were told to refer to one piece or another. It was great for game immersion (and as a form of copy protection too I guess). It was the best computer based RPG I had played (or tried to) until that time

My copy was buggered, and the disc drive would crash on loading about 9 times in 10 for that game only - it could take me an hour or more to even get the game started. At some point later in time, I couldn't even do that.

Any ideas?

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kelvingreenJuly 15, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Hmm, I know Wasteland did the same thing with the descriptions, but that was a post-apocalyptic game, not fantasy.
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StuartJuly 15, 2011 at 10:32 AM
Bard's Tale?
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TenkarJuly 15, 2011 at 10:33 AM
Its not Wasteland, which was a damn good game too. Nope, totally fantasy this one. Seem to recall it had quasi D&D stats, but it wasnt a Gold Box or derivitive. Probably SPI tho'.
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TenkarJuly 15, 2011 at 10:33 AM
definitely not Bard's Tale
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kelvingreenJuly 15, 2011 at 10:57 AM
Dragon Wars maybe?
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TenkarJuly 15, 2011 at 11:37 AM
found a pic of some of the contents of Realms of Darkness on EBay - i should have gone with that guess. Has the map pouch and everything.

http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/showimage.aspx?gid=1369268&image=482276175&images=482276123,482276142,482276160,482276175&formats=0,0,0,0&format=0

thanks everyone!
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Why "Swords & Wizardry?"

Believe me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). Obviously I have Basic Fantasy RPG. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. Way too much Castles & Crusades. We all know my love for the DCC RPG. I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls

So, out of all that, why Swords & Wizardry? Why, when I have been running a AD&D 1e / OSRIC campaign in Rappan Athuk am I using Swords & Wizardry and it's variant, Crypts & Things, for the second campaign? (Actually, now running a S&W Complete campaign, soon to be with multiple groups)

Because the shit works.

It's easy for lapsed gamers to pick up and feel like they haven't lost a step. I can house rule it and it doesn't break. It plays so close to the AD&D of my youth and college years (S&W Complete especially) that it continually surprises me. Just much less rules hopping than I remember. (my God but I can run it nearly without the book)

I grab and pick and steal from just about all OSR and Original resources. They seem to fit into S&W with little fuss. It may be the same with LL and the rest, but for me the ease of use fit's my expectations with S&W.

Even the single saving throw. That took me longer to adjust to, but even that seems like a natural to me now. Don't ask me why, it just does. Maybe it's the simplicity of it. At 45 52, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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