tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post1663978755902677738..comments2024-03-28T08:17:48.059-04:00Comments on The CRPG Addict: Secret of the Silver Blades: RevealedCRPG Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-17353624059463056732015-08-15T14:53:24.752-04:002015-08-15T14:53:24.752-04:00That's a great example. I'll use that some...That's a great example. I'll use that sometime.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-28201556379110381702015-08-14T18:50:19.784-04:002015-08-14T18:50:19.784-04:00speaking of real life examples of tanking economie...speaking of real life examples of tanking economies...<br />if you read the wikipedia of Musa I of Mali, he brought so much gold with him to give away that he devalued gold for at least a decade!! <br /><br />basically he went on pilgrimage to mecca. his procession supposedly had 60,000 people, including 12,000 slaves each carrying 4 lbs of gold bars, the heralds had golden staffs, 80 camels with 50-300 lbs of gold dust. he gave lots of gold away, and bought tons of things.<br /><br />the wiki says gold was devalued for a decade, but i think i read somewhere else that in some places it did not return to its original value for several decades. either way, sounds like Musa I of Mali was a goldbox hero!! :Pmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-18202375074181486142015-07-05T02:59:55.476-04:002015-07-05T02:59:55.476-04:00Makes sense he is asking you to prove yourselves. ...Makes sense he is asking you to prove yourselves. He has limited resources to give out, what if the people who showed up were mooks just out of training? First dragon they meet eats them, and then he is down all the help he gave them, or worse, they get him killed.Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-32902354344708845212015-07-05T02:32:53.165-04:002015-07-05T02:32:53.165-04:00Man, 80s had such cool style, leather jackets, cha...Man, 80s had such cool style, leather jackets, chains, etc. Too bad about some of the poofy hair.Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-79502864364057811542015-07-05T01:46:34.896-04:002015-07-05T01:46:34.896-04:00Man, those were SO not the best Dragonlance storie...Man, those were SO not the best Dragonlance stories. The Draconican combat engineer series was the best, though a bit worse once it got to the novels.(Has any short-story series not taken a hit when they moved to novels?)Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-55869045476691046052014-09-24T14:20:59.945-04:002014-09-24T14:20:59.945-04:00Alas, I will unlikely be able to post a "won!...Alas, I will unlikely be able to post a "won!" posting. But I delayed it as long as I could. It's time to get out of 1983.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-16101732997770713272014-09-23T23:55:12.461-04:002014-09-23T23:55:12.461-04:00Moria is back on the list! I can die happy.
Prefe...Moria is back on the list! I can die happy.<br /><br />Preferably, not right away.Joe Pranevichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12997014242774219758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-2132168890384441372014-09-23T20:39:23.660-04:002014-09-23T20:39:23.660-04:00Definitely better, some of the harder set encounte...Definitely better, some of the harder set encounters were designed with the expectation that the player's party would be fully buffed and would contain at least 2 mages slotted with max Fireballs, DB-Fireballs, etc. <br /><br />He could have been referring to leveling though; there is a cap of 40 but that's nearly impossible to hit in a single play through, even with serious grinding. <br /><br />IIRC you gain 10+ levels in a single game just from required encounters and story xp though, so it's substantially faster to level in PoD than Secrets. Especially if you do all of the side quests, those seem to grant a lot of story xp.old wow bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13219195579845781590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-60695028487782579192014-09-23T16:24:46.004-04:002014-09-23T16:24:46.004-04:00I assumed dahauns was talking about how the charac...I assumed dahauns was talking about how the characters have no level cap in PoD. But if the combat is better, that's good news, too. I look forward to it.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-77470653744993909782014-09-23T14:54:05.829-04:002014-09-23T14:54:05.829-04:00Just started replaying POD; are you referring spec...Just started replaying POD; are you referring specifically to this part of the statement:<br /><br />"For this reason, it's hard to see any game outperforming Pool of Radiance for the satisfaction of .... combat ......."<br /><br />Because, damn, yeah they really stepped up their game with PoD. I had kinda forgotten, but it's funny how almost every pack of enemies is set to spawn in small groups, separated by a fireball+ of distance.<br /><br />Don't get me started on the end Challenge thing....old wow bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13219195579845781590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-64818472544321186572014-09-23T03:23:18.356-04:002014-09-23T03:23:18.356-04:00A somewhat amusing story exists as a footnote to t...A somewhat amusing story exists as a footnote to this. Both TSR and Wizards of The Coast (the D&D publishers) have always been extremely aggressive about protecting their "unique" monsters such as the Beholder, Mind Flayer, and Rust Monster from being used by anyone else, which is why, despite being heavily inspired by D&D, neither Wizardy or its heirs used them. Allegedly, this is the reason why there's a recurring Final Fantasy monster called a coeurl, which bears more resemblance to a Displacer Beast than it does the Vogt monster. The story goes that the FF developers were rather annoyed by the heavy-handed legal threats and put in the Coeurl because they knew it's presence (which TSR considered as offensive as if they'd explicitly used Beholders) would be extremely irritating, but nothing could be done because they could legitimately claim to be parallel development from the same source. No idea how true it is, but it is very plausible, and in-character for all companies concerned.Nomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02317814736043426457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-24045702599404376022014-09-22T22:31:25.627-04:002014-09-22T22:31:25.627-04:00There's a reason why salt and spice were horri...There's a reason why salt and spice were horribly over-priced back then... because almost everyone could afford it.Kenny McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553499727945099493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-11343726040435408482014-09-22T22:14:30.739-04:002014-09-22T22:14:30.739-04:00There you have it. Part of me wishes RPGs would mo...There you have it. Part of me wishes RPGs would model this--every 1,000 gold pieces you collect decreases the overall buying power of gold by 10%--and part of me is glad that they don't.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-31105184500109918332014-09-22T21:12:34.079-04:002014-09-22T21:12:34.079-04:00According to wikipedia," The displacer beast ...According to wikipedia," The displacer beast was inspired by the coeurl, a feline-like creature from the 1939 science fiction story "Black Destroyer" by A. E. van Vogt,[1] later incorporated into the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950)."<br />Gary Gygax was often looking for new monsters to engage his players with. He took many directly from legends, myths and pulp fiction. The Coeur was one such beast.<br />Gygax was also a believer in "dungeon ecology", the idea that dungeons should be populated with monsters that made sense contextually and in a complimentary way. The displacer beast always struck me as a monster that should be encountered with evil, extra-planar aliens or in some lost world type jungle. Some of the monsters used in the gold box games struck me as being thrown in just to make things difficult, not because they were related to the story somehow.Mr. Pavonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13286558267156792637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-71843047771242904242014-09-22T19:18:49.723-04:002014-09-22T19:18:49.723-04:00Elizabethan England and Phillippan Spain both suff...Elizabethan England and Phillippan Spain both suffered massive inflation and economic problems from gold plundered from the Americas (or, in England's case, plundered from the Spanish who plundered it from the Americas). The same happened in the US during the Revolution, where the massive sums collected by the more successful privateers tanked several small town economies, and likely (not certain here) happened everywhere that housed privateers or pirates.Nomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02317814736043426457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-30872704582263241292014-09-22T18:38:36.665-04:002014-09-22T18:38:36.665-04:00I wonder if there's ever been a real-life exam...I wonder if there's ever been a real-life example of a city or civilization in which "found" treasure sank the economy. I think it's a plot point of <i>National Treasure</i>.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-76236119944834721102014-09-22T18:37:51.243-04:002014-09-22T18:37:51.243-04:00"Beggars can't be choosers, jackass"..."Beggars can't be choosers, jackass" was my initial reaction, too. I mean, I could see him testing us to make sure we weren't covertly working for the Black Circle or something, but I don't know how putting together the staff proves that.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-10247863181966718812014-09-22T03:38:06.306-04:002014-09-22T03:38:06.306-04:00'I won't help you unless you prove yoursel...'I won't help you unless you prove yourselves worthy'<br /><br />Beggars can't be choosers, jackass, do you see anyone else trying to stop the glacier melting? Also, in Forgotten Realms, apparently it's red dragons that cause climate change ;)<br /><br />Just imagine the inflation the poor town must be suffering as a result of all the wealth you're hauling to the surface. Tristan Gallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16769219573533545742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-63935654151637636362014-09-22T01:25:07.559-04:002014-09-22T01:25:07.559-04:00The last time anybody saw a game that has the prot...The last time anybody saw a game that has the protagonist jabbing an angry red matriarch while dodging a barrage of projectiles was Custer's Revenge.<br /><br />I remember that I sucked at this game pretty much though - DragonStrike, not Custer's Revenge... well, okay, I sucked at that one too.<br /><br />It was really terrible to control. The CPU was either too slow to respond or too fast, registering your one short key-press as a long press-and-hold.Kenny McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553499727945099493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-76117805602714263032014-09-21T23:12:33.753-04:002014-09-21T23:12:33.753-04:00Well, Caramon did marry Tika in the end. And had 5...Well, Caramon did marry Tika in the end. And had 5 kids together. I believe the reasone why the Caramon/Raistlin saga resonates more strongly than all other stories with the Sibling Rivalry trope is that the two of them were very close.<br /><br />Readers bonded with them early on and were able to sympathize with the both of them as they grew further and further apart until a near-cataclysm brought them back together.Kenny McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553499727945099493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-60626224443227406762014-09-21T17:11:58.038-04:002014-09-21T17:11:58.038-04:00"console games aren't represented here, s..."console games aren't represented here, so that and the 'Adventure' D&D game for the Intellivision are both out and neither were published in 1983 anyway."<br /><br />AD&D: Treasure of Tarmin came out in 1983. I don't know if it'll be added to the playlist -- it's not marked as rejected, at least -- but it's much more of a CRPG than the first AD&D game (which the Addict reviewed) and certainly deserves inclusion if consoles are being done at all. It's also on the Mattel Aquarius, which <i>was</i> a computer after all (albeit a pretty sorry one).<br /><br />Swords & Serpents is an easier omission, since it's more of a proto-Gauntlet and doesn't really meet the benchmark. Neat game, though.<br /><br />BTW I'm curious to see if Bokosuka Wars makes the cut, but I doubt it will -- it's closer to some kind of bizarre strategy game. Still, it's a very fast playthrough if you know what to do.PK Thunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14416777230563913195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-35075336079906903342014-09-21T16:13:10.200-04:002014-09-21T16:13:10.200-04:00Regarding your last paragraph, about leveling:
Fr...Regarding your last paragraph, about leveling: <br />From what I remember, I think you might be pleasantly surprised about Pools of Darkness, then. :)<br />dahaunshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02098585704891226776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-87355187999092819832014-09-21T15:04:51.661-04:002014-09-21T15:04:51.661-04:00You didn't like it? Aw, shoot.
I saw it on th...You didn't like it? Aw, shoot.<br /><br />I saw it on the list and knew it wasn't an RPG but I kept from mentioning that because, hey, dragon jousting. Far too often video games have us killing rats in a sewer or killing guys with a gun that shoots slow green blobs when we could be using the medium's potential.Kizornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-89488292102035962762014-09-21T11:52:57.548-04:002014-09-21T11:52:57.548-04:0080's hair is canon to the Forgotten Realms80's hair is canon to the Forgotten RealmsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-29242342239138637982014-09-21T10:40:28.751-04:002014-09-21T10:40:28.751-04:00OK, you know, that's good. I like that.
Heh h...OK, you know, that's good. I like that.<br /><br />Heh heh. I guess they got adolescent power fantasies for everyone. They did sell a lot of books.<br /><br />I suppose in 'real life' Raistlin would get stuck with some chunky White Robe mage chick with fifteen familiars. I suppose the Christian aspect of the writers comes out in that we don't see him conjuring succubuses or anything--a lot of guys would do that way before they got around to destroying the world.Null Nullnoreply@blogger.com