Current RPG game seeds

I spent a while thinking about this at work yesterday, so I decided to write them all down. These are all the RPG games I currently want to run and have put some effort into planning. I have plenty of other "wouldn't it be fun to..." ideas, but if I haven't put any effort into it, I'll leave it out.

( A lifetime of game ideas )

Game Review: Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire

​For a long time, Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire was my gaming white whale. After I played Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero at my friend's house, I played a copy of it for a long time, and later went out and bought the VGA remake. By that time Quest for Glory III: Wages of War was out, so I got that too, and later Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness. But Quest for Glory II never got a remake and still had EGA graphics in the days of 640x480 and 256 colors, and that's probably why I could never find it for sale. For years, I would import my character from QFG straight into QFGIII and rely on the recap at the beginning of QFGIII explaining the battle against the wizard Ad Avis and the salvation of Raseir. I assume Sierra put it in there because there were a lot of people in my situation.

While I was at university, I finally found a copy of Quest for Glory II on the high seas and played through the whole series back to back. I didn't fall immediately in love with it or discover a magical hidden gem. It's a good game with a few oddities. But it's better constructed and more true to the spirit of Quest for Glory than its immediate sequel, and as a QFG game it's a better adventure game than most of Sierra's output while also being a fun RPG to boot.

Viaduct.

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