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Some of the most exciting, epic campaigns are On CD-Rom!!

I thought this forum wouldn't be complete without a list of the best D&D-based RPGs. Here's my favorites (by no means comprehensive):

Baldur's Gate This one started the whole PC-D&D craze in 1998, spawning lots of copies and one massive sequel.
Baldur's Gate 2 Speaking of massive...a tight story yet non-linear. The characters are among the most well known, next to Drizzt Do'Urden (who could forget Minsk and his Giant Space Hamster, Boo?). Spans 4 CDs and 200 hours of quests.
Planescape: Torment Hands down the best story in a video game, rivaling a novel. Intellectual, philosophical, and based off the insanely unique (and sadly defunct) Planescape campaign setting.

It's important to note that these games differ from pen and paper in that the combat system runs on the fly from D&D rules. So if you take a swing at a creature, the system automatically checks your character's stats, THACO, etc., before calculating if you miss and what damage you deal.
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Played all of them, of course...
but i dunno if this is the correct forum to post...
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I've never actually played a D&D game on a PC!

Maybe I should do...
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Post by Xavier »

They can be fun...what about the Eye of the Beholder series? I'd count those. I'd even count Diablo.
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Post by DukkhaWaynhim »

And don't forget NeverWinter Nights and NWN 2.


Many SSI D&D games were made, like the original(!) Pool of Radiance, Hillsfar, Stone Prophet, and the much newer version of PoR that used 3.x rules.

All were fun in their own right...

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Xavier wrote:They can be fun...what about the Eye of the Beholder series? I'd count those. I'd even count Diablo.
Oh yeah, Eye of the Beholder was explicitly a D&D game.
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...beginning to feel my newbie status even more intently...

I haven't played any PC games.
At least, other than the ones here on the Watch...
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I've played NWN.
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What? It's about time you showed up. And it's to post in this thread? :lol: Good grief... :lol:
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What about this?
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Damn, that looks pretty good. None of the machines I have available right now are specced for it though.

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CovenantJr wrote:What about this?
Paolo showed me a .jpg of an online game table he uses with friends. Nothing as graphically intense as the link above. But I can see how having a visual of the game could help in some ways.

I guess it's OK to share (let me know otherwise, Paolo). I have no idea of the site or reqs to run it though...

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For all the Facebook users that are also D&D fans:
apps.new.facebook.com/tinyadventures

take a look ;)
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*covers grin*

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:lol:
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caamora wrote:I've played NWN.
The original version that was on AOL, or the recently released (within the past 10 years) version by BioWare?
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