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RPGVault has a development report from Runesword 2 (it was announced lately that this RPG/RPG construction kit has gone gold). Co-Developer Dan Schnake looks at the history of the game:
One day years ago, Adam was playing around with his Legos (he maintains the fiction that they're really for his kids), and had an Issac Newton moment. Why aren't computer RPGs like Legos? You cannot make anything! The creativity of Dungeon Masters is the essence of pen and paper RPGs. In computer RPG's, you have to pull a paycheck at Black Isle or Troika to be a Dungeon Master. The creative storytellers in the wide world aren't allowed to have Legos.
Thus, Crosscut Games got its niche: a construction set of a CRPG, with several included adventures. Make it capable of automatically generating an adventure for "lite" users, or constructing new items, skills, monsters and encounters for true believers. Download the creations of others from the web. Heck, you can even download RPG components like monsters or magic items, and tell the Tome Wizard to make a new adventure with the new material. For Dungeon Masters, of course, all this content keeps them from having to reinvent the wheel. With this throwback attitude toward pen and paper RPGs, we also chose a throwback mechanic with the dice and strategic, turn-based combat.
You can talk with the developers and publishers over at our official Runesword 2 forum.
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Runesword 2 Development Report
