best D&D type game

External Since: Oct 29, 2003 Posts: 1

I'm looking for recommendations for a D&D style game that:

* closely follows the current rules of the rpg
* has mechanics that 'feel' like the rpg
* is fun

and preferably:

* runs on OS X

Thanks for your help!

~r

External Since: Aug 14, 2003 Posts: 9

go_tard.TakeThisOut@yahoo.ca (go-tard) wrote in
<2ee55776.0310290616.26a9c5de.TakeThisOut@posting.google.com>:

> I'm looking for recommendations for a D&D style game that:
>
> * closely follows the current rules of the rpg
> * has mechanics that 'feel' like the rpg
> * is fun
>
> and preferably:
>
> * runs on OS X
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> ~r
>

On the Mac, your only real options are the Baldur's Gate series and Icewind
Dale, all published by Macplay and Neverwinter Nights.

Macplay has a value-pack out, containing Baldur's Gate 2 and Icewind Dale both
for rougly $30.00.

The games are: Baldur's Gate, Tales of the Sword Coast (requires Baldur's
Gate), Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn, The Throne of Baal (expansion pack for
Baldur's Gate 2, *might* be released by Macplay), and Icewind Dale.

If you play all of them, it'll keep you tied up for a year. I enjoyed Baldur's
Gate 2 the most (good story, interesting quests, with characters a high enough
level to get some interesting abilities and some tough enemies). Icewind Dale
is fun, too, though it is more of a traditional dungeon-crawl.

If, in fact Macplay is releasing Throne of Baal, I'll pick it up in a
heartbeat.

Oh, all of these games follow D&D 2nd edition rules, not the new 3rd edition.
Neverwinter Nights, I believe, follows third-edition rules, but I haven't
played it, so I can't say for certain.

Hound