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Ken Rolston reviewed Egg of the Phoenix for Dragon magazine #133. [2] He felt that the first three scenarios were "original, challenging, and entertaining, particularly in their exploitation of the peculiar logic of the AD&D game universe", but had reservations about the final scenario, which "despite having a plausible game rationale and logical self-consistency, strikes me as gross and ...
Ultima Underworld is a role-playing video game (RPG) that takes place from a first-person perspective in a three-dimensional environment. [1] The player's goal is to adventure through a large, multi-level dungeon, in which the entire game is set. [2]
But he concluded with a strong recommendation, saying, "Play is tense, suspenseful, and exciting, since the objectives are extremely difficult, and death is swift. The importance of good luck and the distraction of the vivid dungeon setting help suppress competitive impulses, making the Dungeonquest game quite comfortable for social play." [1]
Ultima Underworld II is a role-playing video game that takes place from a character's eye view in a three-dimensional (3D) graphical environment. [2] The player's goal is to adventure through dungeon-like indoor environments across eight parallel dimensions, while completing quests to help the inhabitants of each world.
The concept of a dungeon that spanned a planet was first introduced by Gary Gygax in his D-series of game modules [4] and at the end of the G-series. The Underdark was described in detail in the 1986 manual Dungeoneer's Survival Guide , by Doug Niles . [ 5 ]
Players roleplay monsters defending a dungeon against NPC adventurers. Generic setting. 11376: Road to Danger: 1–3: Christopher Perkins: 1998: Low level adventures compiled from Dungeon magazine. 9560: Sea of Blood: 7–9: Bruce R. Cordell: 1997: Third part of the "Sahuagin" trilogy. 11621: Slavers: 4–5: Sean K. Reynolds and Chris Pramas: 2000
In Boing Boing's review, Jason Louv wrote that "it’s probably the best adventure we’ve yet seen for the new edition of D&D, improving in many ways upon Princes of the Apocalypse, the previous adventure release, which in itself was a marked improvement over the Tyranny of Dragons story".
Reviewer John Woods for The Games Machine had not been impressed with the original game, feeling that the inherent randomness of events trumped any player skill. [5] In reviewing the Heroes for Dungeonquest expansion, he found it similarly flawed: "Whilst the game is fun to play a few times, there's very little depth to it and even worse no scope at all for cooperation or enmity between ...