SWORD COAST LEGENDS "Dungeon Crawl Mode" Preview

If you wanted to know what real-time Dungeon Mastering looked like in the upcoming Sword Coast Legends D&D video game, here's a preview. "Join Technical Director Ross Gardner and Design Director Tim Schwalk as they face off in Sword Coast Legends’ highly anticipated Dungeon Crawl mode featuring real-time Dungeon Mastering." Sword Coast Legends is the Forgotten Realms-based video game coming later this year from game producer N-Space.

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[Von Ether]

Sort of looks like the "DM" is playing Defense Tower to the PC reverse Defense Tower.

 

[ValamirCleaver]

I hope there's a way to legally purchase this game independent of Steam, I refuse to spend money for a game that I don't truly own outright (i.e. I consider having to ask Steam for permission every time I wish to install and/or play a game a form of DRM).

 

[Morrus]

I think the analgoy isn't so much NWN adventure-building in the sense that that's creating a homebrew adventure for your players, but it's more that you're running a published adventure with the ability to weak encounters.

 

[pedr]

The super-editions come with dungeon tiles for Lost Mine of Phandelver, IIRC, so alongside the "modify the campaign" role I'm pretty sure I've read that there will also be a "create your own maps, place creatures" mode for DMs' own adventures.

 

[Sonny]

Looks cool, but I wish the DM had more control over building adventures, a-la Neverwinter Nights tool set.

They're working on a tool set for DMs to build their own campaigns with, it's just not ready to demo yet. (This comes from the latest issue Game Informer)

 

[Sword of Spirit]

Hmm...so much more DM vs. Player Dungeon Keeper than D&D emulation Neverwinter Nights?

Noted. Not really interested.

 

[ValamirCleaver]

[MENTION=6677017]Sword of Spirit[/MENTION]: I wondering why they didn't just clone NWN2 with an updated rule set & updated graphics. The modding community would have done a ridiculous amount of content creation. Fans are still churning out BG1&2, IWD, NWN1&2, BG:EE1&2 and IWD:EE mods more than 15 years later.

 

[pedr]

While it seems that the current previews focus on the story mode and the DM's role within that, the plan clearly appears to be for a mode of play which sounds more like NWN (I guess - I've never played that). See, for instance, the paragraph on Campaign Mode in this report of a discussion with the creators: http://www.gamersnexus.net/news/1841-sword-coast-legends-dm-mode-detailed-preview

 

[Sonny]

Hmm...so much more DM vs. Player Dungeon Keeper than D&D emulation Neverwinter Nights?

Noted. Not really interested.

As I mentioned - they've already stated they're doing a toolset for campaigns. So yes, the plan is for something like NWN.

 

[DM Howard]

This looks really cool. If it's just this I'd be a little bummed, but I'm excited there is more.