The problem was in determining what skills to assign. The game manual indicates that the selection of skills, and the number you could select, are both determined by the IQ score, so for all four characters, I shot for the highest IQ I could. There are a standard set of attributes-strength, speed, charisma, IQ, agility, luck, and dexterity (odd to see speed, agility, and dexterity)-rolled randomly from 3 to 18, which is no big deal, but then you select from up to 27 different skills. Character creation was a difficult process for me.

The party consists of up to four player-created characters plus NPCs you can pick up along the way. Army engineers, who were doing some work in the area, and some local 'survivalist communities.' The nascent civilization established a martial force called the Desert Rangers to make contact with other civilizations and protect the community from assorted marauders, including the convicts whom the Army expelled from the prison. The small civilization is made up of the remnants of a company of U.S. The PCs come from an outpost in the southwestern United States that used to be a federal prison. In 1998, just as a new space station was supposed to go online, all of Earth's orbital satellites disappeared, causing the two superpowers to panic and launch '90 percent of their nuclear arsenals,' destroying most of civilization. and the Soviet Union (and their respective allies) between 19.

The latter point is something I'll have to cover in more detail below, because it confounded me for a while.īut first, the story: The game postulates an escalating arms and space race between the U.S. Having not even looked at a screen shot before yesterday, I was thus rather unprepared to find a strange hybrid between The Bard's Tale (in combat), Ultima IV/V (in dialogue and the top-down perspective), Pool of Radiance (in the use of journal entries), and perhaps Demon's Winter (in the direct application of skills and items). As I indicated a few months ago, I'm not a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, but I can try to suppress that for good gameplay. I had little idea what to expect when starting Wasteland, other than dozens of you love the game and have all but threatened me with bodily harm should I not love it myself.

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