Article on D&D Rules Implementation in ToEE at Hulver

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(Originally posted by chevalier)

Hulver have posted an article about Dungeons and Dragons rules implementation in the Temple of Elemental Evil from Troika. Here's a clip:

The Curve

One of the difficulties of using the 3.5 edition rule set was in the learning curve. If you're playing the P&P game as a player you have to learn the combat rules and how your character works- a pretty daunting task. In Temple, you start off with 5 characters, all with radically different abilities and the corresponding rules; so the amount of material you have to understand at the beginning of the game is even steeper. Plus, the combat system has many moves available to the players at first level, even though they aren't really effective until later in the game. Often, in computer games, rules information is hidden from the player until he needs to know them; this is not the case in P&P games, as the player has to know the rules to be able to play.

Read the whole thing at Hulver.