Announcements

13 November 2008. Please read the latest update in the forum.

26 September 2008. Finished an upgrade of the AI allowing it to activate magic wands, use the ready versus spell action and cast Dispel on the party when that would be useful. Partial charges are allowed as part of the ready versus spell action. Nearly all the backdrop graphics have been finished by the artist, so a major upgrade of the maps is planned.

6 September 2008. Currently adding the Ready Versus Spell combat action and new sound effects. No time to post a new forum article, sorry!

25 August 2008. Currently working on the game's graphics and sound. Recently added creature portraits. Check out these four new screenshots. On another topic, here is review of Avernum 1.

8 August 2008. Here is a new article about the Fire, Frost and Hill giants. Added latest-posts shortcuts to the website menu. Added many music tracks to the game, here are two samples: medieval village, character creation.

13 July 2008. Here is a new article about Undead creatures. Menu added to the FAQ, Design notes and RPG shrine pages. Added some pictures to the Dark Sun article.

6 July 2008. Major rework of the game's sound effects. Here is a new article about the Chromatic Dragons featuring exclusive pictures, be sure to check it out. As usual, comments are welcome.

28 June 2008. Here is a review of Neverwinter Nights 2 and here is a new article on the Slaver Lords and their allies the Orcs, Gnolls and Trolls.

23 June 2008. New Poll: which Dungeons & Dragons edition do you think is best for a video game adaptation? (read the topic for examples of games using each edition)

21 June 2008. Added new dragon sprites and the first few music tracks to the game. Also launched a Focus on Monster series in the forum. Check out the Iron Golem. Other articles will be released in coming weeks about: the Slaver Lords, Chromatic Dragons, Medusa and Grimlocks, the Undead, Demons, etc.

17 June 2008. Check out my review of Temple of Elemental Evil: Keep on the Borderlands demo in the forum, or if you like fantasy books, check out my post on books.

13 June 2008. Thinking on how to get more people interested, I did a small study comparing traffic at websites interested in RPGs. Here is the result.

12 June 2008. Added descriptions for all feats, spells, weapons and enchantments. Follow the links to read the descriptions. Added forum ranks, from Squire (less than 4 posts) to Knight Commander (at least 60 posts).

8 June 2008. Added Windowed mode and many small interface improvements. Added a section on How to create characters in the How to play page.

29 May 2008. Hired Nino Rajacic to produce the music and sound effects.

28 May 2008. The game was tested on Windows Vista and it works well.

21 May 2008. Switched from Monotype Corsiva to Arial since many computers can't display the Corsiva text font correctly. Reduced the website width so that users at resolution 800x600 don't have to scroll horizontally. Cleaned up HTML code, introduced an external cascading style sheet.

18 May 2008. Uploaded website.

17 May 2008. No announcement released yet.

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