Posted on: January 31, 2018
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Second remake of the best WRPG ever
I've been playing Jeff Vogel's games since the original Exile. We had only Macs in our house, so it was one of the few RPGs we had to play, and by the gods were we Mac kids lucky to have Jeff Vogel plugging away on our behalf. Exile 3, the game this is the second remake of, is in my humble opinion Jeff's best game ever. When Exile came out, the post-apocalyptic D&D setting, Dark Sun, had taken hold of my imagnation 4 years previous. Exile, in a similar way, threw the conventions of medieval fantasy through the looking glass into an alien world of mushrooms, crystals, stone, and exceedingly friendly talking spiders. Exile 2 delved into even deeper and more alien landscapes. In Exile 3, Jeff pulled off his greatest trick: making the standard, banal fantasy setting seem wondrous simply because players had spend the two previous games getting used to the subterranean world. Of course it isn't that simple. The world above has some serious problems, and if anything things get even weirder than down in the caves (two words: giant cockroaches). But, at least for me, that feeling of grass and trees being alien and weird held on throughout. Whether today, with weird being almost banal, it will have the same effect on new players, I don't know. But it had it on me, and it just might have it on you too.
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