Brilliant blast from the past! I hesitated when I saw all the posts about win 7 compatability, but in the end figured $5.99 was a reasonable gamble. Either the problem has been fixed or it wasn't a windows problem to start with. I'm on win 7 home premium, 80% through the story campaign, and haven't experienced a single glitch.
It's a reasonable D&D sim, but not as good as memory'd have it. It may mean more to you if you remember the old rules; probably a lot less, if you don't. Trip attacks. You'll see tough foes dash past your front line fighters, execute flawless trip attacks on the mage, then beat the spellcaster senseless. It's a strategy, sure, but it's one you'll get very tired of. Nulb. Why does it exist? Hommlet has all kinds of things going on and a huge romance quest. Nulb has almost nothing going for it. Why didn't they just ditch Nulb and skip straight on to the Temple? Yes, Nulb's in the original tabletop RPG, but that was written on paper, not in stone. The combat's interesting and occasionally challenging. The fishing quest will drive you nuts until you get the secret. Once you hit about 6th or 7th level, the challenge goes out of it; 8th or 9th, and you'll be Cleaving your way through most of the encounters. Difficulty does not adjust, which also means that, at low level, you'll get murdered time and again. I guess this is why you shouldn't go into these things with great expectations. It was fun for what it was, and if I'd seen this ten years ago I'd have loved it. Time has passed since then and games have improved. Accept it for what it is: a nostalgia trip, but not a world-shattering experience.
