Temple of Elemental Evil Interview at GameZone

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(Originally posted by Veldrin)

GameZone has posted an interview with Tim Cain from Troika about The Temple of Elemental Evil. Here is a clip:

Question: This title utilizes Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 ruleset. What made you settle on that for the overriding rules for the game? What, in your opinion, do you think makes the D&D rulesets so widely regarded and more or less the standard for these styles of games?

Tim: Troika was working on the Temple of Elemental Evil (ToEE) using the 3.0 ruleset when the announcement came about the upcoming release of the 3.5 ruleset. Since this release would occur before the release of ToEE, we felt that it was important to not hit the shelf using an obsolete set of rules. In addition, many of the changes to the rules were sorely needed improvements, especially in balancing some of the classes like druids and rangers.

As for why D&D is considered the standard ruleset for CRPG’s, I think it’s mostly historical. Most players of CRPG’s have been exposed to D&D already, either as a paper-and-pencil game or in earlier CRPG’s. This exposure makes them more comfortable with the D&D rules instead of learning something new.

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