When that plucky dwarf rogue manages to decimate your well-constructed Orc Commander with the hours of backstory with a lucky strike backstab, normally the adventure would come to a screeching halt. Unlike other games where you are given tools to build scenarios, Sword Coast Legends provides the tools and capabilities to live-DM your adventure. With your world built and published, it’s time to drag your friends through it. It’ll be on you as the DM to actively narrate to fill the gaps. While it falls short of being able to record your own dialogue (something strongly hinted at during development), it does allow you to build a great text-based quest set. Want to rig Cheesers with a trap that triggers when he’s found and makes him shriek “I regret nothing!” as he explodes into horse giblets? I suppose you could do that as well. Want to place an invisible horse named Cheesers into the clearing, requiring players use their search skill to uncover him? Done. The sky’s the limit on what you are able to create, no matter how ridiculous or out of touch with reality it is. After naming your quest, you can begin to pipe in the mechanics that trigger it, what happens when it is triggered, how it links to creatures or behaviors, and much more. The normal archetype quests to defeating a boss, collecting a trinket, or taking down a group of enemies are present, but a good chunk of time you’ll be using the custom quest button. With your creatures and setting selected, it’s time to build the heart of any good dungeon - quests and storyline. Rounding things out there are 14 creature sets including Drow, Illithids, Goblins and the usual suspects, though I was surprised that there is nary a yippy kobold or fearsome dragon to be found. As big as the selection is, it does give only a hint of what’s possible with this engine. Within these scene sets are subtypes, including 17 human city interiors, five slums, and much more. This will allow you to easily build a huge forest complete with bears and spooky cottages, underground mines filled with spiders the size of a Subaru, and recreate the crimson and purple world of the Underdark. Speaking sets, the team at n-Space have, at launch, shipped eight scene types - forests, grasslands, swamp, mountains, human and Duergar cities, Elisium, and the Underdark. Dungeons can be dozens of hours deep, filled with monsters you can select from included creature sets. Using menu-driven drag-and-drop systems, a would-be DM is able to create worlds ranging from the mundane to the expansive. Sword Coast Legends tries to not only reduce the barrier to entry, but completely eliminate it. A dedicated set of gamers always turn out something amazing, while the rest of us toil in whatever complex and frustrating minutia has tripped us up from realizing our magnum opus. While there is a single-player campaign (and it is extensive), let’s kick all of this off looking at the world building system of Sword Coast Legends.Ī long list of games have shipped with the tools used to create new levels and brand new adventures. Normally I focus on multiplayer in the latter parts of my reviews, but in this case, Sword Coast Legends is primarily built as an engine to bring together friends for a trip to the world of Forgotten Realms.
But what about all of us well-versed storytellers who want to craft our own stories for our friends? Welcome to Sword Coast Legends.
In that case, companies like Bioware are taking the role of DM. In games like Neverwinter Nights, Champions of Krynn, Temple of Elemental Evil, and others, the developers put in an incredible amount of time building a scripted narrative for players to engage and explore. There has always been an issue with the formula that prevented a 1:1 translation from pen and paper to keyboard and mouse - the Dungeon Master, or DM.
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It has gone through many iterations and forms, full revisions, and even a few lawsuits, yet somehow has emerged as a mainstream product that permeates movies, games, and of course tabletop. Dungeons & Dragons has likely been around longer than you, the reader, has been alive.
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