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Vox Ludi Serpent in the Staglands review!

[img=https://voxludicus.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/507127394.jpg] Francisco of Vox Ludi has written a thorough write-up of Serpent in the Staglands and his experiences. If you’re on the fence or wondering about the game, check it out! Full link after some choice quotes we enjoyed: “Like the seafaring Amethyvians that worship Necholai, Serpent in the Staglands’ foremost quality is its ambition, which looms like a mountain over the smaller hills that are its flaws. If you choose to venture into the peninsula, I tell you this: the Staglands are a dangerous place, and the carrion god takes mortals and gods alike.” “This lack of hand-holding and the multitude of applications you can give to your aptitudes lend the game a truly pen-and-paper role-playing game feel, leaning not only on its choices, writing and story to summon this feeling but on the fact that you have many tools you can put to use throughout the game.” Link to full review Cheers! Keep up with news, updates and future games from Whalenought on our blog Or on Twitter!

[ 2015-07-29 05:21:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Serpent in the Staglands
Whalenought Studios

Developer

Whalenought Studios

Publisher

2015-05-28

Release

RPG Singleplayer

A true role-playing adventure.

A campaign within the world of Vol, a fully realized setting inspired by the late bronze age in a Transylvanian landscape, with unique politics, races and gods steeped in history. Featuring a chosen party of five, you role-play Necholai, a minor god of a celestial body who descends to the Staglands for a moonlit festival only to find the way home blocked and immortality slipping away. Seeking answers and aid, you take on a mortal body and the guise of a traveling Spicer. This isn't a story of good and evil, saving the world or being a hero, it's about intrigue and your adventure of survival in a harsh land.

While the game rolls the dice for you, you'll traverse the Staglands on a path narrated by your own wits and choices. A tabletop inspired experience with adventure-game like navigation, Serpent in the Staglands offers no auto-populating map markers, checklist quest grinding and rigid story exposition.

Examine hand-drawn maps in your inventory for secret locations, diagrams of foreign languages, note encounters of interest in your in-game journal and figure out on your own how best to smuggle Spices. Roleplay, investigate, and pray to the RNG god when combat begins.

Serpent in the Staglands features:

Party-based, real time with pause combat focused on macro tactical decisions and creative party skill combinations
Classless role-playing system: create builds via any combination of the over 100 magic, combat and aptitude skills available to create or find up to 5 unique characters
Non-linear storyline to explore as your adventure allows
No level scaling or story-blocked map barriers impede your adventure
Dynamic item use, including an incantation book, hand-drawn maps, and a herbology kit for brewing potions
Combat designed for minimal pause spamming and without cooldowns, instead focusing on pre-buffing, positioning and auto-triggering skills
An unmarked map filled with wilderness, cities, towers, temples, dungeons and caverns to explore.
Write your own journal notes for quests, puzzles and leads as you investigate. The game won't hold your hand or tell you what to do.
Huge variety of enemies and challenges, including monsters, rogue mages and mutilated outlaws, which all can have the same spells and skills you do

You'll never pay for updates, patches, or DLC of any kind for Serpent in the Staglands.

For more gameplay information and official forums, please visit: http://serpentinthestaglands.com

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 10.10 +
Processor: 2.4 GHz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processorMemory: 3 GB RAM
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: 512 MB +
Storage: 3 GB available space

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