That is because in Drakensang you won't be flooded with magical items like in Neverwinter Nights, Magic in DSA is rare and you will hardly find any magical items. And once you build one of those special items you will likely keep it for a long time. The normal items can be build with store bought materials and in the end just save you some money compared to items you can buy, but the more powerful ones can only be build when using monster parts which first have to be harvested. To craft something you have to buy/find a blueprint, learn it and then you can, at the correct workstation, build the item as long as you have the correct materials. Many skills in the game are linked to crafting and cover the crafting itself (forging, crafting bows and alchemy) and the collection of the required material. There are combat related skills, like stealth and self-control, nature skills like animal knowledge, social skills like diplomacy, general knowledge skills which handle treating wounds and identifying magical items and crafting skills like crafting bows. The skills themselves are divided into multiple categories. How many ranks you can take is also determined by the linked attributes.Īll of this calculation is of course done for you in the game, but you can see that Drakensang is a bit more complex than D&D so you have to be willing to invest a little more effort to learn the rules in order to play Drakensang than for example Neverwinter Nights 2. There are some exception to this rule as for some skills no checks are made, but instead you simply need a specific amount of ranks in order to do something. So in order to get better in a skill you can either increase the linked attributes or increase the skill itself.Īfter all three checks are made the remaining skill ranks you did not spend to reduce the die rolls determine how well you do something, which is especially important for spells which are resolved in the same way. When you increased the skill rank you are allowed to subtract 1 point for each rank from one of those rolls. This is true for skill checks and for the combat.Įvery skill in Drakensang is linked to three attributes and in order to succeed in a skill check you have to roll three times and get below those attributes. Generally in order to succeed you have to roll below the target number. That's why it is not that bad that you don't have the complete control over you character when you create him or her.Ĭhecks in DSA are made with a 20 sided dice, like in D&D, except that you have to roll low, instead of high. Every character can learn everything, the question is just about how much points it costs. DSA is point based which means that as you earn experience you can it to increase skills, attributes and weapon profiencies. Now, before I continue to review this game, let me first explain the rules a bit to prevent any misunderstandings. The look, starting attributes, advantages and disadvantages and in the case of dwarves and amazons, the gender is fixed. You can choose from a number of pre build characters of different origins and professions and, if you want, change the starting skills of them. Instead the game is based on the german Das Schwarze Auge (The Black Eye) rpg which is quite differently than D&D right from the beginning.Īt the start of the game you create a character and compared to other RPGs the character creation is more limited. Unlike most recent RPGs of this style, Drakensang does not use the D&D rules system. Compared to it the game offers a long and interesting single player campaign and a complex combat system, but lacks the editor and multiplayer gameplay. Intensive tactical combat and intriguing quests, embedded in a wonderfully detailed 3D graphic presentation these are the cornerstones of the fantasy epic.The Dark Eye: Drakensang is a recently released single player RPG similar to Neverwinter Nights 2. But the essential qualities and the depth of the original rules have not been compromised. The developers have optimized the rulebook specially for the PC realization in order to make the game more accessible. Drakensang is the first PC game for over 10 years to be based on Germany's most successful and popular role-play system.ĭrakensang builds on the pen & paper rules as applied in version 4.0. Drakensang is a third-person party-based RPG based on the pen & paper role-play rules of The Dark Eye.
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