I read an article about the new Bard's Tale game and to me it sounds more
like a modern version of Keef the Thief than BT.

Had to see if anybody agrees.

-Darryl

At 08:25 PM 11/30/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>I was just flipping through some video game magazine and there is a review
>of a new Bard's Tale being made.. this one is not a grassroots effort... It
>apparently is being put together by some of the people involved in the
>original game, although the name I most associate with it, Michael Crawford,
>is not involved. It's expected to ship sometime next year. The review
>made it sound interesting, although it also said it would not be very much
>like the original trilogy. I expect it is an attempt at riding on the
>coattails of earlier success to get people to notice it, similar to how
>Beachhead 2000 from Access Software was nothing like the original Beachhead
>from Access in the 80's. But it did sound interesting. I think the driving
>force behind this is to parody some of the crap that is getting passed off
>as RPGs these days. They have secured the trademark for "The Bard's Tale"
>worldwide except in the US, and are trying to get it here.
>
>Check out http://www.inxile-entertainment.com/
>
>P.S. Keep your hands off the woman's "goods.." ;-) Three strikes and
>you're out.
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