Back before Total War, there was a game close to what you describe: Warhammer: Dark Omen. It's actually a great tragedy that the series and style...
I just thought I'd mention that my book The Temple of Heart and Bone is on sale over at Amazon for the next five days. I'm trying out their...
It's not quite ready for prime-time, but I do have hopes for Divinity: Original Sin for turn-based combat. What I've played so far shows a great...
I've played The Elder Scrolls since Arena, the first one, and I think immersion and, let's say, possibility, are the main goals of the games....
Hearts Valves
SeverinR, UofA as in Wildcats, Tucson, and daily A-10 flyovers? I played Wizardry from IV on through VII. I think my party - which I still have...
I can only use wikipedia on this, sadly it's been 22 years since I was at the university and all my history classes, but it was, apparently,...
Crossbows were banned back in the day. (According to Wikipedia that day was in the year 1139 by Pope Innocent II.) As I recall, it was an issue...
Town Crier Stocks
The Romans believed their gods interacted with the world. Christianity would eventually supplant the Roman pantheon as State religion, but...
Free-will Albigensian
I think my first fantasy novel was Piers Anthony's On a Pale Horse. I moved on from Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality to David Eddings'...
I don't know about making them do more foolish things... As I get older, I do notice a marked tendency to wonder why some of those folks are doing...
