Though the battle was hard-fought, our DM was kind enough to place custom loot on his own corpse, which of course played into the seemingly equally deep set of character customization options.

Fancy Pants and his giant spider minion (which the DM also commanded). Thanks to the relatively liberal allotment of healing and self-resurrection potions, our party eventually triumphed over Mr. He then whipped around the world map before zooming way down to a specific street corner where he placed Gwen, set the mission start condition to “On Speak,” and penned some quick custom dialogue (though DMs can also choose to tell the story over chat).

To start, the developer serving as DM crafted a custom mission-giver-in this case, a ranger named Gwen-from her physical appearance to her general demeanor. The custom module du jour focused on locating a lost member of the central protagonist’s fractured guild, the once great Burning Dawn. Sword Coast’s hands-on demo at E3 2015 showcased the dungeon crafting tools for the first time, giving us an accelerated overview of the impressively granular process.

Fortunately for Dungeons & Dragons fans, isometric RPG Sword Coast Legends not only draws from official Forgotten Realms lore thanks to developer n-Space’s partnership with Wizards of the Coast, it also recreates several of the core experience’s most integral components, including robust character creation options, cooperative party-focused multiplayer, and most importantly, custom campaigns crafted by your own devious dungeon master.

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