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The Magic Candle t Vol. VI,# 4 April, 1989 $2.50 Quest of the Month A vvicked RPG: The Magic Candle By Shay Addams Meet the Party (Animals) dungeon fountains to elevate the trait's Eating ore with a fork-that's as good as This is your basic Dwarf, Human, actual rating. it gets out on the open range in Deruvia, Halfling and Elf society, and there are One thing to work on immediately is where I've spent the past few weeks bat­ only five skills. In addition to the usual Charisma. I've never seen a game in which Charisma is so impor­ tling more of those deadly little devils weapon skills, than in any fantasy land since Ultima !I's however, Ata­ tant at the outset. You can't enter some rooms or talk Sosaria. Though a cursory glance at the bek thought­ with certain people until screen shots on the package might at first fully gave us a lead you to deem this just another clone, Learning Skill your Charisma is high enough-and must travel Magic Candle contributes numerous in­ that enables quite a distance to do so. novations to the computer RPG, doing so fighter types to There are only a dozen in an imaginative setting and story. The learn faster at insightful game design shows the au­ combat kinds of swords, axes and thor's visions owe as much to his experi­ schools, and bows, and five types of ar­ ence as an adventurer as they.do to his cuts the time mor. The interesting thing is role as a designer. magic users IBM EGA/Tandy version that weapons wear down in need to memorize battle. A weapon starts at 00 points What? No Evil Wizard? spells. Skills such as swordfighting and for Wear and Tear, which, as it gets worn Ali N. Atabek, who did Rings of Zilfin magic are improved with use as well as down in battle, goes up to 99-and at this in 1986, makes a far more impressive by accumulating experience points. point becomes useless. To keep it sharp, a showing in this six-character quest. Sum­ Your pre-rolled character is called Lu­ sword must be "Fixed" in camp. moned to King Rebnard's castle, you're kas, but you can change his name. In the Continued on page ten informed that for centuries the demon Knight's Room of the Castle, 25 more Dreax had been securely locked away in volunteers await your selection. Their at- a Magic Candle kept tributes, weap­ Would You Believe ... ? aflame by the Four ons, magic books and Forty Guardians. Type: Fantasy RPG and brief bios are According to our new "undercover edi­ The Guardians have Systems: Apple (64K), C 64, described in the tor," a well-known designer (who prefers vanished, the Candle IBM (256K required, EGA, CGA, manual, and you not to be named at this time) is writing an is burning low and Tandy graphics, hard drive can also check adventure game version of The Satanic Dreax will escape un­ supported) out onscreen Verses, to be published by a company less you can find a Version Reviewed: Apple stats at any time. that also prefers not to be named at this way to prevent this ca­ (version 1.5) While some time, and distributed by a distributor that tastrophe. A time limit people probably prefers not to be named at this time. is in effect, and one window tells the prefer more input in character creation, I In a related story, we hear Infocom ac­ number of days left before the Candle like this style of party creation: you get to quired the computer game rights to Roy burns down. If playing the easy version, make key decisions about the party's Orbison's last album, Mystery Girl, and you have 1,000 days (800 for the interme­ composition without spending time roll­ will make it into a graphic adventure-­ diate level setting, 600 for difficult) to ing up (and rerolling up) every single The Orb of Orbison. (It's a little known unravel the riddle of the Candle. character. And your party is ready to fact that Orbison was among the world's King Rebnard doesn't have a clue as to rock- fully stocked with weapons, ar­ most devoted adventurer gamers- the how this might be accomplished, but mor, spells, weapons and other necessary only reason he wore such thick glasses he'll at least donate some gold, food and gear. That means you spend less time was because he spend so much time star­ other goods to your party. There are lots building up hardware in the early stages. ing at the monitor while lost in a maze.) of mini-quests to complete, but these are There are no character levels as such, Interplay just announced they'll convert not assigned as formal missions by any­ so you don't have to keep returning to a Neuromancer for the Cray- "the next big one. You run across clues suggesting Guild. Traits such as Strength are boosted game machine," according to Brian Far­ things you might do, such as seeking the by first awakening the appropriate god go. And Jon van Caneghem plans to team Hammer of Thorin in Marmaris. (there are eight), who increases your po­ up with the author of Future Magic to tential. Then you've got to drink from produce Future Might and Magic. Letters . Adventure Hotline . to the ~ ~ Editor New Quests Six Free Issues of QB! Dear QuestBusters: Project= Firestart, which looks like it was Do you know anyone else on the entire Sega recently released a few adventure inspired by the film Aliens, is a new RPG planet who plays adventures? Get them to from Dynamix (distributed by EA) for the subscribe to QB-and mention your games for its videogame system. Do you C 64. Based on the Agatha Christie se­ name when they do-and we'll add six plan to review any? ries, The Scoop is out for the IBM and free issues to your sub (four if it's First Joseph M. Smith Apple (from Spinnaker). Lancelot is a Class or Canadian, two for overseas.) graphic adventure with over 60,000 You can even give someone a gift sub­ Dear QuestBusters: words of text that tells a three-part saga in scription and get the free issues (but you Have you ever considered doing a month­ which you seek the Holy Grail (IBM, ST, can't give a gift sub to yourself or a ly Nintendo/Sega column? Amiga, Mac). It's from Datasoft,,as is household member). And thanks to every­ Steve Kempton Time and Magik, a set of three graphic one who has already done so. adventures with time travel themes. Both Dear QuestBusters: games feature impressive digitized Contest Winners ···some of them are actually better than graphics. This winner of this month's Random Drawing is Walter Compton. Fred Ando­ many computer role-playing games. Do Conversions li won the Keys to the Kingdoms contest, you plan to start reviewing more of them? Dondra should have shipped by now for and will also get the game of his choice. Susan Jenkins the C 64 and GS. (Still no word on game two in Sean Barger's QuestMaster series.) Secret Contest We'll be covering adventure-style video­ Baudville's Dream 'Zone is now available Our all-new Secret Contest is a simple games(like 'Zelda) for the Sega, Nintendo for the Amiga and IBM. The Amiga and one: all you have to do is tell us the ques­ and other systems, but won't devote as GS versions of DungeonMaster are out tion, and you'll win the game of your much space to these reviews. Maybe a The GS version includes a new dungeon choice. That's right-you don't even column, or we might combine several re­ designed for kids. Mac and IBM versions have to give the question's correct an­ views into a longer piece. (Hopefully the are next. swer! Contest expires June 5, 1989. Send entries to Secret Contest, c/o QB. videogame industry won't vanish, as it Coming Soon: did just a few years ago, before our next Star Saga Two should be ready for the GS The Key Club issue!) And if it's a matter of space, we'll and IBM this summer (we'll review the If you need help on an older game and never cut a computer game review to first game next month). DungeonMaster can't stand waiting for Duffy, request a make room for video game coverage. II, erroneously reported as being released copy of the Key Club list It gives names in January, has not been released for the and addresses of QBers who will answer Dear QuestBusters: ST, and FrL has not set a date. questions of specific games. Write to Lately I've had trouble sleeping. Can you Brian Smith, 3035 Montego, Piano TX recommend a good potion? Going for the Gold: Bestselling 75023 and send a self-addressed, stamped Jason Watts Adventures of 1988 envelope. If you want to add your name King's Quest IV went gold (100,000 cop­ to the Key Club-and can help with ies) in the first two weeks. Many dealers games released in the past year-Brian, Yes-Deathlord. are calling Pool ofRadiance the bestsell­ the Official Keeper of the Keys-will be ing C 64 game of all time, and it should glad to add your name to the list go gold with the IBM version.
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