The D&D Video Games You Can Never Play Again 

Not exactly a lost D&D game but you can no longer buy Sword Coast Legends. Would be cool to have a video on it.

Birthright: Gorgon's Alliance, which very ambitious adaptation of the AD&D - Birthright setting by a studio under Sierra. It features both the whole part about ruling a kingdom (and the battle) and also you can take a party of character in adventures (which were made by using the Doom engine) and lots of guitar riffs in the soundtrack. A video about it might be really cool.

I was a bit disappointed you didn't mention Sword Coast Adventures. (No, not Legends, Adventures) It was a browser/cell phone based tie-in to the (still existing) Neverwinter f2p MMO where you sent your Neverwinter characters' NPC companion helpers on little dungeon crawls for in-game (for Neverwinter) loot and crafting materials. Several of the dungeons had branching/multiple paths you could take, with some high end dungeons even unlocking new companions for you if you took the right path. All the encounters were resolved by a dice roll mechanic, and all the dice corresponded roughly to ability stats in D&D, and further broken up by color, which associated them with various Forgotten Realms gods to determine how strongly they went with a certain archetype. This combined with your companions' classes/types determined what kind of dice they had, and the "quality" of your companions (the standard MMO "white (normal)-green (uncommon)-blue (rare)-purple (epic)" hierarchy) determined how big those dice were (d6s, d8s, etc). Basically, each encounter (be it a monster, a trap, a puzzle, whatever) had a certain score for certain dice types you had to hit, and you rolled your party's (made of up to 4 of your character's NPC companions from Neverwinter) dice to see if you could beat the required score. If you beat the score, the party cleared the encounter and moved on, if you failed you had to either make another attempt, or find a different path through. If the character in the encounter failed to beat the required score, they were considered "wounded" and taken out of rotation. Once all 4 party members were wounded, your party was forced to abandon the dungeon, leaving behind all the loot they'd already found, and you were locked out of using those companions again until they'd finished a "recovery" cooldown. It was actually a pretty fun and engaging little minigame to play when you were waiting on crafting cooldowns in Neverwinter, or when you were out of the house and needed a distraction on your phone while you were waiting for appointments or something. Unfortunately, it was taken down in 2016ish, and seems to have dropped completely off everyone's radar. My guess is it was taken down, partially, due to name similarity with the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (which came out right around the same time, IIRC), but I could be mistaken about that. Sorry for the long comment.

Ruins of Mythic Draino... err, I mean Ruins of Myth Drannor. The most cursed, buggy D&D 3.5 game to briefly exist.

Sword Coast Legends. Its gone. Unless you have it downloaded from bak then, its a P.T. of D&D

Yeap, sadly the fully linguistic system from it is only available in temple of Lloth via the wayback. If you ever get into online drow RP, to this day, people will reference that language and its linguistics despite most modern WOTC products completely hacking it apart and reducing a (decent conlang) to just some lexicon.

Ah yes. Lolthites. Known far and wide for heroics....

Ahh, theft of creative content, eh? Interesting. Verrrrry interessstinnng ... *sinks back into the bathtub*

@@thehellyousay Not quite, the industry was much smaller and often the people on somewhere like Temple of Lloth were really close to that inner circle. I.E. people who were players (or DMs) with the people who wrote sourcebooks and such. (Or them themselves doing worldbuilding without NDA) This was REALLY common at the time in the D&D circles. While TSR was a 'big player' it was far from the corporations of tabletop gaming even 10 years into the future. You can see remnants of this if you ever participated in the candlekeep forums in the 00s, as most of the developers would just chat, brainstorm, etc. (you can still see this in the RuneQuest and glorantha forums today)

​@@thehellyousay- ah yes, taking the remnants of ideas not fully formed and making something new from them is "theft" Interesting 🙄

THEY'LL CALL IT RETRO

@@WilliamSRD True enough.

Only other game I've ever seen with "Pay per hour" was All Points Bulletin. A GTA Online attempt before GTA Online existed. It died a couple months in and took the developer with it. 'Nuff said...

I think if anything, they'd shoot for something like 100 hour monthly caps, then a person would have to pay extra for additional time that month. CAAApitalism in this modern day 'n age, amirite?

Don't give them ideas 💡 WoTC will have to monetize it.

Can't even find it though.

Thanks for your amazing and thorough research into the Neverwinter Remakes! Keep up the excellent work, your video was fantastic!

Guess I'll subscribe to your channel...

Love it.

The best D&D settings were all created by GMs for their own use.

@@kevinsullivan3448 That would include Greyhawk, Blackmoor/Mystara, Eberron, and Forgotten Realms.

Guess I'll subscribe to Fandraxx...

same here lol

I'm just disappointed there wasn't more kitty content. That's the real hard hitting stuff, after all.

Same lol

Replayed for the kitty.

Me when i go to a stripclub….

YES!

I came to watch a video about D&D video games that are now relegated to bygone times. I stayed for the cat.

@@richardkenan2891 same

Ngl dude could speak about anything so long as Daisy is on screen 😂 It being an interesting topic is just the cherry on top!

Dark Sun is *another* problematic name...

Dark Sun and Krynn were both settings that don't conform to strict Dumgeons and Dumpster-fires. That's what made them better than Greyhawk. They also shows many people how that they could create their own settings, something companies like NotC will send the Pinkertons to your house over.

​@@kevinsullivan3448D&D has one setting now: Elves & Spiders.

​@@kevinsullivan3448I should rebuild the setting for GURPS...

Sryth? Would you recommend it?

@@comradestannis If you like text adventures? Absolutely. There's a TON of content and I find it all quite well written. I would definitely consider using a starter guide to get you going in the world - it's not necessary, but there's some, well, you know, tabletop-esque not immediately apparent things that can make your life easier to begin. Absolutely fun though!

@@vivaldi_is_dreaming Oho, text adventures. Sounds nice.

Good grief, Sryth is _still going?!_ I can't even remember the last time I thought about that game. Guess I've got something to look into later.

@@omittedforclarity What is Sryth?

I remember! You've been here since the beginning! Thank you for all the support!

I probably still got the book on gdrive, we should make a rom hack and I know a beef up for a max ram magic dosbox, works great on fallout and I bet people would like my invisible button layout probably even more than there own, I do great fallout buttons on phone.

I had a kinda different opinion. I played SL last year, with no prior experience of Goldbox and only kniwing 2e because of Baldur Gate and i had a lot of fun. 0 nostalgia involved. There are definitevely some oddities due to age, but much less compared even to games that came out after it. I'd take SL UI over, say, Fallout 1 UI every time of the day. The controls were completely different than what i was accustomed to, but they wheren't bad or making things hard. And the game has a surprising repsect for your time relative to it's age. The worst i can say about it is that it's kinda short and there isn't quite as much C&C as some more modern games after you get out of the Arena(but the Arena itself is amazing for that). Like, i was playing Fucking WotR at the same time and sometimes i ended up thinking "i'd rather play Shattered Land". The game aged as gracefully as a PC game from the early 90s reasonably can.

That's kind of why I love it. All those problems.

'Problematic' that a 'fantasy' world not conform to modernity.

Which is so ludicrous because it's all about fighting against the bs reigning over the world and it's various societies, or at least carving out some alternative to it. Gods *_forbid_* we be aware of problems and want to solve them, and fight against brutal ruthless injustices. At the same time WotC has hired devs on the cheap and undercut their own staff for so long that there's absolutely no way they wouldn't ruin it. They had so much to play with and so little "problematic" to work around with Spelljammer and still dropped that ball in just gobsmackingly braindead ways. So there's absolutely zero chance they could do it well even if they didn't see the setting as "problematic"

I really loved the artwork also!

Frankly we should consider that a blessing.

Dare I say Halo 3 is a more skillful game than Fortnite?

There should be a manga and an anime

Stormfront is also the name of a nutbasket of nutty Internut Nutzis.

oof