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She was a total goof who constantly got herself into trouble. As an example, I’d like to bring up a spellcaster from my first campaign: Maya Tum. However, some decisions have much wider effects on your individual characters. How do you choose to resolve this? Do you agree with your mage and trust the hermit, or do you let your hot-headed warrior cut him down? The decision and direction the story will take ultimately falls on the player. The naïve mage of your party is willing to take the hermit’s offer at face value, but the warrior is staring daggers at the crusty old fool, and would sooner shove a blade through his torso then trust him. Perhaps a smelly hermit crawled out of some bushes and made your band of heroes an offering. They’ll also include a snippet of dialogue, or internal monologue, so the player has a sense of what the option represents without divulging the actual outcome. During key moments, two to three options will appear alongside the characters responsible for executing them. However, Wildermyth will regularly consult the player for their input to keep them engaged. This helps in maintaining consistency so the character and their actions remain believable within the context of the story and the world. In this way, Wildermyth and the player are creating characters instead of avatars and that’s a key distinction.īecause each cast member in Wildermyth isn’t simply an avatar for the player, they are able to act, speak, and think on their own terms. While players have the option to make minor tweaks to their initial party, this creation process feels akin to filling in a character sheet while rolling some dice before starting a tabletop RPG.

This provides each character with a brief backstory, appearance, and personality.

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Instead of featuring scripted characters or a character creator where the player has full control, Wildermyth randomly generates each of your party members. This translation of collaborative storytelling into a digital space sits at the heart of why I think Wildermyth is such a compelling experience. In this way, the game is able to create unique, collaborative character and story moments in the same way as traditional tabletop play. While procedural generation is an often overused and off-putting buzzword, Wildermyth smartly utilizes this randomization for both mechanical and storytelling purposes. It sticks close to the tabletop roots of the genre, but takes advantage of procedural elements as a core part of the experience. That said, here’s Wildermyth and why I found it so gosh darn enjoyable.Īs you may have surmised, Wildermyth is a role-playing game that was released earlier this year after a stint in Steam Early Access. It’s fantastic in its own right, and I’d even go as far as calling it the best role-playing experience of the year that no one has heard of. As such, I had a tendency to focus on what Wildermyth was not instead of what it was, and that kind of approach doesn’t do the game justice. I have a somewhat tumultuous relationship with role-playing games, so I found the myriad of small changes it makes refreshing in a sea of suffocatingly similar experiences. I’ve wanted to write about this game for months, but every time I review what I’ve written I’m dissatisfied. What I just shared transpired during my most recent playthrough of Wildermyth. Perhaps this business of the world guardians wasn’t so ridiculous after all. Its pattern was unmistakable – it mirrored the tortoise she’d just spoken to.

Nyxa groggily arose to greet her, only for Varlia to ask, “did I catch you sleeping?” “Was it all a dream?” Nyxa thought, until Varlia pointed out the talisman now wrapped around her waist. As suddenly as it had appeared, the tortoise vanished as one of Nyxa’s associates, Varlia, entered the clearing.