Smart party composition means putting your Wall Of Meat up front and your squishes in back accidentally leaving a clothie in the front row usually means a dead party member.Īnd oh yeah, resurrection and healing are expensive in this game. Most monsters can only attack the first three party members, and tend to focus most on the first party member your last three party members are immune to most non-special, non-magical attacks. your party size is six, and position counts. but by the late game, warrior classes are merely ablative armor for the arcane demigods who rain down merciless thaumaturgic death on your enemies. And it's an 80s CRPG based quite closely on 80s D&D, so it suffers from "linear fighters, quadratic casters." Early on, your fighters do most of the killing, while your pathetic apprentice mages cower behind them and hope they aren't accidentally killed by a kitten scratch. Second, this is an 80s CRPG so the class balance is awful. (Besides, a rogue is necessary to complete The Bard's Tale III: The Thief of Fate, and I'd like to think our heroes live that story as well, even if this LP doesn't tell it.)
The bards tale music series#
(Fun fact: Originally the series was to be titled Tales of the Unknown, with each game highlighting a different class, but Tales of the Unknown: The Bard's Tale was such a breakaway hit Interplay chose to keep the name for future installments, so we got The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight instead of Tales of the Unknown: The Destiny Knight, et cetera.) We'll also need a rogue, because the game really wants us to have one, even if they aren't actually much use in the first game. First, this is The Bard's Tale, so we need a bard. Unfortunately, we're tightly constrained on party creation for a few reasons. Of course, the first consideration of any tale of heroism is: Who are the heroes? Or, at the very least, he'll sing a really sad song about it when we get gruesomely killed. The journey may be long, but we will persevere with a few stout sword-arms, a mage or two, and most important, a bard to inspire and enchant us with his music.
The bards tale music free#
So tonight, my friends, let us set out on an adventure begun thirty years ago! Together, we shall free the town of Skara Brae from the eternal winter loosed by the wizard Mangar. (By the way, the image and MP3s above are hosted at Bard's Tale Online, an excellent fansite you should definitely visit.)Īnd here's a thing: Technically, I never finished it. I know it's not terribly impressive by modern standards, when games often take up thirty gigabytes and includes a soundtrack performed by a live orchestra, but 30 years ago that was pretty darn posh. Frex, here's another clip of Wayland's Watch, as played on a different instrument. The Adventurer's Guild music (Wayland's Watch)Īnd even fancier, because the game took advantage of the IIGS's wavetable synthesis capabilities, the bard's songs would sound different based on equipped instrument.
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