When RPG’s had teeth: The Bard’s Tale

I’ve played a lot of Role Playing Games (RPG’s) over the years, but my all-time favorite remains to be The Bard’s Tale, the very first RPG I ever really played. While I admit that a large part of that is nostalgia, there’s actually some objective reasoning to my argument.

First, let me explain the story. The plot is rather simple and comes nowhere near the complexity of modern games like Final Fantasy or Dragon Age. Instead, the premise of The Bard’s Tale is very simple: The evil wizard Manga...