Description
The original Swords & Sorcery meets Steam Age Technology role-playing game (Pre-dating Arcanum by six years). The player controls a party of up to 6 players drawn from the standard fantasy races and classes on a quest to prevent the "Darkfall" from engulfing the world of Aden.
Adventuring takes place in a 3-D world with characters created using a standard set of attributes, skills, spells, and equipment that will be familiar to any RPG fan. Thunderscape's unique addition to the genre was the addition of industrial age technology including firearms, steam engines, zeppelins, and primitive robots (steam golems).
Thunderscape was the first World of Aden game released by
SSI, the second (and final) being
Entomorph.
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Trivia
In addition to
West End Games' 1995 publishing of
Shane Lacy Hensley's World of Aden D6/MasterBook Campaign Chronicle for traditional roleplayers, HarperPrism published a "World of Aden: Thunderscape" trilogy of novels in 1996 as a promotional tie-in to the game:
- The Sentinel, by Dixie Lee McKeone;
- Darkfall, by Shane Lacy Hensley; and
- Indomitable Thunder, by Mark Acres.
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
ClydeFrog (10174) on Sep 29, 2001.
