Windows 3.x

Blades of Exile

I never thought I'd say it, but I miss that low-impact Win 3.x blue-gradient installation background.

Splash screen

Welcome!

Start menu

Display preferences

Interface instructions

The game provides a stock party to use.

Adjusting a character's special abilities.

Modifying a character's skills.

Selecting a character icon.

Episode selection

Background

Starting location

Setting things in motion.

Opening my bedroom door to... who knows what mysterious thing await?

Line-of-sight clears things right up.

Wandering the exterior of the fort.

Out of the town!

My next destination?

What the graphics fail to indicate, the prose will drive home 8)

Most every RPG could use a few of these posted at regular intervals.

A pleasant enough little town at the crossroads

Some of my alchemical options

Automapping in the town

Examining a townsperson.

Just a bit too fate to squeeze through that diagonal opening...

The game's afoot!

Could it be? A dungeon?

I'll go for door number 3, Bob.

Decisions, decisions.

For lack of the correct key, a quest goes unexplored.

This ain't great...

Sure, what could go wrong?

Sounds like Coca-Cola to me...

If you look next to our faces, you will see that the whole party is poisoned!

Aw, curses. When it rains, it pours!

Outdoor automap

The plot thickens!

Let this be a lesson to you, kids: poison is bad for you!

I know my appetite is stirred by such prose!

Conducting commerce.

Aha! A quest!

Obviously that warning doesn't apply to adventurers!

I smell a fight brewing!

Expanding the party for combat!

I hit them!

They hit me.

Game over!

The editor allows us to manipulate crucial RPG details, massaging the data deeply.

Superficial changes can also be made. NOM NOM NOM