The Age of Decadence: Difference between revisions

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* [[After the End]]: An uncommon example in that the world wasn't even at "modern" tech level when things went explody.

* [[Author Appeal]]: Of the non-sexual type, it's an indie game after all.

* [[Low Fantasy]]: It's a cynical, brutal, low-magic world set [[After the End]].

* [[Point Build System]]: Rather than winning XP toward a [[Level Up]], you win points that can be applied directly to skills, and only for quest completion.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Even in the demo, there are plenty of allusions to obscurer facets of non-Hollywood Rome. Sadly, all gladiator fights seem to be to the death.

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Fallout]]'' and the many others that are also spiritual successors to it (such as ''[[Arcanum]]'').

* [[Vaporware]]: It's an indie game.

* [[Weapon Across the Shoulder]]: Two handed weapons default to this when out of combat.

** [[Heroes Prefer Swords|"Heroes" Prefer Swords]]: Will critical more often and can hit everyone around you in a whirlwind attack.

** [[Knife Nut]]: Has low AP cost and accurate, will bypass armor often, and can "flurry" to get in even more attacks.

** [[An Axe to Grind]]: Can break shields, high damage for high AP. Also can access the whirlwind attack.

** [[Straight Arrow]]: [[Captain Obvious|Can attack from range, but not up close]]. Downsides include ammo issues (As, at least with the combat demo, [[Ao D]] does not use [[Money for Nothing]]), low skill characters will often miss, low armor penetration (or if using pierceing arrows, low damage). Like all ranged weapons, shield users have a bonus to their block rate against ranged attacks.

** Throwing Weapons: Being the only one handed ranged weapon, it is the only one that can use a shield alongside it. Are expensive, hard to resupply, and have low range, but can attack at close ranges unlike other ranged weapons, and deal more damage.

 

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[[Category:Western RPG]]

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