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| WoTC Announces D&D Master Tools Software | | March 20, 2001 | | Posted by Cassie | Wizards of the Coast and Fluid Entertainment, along with Troika Games, developers of the Arcanum computer roleplaying game, today announced plans to release the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) Master Tools software in early August. D&D Master Tools, in conjunction with the Arcanum World Editor, will streamline tabletop roleplaying adventure creation, giving game enthusiasts more control over their own campaigns.
The D&D Master Tools is an essential tool for Dungeon Masters to generate characters, monsters, treasures, encounters, and maps which can be cataloged for easy and quick reference. The Arcanum World Editor adds a powerful, tile-based map editor to the D&D Master Tools program. Together, this suite of tools will enable Dungeon Masters to author adventures in the classic D&D module style. Additionally, the initial print run will include a unique Blackguard pewter miniature.
The D&D Master Tools software offers players a customizable database that allows new data, "house" rules, a top-down map and prekeyed encounter areas to be entered easily into existing campaigns.
"The Master Tools Character Generator demonstration CD-ROM received nearly one million impressions from its inclusion in the Player's Handbook and from Web downloads. We fully anticipate the D&D Master Tools software suite to continue to build on this popularity," said Bill Dugan, vice president of electronic publishing at Wizards of the Coast. "Our partnership with Fluid helps to put the Master Tools adventure authoring program at the technological forefront of tabletop roleplaying."
Originally released in 1974, the Dungeons & Dragons game has gone through continual evolution and growth. It received the first facelift to its rules and game mechanics (second edition) in 1989. Now in its third edition, the Dungeons & Dragons game is ready for the new millennium -- it has been redesigned to reflect more than a decade of evolution in game design advances and provides a definitive adventure roleplaying experience for a new generation of game players.
Troika Games was founded in 1998 by Tim Cain, Jason Anderson and Leonard Boyarsky. Located in Tustin, California and staffed by leaders in the computer RPG world, Troika is dedicated to making the next generation of cutting edge computer RPGs. They are presently working on their first title as a development house, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, to be published by Sierra Studios. For more information, visit www.troikagames.com.
Fluid Entertainment, located in Mill Valley, Calif., is a computer game development company www.fluidnet.com. |
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