Any good D&D style RPG's?

Brigandier

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I kinda really want to play a D&D style RPG that is not Icewind Dale or Baldur's Gate. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
 
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Temple of Elemental Evil - it's available on GOG, and it feels really faithful to the D&D experience (which for me is fairly limited outside of computer games).

That game has several bugs - if you end up getting it make sure to download the fanmade patches.
 

motsm

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Temple of Elemental Evil - it's available on GOG, and it feels really faithful to the D&D experience (which for me is fairly limited outside of computer games).
ToEE is the most faithful, and IMO best interpretation of D&D rules in a computer game. Also it's just a real good game, so seconded for sure.

If your after something newer, the Drakensang series of PC games is pretty similar to the old Black Isle / Bioware stuff. It's not using D&D rules, but it is based off of a dice based table top, so it plays much the same way. Of course there is also Neverwinter Nights, which is the game Bioware did after Baldur's Gate, and after NWN they did Knights of the Old Republic, which are both D&D. Lastly, don't forget Planescape Torment, which is on the same engine as Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale.
 

Red Hawk

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Dragon Age: Origins. And if you're into Star Wars or just sci-fantasy in general, the Knights of the Old Republic games.
 

nageov3t

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have you played Neverwinter Nights 2? (or the first game, but the first game seemed to be more about the mod content while the second had a lot more beef in the stand-alone game)
 

DaveSimmons

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Neverwinter 1 had a weak original campaign, but the platinum pack with the 2 follow-up campaigns was well worth playing. Plus the piles of user mods including Adam Miller's multi-module sequence.

Star Wars KoTOR 1-2 used D&D rules . . . in space!!!! . . . but seriously they were both quite good despite 2 lacking a real ending.
 

pathos

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I'd second The Temple of Elemental Evil. It has probably the best rules implementation of any computer game. Also, when I way back when I was a kid and still played dnd, I was pretty fond of that module. It was fairly buggy when released, but with the official patches, and the fan patches, it turned into a great game.

As others have stated, Planescape Torment is also a fantastic game that uses dnd rules. I can't remember the name of the rule book it uses (only offshoot book I can think of off the top of my head was Spelljammer, and that wasn't this game)

Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 are games that were made with fan modules in mind. I have yet to finish the in box campaigns in either game, but some of the player made modules up for download are very good.

Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2. First was made by bioware, and it was quite good. Based on Star Wars, but they used a modified baldur's gate system. 2nd game was made by, Obisidian, I think. It was pretty good too, but alot of end game content got cut out, so the ending is lacking. There are fan patches that add alot of the content back in, however.

I guess I'll also add Pools of Radiance - Ruins of Myth Drannor (spelling may be wrong. heck, the name might be as well). The company that made this was trying to recreate one of the old school gold box games, which I highly agree with in principle. the game, however, was an extreme mess when it came out. It was actually damaging windows installs, iirc, if you tried to uninstall the game. And that was only the worst of it's many, many bugs. They did manage to patch up a few things, and it no longer was breaking operating systems. In the end it was actually fairly playable. I still can't really recommend it though.
 

Lorne

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TOEE is a good choice, There are a few Fan patches and one that lets you switch maps the the old Keep on the borderlands (modual B1). Sadly I cannot get the money hack to work in Win7 64, Also Ive not tried it since the new monitor and dont know if it will support the higher res.
Wonders if this was improved/fixed in the GOG download.

POR - RoMD was also one of my favorites but sadly the resolutions was limited to 8x6 outright horrible looking pixellation and really buggy on Win7 64.
 

darkewaffle

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NWN1 has loads of great mods, NWN2 has a decent campaign but I'm not familiar with the modules available for it. Also D&D Shadows Over Mystara :D
 

Martimus

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Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 are both D&D games. The original campaign in NWN1 isn't very good, but both expansions are actually very good, and there are many very good fan made modules for that game as well.

NWN2 has a much better storyline than NWN1, although there isn't as much community made material for it (although there may be now, I haven't looked in a while; but it was pretty sparce when I was playing the game and the toolset is much harder to use than the original)

I can't think of a more modern D&D game than these two right now.
 

sigurros81

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If you're looking for newer games, I've heard the Drakensang series are great if you're looking for oldschool style RPGs with serious rule sets. I have not played the games but from what I've read, people are digging it, most of the praises are how it's similar to the BG series.

Also, not spectacular games, but the NeverWinter Nights games are decent.
 

Gung-Ho

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have you played Neverwinter Nights 2? (or the first game, but the first game seemed to be more about the mod content while the second had a lot more beef in the stand-alone game)
And, nevertheless, NWN2 has some pretty good mod content. You can get a good year or two out of the game if you really wanted to.

I also second the Drakensang series, which is also built off of table-top system, though it's a bit different than D&D.

Fallout 1 & 2, and to a lesser extent, Arcanum, were built out of an attempt to do GURPS, though they lost the license and instead created SPECIAL.
 
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The real attraction of the Neverwinter Nights game is online multiplayer at persistent worlds servers, at least for NwN1. Some people really get into the role playing aspect of it at certain servers (Amia, Arelith). I also recommend a series of servers called Higher Ground: Path of Ascension.