Tag Archives: Avernum

The Empire has decided you are somebody else’s problem. A one-way trip through a magical portal deposits your party underground, where the food is largely fungal and the neighbors include things that would quite like to eat you. There is no welcoming speech about being the chosen one. Finding a safe place to sleep would be a perfectly respectable first achievement. Exile could make a few square tiles feel like a very… Read more

Jeff Vogel bought a PowerMac 6100 in 1994, went looking for a role-playing game, and failed to find one. So he started writing his own. There was already a Mac shareware RPG called Realmz, but he did not discover it until Exile: Escape From the Pit was almost ready to launch. Had he found it earlier, he tells us, his whole life might have gone differently. Then the Realmz developers at Fantasoft… Read more