@patio11: If you enjoyed this one (or the original), Rift Wizard 3 is like it but better. They dispense with random equipment dro…
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Rift Wizard 3 enhances its predecessor by replacing random equipment drops with a deterministic component system, enabling players to build equipment on demand and increasing the skill cap.
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If you enjoyed this one (or the original), Rift Wizard 3 is like it but better. They dispense with random equipment drops in favor of components you can use to, at any time, build equipment from a list. You need 1 each of right tagged components, etc.
Raises skill cap even more.
Patrick McKenzie (@patio11): Rift Wizard 2: “What if we just put all the information in front of the player, had all spells and enemy attacks be almost perfectly deterministic, and made it clear that every single time you died it was because you were bad at crawling dungeons?”
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