Roleplaying Game?

[Profess0rJam]

Do you think this is the closest we'll get to an RPG from Illwinter Games? I feel like their art style, attention to detail, magic, fatigue, health systems, and massive amount of lore behind their factions in both this and Dominions would lend itself to a fun RPG experience. But so far they've only "zoomed in" to smaller scale battles for CoE.

[Nathan Pascal]

We nearly got one, but it was not supposed to be. I will just leave this long quote from the Dominions 5 manual here, in case you might find it interesting:

After completing Dominions 3 we were a bit tired of making Dominions, so starting with Dominions 4 then was out of the question. Also, Johan got a new full-time job at Sony Ericsson then and got his programming needs fulfilled there. Many Dominions 3 patches and a long break later we got inspiration for making a new game again, but we wanted something different from our earlier projects.
So we started with Trade & Taint. Trade & Taint was just a preliminary name, but we never figured out a better one. It was a real time multiplayer online game, like a MMORPG, but not massive and with no 3d characters. The game took a lot of inspiration from Star Sonata, a great little game by the way.

The concept was to buy a party of soldiers and donkeys and then transport goods between villages, making money by buying cheap and selling were the demand was high. After a while you would be rich enough to start your own colonies and create mines there if the place is mineral-rich or maybe plant fields and sell oats. It was still an Illwinter game, so we had magic and horrors, too.
When you had a colony you could create a wizard's tower and have your mages perform magic rituals, craft items, and enchant your surroundings. We had global rituals too, like meteor storms that made a meteor crash down on the world every minute or so. The meteor storms looked very apocalyptic and were devastating for everyone but the horrors. Performing magic made the world more tainted and enough taint resulted in horrors appearing. First came a few, then came some more, and finally there was an apocalypse of horrors that destroyed settlements, player colonies, and eventually the entire world.

It was, however, a bit too ambitious and it felt impossible to finish, so it got laid aside. Instead, we decided to make something easier and that was to create a modern Conquest of Elysium, because we have always enjoyed that little game. And now we had some cool horrors from Trade and Taint to put into Conquest of Elysium as well.

After Conquest of Elysium 3 was finished, working on Dominions sounded like a fun idea again, so we started to plan a Dominions 4. We had a few really major changes that we wanted to see: one was the 3D world map from Trade and Taint.

Maybe one day they will revisit the idea. I sure would be interested, but the stars might never align for that.

[[MNI] Kisune]

I mean Depending on What othert Projects they did (i only know Dominions and Conquest) It would be a Very different style of Game so both Design as well as Coding might be pretty big challenges there

All in all what i would probably (if we are just basing stuff on hope) love the most would be a game kinda allong the Mount and Blade style

[JackPhoenix]

I remember something named Dungeons of Elysium being mentioned once, apparently even more RPG-focused CoE spinoff.

[nichtzinik]

I came here from Caves of Qud, probably it can works wise-versa. Post-apoc, a lot of lore, huge amount of builds and so on, try give it a chance

[Profess0rJam]

Originally posted by nichtzinik:

I came here from Caves of Qud, probably it can works wise-versa. Post-apoc, a lot of lore, huge amount of builds and so on, try give it a chance

It's funny you should mention Qud; I have (since posting this) given it a try! It's a wonderful game. I'd still prefer the setting of Illwinter's other titles, but it's still phenomenal.