I tried playing Wasteland a little bit. I was surprised at how effectively I can fit my furry OCs into a post-apocalyptic “tough nickname” vibe! And the game itself is quite interesting, though way archaic.
The surprising core of the game is the “Use” verb; it lets you directly apply any skill, item, or attribute onto a square adjacent to you. This creates a big possibility space that it probably can’t satisfy, but also lets them hide alternate solutions to the same situation in plain sight.
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My mind immediately jumps to “things you can do to a door” and now I’m having a galaxy brain thought that western RPGs are about doors in a dozen ways.
Doors and chests and fighting. Talking, sometimes, but more often just listening.