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Chris Avellone is Set to Join The Bard’s Tale IV

Chris Avellone is Set to Join The Bard's Tale IV

Chris Avellone is Set to Join The Bard’s Tale IV

But only if the game’s Kickstarter campaign reaches $1.9 million

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The Bard’s Tale IV Kickstarter Campaign is a Success – June 16, 2015

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If The Bard’s Tale IV reaches its Kickstarter stretch goal of $1.9 million, industry veteran Chris Avellone (Planescape: Torment and Fallout: New Vegas) will join the team and design an all-new area called the Cairn of Horrors.

And at just $1.7, Colin McComb (Planescape: Torment, Torment: Tides of Numenera) will join the team and design a new Realm of the Elves area.

Chris Avellone: “I owe my career to seeing Bard’s Tale II on a Commodore 64 at a friend’s house. When I saw the streets of Skara Brae up and running (gasp – in simulated 3D! And in color!), I suddenly realized I didn’t have to be the game master all the time in order to get my RPG fix, there was finally someone out there who had done the formidable job of creating a digital dungeon master for RPG aficionados with the same amount of lazy players as I had. So I have Brian Fargo to thank three times – first for the game itself (and all the Interplay RPGs I played to follow, including Bard’s Tale 1, Bard’s Tale 3, and Wasteland), second, for hiring me at Interplay, and third, for asking me to be a part of Bard’s Tale 4 – with your support, I hope we can make it happen!”

Brian Fargo, CEO of inXile: “I’m pleased that both Chris and Colin may come aboard Bard’s Tale 4 for extra design. We are in the final weeks of the campaign and have assembled an all-star cast of writing, design, art and music. Now it’s a matter of how many more people join our campaign to build these glorious RPGs.”

Karla Munger

Karla Munger

I've been with JA in one capacity or other since 2003. I'm currently website administrator. I'm also a digital artist (my avatar is one of my creations). I write reviews and articles, create graphics and basically help tend the site. It's work I enjoy very much. I love playing games of all kinds, but adventure and RPGs are my favorites (particularly scary/dark/unsettling ones). At the top of my list are The Cat Lady, The Longest Journey, Dreamfall, Still Life (first one only), Scratches and Culpa Innata. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool recluse and prefer the company of animals, hardware and ghosts to human beings (no offense). And no bio would be complete without my saying that I do NOT care for phones of ANY sort. Further, I think Dell computers are garbage and that Microsoft has become megalomaniacal. "I put my heart and soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process." - Vincent Van Gogh "I need solitude for my writing; not like a hermit - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man." - Franz Kafka "I've been to hell and back, my boy." - Susan Ashworth, The Cat Lady

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