Oldschool CRPG Design

[LD]

Thank you for the explanation!

The shortfall I see in Skyrim is that there is not much follow-up with the NPCs. I like that there aremany NPCs, but they do not seem to react enough to actions the player takes- I attempted to make a mod to add more text to trigger based on character actions later in the game--I was trying to make over the original escaped-to village- adding quests and development to arise organically based on actions enacted elsewhere in the game world- so you could always return there as a constant that demonstrates how far you have come and you could see the effect you had on people, but I could not figure out how to reliably work with their scripting system.

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Another RPG game may be interested in along the lines of this thread: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Decadence
I have not yet played it, but have been following its development.

[Steerpike]

Ooh, The Age of Decadence looks fantastic! 7 factions, isometric. turn-based tactical combat, extensive dialogue trees... and it's post-apocalyptic.

[LD]

And it's Rome!