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App Description

The Birthday (an IceBlink Basic Engine RPG)

Turn-based computer role playing game (RPG) with a wonderfully crafted story. Implements some classic old-school computer RPG style.

This is an adventure module originally written (by Zach Holbrook) for the first NWN2 contest (theme: “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”). Zach has won numerous awards and accolades for his NWN2 modules (The Birthday and Harp & Chrysanthemum) including Module of the Year 2007, Reviewers Award, Obsidian Contest Winner (2nd), Golden Dragon Award, and two Hall of Fame awards.

Story, music and some artwork by Zach Holbrook
Coding and some artwork by slowdive_fan

Features:
- designed for phones and tablets.
- totally FREE with NO ads and NO in-app purchase stuff.
- great RPG story telling conversation system.
- challenging turn based combat.
- encounters do NOT scale to your level...aka old-school
- fixed number of encounters...aka no grinding
- limited resources so use them wisely
- RPG offline and single player (you control all party members) game.
- lots of replayability (is that a word?).
- many races, classes, spells, traits to choose from.
- multiple saves available (SAVE OFTEN).
- multiple very different endings.
- solo adventure, no companions in this module.
- lots of items to find and wield with unique names and awesome descriptions (back stories).
- this is a short story (1-3 hours) so, yes, it is short. It was designed for the NWN2 contest and was required to be short.

The Birthday Adventure Module Description by Zach Holbrook:
"OVERVIEW: This is a mod written for Obsidian’s first NWN2 contest (theme: “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”). It is a medium-magic, high-wonder adventure, as befits a story adapted from a fairy tale. But which one? You'll have to find out!

SYNOPSIS (no spoilers): Today is a festive day in the small village called Schafberg. A talented foundling, raised by a shepherd and his wife on a nearby farm, has come of age, and now the young paragon's adoptive parents have brought their ward to town to speak to the Matron. Before Schafberg can rightly celebrate the birthday, a coming-of-age tradition known as 'the birthday errand' must be honored, and the Matron reveals what that errand is to be."

The IceBlink Basic Engine and Toolset are inspired by some of my favorite cRPGs (many being old school retro style RPGs) that allowed us normal people to build adventures using adventure construction sets, unlimited adventure editors, or toolsets.

visit our website and forums for links and more info on the engine and toolset:
http://www.iceblinkengine.com​

App Changes

• July 15, 2020 Initial release