Adventure & RPG Games · 40

A well-made hub town is a pacing device: combat, story, shopping and recovery all meet in one safe place before the next outward journey. That connects nicely with a historical detail: Wizardry became especially influential in Japan, where its party-based dungeon design fed into the development of later console role-playing games. If an NPC repeats a sentence three times, players will still inspect them a fourth time just in case.