Wizard's Crown

Wizard's Crown is a video game in the role-playing (rpg) genre developed by Strategic Simulations, Inc. and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. originally released in 1987. It is currently playable on DOS.

Wizard's Crown is a fantasy role-playing game in which the player creates a party of up to eight adventurers and leads them on a quest to recover a magical crown from a wizard named Tarmon, who sealed himself and the crown in his laboratory five hundred years ago.

The game features tactical battles, during which the player directs party members in turn on the battlefield. Different weapons have unique characteristics; for example, spears can attack two squares away, flails ignore enemy shields, and axes have the ability to break them completely. Shields are used to defend against frontal attacks and attacks coming from the side on which the shield is equipped. The player can choose to skip these details and have the battle take place automatically.

The experience gained by the characters is spent on skills, attributes and health points. Unlike most comparable games, classes and their unique abilities are not assigned to characters, but must be 'bought' using intelligence points. The classes are Thief, Ranger, Fighter, Priest and Sorcerer; any of these can be combined with another for the same character.

Weapons can be imbued with various enhancements. Magical weapons inflict elemental damage (called 'wounds' in the game); 'Plus' weapons cause extra bleeding, which can affect the character's health, causing him to faint; 'Life Blast' weapons can kill a character in such a way that he cannot be resurrected afterwards.

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