(Sure, that’s not as far back as when I was salivating over Season of Uncertainty but it’s still donkeys ago.) We’re talking the heady days of 2006, here, when I was fairly well established in the singleplayer AoS genre but hadn’t yet blistered onto the full-scale SPRPG scene. I think this is possibly the first map to ever use a dummy hero as a backpack.

Legends of Xenthis: Return of the Vampyres Today: the oft-forgotten Legends of Xenthis: Return of the Vampyres by Tim Williams a.k.a. So in this series, I’m finally going to discuss some of those maps that had a big impact on the way I do things…

Right from the beginning, I was all up in Warcraft III ‘s singleplayer RPG scene a combination of a pench ant for world-saving power-fantasies and limited internet access made it the natural choice.