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Why this website?

This website offers RPG players some in-depth guides and walktroughs on certain character/class choices in both old and new PC roleplaying games. The first purpose of the website is to inform players who are already familiar with those games about techniques or special ways to play trough the games. People who are unsure which class to pick, which path to choose, could check the guides and read my personal experiences with the game. All articles are based upon my personal experience with these games! This means some information may or may not be accurate. Please contact me if you notice any odds. Some tips have been copied over from other persons, with their permission.
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The second purpose of the website is to encourage players who are new to the cRPG genre to enjoy one of the finest, best told and greatest experiences I’ve ever had with these games. The game reviews mostly include a lot of screenshots and even gameplay movies to further encourage players to pick up the game and actually try it instead of ignoring them. Most games by Troika Games and Sir-Tech did not generally sell well and both companies ended up broke. Those not-so-popular games do not get the wanted attention, and I’ll try to change that by adding a few more articles about them.

Why those sucky games and not l33t game X?

Like I said before, most nowadays ‘l33t’ games (too popular shooters) are published by gigantic companies like EA with enough budget to fully advertise the games. Game development studios who produce smaller budget ‘kult’ roleplaying games, generally more disliked games, mostly end up dead because of the poor sales rates. Add to that list New World Computing and Black Isle Studios. Blame Interplay…
How many of the games in this list are familiar to you? How many of those did you actually try to play?

• Jagged Alliance 2
• Wizardry 8
• Arcanum
• Might & Magic VI(I)
• Wizards & Warriors
• …

Most gamers who tried to play the demo (the bad part of the full game, mostly) despise them because of the ’sucky graphics’ and too complicated design. For example, in Arcanum you’ll be instantly overwhelmed by the character creation choices. That is, again, one of the reasons why you are here, I hope. By all means, check out my tips & tricks, and hopefully they’ll be helpful. If it was not, check out the Links section for a comprehensive list of similar websites and specific game help.

Contact Info

Feel free to contact me via e-mail: [jefklak _AT_ gmail _DOT_ com]. If you notice any spell faults, guide errors or other wrong or misplaced information such as dead links etc, do not hesitate to mail me. You can also mail additional information which is not stated in any of the articles (yet), I’ll add it as soon as possible. If you played several times trough a cRPG game and created some articles and/or a guide but do not own webspace yourself, drop me a mail and I will be able to upload all your gathered information to the Codex, among with your name on the site as a reward of course. If you own a dedicated RPG website yourself and would like to cross-link to this website, mail me and I’ll link your site too.

Legal Information

This Website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.

Please take note of the following information:

1. All articles are based upon my personal experience with the games. This means some information may or may not be accurate.
2. Every Screenshot, video and article content you will encounter has been completely self-made. You will not find these images via other websites, unless they copied them from the Codex. Some videos have been uploaded to YouTube, under the sole user Jefklak’s codex.
3. All logo and navigation icons are copyright Coktel Vision. They origin from the Gobliiins DOS Adventure games.
4. All Guide navigation icons come from the Senerity white/black/sage icon package.
5. The base Blog engine has been provided by Wordpress.
6. All color schematics have been composed without explicit knowledge of extern websites. The base blog theme is called ‘demar’.
7. This blog/wiki/website has been generally designed for informative purposes. No commercial banners are present, an no commercial content ever will be. The site can be maintained by multiple users. Copying content is permitted to some extend, as long as the content will be deployed using the same license and won’t be commercialized. Read more about the CC licence here.

Website Requirements

Please be aware the website has been optimally developed for current (Year 2006 and up) browsers, using resolutions 1024×768 and up! Therefore, visiting Jefklak’s Codex using older versions of Internet Explorer may lead to visually altered results. It is stronly recommended to upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 3.

Internet Explorer 6/7 is not ‘officially’ supported. It takes a lot of extra time to fix all problems caused by this browser and that lost time can be put to better use writing new content, or futher expanding the site for other browsers. IE6 will be normally automatically upgraded to IE7 via the Windows Update module, and Windows Vista, the new operating system from Microsoft, comes pre-packaged with IE7. Everyone who uses Internet Explorer should be shot. Really.