Asheron's Call is a video
game that was published by Turbine for the
PC. It was released
1999. It has an ESRB Rating of
TEEN.
The land of Dereth and its surrounding islands are a vast, seamless 3D world that is occupied by thousands of players.
Gameplay involves earning experience points through a variety of activities, including engaging monsters in combat and fulfilling quests. The earned experience can be invested to improve the character's abilities by spending it on such attributes as 'Strength', 'Coordination', and 'Quickness' or such skills as 'Unarmed Combat', 'War Magic' and 'Melee Defense', among many others. Besides experience points, questing and combat also yield equipment such as armor, weapons, health potions, and spell scrolls. Many types of loot can be improved or imbued with special spells and effects via Asheron's Call's crafting system, known as tinkering.
Unlike most other games of this type, Asheron's Call rarely uses typical fantasy fiction to draw ideas from and instead creates its own, unique creatures. Instead of elves and goblins, a large majority of the monsters in Asheron's Call are completely original. Examples include insect-like Olthoi, the cat-like humanoid Drudges, silvery giants Lugians and reptilian Sclavus. Many unique races and creatures from Asheron's Call can be seen in Wikipedia's list of species in fantasy fiction.
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On 01/26/2008,
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