Bard's Tale Trilogy Starter Tips for Maximum Fun

The Bard’s Tale Trilogy Remastered is everything I’d hoped it would be, managing to maintain the spirit of the original games while adding several of quality-of-life improvements. However, if you play with all the new features of the default setup, the game becomes way too easy from the outset and quickly grows tedious. It’s almost as though the publishers want you to speed through the original trilogy so you can make it to the vastly inferior fourth game, which this remaster was originally released to promote.

In this video I make recommendations that should help pace the game’s challenge a bit better, as well as its reward system. Also included are a few considerations to keep in mind when building your first party and setting out on your quest. Please also bear in mind that I have no idea what I’m talking about, and you’re likely to enjoy the game more if you ignore everything I say.

You may begin by ignoring this. Wait, don’t ignore that. I need to start again. Oh, but if you’ve already started ignoring me, anything I say henceforth will also be ignored. How do I get you to pay attention to me again? After 20 years of marriage, how do I get you to pay attention to me again? I could spice things up with a sexy costume. Or poison you like in that Paul Thomas Anderson fashion movie. Why don’t I just cut out the middleman and poison that Paul Thomas Anderson fashion costume? Who even let the middleman in here in the first place? Oh middleman, middleman, wherefore must thou ignorest me?

Now get out. I have costumes to poison.