Interdict: The Post-Empyrean Age

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Introduction

Interdict: The Post-Empyrean Age is a classic-style dungeon crawler similar to Wizardry I-V, Might and Magic I & II, and the Etrian Odyssey series. You will create a party of characters and guide them through dangerous labyrinths filled with enemies to battle in turn-based combat, treasures to find, and mysteries to uncover. 

However, Interdict also incorporates significant roguelike elements: most of the game's content is procedurally generated each time you play, the resources available to your party are scarce, and looming over your quest is the threat of "permawipe". Individual characters who die may be revived, but if your party is wiped out, your game is over and you must restart from the beginning, with nothing carrying over from previous attempt.

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Description

In Interdict, you play as a group of six prisoners who have been awakened from their forced slumber to find their memories gone and the world shattered.

Starting with only improvised equipment, and barely any memory of what skills they may have once possessed, your party must escape their prison, discover what happened to the world, and whether or not it may yet be restored.

Battles with foes will be frequent and dangerous, but you will confront them with characters of your own design: there are no classes to hold you back. Any character may use any item or learn any skill, they need only train to meet the requirements, and their training is entirely up to you.

Your party's outfitting is also under your control. You can upgrade or craft more of any equipment you find, but the resources needed to do so are finite and few. Will you prioritize weapons, armor, or magical relics? Will you focus on making powerful equipment for one or two to utilize, or spread your resources evenly to make plenty of basic gear for everyone?

These decisions, and more, are entirely yours to make. Your party's success or failure lies in your hands.

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Features

• The current version allows the first dungeon, the prison Lethe, to be fully explored, providing roughly 3 to 6 hours of gameplay.
• Even in this early version, over 100 skills and 130 items are waiting to be found. 
• More than 460 possible enemies can be generated, giving each game a unique bestiary to test your party against. 
• A 39 page PDF manual is included for old times' sake.

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3/15/2024 Version Highlights

• Significant update to the Hide mechanic: Being Hidden now extends the range of all hostile abilities, not just attacks, giving it greater value to characters who use support techniques or spells. (A similar change has been made to the benefits provided by Flying.)
• Rebalanced Exorcism mechanic: Exorcisms are now generally more effective, especially on weaker manifestations. The target's remaining HP is now a stronger factor as well, allowing standard attacks to better support an Exorcist's efforts.
• Banshees have been adjusted a bit: rather than repeatedly using their Funereal Wail, they now only use this ability in reaction to one or more of their allies dying. They instead use Psionics and warcries instead for their main actions.
• Shields now give larger bonuses to Armor and Evade, particularly when upgraded.
• Other balance changes, bug fixes, and UI improvements have also been made; for more details, see the Change Log included with the download.
• Note: During this early phase of development, save file compatibility between updates is not assured. While 3/8/2024 save files are likely compatible with 3/15/2024, if your game will not load in 3/15/2024 please finish your game in the 3/8/2024 version, or start a new game in 3/15/2024.

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AI Generated Content Notice

Interdict uses sprites and textures created using Stable Diffusion 1.5 and other models based on it. Interdict also uses music generated with Soundraw. Further details are available in the credits which are accessible from the title screen.

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