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After many years of not having played it, I recently played it again. It's a really great campaign - not quite as good as my all-time favourite To-Lands-Unknown, but the campaign has many great things. The unique abilities of the heroes are great fun, the wyverns are cool too, story great, artwork a ...

What is susfishious? A dead fish?

WML is quite hard to read for me. I wonder whether we could also describe
these data structures via a .yml file. I use simple .yml files, e. g. mostly
a simple Hash. This could work at the least for simple objects (I don't suggest
to use .yml for everything, just ...

To simplify this semi-random idea, let me say that I focus here only on hero units. We could focus on all units, but let's keep it simple.

With hero units I mean, e. g. that Delfador mage in the mainline campaign; or Konrad. So, usually units that are strong or useful, and losing them means loss of ...

Interesting. While I personally don't mind, it is indeed strange that a girl is
shown. One could also ask "why not show a dead animal instead" or any other
image people may object to (you can have a range of images different people
may object to). Not that I am one to object to most images per se ...

You mean only mainline campaigns? Because some add-ons I feel are much harder.

One of the hardest one to beat for me was in a dungeon where one had to use footpads to
soak up damage (or rather, dodge/evade) from trolls. I was not able to beat it;
other players did.

Some scenarios are also kind of ...

This is a little bit awkward in that many different aspects are grouped together.

For instance, I assume most everyone would assume that games should be interesting, fun - and also not unfair. What is fairness though?

Back when I was younger, playing oldschool text-based MUDs, people would ...

That should be easy to adjust, shouldn't it? Perhaps wesnoth could have something for users to ad-hoc modify the timing delays. I have not been using XML since ages but in my own code I tend to simply use YAML files for most data configuration, and in YAML it is trivial. (I only do this for simple ...

Perhaps this could be done for larger siege units - ballista, catapults, something like that. Ideally it could be part of the mainline campaign because otherwise people may never make use of it. I think I only saw far range attacks in one scenario of an add-on if I remember correctly. Or perhaps it ...

I still sometimes play Baldur's Gate 2 with many mods installed. It may be a bit outdated
as of 2026 but playing mods is a lot of fun.

Ravana wrote:

> I suspect issue is not in eyes, but rather that you are running game in higher resolution than before.

I think you can not generalize this too much. My eyes are also pretty bad these days - happens to many people
as they get older. At the same time I have an ultra-wide monitor ...

I think as start for a campaign this is a nice idea.

I'd make the rings more powerful though - one more melee attack sounds nice on paper, but
imagine the hero has 8-4; changing this to 8-5 is of course good, but not necessarily great.
But these are mostly minor things.

What is missing is a ...

I am a bit skeptical in regards to AI use in general, but I also saw some good examples of AI generated images
for a browser game (for those interested, and it is not so important, I saw this on the browser game antamar. There are
probably more examples, but I barely play browser games anymore due ...

So, wesnoth has many campaigns - some mainline, some add-ons maintained externally.

For instance, the recent 1.19.18 release shows these in this changelog:

https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/blob/1.19.18/changelog.md

Such as "Dusk of Dawn", 4 scenarios, novice level, added recently as
announced ...

I started to play this campaign recently (did I already play it before? I am not sure). It seems fairly polished and
has a nice overall storyline, so I would say it is definitely above average.

I did, however had, quit early on in the campaign (the scenario) where some children have to
be rescued ...

I am struggling with the scenario Breath of the Earth. I rescued the young dwarf;
now I have to find the dwarf prince, probably dead. I can not find him. But I am
also kind of slowed down by both the troll and dwarf constantly sending new units.
Do they cheat or do they really have so much income ...