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A Fallout co-creator has been revealing heater after heater of never-before-seen RPG history on YouTube, including an early Lord of the Rings RPG demo

Fallout and The Outer Worlds co-creator Tim Cain has started a YouTube channel covering stories from throughout his over 30-year career in the games industry. One of the most surprising tidbits he’s shared in the week since coming online is that the company he co-founded with fellow ex-Interplay Fallout luminaries, Troika, almost made a Lord of the Rings RPG (opens in new tab).

Cain still has footage of the demo he mocked up back in 2000. It’s on the Arcanum engine, and even boots up with that game’s main menu and shares many of its UI elements. Interestingly, it has this really gorgeous pre-rendered background art like Baldur’s Gate instead of the admittedly drab (but still charming) Fallout-style modular tiles of Arcanum. If I didn’t know better, I’d have guessed this was a prototype of Troika’s later Temple of Elemental Evil (the most D&D of all D&D games (opens in new tab)).

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