
While they seem random, there is actually more to the games than first appears – those characters and locations actually have more to them. All good RPGs need a setting, a cast of characters and so on – even something as simple as the first Swords and Sandals had the island of Doomtrek, some pirates and 7 arena bosses with names like HeChaos and Wolfgang of Shackleford. Over many years of developing the Swords and Sandals series, a semblance of a story, characters and places has sprung up.

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