It explains a lot about Warren Spector, the driving force behind Deus Ex, that his first dungeon master was the author Bruce Sterling.
Not only was Sterling destined to become one of the fathers of cyberpunk—the science fiction genre that spliced future tech with social commentary, just as Deus Ex would—but he was a generous and accommodating DM.
"I think D&D influenced everyone in the computer game business back in the '80s and '90s and that was certainly true at Origin," he says."The Ultima games were about more than killing monsters and grabbing treasure. They were about embodying an avatar that was, basically, you, the player, deciding how to interact with the world based on your own desires and ideas as a person in the real world.
"Deus Ex was about solving problems the way you wanted," he says."It was about trying things, experimenting, expressing your creativity, and then dealing with the consequences of your choices. Half the key characters in the Baldur's Gate games were initially player characters in a D&D campaign. You could say the same for the famous moral choices that pepper the studio's games. First popularised by Knights of the Old Republic, on which Ohlen was lead designer, they can be clearly traced back to D&D's alignment chart—which judges every character as good, neutral or evil.
It may have been a cruel conclusion to the party's journey, but Romero insists that Carmack was a"very fair DM" who was"true to his own rules"."He was always rolling secret dice because there were so many ways that things could go wrong or be revealed," he says."A random chance encounter could happen. There was never a dull moment."
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