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everyone i'm steve from gamers nexus dotnet and i'm joined by tim welke the design director on Sword Coast legends at n space and sword coast legends we looked at previously with Dan touch and we talked about the DM mode the campaign mode and today we're looking at the game as it approaches launch so launch is sep tember September 29th on pc mac and linux and the game is it's sort of an RPG that is based in the older baldur's gate style play but i guess the most interesting thing to me is that edition of the DM mode right for those who are not familiar with our previous coverage can you give a quick elevator pitch of the DM mode yeah absolutely it's 125 players it's a we like to call it for with one rather than four versus one because it's a shared storytelling experience not a competitive experience but yeah you get to jump in and the DM you can do as much as creating an ongoing campaign that can go for months if you want to we have offline tools where you can go through and you can tell stories that you want to tell create quest create locations tight together with your own unique monsters and villains or you can do quick dungeon crawls that you know take five minutes to set up and be one to ten levels of really as large as a dungeon as you want it to be and I was playing as the demon are in our demo so we had a couple of options on the screen there were different monsters you could add different objects what were some of the other menus that that I was presented with there so what you played was a tiny campaign I created had a single dungeon it was a small simple dungeon you have control over a lot of different parameters that dungeon stuff that we saw you could create a custom monster I believe you created a zombie you gave him some strange coloring I don't remember you gave many new abilities but you did affect his stats a little bit made a little bit tougher than the party you named him keygen killer I believe I am Keegan dies after our cameraman that's right so yeah we give you a lot of control to make your own villains or your own enemies and then you were dropping those guys that was great stuff that we didn't look at today as much as we have a location tab where you can map out locations across the entire forgotten realms we have quests of course you can create we have basic templated quest you can place quickly if you wanted to kill quest collect quest then we have custom stuff that you can set up to tell whatever it is that you want to do type in dialogue sort of thing and that was one of the things I did like was we were talking about how the issue that I ultimately run into with any type of dungeon crawler RPG like this is hitting a wall of tedium but I liked that we had non-combat encounters we could add like vendors and you mentioned quest givers right I understand there's also a story mode can you give us any information on story mode absolutely we have a 40-plus our huge campaign written by our narrative director Jay turner he's famous and it's really exciting we can't wait to get people in there but you can play it solo if you'd like to or you can get four of your friends sorry three of your friends bless yourself to play through cooperatively cool is starting mode shipping that launch absolutely absolutely and then we were also talking about being able to share campaigns and dungeons and things like that how does that work that was something cool that we actually did today that you probably didn't realize the campaign you play today just this small simple dungeon something I made in Orlando before we came I shared it got here logged in searched all the shared modules downloaded it and away we went so you'd be able to create something as simple as complex as you want share it let anyone else play it you have the option to make it editable or another guy can take it and make changes to it in DM it or you can make it where it's just your own thing and someone else is still DM it but then people have the option to rate it they also rate you as a DM so don't be too cruel or the community will know but yeah we're really excited bout the sharing options very powerful yeah is we've got the release date sep tember 29th MSRP if you preorder 3499 right now and if you preorder you get the free DLC range of demons that we're releasing our first dlc consoles later the year okay very cool so that is stored chose legends check the link in the description below for the full article and other information and of course thanks again for the demo and all the time we've enjoyed it thank you very much we will see you all next time