Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon - Now Available!

"I loved this game. It's what I've been waiting for since Wizardry 8 or even the end of the Quest for Glory series." - RPGWatch

"The developer's passion for his craft shines through Frayed Knights, a feature that isn't so common in games requiring hundreds of workers developing small parts separately from each other. It's refreshing to see this sort of thing surface lately" - The Indie Fix: Frayed Knights First Impressions at Bits 'n Bytes Gaming

"From what I've played so far, most of Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon is a lot of fun, with combat and a character system that strike the right balance of intuitiveness and complexity." - GameBanshee's Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon preview


Wow! If Duke Nukem Forever can finally escape from vaporware hell, anybody can. Including the long-anticipated TGE-powered (Yes, TGE!) indie RPG, Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon!

You can get the free demo to give it a test drive, and buy the full game from the Frayed Knights website, which you can reach from the very convenient URL:

http://frayedknights.com

Embracing the style and mechanics for role-playing games that have been largely abandoned by major publishers, Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon features a first-person perspective, turn-based combat, a statistics-heavy game system, a party of four characters, and thousands of lines of unvoiced dialog presented in comic-book style word balloons. The Skull of S'makh-Daon also adds new innovations to the genre, including a "drama star" system that encourages players to accept setbacks in the game rather than reloading and trying again, and a mini-game where players must disarm traps one component at a time using their character skills and available tools.

On top of the serious, "hard-core" engine, The Skull of S'makh-Daon layers a world and story with a decidedly more tongue-in-cheek approach to the genre. Spells and skills have names like "Power Word: Defenestrate" and "Size Doesn't Matter."

In a world of jaded heroes and veteran adventurers, the player's party is a team of misfits: Arianna, a dainty warrior with an attitude problem; Dirk, an adrenaline-junky rogue who doesn't seem to understand the word "subtle;" Benjamin, a nature-priest and newcomer to the adventuring lifestyle, and Chloe, a ditsy sorceress with a love of cute, fuzzy animals and setting her enemies on fire.

Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon is now available as a digital download at http://frayedknights.com. It is unrated, but should be content-appropriate for most teens and adults.

Features include:

* 30+ hours of gameplay
* Challenging, turn-based combat in a game
* A spell named, "Power Word: Defenestrate."
* Over a hundred base spells, most with several upgraded variants
* Over 80 feats to customize the party as they progress through the game.
* Nearly 200 different items to be used and abused by your characters.
* A "Quarterstaff of Nad-Whacking."
* Sixteen "dungeons" (interior adventuring areas), five outdoor areas, one village, an alternate dimension, and some green dude's one-room hovel.
*A 69-page (PDF) manual


This was originally supposed to be a quick-and-dirty project for me. It grew into something... well, not that quick, but still pretty dirty I suppose. I'm hoping for the best. But for those of you who remember this game... it's taken a long time, but it's here at last.

I hope you like it