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This is part one in a planned series on computer roleplaying games in relation to leadership and management skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Computer role playing games (CRPGs) have been an important aspect of many people\u2019s lives, particularly for mine. I played my first CRPG in the late 1980s while attending the University of Mississippi. The Ultima<\/em> series, particularly the \u201cSecond Trilogy\u201d had a profound effect on my life in terms of its virtues\u2019 model and striving to \u201cbe good\u201d rather than \u201cjust win.\u201d\u00a0 There were other games that impacted me, but for this post I\u2019ll focus on Ultima<\/em> with a nod to another long-running series,The Bard\u2019s Tale. Both offer simulations in leadership and management of scarce resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My first foray into the genre was a multi user dungeon (MUD)played on a terminal before the Internet was common, and before anything but ascii pictures were possible. At about that same time, my college roommate bought a Tandy machine and was playing the famed Gold Box Games<\/em>. I bummed time on his PC when he wasn\u2019t playing it.When the Nintendo Entertainment System<\/em> (NES) was released, I bought it. I searched for anything like a MUD or those Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> games the roommate played, and found two games that really hooked me.\u00a0One of those games, Ultima III: Exodus<\/em> introduced me to the world that Richard Garriott (AKA Lord British<\/em>) had created.\u00a0I never looked back!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Up until that point, I had never owned a personal computer.\u00a0 I had access to computers in labs on campus for my coursework and the NES provided more than enough adventure when there was time for that. At a garage sale, I stumbled across Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny<\/em>, but for PC DOS computers.\u00a0 I bought the game, and then tried to load it on an 8086XT with an Amberchrome monitor (but an awesome Hercules Graphics Adapter!) in our residence hall computer lab. It loaded.\u00a0 I played it. I wanted to know more about this series, and how to find the one missing from my new collection, Ultima IV<\/em>.\u00a0 That game, Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar<\/em>, was released for the NES at about that same time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Avatar<\/em>\u2019s quest can only be described as groundbreaking.\u00a0 There had been no game before that in which a player had to \u201cbe good.\u201d There was no more looting and haphazard killing.\u00a0 The player (Avatar)had to manage a team of companions as s\/he built up skill points that counted toward the attainment of the Eight Virtues<\/em>, intertwined with the Three Truths<\/em>.\u00a0 Finding a virtue system not steeped in religious dogma was a breath of fresh air for a relatively young adult in college, finding his way in a new world. Still today, that virtue system guides me. Resource management became more important than any game I\u2019d played because of the reagents needed to create magic spells. The Runic Alphabet had to be learned if one truly wanted to feel good about succeeding too.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny<\/em> continued the series.\u00a0 A Lord named Blackthorn appeared and twisted the Eight Virtues<\/em> into laws in order to form a police state. The world was dark and bleak. It was also huge, and even now, I\u2019m not sure there is a \u201cbigger\u201d single game in terms of the sheer landscape that had to be explored.\u00a0Resource management and in particular, human resource management became critical. An important aspect of the game was deciding who one\u2019s other characters should be.\u00a0One only had five slots open but fifteen characters from whom to choose. Timing was critical, in terms of who was added when.\u00a0 Then there were the spells, the items, and the towns.\u00a0 Oh and the Moongates required scheduling for travel!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Just when we believed we had put everything back into proper order, we realized in Ultima VI: The False Prophet<\/em> that we had basically upended the equilibrium of the known system, and were dooming an entire race (Gargoyles) of beings. There is not another game that teaches systems thinking as clearly as does this one. Completing this game, more than any before it for me, required methodically talking to EVERYONE and assembling a notebook FULL of clues.\u00a0 I think this game helped my note-taking for coursework, more than the seminar on note-taking I attended as an undergraduate. Perhaps I am a minority, but the interface-change in this game was unwelcome.\u00a0That has been debated far more eloquently than I can do justice, but my preference is the first-person perspective, rather than the top-down perspective of this interface.\u00a0 So, I started looking for other games to satiate that preference.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Enter the Bard\u2019s Tale<\/em>. There were originally three installments for this game, Tales of the Unknown<\/em>, The Destiny Knight<\/em>, and Thief of Fate<\/em>.\u00a0 This series had (and has, in its new 2018 fourth installment, Barrows Deep<\/em>) quite an impressive character management and resource management system.\u00a0These games offer excellent leadership and management simulations.\u00a0 For example, in Bard\u2019s Tale II: Destiny Knight<\/em>, there are seven slots for characters.\u00a0However, one slot had to be kept open frequently, because we had to allow non-player characters (NPCs) to join our team in order to complete some quests.\u00a0 When I played the game, I had 15 characters that I created, across classes and races. I\u2019d exchange members of my team, depending on the conditions of the place I was exploring. I think the minimum number of characters necessary to complete every quest is around 11.\u00a0 There are several places where magic is useless, but one needs at least two high-level magic-users (in this game the highest is an Archmage) in order to complete the final quest and win the game (I had three Archmagi, and recommend that many!). <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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These games (along with numerous others) simulate management (control) and leadership (effecting change) in ways that classroom discussions often cannot. After studying leadership for nigh on 30 years, there are hardly better simulations of a world that is often messy, fraught with danger, and full of consequences based on my actions than a good CRPG.\u00a0 It is important to recognize that much good can potentially come from this medium. There is definitely room for more research on the management and leadership styles of the creators of these marvelous games too!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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