Industry Legend Chris Avellone to Join The Bard’s Tale IV Team at $1.9 MillionVideo Game News Online, Gaming News

If you're looking forward to The Bard's Tale IV, you might want to know this. inXile Entertainment has announced that industry veteran Chris Avellone (Planescape: Torment, Fallout: New Vegas) will join The Bard’s Tale IV team as a writer and designer IF the ongoing Kickstarter reaches $1.9 million, designing an entirely new area called the Cairn of Horrors, an all-new dungeon containing the worst things that live Chris Avellone's imagination. Avellone has worked with inXile before on both of their Kickstarted titles, Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera.

But there's more: inXile is putting more of the Planescape: Torment design team back together, as Colin McComb (Planescape: Torment, Torment: Tides of Numenera) will also be joining the team at $1.7 million, designing a new Realm of the Elves area.

Kicked off on June 2nd, the Kickstarter for The Bard’s Tale IV has funded its basic goal and already hit the first stretch goals, having passed the $1.35 million mark last Friday.

Avellone had this to say:

"I owe my career to seeing Bard's Tale II on a Commodore 64 at a friend's house. When I saw the streets of Skara Brae up and running (gasp - in simulated 3D! And in color!), I suddenly realized I didn't have to be the game master all the time in order to get my RPG fix, there was finally someone out there who had done the formidable job of creating a digital dungeon master for RPG aficionados with the same amount of lazy players as I had. So I have Brian Fargo to thank three times - first for the game itself (and all the Interplay RPGs I played to follow, including Bard's Tale 1, Bard's Tale 3, and Wasteland), second, for hiring me at Interplay, and third, for asking me to be a part of Bard's Tale 4 - with your support, I hope we can make it happen!"

Brian Fargo, CEO of inXile:

"I'm pleased that both Chris and Colin may come aboard Bard's Tale 4 for extra design. We are in the final weeks of the campaign and have assembled an all-star cast of writing, design, art and music. Now it's a matter of how many more people join our campaign to build these glorious RPGs."