In the role-playing video game Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, the player assumes the role of either an elf sorcerer, a human archer, or a dwarf fighter. These are the game’s three primary protagonists. After getting their feet wet by battling rats in the bowels of an inn, the intrepid traveler will eventually investigate crypts, caves, and mountain routes. It should come as no surprise that every inch of it is packed to the brim with terrifying monsters, devious traps, treasures, and legendary magical weapons. The player is constantly rewarded with new weaponry, new creatures to fight, and experience points that may be put into the adventurer’s character stats to make them even more robust as the game develops. The adventurer eventually needs to uncover the mysteries of a shadowy new Thieves Guild that strong magicians support.
