Gnoll Campaign (Voice Acted)

[The Nightmare Book]

I like this campaign, Mr. @Tommi Gustafsson. Sadly it is short, really short. I now that I can find a small blanc map of the second chapter or interlude, whatever.
But even the story of gnolls returning to their home island only to find out that is infested with corruption and warlocks also raises questions about what we had seen about gnoll mythology in the last Dwarf Campaign chapter - Temple of the Old Gods.

Anyway, I'm willing to share my humble walkthrough and I liked playing it from start up to finish. It was a nice little journey, but I thought that the AI Gnoll's enemy could be a little bolder. Maybe he is, - on Hard Difficulty, - maybe not.
I like and recommend it to anyone, who played Dwarf Campaign and is willing to learn what happened after it.

EDIT:

Adding a second video from a walkthrough, I can say that Ancient Chant of Gnamr'r is a cool mini-game.

 

[Tommi Gustafsson]

Well, the problem with story-based campaigns is that you need to have lots of story-writing resources, and you need to combine them with available resources, such as 3D models, and then create the puzzles and gameplay, so that it creates a coherent gameplay experience. Also, it's usually required that you don't reuse old ideas, so that there's something new in new chapters. All this makes creating high quality campaign chapters challenging. It's not enough that you can create a "good movie" out of the story, but it needs to address gameplay concerns as well. That said, we had problems creating a good gameplay experience out of "dwarf campaign chapter 4" that would not reuse old ideas, wherefore we created "Gnoll Campaign Chapter 1". Creating Gnoll Campaign Chapter 2 has the same challenges, and a messy release of Reforged in 2020 did not help things much. Reforged 2.0, however, gave us a little hope that creating something for the platform would be worth the time investment, which was 1200 man-hours for Chapter 1, not counting the voicing project.