It sucks I never knew about it. I have the GBA version and would love to have the DS version as well. Ebay seems to have a couple copies at a decent price.

DRPG is just Dungeon Crawler with the added restriction of being an RPG. Rogue is a DRPG, after all. Just look at Japanese websites. (There is a roguelike on PlayStation simply called the ダンジョンRPG, after all.)

Final Fantasy on NES fails the blobber abstraction, but later Dragon Quest games do have blobber combat, if you would.

Thanks, I've never heard of Mazes of Fate before.

Bard's Tale IV has characters move on a four-by-two grid. It's an overlay over the view screen, like many modern wizlikes. It even has the concept of standing in red. BT4's a unique game, that's for sure. But moving all characters as one, but as in Fallout would be "tactical turn-based combat," no? That's Wiz8, yes?

I'd prefer *not* to count Rogue as a DRPG, as that game feels very different from a game like, say, Wizardry, and there's already a generally accepted term for games that are like Rogue.

On the one hand, appropriating a people's tongue for one's own whims sure smells like colonialism. On the other hand, declaring a genre by the generic moniker suggest that it is somehow lesser. On the gripping hand, by narrowing the broad term, one is implicitly implying that the super-minorities are so unimportant that they deserve to be "unpersoned."

For what it's worth, Drakkhen is pretty blobby, at least during outdoor exploration. It unblobs for combats and inside castles, though.