We’ve all been there: playing an RPG in a fictional world when suddenly you’re lost in a swamp of made-up proper nouns. Where is that place? What is that faction’s whole deal again? And what exactly is going on in this side quest that I started a week ago?

Avowed has a surprisingly elegant solution. The new dark fantasy RPG from Obsidian Entertainment is very good with its lore, and one of the most crucial ways it accomplishes this is by having easy-to-access lore refreshers. When you’re speaking to other characters in the game, its unique vocab words are highlighted a different color. That’s........

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