WILDCARD

Found this a while ago!

http://ca.geocities.com/cyberscythe@rogers.com/wildcard.html

It's Wildcard, formerly only found on Gaming World before it was taken down. It doesn't have the greatest story ever, or custom graphics and music, or a CBS or CMS. One could probably classify it as an RTP game. The thing is that this is probably the best RTP game ever made.

This is why--

-Since nearly all the resources are RTP, the game is very consistent.
-All four members of your party are introduced within the first twenty minutes.
-The game never takes itself seriously, and is never pretentious.
-You can read books from bookshelves, and nearly everything written within the books is important to the game in some way.
-Elemental spells have different effects other than exploiting enemy weaknesses--for example, electricity stuns enemies, ice always deals the same amount of damage with each attack, and dark absorbs HP from enemies--so there's a reason to use spells other than Fire.
-Your characters gain abilities at exactly the right rate, and most of them are pretty useful.
-There are a lot of minigames.
-It's also 10 hours long!

It's a bit like Last Legend, but with lower production values. Also, Wildcard came first.