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What viewpoint? If it was isometric, it could've been easily any number of Dn D games, if from the side, a point and click. Look at SSI's Gold Box games or Black Isle's Icewind Dale, for a start. I haven't really played either to know them well enough, just passing attempts at friend's houses, but its a start.
Though Ultima just came to mind, too. The series is infamous for the creative ways you can kill Lord British / Richard Garriot.
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This one came out around 1994 or 1995 for PC. It was a game where you go on a quest of some kind and the main character spends a lot of time walking around and the screen doesn't really follow him so you start on one side of the screen and then walk to another edge of the screen and it would change to that screen. I don't remember ever really accomplishing anything in the game other than stopping to talk to people and if you typed "join" they might join your party and then follow you around the screen all the time. I think you could even hack them with your sword and kill them if you wanted and there was a later version released where if you did that, this wizard guy would show up in a fireball and kill you on the spot. I guess the people who designed the game didn't like you to be able to kill off their characters.