Do they make turn-based role-playing computer games any more?

For the past two months I've been enjoying the http://www.kingdomofloathing.com. It's a free, online, turned-based RPG. One of the great things about this game is the many ways to play it. Some people play through the main quest many times, aquiring additional permanent skills with each run. Some enjoy PVP, improving their ranking and stealing toast from other players. Others choose to collect random items, earn trophies for accomplishments, or acquire tattoos. I highly recommend giving it a try. Seal Clubbers (fighters) and Disco Bandits (rouges) are probably the easiest to play at first. Send me an email (in profile) and I'll give you some meat (the in-game currency) to help start you off.

You should check out the Might & Magic series. These fit your criteria perfectly, I think. I like M&M 6,7, and 8 the best, but I'm not sure where you can get them. The first 5 in the series are now on GameTap, so it is possible they will be adding the rest at some point. DO NOT BUY M&M 9!! I can't stress this enough.

I prefer RPGs to any other genre, and I really dislike realtime games. (Caveat: I like FPS games. I just don't like anything that tries to combine a hectic, fast-paced feeling with rpg or strategy levels of complexity.) Anyway, I've been trying to answer this question myself for a very long time. As mentioned, BG and BG2 are good games. They are not turn-based. They are awkward to play in pseudo-turn-based mode. I still do play them sometimes. NWN is similar. Planescape: Torment is the best game of this type. Nthing Fallout 1/2. Arcanum is probably worth trying. The Spiderweb Software games are decent. If you're willing to deal with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox or some other mechanism for playing older games, try http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=116. Nthing The Underdogs in general. nethack, angband and adom are my favorite roguelikes.

Nethack is pretty much exactly what you want, although it is a very difficult game that is very unforgiving of stupid mistakes (I've been playing it for a decade and I've only ever beaten the game once, and that was with the strongest character class). You might want to try the original Rogue first, to get a hang of the "roguelike" paradigm. Rogue has absolutely no plot, however -- it's just a dungeon crawl. Nethack, despite the fact that it initially appears to be a dungeon crawl as well, does have a plot of sorts -- it just doesn't really materialize until later in the game.

Just go pick up FF7 for the PC and call it done.

Seconding Fallout 2. Turn based combat, great plot, and you kill monsters and battle against evil, only instead of swords and magic there's power armour and lots of guns (melee weapons too if you're into that). If you're a fan of Mad Max and post-apocalyptic stuff you'll love it, but if you looking for a classical D&D fantasy thing then probably not.

Dungeon Master (my personal all-time favorite) and Chaos Strikes back are both superb games, but they're realtime. Maybe I was trying too hard to read into the OP's intent, but I figured the combat system in these games wasn't the kind of thing he would object to. Yes it's real-time in a sense, but it's choose-and-click, not reflex based. Compared to FPS or arcade fighting, or even RPGs like Oblivion, this combat is so slow and linear as to be all but turn-based.

I'm an rpg gamer. I've enjoyed dungeon siege I and II, Neverwinter nights 1 + expansions, and Neverwinter Nights 2. Also the Baldur's Gate series, Temple of Elemental Evil. Personally, I have an intense dislike of reflex-based gaming, because my reflexes suck. All the games above either have pause options or a pause button, which I use with extreme prejudice.

As far as really old school stuff goes, have you looked into the Forgotten Realms games by the same company that made the Krynn games? Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, and Pools of Darkness. These are also sometimes called the gold box games, and they are indeed excellent. And *very* old school -- the first two are EGA games, IIRC.