- Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor is the sequel to 'Pool of Radiance' and was released in 2001 from Ubisoft. This game takes place in the Ruins Of Myth Drannor. Myth Drannor was considered to be one of the biggest and most beautiful cities in the Forgotten Realms.
- You can write and submit your own guide for this game using either our full-featured online editor or our basic text editor. We also accept maps and charts as well. After you saved the entire city of Phlan and located the Pool of Radiance, a simple trip to Tilverton should have bee.
- Big package of saves for Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades and Pools of Darkness. Realms.zip Saves near ending and before key moments for Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades and Pools of Darkness. Krynn2.zip Big package of saves for all the Krynn-games.
Pool of Radiance | |
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Genre(s) | Tactical role-playing game |
Developer(s) | Strategic Simulations, Inc. |
Publisher(s) | Strategic Simulations, Inc. Pony Canyon (Japan) Ubisoft |
Platform(s) | Amiga, Apple II, C64, MS-DOS, Apple Macintosh, NES, PC-9800, Atari ST, Windows |
Series[edit]
Pool of Radiance[edit]
Development[edit]
Reception[edit]
Curse of the Azure Bonds[edit]
Reception[edit]
Secret of the Silver Blades[edit]
Pools of Darkness[edit]
Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^'SSI Corporate Background'. Strategic Simulations, Inc. Archived from the original on November 19, 1996.
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- ^ abcDeci, T.J. 'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance'. Allgame. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
- ^Buchanan, Levi (March 6, 2008). 'Dungeons & Dragons Classic Videogame Retrospective'. IGN. Retrieved 2009-10-08.
- ^ abcWayne (October 1988). 'Reviews'. Computer + Video Games (84): 18–19, 21.
- ^ ab'Pool of Radiance'. MobyGames. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
- ^'Pool Your Resources'. The Games Machine (12): 69. November 1988.
- ^Simmons, Alex; Johns, Doug; Mitchell, Andy (November 1990). 'Pool of Radiance'. Amiga Action (14): 72–73.
- ^'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance'. gamespot UK. Archived from the original on 2008-10-13.
- ^Scorpia (September 1989). 'Curse of The Azure Bonds'. Computer Gaming World (63): 8–9, 46. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23.
- ^Rigby, Paul (September 1989). 'The Adventure Strategy Roleplay Column'. The Games Machine (22): 80.
- ^ abcDillon, Tony (August 1989). 'Curse of the Azure Bonds'. CU Amiga-64: 33.
- ^Barton, Matt (2007-02-23). 'Part 2: The Golden Age (1985-1993)'. The History of Computer Role-Playing Games. Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
- ^Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (October 1990). 'The Role of Computers'. Dragon (162): 47–51.
- ^Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 97. ISBN0-87975-653-5.
- ^'Curse of the Azure Bonds'. MobyGames. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
SSI's AD&D 'Gold Box' games were released in 1988-1992 and set in the fantasy worlds of Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance. They were among the best of turn-based CRPGs and are still being played today.
Gold Box Companion is a tool for all the Gold Box games plus Unlimited Adventures and the two SSI's Buck Rogers games. It offers automapping, easy-to-use journal entries and helps with some of the interface issues to make playing a little less tedious.
- HUD above DOSBox window with hit points, character icons, XP meters and effects. Shows good effects in green, bad in red. Also shows if a character is level drained.
- Fix-command for Pool of Radiance. Works with the other games as well. Instantly heals the characters. Optionally also fixes level drained characters. Can not be used while in combat.
- Temporarily change demihuman race to human to avoid experience level limits.
- Optional level up without visiting training halls and without race-/game-related level limits.
- Store the list of memorized spells and restore the spells with a single click. Can not be used while in combat.
- Automap with party location. Notes can be added to the map.
- World map view. Shows party location in some games.
- Combat view. Shows character / monster locations. Shows if character/monster is held or helpless.
- Journal entries.
- Optional auto-identify of items.
- Optional auto-ammo increases the amount of arrows / bolts / darts to a wanted level.
- Autodisable quickfight after combat. Some of the older games didn't disable quickfight between fights so you could enter a dangerous fight with quickfight on.
- Character editor. Reads/modifies memory so it's instant compared to save file editors. Can not be used while in combat.
- Teleporting. You can teleport to a chosen location on the map. You can also teleport on the world map in some of the games.
- Save Game Editor. You can edit party composition (swap members in / out), edit inventories and effects.
- Some modding tools for changing the font and editing game data.
- Lists saved games chronologically with a description of the location (map name).
- Able to backup to latest save game with a description.
- Playing paladin or ranger in Pool of Radiance. Can be exported to Curse of the Azure Bonds.
- Very experimental monk class for Pool of Radiance. Can be exported to Curse of the Azure Bonds.
What's new (17-August-2020)
Released an early version of a FRUA Module Manager which downloads the module list from UA File Archive and lets you download and install modules with a single click and apply the hacks with another click. I'm not yet 100% sure that the hacks are done exactly like UAShell does them. Download fruamm.zip. See here for more info.What's new in v2.60 (06-August-2020)
- Settings file has changed so it's best to completely remove an existing version of GBC.
- Music version of GBC included (GBC_Audio.exe). Plays external sound files. See GBC_Audio.txt for more info. No sound files are included, but the downloads section has a package of sounds. Also check Tabletop Audio for downloadable ambient tracks.
- Lots of effect name corrections (thanks to Stephen S. Lee and Null Null for these).
- Fixed a bug where known/memorized spells were wiped out if the FIX STATS option was on in Dark Queen or FRUA.
- Fixed a bug in Dark Queen where auto-identify corrupted scrolls imported from Death Knights.
- You can press 'T' on the map window to toggle world map location titles.
- Item editor support for Dark Queen / FRUA.
- ECL Tool (bytecode script viewer) enhanced with map display, global search, flag list, flag comments. Lots of memory addresses in PoR / CotAB commented (thanks to Stephen S. Lee's FAQs for these).
- Windows XP or newer. This might help if you use Linux (it's in german, Google translated).
- DOSBox DOS-emulator to run old software on modern computers. If you use the GOG-versions, you don't need to install DOSBox.
- Any fantasy-themed Gold Box game, Unlimited Adventures (with or without UAShell), Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday or Matrix Cubed. If you don't already have these, check out GOG.com for the Forgotten Realms and Krynn -games.
Gold Box Companion
- gbc.zip
Gold Box Companion v2.60 (06-Aug-2020). This is meant to be used with the GOG-versions of the game but might work with others too but then you have to use vanilla/plain DOSBox 0.74. Unarchive the zip-archive into some folder and read GBC.txt inside. GBC.exe is the main Gold Box Companion program, double click on it to start. SGE.exe is the Save Game Editor. There are also some experimental modding tools included. - gbc_music.zip
A collection of music files for the audio version of GBC. Download and extract to GBC folder. Also check Tabletop Audio for downloadable ambient tracks. - gbc201.zip
Gold Box Companion v2.01 (16-October-2015). Older version that is not so picky about DOSBox version / game versions but lacks the effect display, combat view and world map view.
- realms2.zip
Big package of saves for Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades and Pools of Darkness. - realms.zip
Saves near ending and before key moments for Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades and Pools of Darkness. - krynn2.zip
Big package of saves for all the Krynn-games. - krynn.zip
Saves near ending for all the Krynn-games. - frontier.zip
Saves near ending for the two Savage Frontier-games. - gods.zip
Hacked saves for Pools of Darkness. Party of 8 dual-classed characters with hacked equipment. Saves near Gothmenes and Dave's challenge.
- podlimbo.zip
Limbo-mod for Pools of Darkness. Your items won't be destroyed when moving through Limbo. More info. - manshoon.zip
Manshoon-encounter for Pools of Darkness. More info.
- formats.zip ... Description of character save file formats. List of all effects and items in the games.
- dqkitems.zip ... Some hacked items for The Dark Queen of Krynn, by Redeye.
- passwords.zip ... Excel-sheet of passwords for the games.
- goldboxfont.zip ... Gold Box styled font.
- phlan.png ... Maps of all Pool of Radiance's Phlan-locations fit together.
- wilderness.png ... Maps of all Pool of Radiance's wilderness locations.
- daxdump.zip ... DAXDump and ECLDump by Simeon Pilgrim. Can be used to decode the run-length encoding of the DAX files.
- tlbutil2.zip ... TLButil2 by Itamar / Dan Autery. For extracting TLB-files (The Dark Queen of Krynn and FRUA).
- unp411.zip ... If you want to hack old DOS game executables, you probably need to unpack them first with this utiliity.
- hackdocs.zip ... File formats of many FRUA related files.
Some additional screenshots from modded games here and here. The modding tools are included in the GBC package.
GBC starts with a wizard to search for game/character data in the memory. You select a game, set the game folder, select the save slot then search. Saved games are listed chronologically and the map name is also shown.
HUD with combat icons and effects displayed. The bars are for Hit Points and XP. Map with autoexplore.
World map view in Pool of Radiance.
World map view in Dark Queen of Krynn.
Combat view. Stats and effects can be viewed by targeting a monster with the mouse.
A menu opens by moving the mouse over the HUD.