You can’t have every party saving the world when said world needs to be shared by hundreds of adventure modules, source books, computer games, and novels. In addition to the decidedly modest heights to which characters are allowed to rise in Pool of Radiance specifically, the need to fit the Gold Box games in general into TSR’s existing milieus tended to rein in such excesses. There are, thank God, no “Chosen Ones” or existential universal threats in Pool of Radiance, a welcome distinction that largely holds true throughout the Gold Box line.
In these, as in Pool of Radiance, the stakes for the campaign world are relatively low but the stakes for the players’ party couldn’t be higher. Like so much about Pool of Radiance, the scenario harks back to the tabletop Dungeons & Dragons experience, to iconic low-level adventures like Gary Gygax’s own The Keep on the Borderlands and the classic British module The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. Instead of saving the world, you’re “only” out to save a little town called Phlan that’s been largely overrun with monsters in recent years. It’s surprisingly modest in scale and scope, at least within the over-the-top context of ludic fantasy in general. The story is appropriate to the characters’ somewhat limited powers.
Still, there’s a big difference between level 1 and level 6, and the thrill of seeing your characters advance and grow in power, so much at the heart of an RPG’s appeal, is the greatest at the lower levels.
#POOL OF RADIANCE ANDROID DOSBOX SERIES#
This article describes what we found therein.īeing the first game in a series that would spawn three direct sequels, Pool of Radiance limits your characters to somewhere between level 6 and 9, depending on class this is strictly a low- to mid-level adventure, reserving the real power-gaming for its sequels. My wife Dorte and I recently played through Pool of Radiance as the first stage in a grander project of trying to take the same party of characters through the entire four-game series that it begins. As Wizardry had been replaced by The Bard’s Tale not so long ago, so was The Bard’s Tale now replaced by the Gold Box. The latter was more than enough to move Pool of Radiance and the Gold Box line it spawned into place as the 1B to the Ultima series’s perennial 1A, replacing the Bard’s Tale games, whose own shooting star was now in the descendant. Coming as it did near the end of the line for an 8-bit CRPG tradition that began in earnest with the original Ultima and Wizardry games back in 1981, it’s easy to see it as the culmination of that tradition, blending the ideas and approaches of its predecessors with its own brand new commercial trump card, the Dungeons & Dragons license. If you don't want Tandy Graphics you can use EGA or CGA instead.Pool of Radiance is one of the most important CRPGs of all time in terms of both design and the genre’s commercial history. You can get Tandy sounds and graphics like the video below. If you change the settings in pool.cfg to.ĪND also access the DOSBOX configuration file and change the data within it so that it uses. In my experience, Tandy definitely has the best audio/sound capablility for Pool of Radiance. The meanings of the pool.cfg file lines are:ġ.- Graphic mode: E(GA) / C(GA) / T(andy)Ģ.- Sound mode: P(C speaker) / T(andy) / S(ilent) You can change things around here to alter the settings. There is allot that you can configure within both the DosBox configuration file and the Pool of Radiance configuration file to make your PoR experience even better. Originally I played PoR on the c64, then to Dos, then using DosBox with D-Fend, then using DosBox with D-Fend Reloaded, and then I finally ditched D-Fend Reloaded in favor of just using the command prompt in DosBox.
#POOL OF RADIANCE ANDROID DOSBOX TRIAL#
But it's usually just a matter of time and trial and effort to get these old games to play. It seems with each new release of DosBox and new release of D-Fend Reloaded, and all the various Operating Systems, and now tablets also etc, sometimes it takes a bit of configuration to get games like PoR working again. Good to hear that you are able to play Pool of Radiance on your new tablet and computer. Greetings and Welcome to the forums Theurgist! Re: Hello and question (disk 3 error help: solved) JOIN ( learn about it) | LOG-IN ( lost password?) Hello and question (disk 3 error help: solved) (Sticky)
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