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[–] blueryd3r ago 

I've watched GameHorder's lets play of Pool of Radiance and it did peak my interest in the gold box games. But although I'm not a total snob when it comes to old game mechanics (I love the Ultima series after all) the idea of flipping through a PDF document to read all description and story elements is a bit too much for me. If the gold box games come to GoG which I hope they will some day, I'll will give them a shot but until then the work of compiling and hunting down all the extra bits and configuring dosbox is something I don't want to do. Please understand, I'm a very lazy person.

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[–] Namrok [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yeah, that's understandable. I'm luck to have the Forgotten Realms Archives Silver Edition. Came with a fat 300 pg manual, 3 code wheels, and a dozen games from the Gold Box series. I bought it back in the 90's when I was fucking hyped for Baldur's Gate to come out, but had never played a D&D game before. I tried Pool of Radiance then, and I made it up to the "so hard you should come back later" troll encounter in the slums and rage quit.

I'm having a much better time this time around. Although I just ran into the enemies that kill you in one hit with poison, and the enemies which permanently drain XP. And it's bullshit how they implemented those things in this game.