SSI Gold Box Games

[Bison]

Yes you can from the encamp screen.

[Sir Slash]

I went straight for Pools of Darkness because I never finished the game on my Amiga. Re-created my party from back in the day and headed out to kick Orc-Ass. Man, all those colors to choose from in Character Creation! Must be at least.... what, 16? Can it really be that many? ;D How DO they do it? Another note, my computer's making sounds I never knew it could make. Like from the 80's man. Loving it.

[Bison]

I dig your style Slash, but I need to relive my favorite RPG of all time first.  Pools of Radiance.  I must admit there is a part of me that is greatly relieved that I don't need to get the hole punch out to make a double sided floppy discs and then spend the next 24 hours making play disc sets.  :)

Well I just fought the goblin trainer battle.  I remember that fight being SO much harder.

[Bison]

Note to self:  Make sure I memorize detect magic.

[PAK]

BTW, fights are realtime or turn based?

[Bison]

Turn based. 

BTW, fights are realtime or turn based?

Turn based.

[Bison]

I've also installed on my Macbook.  No issues at all with the program running or playing.  The only issue is that there is no numeric keypad on the keyboard, so you have to use the 1-10 keys.  It took me awhile of moving around before I remembered the layout.

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For movement direction purposes in combat.  The arrow keys work just fine until you want to move diagonally. 

I suspect the linux version will also work without issue.

[BanzaiCat]

Note to self:  Make sure I memorize detect magic.

LOL

For the Goblin Trainer room, right? I had forgotten about that and moved on, then remembered as soon as I read this post, dammit. :(

I had each of my mages memorize Sleep. It's devastating here in early combats, and how I put them all down quickly. Without Sleep, your 1st-level heroes are going to get chopped up but good.

[Rayfer]

The Eye of the Beholder trilogy is tempting but I have no desire to do the graph paper mapping routine, they have no auto-map feature. I found some maps online but they weren't printable. They were/are tough games but fun, I never finished any one of them yet put a lot of hours into them.

[Bison]

Note to self:  Make sure I memorize detect magic.

LOL

For the Goblin Trainer room, right? I had forgotten about that and moved on, then remembered as soon as I read this post, dammit. :(

I had each of my mages memorize Sleep. It's devastating here in early combats, and how I put them all down quickly. Without Sleep, your 1st-level heroes are going to get chopped up but good.

Yeah but I remembered and reloaded.  I don't use my magic users for the spell.  I use one of my cleric spell slots.

[Bison]

I forgot.  It's a set of magical leather armor.  Whoever you got roleplaying your gimp is going to be pissed when they find that out.

[BanzaiCat]

Ah, shite. Oh well. Maybe I should use the hint book, eh?

[Bison]

I actually remembered that tidbit from 30 years ago.  I remember that room being sooooo much harder.

[BanzaiCat]

There's three that I remember were nigh impossible, at least until I finally found out how to deal with them.

- The final room in the Slums, with the %#*$*% trolls and ogres. The trolls are nasty opponents for 1st/2nd-level characters.

- Sokal Keep's major battle. Sleep spells are a necessity, as are ranged weapons.

- A wight (?) in a library. That f#cker would drain levels every time he hit, and man that pissed me off. I'd reload every time...it was too much work to level someone up only to have them <DINK> (POOF) there goes two hours' worth of work.

[Bison]

The one battle that sticks in my mind is the massive kobald camp on the overland map.  I remember the first time I stumbled onto that battle.  Oh yeah...kobalds.  Then I saw the numbers I think it's in the 20s or more; it was just a huge wall of kobalds.  My party didn't have many spells memorized and wasn't fully healed.  That fight did not go well.