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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drscott46" data-source="post: 3186478" data-attributes="member: 46144">I had always wanted to run the module versions of SSI's Gold Box adventures- Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds- back in the day because I was running a Forgotten Realms Dalelands campaign and most of my players owned the software versions.But after flipping through PDF files of the FRC1 and FRC2 modules recently... I doubt we would have had much fun with Ruins of Adventure.  Poor writing and editing and very little of actual interest within the various blocks of Phlan.  The computer game, despite being the first and messiest Gold Box affair, actually did this setting and adventure much better than the tabletop version.  Ruins of Adventure resembles a 1e adventure in the wrong ways, with piles of random tables and empty maps and little to go on with regards to interesting NPCs and the like.  Curse of the Azure Bonds seemed considerably better.  Because it was also partially based on the novel, the module actually served as a sequel, with the party getting its own bonds from (some) different adversaries than the book and then meeting the novel characters along the way.  It seems as though a lot more thought, effort, and coordination went into FRC2.Interestingly, neither module is particularly bad about railroading.  FRC1 is very nonlinear and 1e-flavored, as I said, and FRC2 allows some of its sections to be completed in any order (although, like many 2e-era modules, still makes sure that certain things happen no matter what the characters do).  Of course, some is necessary because the PCs are actively under the control of the BBEG collective.</blockquote>

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