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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Croesus" data-source="post: 5893648" data-attributes="member: 35019">A few of the elements I still remember:-1E rules-Rolling up characters, picking classes, the temptation to use non-humans because they can multiclass all captured the feel of creating charaters in a tabletop game.-Party based game. Sure you could run with fewer characters, but the game assumed the player would have a full, six-person party, with all the bases covered.-Fragile magic users. Pity the poor wizard who got caught in the front lines with his pathetic d4 hit die.-Powerful spells. Sleep ruled in low level fights. Later, hold person and stinking cloud were devastating spells. Fireball could clear a room. (I still have memories of a battle against over a dozen cloud giants, including cloud giant clerics lobbing hold person with abandon - a fun, challenging fight.)-While there were many quests, the games were essentially "kill things, take their stuff, rinse and repeat". -Lots of ecounter areas that were basically dungeons, even if the fluff was that the party was clearing an area of the city, or sneaking into an enemy stronghold.-All the classic enemies - kobolds, orcs, ogres, even dragons.-Many of the classic magic items, including a long sword +5 (which I think acted as a holy sword in the hands of a paladin - can't remember for certain).I'd love to play updated versions of these. NWN 1 had a conversion of Pool of Radiance that was very good, but not quite the same feel, given that NWN isn't 1E. A pity these seem lost to time, since we haven't seen them released in years.</blockquote>

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