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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 8306225" data-attributes="member: 6801060">Ah, the good old Gold Box games! Played them so often back in the early '90s, and even periodically dip back into them again now (I just re-played the four games of the "Pools" series last year, when there wasn't much else to do due to pandemic shut downs). Nothing like sweeping kobolds, getting off that perfect fireball, or grinding though the punishing final battle of Pools of Darkness with level 40 characters! The graphics are obviously hugely outdated, but they are still a blast to play if you can get past that.By the way, they are still available for purchase and download from GOG:<a href="https://www.gog.com/game/forgotten_realms_the_archives_collection_two" target="_blank">Forgotten Realms Gold Box games</a> (which are 75% off right now)<a href="https://www.gog.com/game/dungeons_dragons_krynn_series" target="_blank">Dragonlance Gold Box games</a>I would also suggest getting the  <a href="https://gbc.zorbus.net/" target="_blank">Gold Box Companion</a>, which is an interface tool that makes a lot of really good quality-of-life add-ons to the game, like automapping, having access to the journal entries within game, character management, and so on. It also has a character editor, which will allow cheating from light (removing demihuman level limits, leveling outside of training halls - you know, the 1e/2e rules everyone hated), to extreme (insta-heals whenever, everyone with maxed out stats and +5 everything!). Also, for the first game, Pool of Radiance, it will allow things hadn't been implemented yet as they were for later games, such as memorized spell lists, the "Fix" command so you can cast healing spells more efficiently during rest, and, most importantly, implementing paladins and rangers so you can run the same group from the first game to the last in that series...</blockquote>

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