What are the best AD&D 1st Edition games?
I know about the Gold Box, but which of those early Strategic Simulations (or adjacent) games is the better?
Gold Box?
What are the best AD&D 1st Edition games?
I know about the Gold Box, but which of those early Strategic Simulations (or adjacent) games is the better?
Pools, Krynn, and Beholder. Rest are garbage.
Gateway/Treasures aren't that bad.
Pool seems to be the majority answer. Guess I'll finally play it.
Poser, champions of krynn is bottom 3 gold box games
Usually people are talking about DKK when they praise Krynn. Though I'd put Champions above DQK.
Unfortunately nothing stacks up to the Gold Box games, and even they peak early on with Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds.
>LIGMA
The patrol attacks you.
sexually?
Where do you think we are? The dungeon of Fear and Hunger?
Pools of radiance has the most ideas but it’s clunky.
The later games cast away a lot of them and become more invested in the combat. They have some improvements in terms of playability.
Death knights of Krynn was my favourite but you are probably better starting with Pools of Radiance,
Not even looking it up but I seem to remember saying LUX. It’s been decades. Why can’t I remember useful stuff instead.
LUX is for the ghost, SAMOSUD along with some other word is for the patrols.
None, since AD&D is complete garbage and only the most demented grognards can lie to themselves enough to even play anything that bad.
Not an RPG but a lot of people swear by D&D Stronghold. Never could get into it myself.
+1
That is one of my all-time favs.
Is PoR really the best place to start for GB games?
I feel that I might only try one, and it would later titles are better from a purely technical perspective
The overworld and structure of the game is nicer than some of the later games in my view. You can do the Krynn trilogy for a bit more QoL and flair, it's good as well. But, I think Goldbox Commander gives some of that to PoR too, like not having to reselect spells at rest and having a Fix command.
Later games are slightly easier to play.
But you’d be best starting with the first in whichever of the series you want to pick.
So if you don’t go with Pools of Radiance then maybe Champions of Krynn.
Yeah PoR is neat. If you like blobbers you'll enjoy it, it's just that with a basic tactical layer for combat.
>blobbers
>that with a basic tactical layer for combat
That's what makes it not a blobber.
i enjoyed the 2 buck rogers game.
but really just get the FRUA and download better versions of most of the official titles. plus many better.
I only played the O.G. Forgotten Realms Tetralogy, but of those four, Pool of Radiance was really really good and the rest were complete garbage. Pool of Radiance had an almost open world style, and they switched from that to very linear, mindless dungeon crawling for the remaining titles.