Of course you can always expect items like Rings and Bracers to be magical. Identifying items costs 200gp and you pretty much have to figure out which items are magical based on clues like unusual items in a monster hoard or a large selling price. Note that you cannot acquire more than the experience to put you over a second level until you train up. Training costs 1,000gp every time you wish to level up and is required to achieve the benefits of a new level. These games will throw a lot of coin at you, but it has ways of reclaiming quite a bit of it. Only if a magical weapon is limited to a certain alignment or one of the two axes (lawful-neutral-chaos and good-neutral-evil) does it really have an effect on the game. There is no balancing rule benefit to playing a female character in AD&D 1st Edition.Īll nine alignments of AD&D are here, but the selection is almost useless. Even though the sex limit would soon become unfashionable in 2nd AD&D and just about every RPG thereafter, they kept it for the whole of the Gold Box series. Consider that a suit of plate mail weighs 450gp and the game treats copper pieces like gold pieces for weight and you are starting to look at some hard choices.ĭo not play a female fighter/ranger/paladin in a Gold Box game. Without any strength modifier, less than or equal to 350gp = 12 squares, 700gp = 9 squares, 1050 gp = 6 squares and anything over 1050 gp and you are down to 3 squares of movement a round. The amount of encumbrance will slow down your character in combat. The idea is that 10 gold pieces (or any type of money piece) = 1 pound. Instead of an intuitive system like pounds, AD&D 1st edition uses coins to note encumbrance. You should see only Platinum and maybe some Gold for change in your inventory thereafter. Pool all of your various currencies together on one character and buy something cheap like 10 arrows. Considering that 1,000 copper pieces = 5 gold pieces, you will want to find a way to exchange currency quickly. AD&D is slightly less cumbersome, with 200 copper pieces = 20 silver pieces = 2 electrum pieces = 1 gold pieces = 1/5 platinum pieces.
It makes you feel like you have traveled back in time to the United Kingdom pre-decimalization (240 pennies = 20 shillings = 1 pound, let's not get started on farthings, groats, crowns, marks and guineas). Trying to keep track of your wealth is a real doozy when you have five different types of coins.
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Let me talk about some of the AD&D features in this game and the series of games it spawned : However, for a player brought up on more modern RPGs, Pool has some odd features hearkening back to a time when AD&D was more suited for the tabletop than the desktop. It uses the first edition of the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons rules and adheres to them pretty strictly.
In fact, I would say it is the Baldur's Gate of the 1980s. It is a great game and hugely influential on later games. Pool of Radiance was the first time a computer game officially tried to adapt the AD&D rules into a video-game playable form.
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