Pools of Radiance is Kicking My Ass and I’m Loving It!

[Wayward Son]

I started Pools of Radiance today and holy fuck. My two healers both went down in my second combat (Benedictus the Cleric and Szant István the F/C), and idk how I’m supposed to get them back, since I have no other healers to cast CLW on them and the temple charges a fuckton for services. Loving it so far.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

These games are pretty much unplayable because of the now obnoxious and terrible interface. I can tolerate Knights of the Chalice because it's pretty much a Gold Box game with a modern UI, but not this.

 

[King Crispy]

Fails to keep valuable team members alive

 

[Strange Fellow]

If they're only unconscious you can rest for 24 hours to restore 1 hit point. If they're dead then it's trickier, and you're probably better off making new characters if you're just starting out.

 

[octavius]

You should have several characters able to cast Cure Light Wounds. Multi-class characters rule in PoR.
Also hire a Hero as a meat shield. You'll lose some XP, but there's more than encough XP in the game.
And after a while you'll have more gold than you can spend.

 

[Incendax]

Rest for 24 hours or hire a Cleric hero.
There is PLENTY of XP to go around.

 

[Mustawd]

So much for that IWD LP in December huh?

So I'm going into my intersession in a couple weeks, which is likely to leave me bored as fuck. With that in mind I figured an IWD LP would be in order to A) Make me finally finish the damn game

 

[Grampy_Bone]

These games are pretty much unplayable because of the now obnoxious and terrible interface.

Gold Box companion alleviates much of the pain

 

[moleman]

These games are pretty much unplayable because of the now obnoxious and terrible interface....

I read this often about Gold Box games and I never understand where this is coming from.
I played Pool of Radiance last year (with GBC) and had (barely) no issues with the UI.
What comes to mind is the lack of a "fix" command and maybe that you have to re-select spells to memorize.
Both issues were fixed in CotAB.

For a solely keyboard controlled UI it's actually pretty good imho.

 

[Mustawd]

For a solely keyboard controlled UI

I think a lot of people just want a mouse function. Can’t disagree.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Mice slow everything down.

 

[janior]

It has perfect keyboard only UI, that's a rare thing, for a game this old.

 

[BEvers]

I played Pool of Radiance last year (with GBC) and had (barely) no issues with the UI.
What comes to mind is the lack of a "fix" command and maybe that you have to re-select spells to memorize.
Both issues were fixed in CotAB.

GBC already adds both of those in PoR

And yeah, I never use the mouse in any Gold Box game.

 

[Courland]

Gold Box companion alleviates much of the pain

I've never heard of this until now, holy fuck it makes those games a lot more playable.

 

[moleman]

...What comes to mind is the lack of a "fix" command and maybe that you have to re-select spells to memorize.
Both issues were fixed in CotAB...

GBC already adds both of those in PoR ...

True, but GBC's fix command will heal your party immediately, which I considered cheating during my playthrough. I only used it in the civilized area.

 

[Wayward Son]

I’ll chime in with that once I learned the commands and how to navigate menus, my only complaint about UI is shops and even those aren’t bad, just I don’t prefer how they’re implemented.

 

[Dorateen]

You must gather your money before venturing forth.

 

[JarlFrank]

These games are pretty much unplayable because of the now obnoxious and terrible interface. I can tolerate Knights of the Chalice because it's pretty much a Gold Box game with a modern UI, but not this.

http://gbc.zorbus.net/