A difficult battle without planning. I used to heal up and haste up at the end of the first and the seond vs the beholders, then go into the last hasted and tanked. The only shame about PoD was that all the items only went up to +4, and it didn't have the variety of Curse in terms of treasure.
I must have had a bug in my game. I could never REACH the end of the game. The game would not progress beyond a certain point. Not saying I could have won the game (it was harder than say Dark Queen of Krynn), but I would have liked the opportunity to try...oh well...it was fun and that is what mattered...
Got to love the sound when monster die LOL. I wasted far too many hours of my youth on this series of games starting with Pool of Radiance. But I don't regret it!
Ioun stones do a variety of things based on their colour. Some add a point or two to a stat 9such as strengthm intelligence, etc), some give bonuses to saving throws, etc, etc.
There's a list in the AD&D Dungeon Master's guide if you want details (or just google Ioun Stone list). When I played I would just disable or magic items on a character, enable the ioun stone, and find out what had changed.
That was one big final battle; worthy of the series! I had Unlimited Adventures and thus most of that artwork and a number of those sprites (such as the Dracolich and Green Dragon).
All that and no treasure! Seriously though, great series. How many games these days let you carry over the same characters throughout an entire series. I never could get past that last battle. Should have used the mighty sling.
Seriously there was no point to treasure at the end of this game: you had +5 swords galore (I was just leaving those), +5 Armour, Rings +5, galoons of magical rings, gauntlets, boots, cloaks, ioun stones, etc, etc, with millions in platinum and gold.
It's all earned of course, but yeah treasure isn't needed at the end :)
According to Wikipedia, if you disintegrate a character carrying a vorpal sword, then resurrect him, he retains the vorpal power for all weapons (despite all his items being destroyed). This also, apparently, applies to other item powers as well, such as of rings.
I assumed this was what you'd done here (it also looks like you used some of the other game glitches to your advantage).
@SivakD it was bugged. i think what happened was that if you had the vorpal sword equipped and you saved your character to disk, when you went to restore, your character now had a "natural" vorpal ability. so you could have, for instance, vorpal maces, which would behead beholders (hmmm....wonder how that would look?)
As the title says, Pools of Darkness is the game. It was made in 1991 and it was done by the same company as NWN. The game is the 4th part of a series of 4 games.
It was and wasn't: You could transfer Curse of the Azure Bonds characters to Hillsfar and Hillsfar characters to Secret of the Silver Blades. You could also transfer Curse of the Azure Bonds characters directly over to Secret of the Silverblades
The very basic and very best of RPG games ever made. Curse of The Azure Bonds and Secret of The Silver Blades uber alles.
cicerome 1 year ago
It's a bit disappointing to win the fight in NOVICE (am I mistaken? is it NORMAL?) mode instead of CHAMPION...
Abusing bugs for cheating, well yeah... let's try again without doing that. ;)
surrano75 2 years ago
A difficult battle without planning. I used to heal up and haste up at the end of the first and the seond vs the beholders, then go into the last hasted and tanked. The only shame about PoD was that all the items only went up to +4, and it didn't have the variety of Curse in terms of treasure.
SimonDarkshade 2 years ago
I must have had a bug in my game. I could never REACH the end of the game. The game would not progress beyond a certain point. Not saying I could have won the game (it was harder than say Dark Queen of Krynn), but I would have liked the opportunity to try...oh well...it was fun and that is what mattered...
DoomBishop 3 years ago
Got to love the sound when monster die LOL. I wasted far too many hours of my youth on this series of games starting with Pool of Radiance. But I don't regret it!
400SA 3 years ago
haha, those are insane armor class. I remember having my fighters equiped with vorpal long sword too.
That game rocked !
cremedeble 3 years ago
What do the ioun stones do, and how is it best to use them?
gillyssquashball 4 years ago
Ioun stones do a variety of things based on their colour. Some add a point or two to a stat 9such as strengthm intelligence, etc), some give bonuses to saving throws, etc, etc.
There's a list in the AD&D Dungeon Master's guide if you want details (or just google Ioun Stone list). When I played I would just disable or magic items on a character, enable the ioun stone, and find out what had changed.
banedon88 4 years ago
That was one big final battle; worthy of the series! I had Unlimited Adventures and thus most of that artwork and a number of those sprites (such as the Dracolich and Green Dragon).
TiaMichelle 4 years ago
I've beat all the ones in this series except this one. Time to dust my old pc and break out the game.
Partisan357 4 years ago
All that and no treasure! Seriously though, great series. How many games these days let you carry over the same characters throughout an entire series. I never could get past that last battle. Should have used the mighty sling.
msugeogamer 4 years ago
Seriously there was no point to treasure at the end of this game: you had +5 swords galore (I was just leaving those), +5 Armour, Rings +5, galoons of magical rings, gauntlets, boots, cloaks, ioun stones, etc, etc, with millions in platinum and gold.
It's all earned of course, but yeah treasure isn't needed at the end :)
banedon88 4 years ago
Were those slings somehow rendered vorpal? People were getting beheaded from them.
OvaltinePatrol 4 years ago
Apparently. Must be a bug in the old 1991 game. But I wasn't complaining. :)
SivakD 4 years ago
According to Wikipedia, if you disintegrate a character carrying a vorpal sword, then resurrect him, he retains the vorpal power for all weapons (despite all his items being destroyed). This also, apparently, applies to other item powers as well, such as of rings.
I assumed this was what you'd done here (it also looks like you used some of the other game glitches to your advantage).
njkyry 2 years ago
@SivakD it was bugged. i think what happened was that if you had the vorpal sword equipped and you saved your character to disk, when you went to restore, your character now had a "natural" vorpal ability. so you could have, for instance, vorpal maces, which would behead beholders (hmmm....wonder how that would look?)
keithyw 1 year ago
what game is this it looks similar to the old never winter nights.. wich i am too young to have ever played
crabheart 5 years ago
As the title says, Pools of Darkness is the game. It was made in 1991 and it was done by the same company as NWN. The game is the 4th part of a series of 4 games.
SivakD 5 years ago
ah someone should remake it... stormreach cost too much and ide rather be allowed to use my imagination
crabheart 5 years ago
I'm currently trying to rewrite Champions of Krynn (which is another of the Gold Box Games) in NWN.
banedon88 4 years ago
Pools of Darkness was created by Strategic Simulations Inc (SSI). Neverwinter Nights was created by Bioware.
Game sequence:
-Pools of Radience
-Curse of the Azure Bonds
-Hillsfar (utter rubbish as it is not at all like the others in the series)
-Secret of the Silver Blades
-Pools of Darkness
banedon88 4 years ago
Hillsfar is not part of that series.
Dezante 4 years ago
It was and wasn't: You could transfer Curse of the Azure Bonds characters to Hillsfar and Hillsfar characters to Secret of the Silver Blades. You could also transfer Curse of the Azure Bonds characters directly over to Secret of the Silverblades
banedon88 4 years ago
Hillsfar was between Pool of Radiance and Azure Bonds. I actually leveled a character playing Hillsfar, but can't recall how...
Hillsfar was actually pretty good on the C64
SD78 3 years ago
yea i was one year old lol
crabheart 4 years ago