Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

[Beans00]

Beat secret of the silver blades. Lazy tonight so quicker recap


The ruins were so fucking bad, like legitimately 5-6 hours of pure pain.
The black circle hq was fine

I appreciated the game having a teleport system. Definitely solved a lot of reloads being able to go back to a temple/town within 2-5 minutes.

The mines sucked, but they were easy. I've seen a lot of people complain about them but the encounter rate was pretty low. Each of the 10 levels took like 15-30 minutes each.

Mine level 7 for example, was full of lizard men with 10 hp? The whole thing just seemed like a wasted opportunity.

Everything after the mines was pretty high quality. I really liked the dungeon, crevasses. The drider base sucked.


Way too many medusas and baselisks which turn you to stone which is pretty annoying. With the teleporter system it was quick to get back to a temple.

The end game castle was pretty high quality as well.

Beat the end boss on the first try. Took 24 hours.


curse azure bonds(18h)
por (33h)
gateway sf(19h)
death knights of krynn (21h)
champions of krynn (15.5h)
treasures sf (23h)
Secret of the silver blades(24.5h)


Would rank it the worst, but I didn't hate it. The ruins are genuinely a WTF area though lol.

 

[Cael]

I just found like 2k worth of exp and tons of items while in search mode.

Fuck me bro

What is even the point of turning search mode off?

Search is 10min per step. No search is about 1? I can't remember. There is at least one place where this matters (i.e., it is timed).

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Zed Duke of Banville what were the poison rules for 1ed D&D?

From the Dungeon Masters Guide:
"Poison Saving Throws For Characters:
For those who wonder why poison does either killing damage (usually) or no harm whatsoever, recall the justification for character hit points. That is, damage is not actually sustained - at least in proportion to the number of hit points marked off in most cases. The so called damage is the expenditure of favor from deities, luck, skill, and perhaps a scratch, and thus the saving throw. If that mere scratch managed to be venomous, then DEATH. If no such wound was delivered, then NO DAMAGE FROM THE POISON. In cases where some partial damage is indicated, this reflects poisons either placed so that they are ingested or used so as to ensure that some small portion does get in the wound or skin of the opponent."
Earlier in the DMG concerning assassins and poison: "poison Types: The poison of monsters, regardless of its pluses or minuses to the victim's saving throw, is an all-or-nothing affair."

Even though Gygax insisted that luck, divine protection, and magical protection are among the elements represented by hit points in Dungeons & Dragons, he decided that poisons would generally be save or die, with the saving throw having no relation to characters' hit points.

 

[Beans00]

Dark queen of krynn is hard so far, I only did the first map(which was huge) but man some of these fights kicked my ass a few times.

 

[Cael]

Dark queen of krynn is hard so far, I only did the first map(which was huge) but man some of these fights kicked my ass a few times.

First map? You mean Caergoth? That is like a tenth of the normal sized map...

 

[Beans00]

Dark queen of krynn is hard so far, I only did the first map(which was huge) but man some of these fights kicked my ass a few times.

First map? You mean Caergoth? That is like a tenth of the normal sized map...

it was like 2x the size of any map in any gb minus the silver blades.

 

[Cael]

Dark queen of krynn is hard so far, I only did the first map(which was huge) but man some of these fights kicked my ass a few times.

First map? You mean Caergoth? That is like a tenth of the normal sized map...

it was like 2x the size of any map in any gb minus the silver blades.

I think you are thinking of the draconian caves? If so, that is the second map...

 

[Glop_dweller]

IIRC... neutralize poison (rather unintuitively IMO) will un---dead the poisoned PC. As in un-does the death by poison. Use it, and the PC is alive again.

Do correct me if I am mistaken, I've not played the games seriously in about five years, but that is what I (think that I) remember. I did not know this for the first three or four times I played through the games. I was so used to EoB1 and the like; assuming neutralize poison merely stopped the poison effect (and impending death). It had never occurred to me to use it after they had died from poison.

 

[Beans00]

Not going to make any friends with this one, but I just finished the tombs in DQOK and man. This is my least favorite gold box game by far.

Treasures, and silver blades and COK had their frustrating moments but I never really felt like quitting. Maybe the ruins in silver blades.

DQOK, the maps are way too big, it's either way too hard or way too easy. This is minor but I keep ending up in situations where I need to backtrack for like 15-20 minutes or lose xp since the maps are so big going back to level up is a chore. I've been cheating and occasionally using the level up for the first time playing any of these games.


I think I'm like 40% through it so I'll likely try to finish it, but I'm really not enjoying this one at all.

 

[Cael]

Not going to make any friends with this one, but I just finished the tombs in DQOK and man. This is my least favorite gold box game by far.

Treasures, and silver blades and COK had their frustrating moments but I never really felt like quitting. Maybe the ruins in silver blades.

DQOK, the maps are way too big, it's either way too hard or way too easy. This is minor but I keep ending up in situations where I need to backtrack for like 15-20 minutes or lose xp since the maps are so big going back to level up is a chore. I've been cheating and occasionally using the level up for the first time playing any of these games.


I think I'm like 40% through it so I'll likely try to finish it, but I'm really not enjoying this one at all.

DQK is very old school. It expects you to know what you are doing and it is one of the two Epic level games in the series. Epic levels plays differently. That said, if someone can complete it with just 1 mage and single class characters throughout, it shouldn't be that bad, granted the guy knew how the game works, which you probably don't.

I don't recall needing to backtrack like crazy in the game, though, but then again, I am one of those people who commit genocide vs the sea dragons before bringing the eggs back to the sea elves for the extra XP...

 

[Beans00]

Not going to make any friends with this one, but I just finished the tombs in DQOK and man. This is my least favorite gold box game by far.

Treasures, and silver blades and COK had their frustrating moments but I never really felt like quitting. Maybe the ruins in silver blades.

DQOK, the maps are way too big, it's either way too hard or way too easy. This is minor but I keep ending up in situations where I need to backtrack for like 15-20 minutes or lose xp since the maps are so big going back to level up is a chore. I've been cheating and occasionally using the level up for the first time playing any of these games.


I think I'm like 40% through it so I'll likely try to finish it, but I'm really not enjoying this one at all.

DQK is very old school. It expects you to know what you are doing and it is one of the two Epic level games in the series. Epic levels plays differently. That said, if someone can complete it with just 1 mage and single class characters throughout, it shouldn't be that bad, granted the guy knew how the game works, which you probably don't.

I don't recall needing to backtrack like crazy in the game, though, but then again, I am one of those people who commit genocide vs the sea dragons before bringing the eggs back to the sea elves for the extra XP...

I had to backtrack out of the Tombs twice for level ups, and both times took me like 15 minutes to get out, then however much time to get back.

 

[The Limper]

DQK, SotSB and PoD are Gold Box games gone extreme. They are for the true goldbox fans. Not for everyone. I gotta give it to you for tackling the majority so far, it’s a grind. Nice job.