Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance cover

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance 1988

Released: October 1988
Genres: Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Adventure
Platforms: PC-8800 Series · Commodore C64/128/MAX · Sharp X1 · PC · Mac · DOS · Amiga · Apple II · Family Computer · Nintendo Entertainment System
Developer: Strategic Simulations
More info: Wikipedia IGDB

Where to buy

Digital: GOG
In a collection: Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two

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Is it still worth playing?

Pool of Radiance is a role-playing game from 1988, the first adaptation of TSR's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for home computers. It takes place in the Forgotten Realms, with the action centered in and around the port city of Phlan. It follows the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rule set. Each character has a race and a class chosen at the start, with six races, including elves and halflings, and four classes: fighter, cleric, magic-user and thief. Non-human characters can be multi-classed, which gives the abilities of more than one class but slower advancement. The computer randomly generates statistics for each character, though the player can alter them. The player also chooses each character's alignment, which can affect how others view their actions. Building a party from scratch is still a draw now.