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Unlimited Adventures

jjstraka34jjstraka34 Member Posts: 9,850
edited January 2016 in Off-Topic
This Gold Box content creator may seem like it was lost to time (and maybe it was) but IF you can't get enough Gold Box games, there is a untapped resource thanks to this game that would likely keep you busy for years. A content creator by the name of Ray Dyer basically mastered the use of this tool and over the years created nearly 40 mods (that are at least somewhat connected) based on many of the best pen and paper modules of all time called "The Realms". They seem to be of almost professional quality (which is really selling it short, because it's probably better) and crafted with painstaking care to resemble their source material.

Obviously, the Gold Box games were just recently released on GOG, and it would take anyone hundreds of hours just to get through those. But if you just can't get enough Gold Box, there is a gargantuan amount of authentic D&D goodness thanks to this guy's efforts.

A thread for easy-setup of hacked user-created content:
http://www.gog.com/forum/forgotten_realms_collection/an_introduction_to_forgotten_realms_unlimited_adventures_frua_with_essential_links/page1

And the site that holds these modules, plus many more if you're interested:
http://frua.rosedragon.org/

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  • the_spyderthe_spyder Member Posts: 5,018
    I did not know. Thanks for the info. I'll have to look into this over the long weekend.
  • jjstraka34jjstraka34 Member Posts: 9,850
    edited January 2016
    Should post a link to the original web-page as well. It's around roughly 33 modules, and they are designed to take a party from 1-20, with any combination of one's you want to play. Recommended levels are listed for every module, in the North, South, East and West (which comprises about 33 of them). He also made another concurrent campaign of 7 or so called Realm Adventures that are meant to be played in order. We're talking seminal classics like Horror on the Hill, the original Ravenloft, Tomb of Horrors etc etc. If it's a name that makes old school D&D fanatics bow down in awe, he incorporated it into this series.

    I make very few exceptions for modded/user made content. While it can be amazing, I've up to this point rarely stuck with anything but the cream of the crop for both Neverwinter Nights games. This project (which the earliest of which goes back almost 18 years) does is even more impressive. The Gold Box engine itself requires a certain devotion to the genre that goes beyond your average player. To use the tool provided late in it's life to essentially take the most acclaimed pen and paper modules ever made and re-create them and preserve them forever so that anyone interested can play them solo is a monumental task, and even if you never intend on playing them, I encourage everyone to check out what was done here. It's fairly obscure (some of the mods have only been downloaded about 1500 times) but even more so than the Infinity Engine, the Gold Box games are the closest approximation to actually playing Dungeons and Dragons that were ever made (even simulating the sometimes glacial pace of actual sessions, though this probably wasn't intended). Best of all, it's free.

    http://therealm.flopsyville.com/Menu.htm

    Plus a thread that collected the "Hall of Fame" mods for Unlimited Adventures, so if you're interested, these would be the ones you want to pick from (D&D seems to be in the left column going down). I mean, who knew all this was out there??

    http://ua.reonis.com/index.php?topic=321.0
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  • jjstraka34jjstraka34 Member Posts: 9,850
    edited January 2016
    I've actually taken the liberty of collecting all the modules on that hall of fame list this evening, stored in one folder, along with the UAShell program you need to run most of them. I'd be happy to send them to anyone (only just over 100 mb total) in which case all you'd need is a working copy of Unlimited Adventures from GOG and the ability to follow the well-described instructions in the GOG forum post above, and you'll have more D&D than you can ever hope to digest.

    And I managed to trackdown (as a bonus) a offline version of the long deceased Neverwinter Nights AOL game in the UA Engine.
  • jjstraka34jjstraka34 Member Posts: 9,850
    edited January 2016
    I made of zip file of the highest-rated modules from the community (around 100 or so), plus UAShell, which you need to run the majority of them. Again, use the instructions on the GOG forum post above to set it up, it's not difficult. Link below:

    http://www.filedropper.com/unlimitedadventuresmodules
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