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General discussionRelease: Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Krynn Series(191 posts)(191 posts)
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Posted October 27, 2015
Saving throw successful.

At the behest of the mighty wizards, you have made a thousand-hour journey through the Forgotten Realms. As you reminisce upon your experiences, the critical hits, and the skill checks, little do you know that your quest is far from over. At dawn, you choose a new path through the DRM-free realm of GOG.com, and seek more adventure in the realms of Krynn, Dark Sun, and Ravenloft.

The missing pieces of cRPG history are coming back together! Our Dungeons & Dragons inventory just got bigger with three new packs containing seven long lost RPG digital premieres.

<span class="bold">--Dungeons &amp; Dragons: Ravenloft Series</span> - featuring Strahd's Possession, Stone Prophet - is one of the largest and most popular D&D settings ever. A gothic-noir universe ruled by the dark powers that be.

<span class="bold">--Dungeons &amp; Dragons: Krynn Series</span> - featuring Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn, The Dark Queen of Krynn - a trilogy of famous Dragonlance stories, based on the incredibly successful Forgotten Realms video-game formula.

<span class="bold">--Dungeons &amp; Dragons: Dark Sun Series</span> - featuring Shattered Lands, Wake of the Ravager - a pair of titles set in the post-apocalyptic take on D&D - a world where magic is banished and water is as scarce as hope.


Traverse, and become lost once more in, the incredible digital worlds of Dungeons & Dragons - once again resurrected from video game limbo and delivered straight to your modern computer. Hassle free, DRM-free, on GOG.com!
Posted October 28, 2015
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Maxvorstadt: Level draining? Uh oh, don`t like games whith monsters that drain my hard earned levels!
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HiPhish: At least in Baldur's Gate level drain was not permanent, it could be restored via spell, potion or at a temple. I don't know about these games though.
I believe there is a spell in the temple that can restore lost levels. Or perhaps a scroll. Just don't let those vampires hit you in the first place. lol
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equivalential: WELL YOU GOT THEM ALL.
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Crosmando: Not quite:
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelljammer:_Pirates_of_Realmspace]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelljammer:_Pirates_of_Realmspace[/url]
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright:_The_Gorgon's_Alliance]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright:_The_Gorgon's_Alliance[/url]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_%26_Magic (this one is Interplay not SSI though)

Also, not D&D but used the Gold Box engine/gameplay:
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers:_Countdown_to_Doomsday]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers:_Countdown_to_Doomsday[/url]
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers:_Matrix_Cubed]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers:_Matrix_Cubed[/url]

Then of course there was a bunch of pretty bad D&D games I don't know if anyone cares about, like Dragon Strike (dragon flying simulation), Shadow Sorcerer, Dragon Dice and of course the infamous Descent to Undermountain.

Oh and finally the "Silver Box" games which were meant to be "arcade action" equivalents to the Gold Box (*shiver*)... yeah don't play these.

There were also two console-exclusive D&D games made by Westwood, but I haven't played them so I can't vouch for their quality (or lack thereof):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Griffon
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Warriors_of_the_Eternal_Sun]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Warriors_of_the_Eternal_Sun[/url]

EDIT: Oh and this too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Empires
Never heard of it so can't comment.
Also, there was a War of the Lance Game, that I enjoyed back in the day probably far more than it deserved. Never played Dragon Strike, but back in the day it had a good review in Home Office computing. Does anyone other than me remember that magazine?
Post edited October 28, 2015 by ChicagoOWL
Posted October 28, 2015
Curse you, GOG!
Why do you have to kick so much ass?
This is awesome! <3
Posted October 28, 2015
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tburger: YAY! My wallet.

EDIT: NO MANUALS ...? NOT AT ALL?!
If they weren't there then, they're there now
Posted October 28, 2015
Nice classic releases!
Posted October 28, 2015
I'm pretty excited about the Dark Sun stuff showing up here. Ravenloft is a "get on sale" kind of thing, but I could see myself getting the Krynn Gold Box trilogy at some point. Is there anything about those games in particular that is different from the Pool of Radiance saga and the Savage Frontier stuff?

We have a lot of the best SSI-era D&D stuff on here now, but we're still missing the indisputable "classic" of the pre-Baldur's Gate D&D catalog. I'm, of course, talking about Descent to Undermountain. Make it happen GOG. You know you want to. If I can purchase infamously bad games like Master of Orion 3 and Ultima IX on this service, I want to try out the infamously bad D&D games too. I have a morbid curiosity that demands I know exactly what kind of burning trash fire Interplay managed to put out by trying to shove a RPG into the Descent engine.
Posted October 28, 2015
2015 = GOG wallet lynching year.
Posted October 28, 2015
Very nice additions lately, great to see these here among the newer releases.
Posted October 28, 2015
Dammit! My wishlist is growing longer and longer...
Posted October 28, 2015
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Kirben: ...
Also why is Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager using lossy OGG files for CD audio, rather than a CD image? the CD image from original releases should be fine to use, only the later release in AD&D Masterpiece Collection was glitched.
Switching to lossy massively decreases the download size at no noticeable loss. The bitrate is still 256 Kbps variable, which is pretty generous considering the tracks themselves suffer from plenty of recording/mixing flaws (notably saturation). I love those tunes as much as the next diehard, but this was the right call on their part.
Posted October 28, 2015
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Kirben: ...
Also why is Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager using lossy OGG files for CD audio, rather than a CD image? the CD image from original releases should be fine to use, only the later release in AD&D Masterpiece Collection was glitched.
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bismuthdrummer: Switching to lossy massively decreases the download size at no noticeable loss. The bitrate is still 256 Kbps variable, which is pretty generous considering the tracks themselves suffer from plenty of recording/mixing flaws (notably saturation). I love those tunes as much as the next diehard, but this was the right call on their part.
Flac would have been a nice offer, non-lossy compressed audio is still the best in my book. But hey, "a" soundtrack at all is always better than no soundtrack :-)
Posted October 28, 2015
cant seem to post a quoted long text icon keeps animatings telling the post is processed ...

anyway: i saw a nice bundle of old classic games.
Post edited October 28, 2015 by gamesfreak64
Posted October 28, 2015
Strahd's Possession, Stone Prophet, Shattered lands, and the whole Krynn gold box trilogy.. damn you GoG, just wait until I get paid, I shall own them all!
Posted October 28, 2015
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Kirben: ...
Also why is Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager using lossy OGG files for CD audio, rather than a CD image? the CD image from original releases should be fine to use, only the later release in AD&D Masterpiece Collection was glitched.
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bismuthdrummer: Switching to lossy massively decreases the download size at no noticeable loss. The bitrate is still 256 Kbps variable, which is pretty generous considering the tracks themselves suffer from plenty of recording/mixing flaws (notably saturation). I love those tunes as much as the next diehard, but this was the right call on their part.
No, there is no good reason to restrict a game to lossy audio, when the original game provided high quality CD Audio.

The CD image could be compressed to around 410MB at least, and there are many games of much larger size (gigabytes) on GOG.
Post edited October 28, 2015 by Kirben
Posted October 28, 2015
You people are monsters! MONSTERS! I want to wait until these go on sale in a huge bundle BUT I CAN'T!!! I'm just going to refer my wife to you when she asks why I just paid ~$30 for all these old games. You should have heard the hulabaloo when I bought my Colecovision Flashback a few days ago!

MONSTERS!

And there is no saving throw against this. My wallet just took an arrow in the credit card.
Posted October 28, 2015
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raydeen: And there is no saving throw against this. My wallet just took a power word: kill in the credit card.
Please, we're talking about D&D here, not Skyrim. :P
Post edited October 28, 2015 by Grargar
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