Hi, if anyone got the Gold Box series recently and has been wondering how to transfer their characters from Pool of Radiance to Curse of the Azure Bonds, here's how to do it:

"To transfer a character file from Pool of Radiance to Hillsfar or Curse of the Azure Bonds you need a 'charname.CHA' file. However, Pool of Radiance does not create files that end with .CHA UNLESS you remove the character from the party in one of the training rooms.

Once you complete the game and are ready to transfer from Pool of Radiance then you should go to the training hall, enter one of the 4 training rooms for fighters, thieves etc and then select the option 'Remove Character From Party' for all characters you intend to transfer. "

THEN: you can go into the Pool of Radiance / POOLRAD directory and look for a file name with your character's name on it that is a .CHA file. Copy this one file, then paste it into the Curse of the Azure Bonds / SAVE directory.

When you launch Curse of the Azure Bonds, you'll have the option to "Add character to party" - then the game will ask: "Add from where? Curse | Pool | Hillsfar | Exit" - select (P) for Pool of Radiance. You will then see your character from Pool of Radiance that you can add.

And you're all set!

Thanks for the info, but it's best to post this directly in the Forgotten Realms Collection forum thread.

Otherwise it will just be lost in the crowd (this is the "General Discussion" thread after all).

at least for me now you have to go to program files (x86) / gog galaxy / games / pool of radiance / cloud_ saves /poolrad . get your characters cha file and move it to program files (x86) / gog galaxy / games / curse of the azure bonds / cloud saves / save .

Thank you. This was definitely the fastest that I found to do the transfer. Worked great.

If you followed the previous steps with no luck (as I did) try this:

1. Create the following folder C:\POOLRAD\SAVE
2. Browse to your POR cloud save location. for me this was C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Pool of Radiance\cloud_saves\POOLRAD
3. Technically, you only need your *.cha files, however for simplicity's sake, you can copy all of the files in this folder to the C:\POOLRAD\SAVE folder you created.
4. Launch Azure Bonds, select Add character and P for pool of radiance and they should all be listed.