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Ruins of Adventure is a Dungeons & Dragons module that was based on the "Gold Box" role-playing video game Pool of Radiance, published in 1988 by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). Mike Breault stated that TSR chose him, Winter, Cook, and Ward to work on the design and writing for Pool of Radiance , indicating that the material was originally ...
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Ruins of Adventure uses the same plot, background, setting, and many of the same characters as the com-puter game. In fact, players of Pool of Radiance will find useful clues to the successful completion of their com-puter mission in this module. Ruins of Adventure is set in Phlan, a small town on the northern shore of the MoonSea in the ...
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Ruins of Adventure is a 96-page sourcebook for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition released in August 1988. A great evil force descended on the town of Phlan years ago. The townspeople were all either killed or driven away, and Phlan became (literally) a ghost town. Fifty years later, the survivors are ready to reclaim their town. But they need a band of strong and brave adventurers to ...
Ruins of Adventure is a set of connected short adventures written by James Ward, David "Zeb" Cook, Steve Winter, and Mike Breault—four names familiar to all AD&D® game fans. It uses the same setting, location, and characters as the computer game Pool of Radiance by Strategic Simulations, Inc.
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FRC1 Ruins of Adventure is based on the popular "Pool of Radiance" novel and computer game, and involves a series of short adventures based around the ruined city of Phlan. FRC2 Curse of the Azure Bonds is based on both a novel and a computer game of the same name, and is a single-plot adventure. At 96 pages, both modules are quite large.
Adventure Tropes. Ruins of Adventure is a very traditional dungeon crawl set in a ruined city. Its most notable aspect is probably the tight constraints of the "dungeon". It's laid out in big squares that are each 16x16 grids (160'x160') — which was a constraint of the gold box adventure design. About the Media Tie-Ins.
