In a world plagued by World of Warcraft, Baldur's Gate, Everquest, Neverwinter Nights, and countless other multiplayer computer RPGs that I don't know about, the "gold box" games of Strategic Simulations, Inc. have been lost in time.

The gold box games published by SSI were three series of games (4 in the Pool of Radiance set, 3 in the Dragonlance set, and 2 in the Savage Frontier set) based on the AD&D rule set. You created a party of up to six characters of varying races, classes, alignments, and genders. Then you went through cities, dungeons, and landscapes, completing quests by helping non-player characters (NPCs), killing monsters, and finding treasures.

I know there are at least two existing CRPG construction kits out there: Forgotten Realms' Unlimited Adventures and the Open Source project Dungeon Craft. I have a vision of creating a similar application in Perl, (currently) using Gtk2. It'll be fun, it'll take a while, but I'm going to enjoy it. It's back-burner for a while, though...

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Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart

In reply to CRPGs, Perl, Gtk2, and my vision by japhy

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