Gateway to the Savage Frontier

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The party of adventurers has just escorted a caravan from the dwarven-ruled citadel Adbar to the city of Yartar. Now it's time to relax - the heroes head to the nearest tavern for food and drinks. However, somebody slips a drug into their food, and they all pass out. Upon awakening, they discover that they have been robbed of nearly all their possessions. The heroes must now begin everything from scratch. Investigating the matter, they unravel a much bigger and more sinister plot, which involves the evil organization Zhentarim and their plans for conquering the land.

Gateway to the Savage Frontier is a Gold Box Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game set in a Forgotten Realms area known as the Savage Frontier. The gameplay is very similar to other games in the series, including creating and managing a six-member party of adventurers following the AD&D rules, first-person view for exploration, and turn-based combat. A new addition is a world map travel mode, which includes enemy encounters, and character-specific side quests, which can be undertaken by finding and talking to certain non-playable characters.

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Alternate Titles

• "Gateway to the Savage Frontier - A Forgotten Realms™ Fantasy Role-Playing Epic, Vol. I" -- Tag-lined title

Part of the Following Groups

• Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms
• Dungeons & Dragons (D&D / AD&D) licensees
• Fantasy Creatures: Elves
• Gameplay feature: Character development - Automatic leveling
• Games with manual lookup copy protection
• Gold Box series
• Savage Frontier series

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Critic Reviews

PC-Spiele '92	DOS	1991	8 out of 10	80
Power Play	DOS	Oct, 1991	79 out of 100	79
Zzap!	Commodore 64	Dec, 1991	78 out of 100	78
Power Play	Commodore 64	Jan, 1992	73 out of 100	73
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Commodore 64	Apr, 1992	8 out of 12	67
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Amiga	Apr, 1992	8 out of 12	67
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	Amiga	1992	58 out of 100	58
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	DOS	1992	57 out of 100	57
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Apr, 1992	54 out of 100	54
Amiga Format	Amiga	May, 1992	45 out of 100	45

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Cover art

The game box's cover (and title screen) features a painting, Marvelous Magic, by artist Clyde Caldwell, earlier used as the front cover to Frank Mentzer's 1984 RPG supplement The Book of Marvelous Magic.