Trivia
The game box's cover features a painting by artist Clyde Caldwell, also used as the front cover to the 1989 novel of the same name as well as to the 1988 RPG module "Ruins of Adventure" inspiring both.
This was the first Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D) game ever created by the software developer Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). AD&D was originaly a popular fantasy role playing game system developed by a company called TSR. SSI adapted this role playing system to the PC in 1988. Pool of Radiance was also first of the many AD&D games to follow that are set within the Forgotten Realms.
In the same year SSI released 2 more of these newly developed AD&D PC games. Heroes of the Lance, and Dungeon Masters Assistant Volume 1: Encounters.
Pool of Radiance was so successfull that it caused TSR to write a novel based on the story in the book.
Contributed by
Yakumo (438) on May 24, 2000.
This game used 2 forms of copy protection: Code Wheel lookup at start-up and a Journal to read important text passages.
Contributed by
Tony Van (2707) on Dec 01, 1999.
