AD&D monsters and characters art compilation - Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures - Gold Box SSI

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Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures (1993)

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AD&D monster and character compilation - Forgotten Realms - Unlimited Adventures - Gold Box SSI

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0:00 Opening title of Forgotten Realms: UA
0:41 AD&D Monsters - Pictures
9:07 AD&D Monsters - Sprites
11:04 AD&D Monsters - Combat Icons
17:36 AD&D Monsters - Big Pictures
18:39 AD&D - Overland Maps
19:06 AD&D - Dungeons
19:29 AD&D - Wilderness
19:50 AD&D - Wall Set
20:43 AD&D - Backdrops
21:47 AD&D - Character Generation & Icons

More on AD&D and Unlimited Adventures (from Wikipedia):

The original D&D was published as a box set in 1974 and features only a handful of the elements for which the game is known today: just three character classes (fighting-man, magic-user, and cleric); four races (human, dwarf, elf, and hobbit); only a few monsters; only three alignments (lawful, neutral, and chaotic).
An updated version of D&D was released between 1977 and 1979 as Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D). The game rules were reorganized and re-codified across three hardcover rulebooks, compiled by Gary Gygax, incorporating the original D&D rules and many additions and revisions from supplements and magazine articles.
In 1987, a small team of designers at TSR led by David "Zeb" Cook began work on the second edition of the AD&D game, which would be completed almost two years later. In 1989, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition was published, featuring new rules and character classes.
By the end of its first decade, AD&D had expanded to several rulebooks, including three collections of monsters (Monster Manual, Monster Manual II, Fiend Folio), and two books governing character skills in wilderness and underground settings.

Gold Box is a series of role-playing video games produced by SSI from 1988 to 1992. The company acquired a license to produce games based on the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR, Inc. These games shared a common game engine that came to be known as the "Gold Box Engine" after the gold-colored boxes in which most games of the series were sold.

Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures, also known as Unlimited Adventures, or by the acronyms FRUA or UA, is a video game originally released on March 17, 1993, by Strategic Simulations, for the IBM PC and Macintosh.

Unlimited Adventures is a construction kit for computer role-playing games, and drew its content from the prior Gold Box engine games, with improved graphics. SSI's contract with TSR, Inc. required the former to stop using the Gold Box engine, so the company released its development tools. Games created by users can be shared with other players who also own Unlimited Adventures. As of 2024, the program still has an active community of users.

The original game allowed the user to create dungeon modules, some editing and renaming of monsters and characters, and to import pictures and monster sprites. However, some art, such as walls, combat backdrops, and title screens, could not be changed in the unmodified game.

Those limitations have been overcome by community-made mods. The availability of these mods has led to the creation of comprehensive "worldhacks", designed to allow the creation of science fiction, superhero, Western and Roman Empire adventures, among others. A program called "UASHELL" applies and manages these hacks and enables the player to apply them.

The fanmade game design program Dungeon Craft (originally called UA Forever) is a standalone program that partially emulates FRUA's engine, but with a greater ease of user modification.

Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures is currently included in the compilation "The Forgotten Realm Archives - Collection Two".

SSI sold 32,364 copies of Unlimited Adventures. Computer Gaming World in 1993 called it "the best adventure-construction kit available" despite the "sorely lacking" Gold Box engine. According to GameSpy in 2004, although "the game's graphics were poor [...] and using the tools could be a little complicated, Unlimited Adventures was an excellent tool for budding RPG designers".

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